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PLOTTING OR PRINTING DRAWINGS

PLOTTING OR PRINTING DRAWINGS

PLOTTING OR PRINTING DRAWINGS

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Is there a way to plot or print drawings without opening up the drawing?

RE: PLOTTING OR PRINTING DRAWINGS

Not as far as I'm aware in terms of anything standard. Perhaps some obscure programming tool exists but I for one would say that anyone out there who has such a thing please post it here we'd all like it.

RE: PLOTTING OR PRINTING DRAWINGS

I did have one for VMS that was written at about the UGII V6 timeframe. It used VMS command files and GRIP batch.
Don't think I did anything with it after V10 came out in 1995.
 

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RE: PLOTTING OR PRINTING DRAWINGS

We have this issue for our shop sketches for manufacture of parts. Our system is to create a saved pdf of the drawing for users to print. It really works well for us. Most of our stuff is A and B size so we use a standard printer for output. I'm not sure how true plotters work for pdf files but I would think there is a way there. This doesn't address your current situation but something to think about.

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Bill

RE: PLOTTING OR PRINTING DRAWINGS

Yes all,

I'm pretty sure there was grip about to do it and that we discovered XSPAWN to lauch a simple command line script that made a file listing from DCL all the way thru batch files at the point where GRIP development discontinued and the printing method had changed to something no longer addessable in UG-NX. However these days I would think you could still do something using NX-Open programming but the problem as always is that we're sadly lacking for something like the old GRIP programming library whereby the distributed samples offered inexperienced and amateur programmers a launching pad to modify other people's code to good effect. As I mentioned any program that could be shared in this vein would be heartily appreciated.

Cheers

Hudson

RE: PLOTTING OR PRINTING DRAWINGS

I use PDF for E size drawings and it works quite well, quick and reliable.  This does not help if you need to update for changes before plotting.   

NX 5.0.3.2 MoldWizard

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