You can save plot device and other page setup settings as named page setups that can be modified and imported into other drawings.

You can create named page setups and apply them to other layouts in your drawing. Named page setups are saved in the drawing file and can be imported into other drawing files and applied to other layouts. You can also modify the settings of named page setups. If you modify a named page setup, you can choose whether the modifications apply to the current layout or to all the layouts in the current drawing that use the named page setup.

If you want to plot the same layout more than one way, or if you want to specify the same output options for several layouts, use named page setups.

You can apply different named page setups to the same layout to achieve specific results when plotting. For example, you might create the named page setups in the following table to control scaling and paper size.

Once you specify a named page setup for a layout, whenever you plot or publish the layout, it is plotted or published with the settings specified in the named page setup set for the layout.

Procedure

To create a new named page setup

1. Click Output tabPlot panelPage Setup Manager. At the command prompt, enter pagesetup.
2. In the Page Setup Manager, Page Setups area, click New.
3. In the New Page Setup dialog box, enter a name for the new page setup.
4. Under Start With, select a page setup in the list. The settings specified in the selected page setup will be displayed in the Page Setup dialog box after you click OK.
5. Click OK.
6. In the Page Setup dialog box, change any required settings. Click OK.

   The new page setup is displayed in the Page Setups list in the Page Setup Manager.

7. To apply the new page setup to the current layout, in the Page Setup Manager, click Set Current.
8. In the Page Setup Manager, click Close.

To apply a named page setup to a layout

1. Click the layout tab for which you want to apply a named page setup.
2. Click Output tabPlot panelPage Setup Manager. At the command prompt, enter pagesetup.
3. In the Page Setup Manager, under Page Setups, select a named page setup from the list.
   NoteA page setup that is not named is shown in the Page Setup Manager with an asterisk on either side of its layout name. An unnamed page setup does not have the same functionality as a named page setup. For example, if you set an unnamed page setup as the current page setup for another layout, the values are applied to the layout. If you make changes to the original unnamed page setup, those changes do not carry over to the layout to which the unnamed page setup was applied.
4. Click Set Current.
5. Click Close.

To modify a named page setup

1. Click Output tabPlot panelPage Setup Manager. At the command prompt, enter pagesetup.
2. In the Page Setup Manager, under Page Setups, select a named page setup from the list.
   NoteA page setup that is not named is shown in the Page Setup Manager with an asterisk on either side of its layout name. An unnamed page setup does not have the same functionality as a named page setup. For example, if you set an unnamed page setup as the current page setup for another layout, the values are applied to the layout. If you make changes to the original unnamed page setup, those changes do not carry over to the layout to which the unnamed page setup was applied.
3. Click Modify.
4. In the Page Setup dialog box, make the required changes. Click OK.
5. In the Page Setup Manager, click Close.

To import named page setups from another drawing

1. Click Output tabPlot panelPage Setup Manager. At the command prompt, enter pagesetup.
2. In the Page Setup Manager, click Import.
3. In the Select Page Setup From File dialog box, select a drawing file from which you want to import one or more named page setups. Click Import.
4. In the Import Page Setups dialog box, select one or more page setups to import. Click OK.

   If a page setup with the same name already exists in the drawing, you can redefine the settings of the existing one with the settings of the imported page setup, or you can cancel the operation.

   The imported page setups are displayed in the Page Setup Manager in the list of page setups.

   NoteYou can import both model space and layout page setups at the same time. However, an imported model space page setup is shown in the Page Setup Manager only if the model tab was current when you opened the Page Setup Manager. Similarly, an imported layout page setup is shown in the Page Setup Manager only if a layout tab was current when you opened the Page Setup Manager.
5. In the Page Setup Manager, click Close.

To delete a named page setup

1. Click Output tabPlot panelPage Setup Manager. At the command prompt, enter pagesetup.
2. In the Page Setup Manager, under Page Setups, right-click the named page setup you want to delete. Click Delete.
   NoteA page setup that is not named is shown in the Page Setup Manager with an asterisk on either side of its layout name. An unnamed page setup does not have the same functionality as a named page setup. For example, if you set an unnamed page setup as the current page setup for another layout, the values are applied to the layout. If you make changes to the original unnamed page setup, those changes do not carry over to the layout to which the unnamed page setup was applied.
3. Click Close.

To rename a page setup

1. Click Output tabPlot panelPage Setup Manager. At the command prompt, enter pagesetup.
2. In the Page Setup Manager, under Page Setups, right-click the named page setup you want to rename. Click Rename.
   NoteA page setup that is not named is shown in the Page Setup Manager with an asterisk on either side of its layout name. An unnamed page setup does not have the same functionality as a named page setup. For example, if you set an unnamed page setup as the current page setup for another layout, the values are applied to the layout. If you make changes to the original unnamed page setup, those changes do not carry over to the layout to which the unnamed page setup was applied.
3. Enter a new name for the page setup.
4. Click Close.

Quick Reference

Commands

PAGESETUP

Controls the page layout, plotting device, paper size, and other settings for each new layout.