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Sloppy setup really becomes apparent when you try to plot (note that CAD geeks say “Plot” whereas normal people say “Print”) your drawing. Things that seemed more or less okay as you zoomed around on the screen are suddenly the wrong size or don’t look right on paper. ssss1 covers plotting, but the information in this chapter is a necessary prerequisite to successful plotting and sheet setup. If you don’t get this stuff correct, there’s a good chance you’ll find that the plot sickens.

This chapter describes the decisions you need to make before you set up a new drawing, shows the steps for doing a complete and correct setup, and demonstrates how to save setup settings for reuse.

AutoCAD For Dummies

Before you start the drawing-setup process, you need to make only two initial decisions about your new drawing:

 What system of measure — metric or imperial — will you use?

 What drawing units will you use?

AutoCAD is extremely flexible about drawing units; it lets you have them your way. Usually, you choose the type of units that you normally use to talk about whatever you’re drawing: feet and inches for a building in the United States and most of Canada, millimeters for almost everything in almost all the rest of the world, and so on.