Publish (Batch Plot) Drawings

Publishing provides a streamlined alternative to plotting multiple drawings.

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Overview of Publishing
Publishing provides an easy way to create a paper drawing set or an electronic drawing set.
About Generating PDF Files from Drawings
The Adobe® Portable Document Format (PDF) is an electronic document format that can be viewed on multiple platforms.
Create and Modify a Drawing Set for Publishing
You can assemble a collection of drawing sheets to publish to a plotter, plot files, or to a Design Web Format™ (DWF and DWFx) file. You can save the drawing set and modify it.
Create a Paper or Plot File Drawing Set
You can publish a drawing set to a plotter or plot file.
Publish an Electronic Drawing Set
You can publish an electronic drawing set in the Design Web Format.
Republish a Drawing Set
You can easily republish lists of drawing sheets that you previously saved in the Drawing Set Descriptions (DSD) file format.
View a Published Electronic Drawing Set (DWF)
A published electronic drawing set can be viewed and plotted with Autodesk® Design Review.
Set Publish Options
You can set options for publishing, such as output file location, DWF type, multisheet DWF name options, DWF security (password protection), and whether or not to include layer information. You can also decide what types of information to reveal in your published DWF files.
Configuring DWF and PDF Drivers