Menu path
Tools > Plot
What it does
The Plot Wizard allows you to quickly create a plot as Vertical or Horizontal and send it to your Windows printer. You can place the drawing form manually or have the command automatically fit the drawing to the paper. The Plot Wizard includes options to generate plots automatically fitting to various page or sheet sizes, insert drawing borders, plot in colour, or use 'hidden lines' view where lines behind are blanked out.
Paper size is automatically selected as A4 if your Set-Up > Preference Settings > System Preferences > Units are set to metric, or Letter size if units are set to English or Imperial.
🧾 Plot options
Option | Description |
Vertical | Place drawing form (A4 or letter size) over drawing area for plotting in vertical orientation - you select the position |
Horizontal | Place drawing form (A4 or letter size) over drawing area for plotting in horizontal orientation - you select the position |
Fit-Vertical | Automatically fits the drawing to your page in vertical orientation |
Fit-Horizontal | Automatically fits the drawing to your page in horizontal orientation |
🔧 How to use manual positioning (Vertical/Horizontal)
Click Vertical or Horizontal in the Plot Wizard
The Windows Print dialog box is displayed - click OK
An image of the drawing page is dragged on your cursor
You can see the relative extent of your model and the page
Click the left mouse button to locate the bottom left hand corner of the page
The plot is sent to your printer
A plot scale of say 1:100 will capture this much of the job:
And 1:50 will capture this much.
🔧 How to use automatic fitting (Fit options)
Click Fit-Vertical or Fit-Horizontal in the Plot Wizard
The Windows Print dialog box is displayed - click OK
The plot is automatically sent to your printer
💡 Display tips
You may need to adjust your screen display with the Zoom commands and/or the View > Plot-Scale command so you can see the dragged page on screen, as well as fitting your model to the page.
🛠 Other printing options
You can find automated printing options in:
Reporting > Supply-Only and Supply+Install dialog boxes
Drawings command
For advanced printing, use:
Drawing > Plot > Screen > Scaled
Drawing > Plot > Compose