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Now if I OK that it doesn't go straight to the Plotting dialog box. What it allows you to do is set your Batch Plotting options in the order that you're plotting, so the Layout tab that we're Plotting for each of them is going to be the Model tab here, which it would be because that's where I've been working. I haven't actually set up any Layout tabs for these drawings, but if you had Layout tabs you can obviously pick them like so, but I'm using Model. Now, a pre-plot command script file. A post-plot command script file. So it may be that you might say, OK, I want to have this drawing file zipped after I've done the drawing, for example and plotted it. So you can add that. Now Output device. I can use a plot configuration. So as soon as I click there it takes me to my plotters, so I've got things like all the Default AutoCAD ones there, DWG to PDF, DWF6 ePlot. Let's just do them as DWFs for now. I'll open that up there. That adds it there. Use the layout tab's default. If it's got a Page Setup for example, Detailed Plot Configuration mode. If I click that to ON you can see there, look, lots of nice little tiny settings like Lineweights, do I want it Upside down, do I want it Offset from 0.0, do I want it Centered? Do I use a Plot Style file? No, or Yes do I use a plot style ctb file. If I go to Browse there now it goes and looks in the Plot Styles folder with all the standard AutoCAD Plot Styles. So I want the Monochrome. I want them all black and white. So you can see there that Batch Plotting is a very refined process but the benefit you have here is you refine it all at once. You don't have to refine it for every Project drawing. That's the benefit. You can do a hundred Project drawings, set the settings in here, hit the button, a hundred Project drawings come out to the appropriate settings. So I'll just OFF that now, switch that off and I've got Optional Page Setup name, I can pick a list of page setups. If I'm plotting to file some network printers plot to a file first and then send all of those files to, say, a large format plotter that might be in a different office to where you're working. So, Plot to file, you can switch that on or off and then what you would do there, you'd hit OK, or you can do OK in Reverse; that means that you could start from drawing 10 and plot up to drawing 1. Why does that help you? Think about it. Drawing 10 will be on the bottom of the pile, Drawing 1 will be on the top of the pile, so your drawings are all nice and neatly ordered when you pull them off the printer. Haven't you noticed that? When you plot anything using a regular deskjet or inkjet plotter, stroke printer, Drawing number 1 is at the bottom because that's the first one it plots. So if you set it to Reverse and you've got a hundred drawings it's going to be so much fun sorting them out from 1 to 100, isn't it, but if it goes 100 up to 1, you've got all your drawings neatly sorted and ready to go. So, as you can see, Batch Plotting, extremely useful, easy to use, quick, makes you more effective, makes you more productive.