How to mirror a layout

1. Set up your layout in PlotMaker.
2. Go to File/Plot Setup and choose an HPGL/2 based plotter such as the HP 650C. If you have a raster plotter then your current driver is probably ok.
3. Go to File/Plot and click the radio button for the Destination to be File.
4. Click on the Save button in the Save As dialog that comes up name the file and note which folder you are saving it into.
5. Open a new Layout.
6. Go to File/Add Drawing (Import... in PlotMaker 3.0) and in the File Open dialog that comes up choose File of type (or file format) as HPGL (or plotter file). Find and open the file you saved in step 4 above.
7. With this drawing placed on the layout, select it if it is not already selected. Go to the File menu and go down to Open "blank" (where blank is the name of your drawing).
8. The drawing will open into its own window. Do an Edit/Select All, then do an Edit/Mirror to mirror the whole drawing.
9. Go to File/Save to save the new mirrored copy of the drawing and then go back to the layout where the drawing should now be changed.

Page last updated: Thursday, September 16, 2004