Export CDD to PDF For Free

hey everybody brandon here from cad intentions and in today's video we're gonna be taking a look at how exactly to save your drawing as a pdf or say plot it to a pdf uh this question comes up quite a bit and isn't exactly straightforward within the plot and layout manager so we're gonna be taking a look at exactly how to do that today uh if you guys like this video or any of the tips on the channel don't forget to check out my autocad productivity webinar as well as my brand new autocad fundamentals and workflows course i'm going to put a link to both down in the description below as well as up above be sure to check those out you can get a discount on them right now all right let's get into the video all right as always with the two minute tuesdays we're going to try and keep this one quick so you can see here i've got a layout set up this will also work in model space and after we do this once in paper space or in layout space here i'm going to show you how to do it in model space as well but to start you're going to want to type in plot and hit enter or you can also right click on the tab you would like to print or convert to a pdf and choose plot from the plot dialog box what you're really looking for here is the printer or plotter drop down if you hit this drop down here you're probably going to see your plotter if you're working in an office or printer if you're at home or the office but what you want uh is any of the ones that are going to plot to pdf here my favorite and the standard or typical one that i'll use is dwg to pdf you can see the plotter is called dwg to pdf pdf e-pull up by autodesk this is the basic standard one and it's going to give you a good result every time now you can kind of customize and set up some of the options as you move forward if you're not familiar with the plot dialog box in general we'll run through a few of these quickly so the pdf options is the one new one that'll come up when you choose pdf there and it's got a few different options for you to choose from this first one i like to have checked on and that's going to open up the pdf when it's finished plotting so that you can see the result and next up is a few quality sliders or selectors here uh you could probably leave it with the standard or default if you'd like to turn them up for a better quality plot that's perfectly fine as well and then you've got merge control this is just going to show how it's going to plot lines when they're on top of each other whether they're going to overlay or overwrite based on your draw orders or merge kind of merging into a single line so you're not going to see them quite as well the different layering and then down below you can choose which data is included in your pdf you probably want to leave most on you can uncheck bookmarks and hyperlinks since you're probably not going to have those but in general you're going to want your layer information on as well as any of the fonts included as well to prevent...