Autocad plot scale problem

The illustrations show a light bulb plotted at three different scales. When you review drafts, a precise scale is not always important.

You can use the Fit to Paper option to plot the view at the largest possible size that fits the paper. The height or width of the drawing is fit to the corresponding height or width of the paper.

When you plot a perspective view from model space, the view is scaled to fit the paper even when you enter a scale. When you select the Fit to Paper option, the text boxes change to reflect the ratio of plotted units to drawing units.

This scale is updated whenever you change the paper size, plotter, plot origin, orientation, or size of the plotted area in the Plot dialog box. This option is not available when the Plot Area is set to Layout. Support 0 contributions. Issue: When plotting from AutoCAD, one or more of the following occurs: The message "The selected layout has an invalid media configuration" appears on screen on the command line , usually after printing but also when editing the page size at any point within AutoCAD.

Output is cropped to a smaller page size, usually Letter 8. Output is scaled to a smaller page size and will not retain the page setting selected in page setup. Output is shifted to the lower left instead of being properly centered on the page.

Print jobs seem to spool successfully from AutoCAD but hang in the print queue and never complete. The printer may report a media size error. A different page size is selected, although with the same dimensions e. Solved by hwalker.

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