printing in auto cad

[Bill]

all i need to know is.........i am using auto cad lite

i have a printer that does duplex printing so

how can i bring up two separate drawings that i have done and then print each of them same time to get them on the front and back of one single 8.5 x 11 sheet of paper

in illustration programs it is very easy eg. Corel Draw because in the same document, you can have more than one page at the same time.......HELP HELP so how can i do it in AutoCad.......it must be able to be done.........and i dont mean printing one, then opening the other and turning the paper over after it has printed the first side........

see both drawings same time.......insert two in same plot? help help
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[architech]

This can't be done without the method you described.
"Print one side and then ... flipping the paper."

:oops:


You would think that inserting the other drawing into your file would be it and create another tab .. like in Excel .... i.e. "sheet 1, sheet2, sheet3" ...

And say print "Workbook" ... or "All Tabs" ....
Or beter yet "Highlight" all the tabs in AutoCAD and right click to print.

...but nah .... :x ... can't be done...

However, I'm wondering if you could "SLOW" the the queue for you printer?

This way you send one plot to the printer and then open another file and send the 2nd plot.

Then have your printer configured to plot 2 jobs or more as 1 job. This way the "Duplex" function you seek would work.

In theory, it sounds "doable" but I wouldn't know the "physical" aspects to tell you how to work it.

Sorry guy... :(

[YosSa]

Well, you gave youre own answer ...
Export the Drawings to CorelDraw and print them from there ...

I hope there is no scaling involved for you :)

But you cant do it directly from AutoCAD