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OK, so now we know how to add a plotter. We now know how to add a plotter using our plotter drivers if we're installing a manufacturer's plotter, like a Hewlett-Packard for example. Now, how do we configure our plotter to plot using the sheet sizes that we need, the color tables that we need, the default settings that we need. We go to our Plotter Manager. Now again, this is all on the Output Tab here on the Ribbon. Your Plotter Manager on older versions of AutoCAD will be on your File Pull-Down Menu. Also, if you look into your Plot Tools as well in older versions of AutoCAD, you will also find your Plotter Manager there as well. So Plotter Manager here for me and there's my PDF Plot to File PC3 that we set up earlier. I just double click on it. It's that easy and it brings up that configuration editor that we looked at earlier. Now, I don't need to worry about the general bit. I might want to put a description in there though so this might be a Custom Metric PDF Plot. So it's a Custom Metric PDF Plot. Now, ports I don't need to worry about because I'm plotting to a PDF file. I explained that earlier. Device and Document Settings though, this is where we need to start looking at information. Now, at the moment, Source and Size there is an NCA 10 by 8.5 inches. I apologize there; 11 by 8.5 inches. That's a standard American size. I want an ISO size here so I'm going to change that. I want to use an ISO A3. So let's just scroll down a bit. What have I got in my list? Just about everything by the looks of things. Look at all these bits of paper I've got here listed. It's a bit difficult to see them on that list though so be careful. I'm going to scroll down. I want that ISO A3 there. Look; it's ticked it saying yes, I can use that. That's my default plot to file sheet size now. If I look at Graphics here, Vector Graphics it's using. Merge Control Lines; I'm just going to leave all that as it is. Custom Properties; do I have any? No, I don't. If I click on the button though I can apply Custom Properties, things like DPI, Resolution and so on. I can Open in a PDF Viewer when it's plotted for example. I can include layer information in my PDF plot. So there's all that information in there. You can see that we can go on forever here probably setting up and making changes. Have I got any custom paper sizes? No. Can I modify my standard paper sizes with the printable area? Yes, I can. Filter Paper Sizes? So I can now decide on what paper sizes I use. So basically I don't want any of the NCA ones. So I can untick those as I go. So I'm going to set those. I don't want any NCA ones in there because it's a metric PDF plot. So let's go through all those and get rid of all the NCA ones. I've got nothing against American sheet sizes I hasten to add, it's just we're setting up a metric PDF plot here. So I go through. This is a very laborious job, as you can see. It's not very exciting because there are so many sheet sizes available to you. But it has to be done. This is the sort of donkey work that has to be done to get everything set the way you want it to work. It will save you time in the long run. So I'm going through there getting rid of all the sheet sizes that I don't want, like so. Now, obviously I'm sitting here clicking away talking to you and you're thinking why doesn't he just hit the Uncheck All and then go and select the ones that you want? Yeah, exactly what I was thinking too. So let's go through that. I only want A3s. That's all I want for this one. I'm plotting to A3s every time. So I now go through, find all the A3s. So as I go through, is there any A3s there? There we go; A3, A3. I keep going down. There's our A2s and I just find the A3s that I want now. Now, there's plenty of them. I've just got to find them. There's some more ISOs there and I want the A3s. So really I should have unchecked them initially, shouldn't I? There's some A3s there and I'm just going through and making sure all my A3s are selected because that's all I want in this particular plot. So I'm going through there. Those are all arch and probably NCA as well, Yup, so we're down at the bottom now, that's everything. So I'll do that now. That's done. I'll OK that. Now, what I need to do is save that. I'll do a Save As and as usual, Kaspersky kicks in and lets me know I'm going to allow that this time and make it a trusted application because we know it's AutoCAD. We're not being invaded by anybody or anything like that. So I'm going to save that over my existing PC3 like so and Save. Do I want to replace it? Yes, I do. That's done. I'll OK that now and what I've done now is I've configured that PDF Plot to File there. So let's have a look now and see how that affects my plot. I'll close that, I'll go to Plot. I'm not worried about page setups. I'm just going to select my PDF Plot to File here. Now, when I click on the list, those are the only sheets available to me. So you can see how you can configure your plotter to work with just the sheet sizes that you need. Not a great big list anymore, just A3s. I did pick on a B1 there. I obviously missed one by mistake. You can see it there. But I've configured that and it works. So that's what you need to do with all of your PC3 files. So when you're setting those up, you can create as many PC3 files as you like and you can configure them as you like for sheet sizes, plotters and so on. As you can see, it all works really quickly and really effectively.