# Plot Management

## How to Use the Direct Plot Method

| ### What to do:
| Select Start > Documents > 2D Drawings. The 2D drawings with file server mask is opened.
| Select a document.
| Select Plot management > Plot from the context menu.
| The plot job is plotted by the output device defined in the plot default configuration. Information about the process status is displayed in the message window. The following message confirms that the plot files and the plot job files have been copied to the plot exchange directory:
| The job ID of the plot job is displayed if an error occurs during processing. This ID can help your system administrator to identify the source of this error!
| This message shows the number of files which were defined as plottable file types in the File types mask (System > Plot Management > File types).