Topics in this section

• Overview of Publishing

  Publishing provides an easy way to create a paper drawing set or an electronic drawing set.

• Create and Modify a Drawing Set for Publishing

  You can assemble a collection of drawing sheets to publish to a plotter, plot files, DWF, DWFx, or PDF 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 as a DWF, DWFx, or PDF file.

• Publish a Sheet Set

  From the Sheet Set Manager, you can easily publish an entire sheet set, a subset of a sheet set, or a single sheet. It is quicker to publish a sheet set in the Sheet Set Manager rather than using the Publish dialog box.

• 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 Electronic Drawing Sets with Autodesk Design Review

  A published DWF or DWFx electronic drawing set can be viewed and plotted with Autodesk Design Review.

• Set Publish Options

  Set options for publishing, such as output file location, multi-sheet name options, password protection, and whether or not to include layer information.

• Publish 3D DWF Files

  You can create and publish DWF or DWFx files of your 3D models and view them with Autodesk Design Review.

• Print 3D Models

  You can obtain physical models of 3D models created in AutoCAD.