To Work With Publishing Project Drawings

Plot Drawings

1. Click Project tabProject Tools panelManager. Find
2. On the Project Manager, click the arrow on the Publish/Plot tool, and select Plot Project.
3. Select one or more drawings to plot.
   Note: You can also select the drawings or folders in Project Manager, right-click, and select Publish Plot Project. Selected drawings are preselected in the Select Drawings to Process dialog box.
4. Click OK.
5. In the Batch Plotting Options and Order dialog box, select the layout tab to plot.
6. Select the output device.

   • Use plot config (.pc3): Click to use an existing plotter configuration file (.pc3), enter the file name or click Browse to select the file.

     A plotter configuration file contains information such as the device driver and model, the output port to which the device is connected, and various device-specific settings.

   • Use layout tab’s default: Click to use the default plotter configuration.

7. Click Detailed Plot Configuration mode to turn on or turn off the options set within the Detailed Plot Configuration Option dialog box.
8. Click ON or OFF.
9. Select the order to output the plot:

   • OK: Output plots in the selected order.

   • OK-Reverse: Output plots in the reverse order.

10. Click OK to save any open drawings.
11. Click OK Project.

If the title block setup maps any of the AutoCAD Electrical PLOT values to attributes, these attributes update during plotting. If the attribute carries a prompt value, this value is used as a prefix.

For example:

• The title block maps PLOTDATE (MM:DD:YYYY format) to the DATE attribute.
• The DATE attribute has a prompt value of "Date: ".
• For a plot created on January 1, 2013 the attribute updates to "Date: 01/01/2013".

Publish to PDF with Hyperlinks

1. Update component and signal arrow cross-referencing for the project.
2. Click Project tabProject Tools panelManager. Find
3. On the Project Manager, click the arrow on the Publish/Plot tool, and select Publish to PDF/DWF/DWFx.
4. Select the drawings to publish.
   Note: You can also select a folder in Project Manager, right-click, and select Publish Publish to PDF/DWF/DWFx. The drawings in the folder are preselected in the Select Drawings to Process dialog box.
5. On the AutoCAD Electrical Publish Setup dialog box, select PDF as the publish type.
6. Check Multi-sheet file.
7. Check whether to substitute TrueType fonts for SHX fonts.
   • A text object using a Truetype text font is searchable within a PDF file.
   • A text object using an SHX font is drawn as graphics in the PDF file. The text value is added as a comment in the PDF file and can be found by searching in the comments.
8. Check Include Bookmarks to include the project structure as bookmarks in the PDF file.
9. Check Include Parent-Child Hyperlinks.
10. Define the zoom factor which controls how close the PDF file is zoomed in on the object you jump to. Enter a value from 1 through 100.
    
11. Click OK.

    The Publish dialog box opens with PDF and multi-sheet preselected.

12. If you included bookmarks on the AutoCAD Electrical Publish Setup dialog box, click Publish Options and clear Create bookmarks.
    Note: If both the AutoCAD Electrical and AutoCAD bookmarks are selected, the PDF file includes both the project structure bookmarks and the sheet list bookmarks.
13. Adjust other options as necessary.
14. Click Publish.

Publish to DWF

1. Click Project tabProject Tools panelManager. Find
2. On the Project Manager, click the arrow on the Publish/Plot tool, and select Publish to PDF/DWF/DWFx.
3. Select the drawings to publish to DWF.
   Note: You can also select a folder in Project Manager, right-click, and select Publish Publish to PDF/DWF/DWFx. The drawings in the folder are preselected in the Select Drawings to Process dialog box.
4. Select Publish Setup options.
5. Click OK.
6. Click Publish.

Publish to the Web

Creates HTML Web pages from drawings you select in the active project.

1. Click Project tabProject Tools panelManager. Find
2. On the Project Manager, click the arrow on the Publish/Plot tool, and select Publish to WEB.
   Note: You can also select a folder in Project Manager, right-click, and select Publish Publish to WEB. Selected drawings in the folder are preselected in the Select Drawings to Process dialog box.
3. In the Publish to Web dialog box, select a location to store the drawing files.
4. Select an image format.

   • DWF: Design web format files are vector-based representations of drawing (.DWG) files.

     Note: DWF is the recommended image format as it supports intra-drawing surfing from a component tag or component description list.

   • JPEG: Joint Photographics Experts Group files are raster-based. We do not recommend this format for large files that contain text.

   • PNG: Portable Network Graphics files are raster-based like JPEG images, but PNG provides a higher quality output.

5. Click OK.
6. Select the drawings to publish to the Web.
7. Click OK.
8. Enter a name for the project banner for the Web page.
9. Enter one or more project titles for the Web page.
10. Select the method to output drawing images to the Web page.
11. Click OK.
12. If prompted, enter an output device name.
13. If prompted to select to write the plot to a file [Yes/No], press ENTER to select no as the default.
14. If prompted to save change to page setup [Yes/No], press ENTER to select no as the default.
15. If prompted to proceed with plot [Yes/No], press ENTER to select yes as the default.