There are far too many different printers and plotters to be able to tell you exactly how to do it here. In house, I suggest that you contact your IT department for assistance with setting it up. If they are using a different cad program, you'll have to create and send a DXF file.Īs for creating your poster, that will all depend on whether you are printing in house or sending it to a print shop.

If you want to give them the ability to edit the files, then you can send the DWG file if they are using Autocad. The person on the other end will have to have either Autodesk's DWF viewer, or Adobe Acrobat Reader (to view PDF files). If you just want the users to be able to see them, then DWF or PDF will work. Like NBC said, much will depend on what your intent is for sharing the files. On the line where you type in a search term, simply type define:dxf (or any of the other formats) and it will give you not only the definition, but a number of published links to how and why to use the different file formats. I would second Rich7's suggestion for using google to get the definitions.

Dwfx viewer