The necessary preparations that have to be done before printing a drawing were covered in this chapter, starting with an introduction to paper space, how to create and adjust the settings properly for layout tabs, how to draw a title block, and how to create and set viewports properly. We then looked at two practical examples for creating and setting the scale and shape of a viewport.

After that, we moved on to the actual printing command. We learned about different modes for what to print and how to set the pen assignments to control how every line in the drawing will be printed, with examples of how to set the plot style table for two scenarios.

In the next chapter, we will learn about another type of output in AutoCAD and more about three-dimensional modeling, which is preparation and production of rendered images.