Set Shaded Viewport and Plot Options for a Layout

Shaded viewport and plot options settings affect how objects are plotted and are saved in the page setup.

Shaded viewport and plot options affect how objects are plotted. The options for shaded viewport plotting give you a large degree of flexibility in conveying your three-dimensional designs to others. You can choose how viewports are plotted and specify resolution levels.

Shaded Viewport Plotting Options

With shaded plotting options, you can choose whether to plot a set of shaded objects using the As Displayed, Wireframe, Hidden, or Rendered option.

Shaded viewport plotting options apply to all objects in viewports and model space. If you use the Shaded or Rendered options, plot style tables included in the page setup do not affect plots. If you use the Render option, two-dimensional wireframe objects, such as lines, arcs, and text, are not plotted.

Note: Shaded viewport plotting requires a raster-capable device. Most modern plotters and printers are raster-capable devices.

Plot Options

The following options that can be specified for layouts affect how objects are plotted.

Plot Object Lineweights. Specifies that lineweights assigned to objects and layers are plotted.
Plot with Plot Styles. Specifies that the drawing is plotted using plot styles. Selecting this option automatically plots lineweights. If you do not select this option, objects are plotted with their assigned properties and not with the plot style overrides.
Plot Paper Space Last. Specifies that objects in model space are plotted before those in paper space.
Hide Paper space Objects. Specifies whether the Hide operation applies to objects in the paper space viewport. This option is available only from a layout tab. The effect of this setting is reflected in the plot preview, but not in the layout.

Procedures

To set shaded viewport options for a layout

Click the layout tab for which you want to set shaded viewport options.
From the Application menu , click Print Page Setup.
In the Page Setup Manager, Page Setups area, select the page setup that you want to modify.
Click Modify.
In the Page Setup dialog box, under Shaded Viewport Options, select the required settings.
Click OK.
In the Page Setup Manager, click Close.

To set plot options for a layout

Click the layout tab for which you want to set plot options.
From the Application menu , click Print Page Setup.
In the Page Setup Manager, Page Setups area, select the page setup that you want to modify.
Click Modify.
In the Page Setup dialog box, under Plot Options, select the required settings.
Click OK.
In the Page Setup Manager, click Close.