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OK, we're going to look at changing our Plotting Settings now. Now you will have noticed in previous Plotting exercises in the Previews the eaves weren't actually showing in any of the Plot Previews. There was a reason for that. Now I'm in the 2D Drafting and Annotation Workspace, I'm going to the Layers Panel in the Home Tab on the Ribbon and I'm going to Layer Properties. You'll notice some layers in the Layer Properties have this little No entry symbol on the Plotter. That is telling AutoCAD not to plot that layer, so you'll notice the REFS Layer is set like that so that all the graphs wouldn't plot; that would take up a lot of color if we were plotting to paper. The EAVES Layer also has that setting. You'll notice now it hasn't got the No Entry symbol so that when I do any plots now the eaves will appear in the drawing. That was a deliberate error to see whether you spotted it and maybe tried to investigate why it wasn't plotting, so there's your answer. It had that little No Entry symbol there. So, that's changing one of your Plotting Settings already. Do not Plot, or Plot. Let me just close the Layer Properties Manager there for a moment. Now, other Plotting Settings that you can change are in the Plot dialog box, or you can change it in your Page Setups. Let's just right-click on the GA-PLAN tab and go to Plot now and we'll check those eaves at the same time by clicking on Preview. Now we're using our current Page Setup and as you can see our eaves are now there, they're now ready to plot. You'll notice the grass isn't there. That's not something we want to plot; that's more for rendering purposes. Our Sections are fine, our Elevations are fine, our GA is fine. I'm going to right-click now and go to Exit. Now I could change the settings in the Plot dialog. I'm not going to, though. What I'm going to do is I'm actually going to cancel the Plot dialog, right-click on the GA-PLAN and I'm going to go to Page Setup Manager. Now our current A1-GA-PLAN is a color A1 GA-PLAN, so I'm going to right-click on it and rename it and put underscore COLOR, like so and press Enter. Notice that updates also on the one that it's using on the Layout tab there. Now, I'm going to click on New and because I'm using that A1-GA-PLAN, it'll create another new page setup now with those settings if I select the appropriate Page Setup from the list, which is that one right there. So, I'm going to start with A1-GA-PLAN COLOR but it's going to be A1-GA-PLAN Black and White. So A1-GA-PLAN underscore and then I'll just put B and W, Black and White and I'll OK that now. It takes me into the Settings. Now the good thing, all the settings here are the same as the other A1-GA-PLAN so I'm going to change the Plot style table here. That's the main change I'm going to make. At the moment we're using acad. We don't want to and we want to go to monochrome. So if I select monochrome now and OK that I've got a black and white one, I'll apply that now to the GA-PLAN Layout tab and close. If I right-click now and go to Plot and do a Preview you'll see it looks very different. I've now got all black and white apart from, you'll notice, the 3D solids have adopted their color, so that looks much better. It looks more professional. My border is in black and white and so on. But what I can also do now is I can change colors. Now, do you remember my Sections Layout? I set it to yellow, didn't I? I want those in black and white as well. I don't want them yellow. So let's just right-click there and Exit. What I can do there is I can actually say, in here by creating my own ctb file; so at the moment we've got monochrome.ctb. I'm going to do a Save As straight away so I don't overwrite it, so I'm going to put monochrome underscore yellow only like so. I'm going to Save that. Now, all I'm going to do now is say everything that's yellow, Color 2 here, is going to plot in black. I want it to plot in black, like so. So monochrome yellow only. Now, everything in yellow at the moment is going to plot black, isn't it? Or is it? It's not. What I've got to do is Cancel that and not use ctb. I'll stick with monochrome there but I'll Cancel that. What I need to do is go into my Layer Properties Manager with that Viewport selected, yeah? So, I double-click in that Viewport there, make sure that I go into Layer Properties Manager and what I want to do is make sure that my Sections Layer has a Viewport color of black, that one there. So I want black, let's go for black, where's black? It's going to be that one there. If I set it to white it will actually show in black on the white Layout. So I'll OK that and I'll close that now and there we go - black and gray. Double-click outside. What I'll do now, GA-PLAN here, right-click, Plot. If I do a Preview you'll see now that they match the GA-PLAN here. So, everything looks the way it should. We could now plot that drawing and send it to a client having changed our Plotting Settings. So, it's a right-click there and Exit. Takes me back into the Drawing, I cancel the dialog and that's how you change your Plotting Settings to suit so that things Plot the way that you want them to.