Jump into the process of publishing your project to a PDF using AutoCAD. This detailed walkthrough ensures you correctly save and publish your final project, featuring step-by-step guidance on the publishing commands and options, sheet selections, and file saving process.
Key Insights
- The article provides instructions on how to publish a project to PDF using the 'publish' command in the AutoCAD software, emphasizing the importance of setting the output format to PDF.
- It stresses the necessity to correctly select the 'prompt for name' and 'multi-sheet file' options during the publishing process, and the importance of noting the file location for ease of access in the future.
- This comprehensive guide also highlights the need for meticulously checking the sheet list before publishing, before ending with encouragement and congratulations on the completion of the project.
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Now that we've gone through and checked all of our sheets, we can publish to PDF. Go ahead and type in the publish commands, P-U-B-L-I-S-H, and let's look through some of these details. We want to make sure that we're publishing to PDF, so change that if needed to PDF, and then we can go to our publish options.
We want to make sure that the prompt for name is selected and the multi-sheet file is selected. We also want to take a quick moment to look at the location and remember where it's going to save this file, so we can find it later. We can even do control C and copy that file location and look for it, or we can browse and change that location.
Everything else should be okay, so we'll click the okay button. Now in our sheet list, we want to remove our model, so we'll select it and click the remove sheets button. Now we just want to double check that we have 001,002,101 through 105, and then 201 and 501.
If that looks good, go ahead and click that publish button. That will bring up our files and we can save it to the location we want to. We want to call it ACAD ID underscore com, your first name, your last name, and then at the end we want to put final, because this is our final project, then click that select button.
It's going to ask us to save the current sheets and we don't need to. Go ahead and click no, and at this point we are all set. It's kind of a waiting game.
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It's going to tell us that your printing or publishing job is processing in the background. Go ahead and click close, and we'll just wait a small moment while that publishes. It usually just takes a few moments, not a whole lot of time.
We will notice here in AutoCAD, we get a little printer icon, and it's showing that it's publishing and it shows us our progress. For example, right now, mine is on sheet five of nine, so it's going to keep on publishing until it's done. It just finished nine of nine.
That creates the PDF file. We'll find it wherever it saved it and review it, make sure everything looks good. We've got it opened up.
Here's our PDF and we'll just click through the pages. It's just fun to see our work, all the work that we've accomplished together. This is quite the commercial set.
I think it's really wonderful you've been here. Congratulations for completing both your residential project and now this awesome commercial project. Thanks again and we'll see you later.
