From the course: AutoCAD: Developing CAD Standards

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Using the eTransmit command

Using the eTransmit command

- [Instructor] Once again we're staying in our 09_AutoCADdrawing.dwg file. In the previous video we looked at how we might publish our checked CAD standards drawing that's been checked against the DWS file. Now, what we can do as well is if you want to send the drawing in an email, there's a quick way of doing that and you can use the e-transmit command. So, all I've got to do is make sure I'm in my layout tab, like so, and I'll type etransmit like so. So, there's ETRANSMIT there. You can see the command there, it comes up on the suggestion menu. If I press enter now it brings up this huge create transmittal dialog box which I'm just going to shrink a little bit for you and bring it to the center of the screen. Now, what you'll find here is that it will actually attach the drawing standards file associated with the DWG. If I expand that there, there's the drawing standards file, and if I just move away a second just to lose that little tool tip that pops up, any other files that might…

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