×
INTELLIGENT WORK FORUMS
FOR ENGINEERING PROFESSIONALS

Log In

Come Join Us!

Are you an
Engineering professional?
Join Eng-Tips Forums!
  • Talk With Other Members
  • Be Notified Of Responses
    To Your Posts
  • Keyword Search
  • One-Click Access To Your
    Favorite Forums
  • Automated Signatures
    On Your Posts
  • Best Of All, It's Free!
  • Students Click Here

*Eng-Tips's functionality depends on members receiving e-mail. By joining you are opting in to receive e-mail.

Posting Guidelines

Promoting, selling, recruiting, coursework and thesis posting is forbidden.

Students Click Here

Jobs

Plotter error in drawings

Plotter error in drawings

Plotter error in drawings

(OP)
How can I set my Autocad to use a specific plotter instead of finding the last one in that the drawings used?  I set the options to use last succesful plot, but every time I plot, I get unable to find plotter (other users plotters) and have to go and find plotter, size of paper, etc...

Is there a variable I can reset in the drawing that I can get to with getvar or possible setvar?  Possibly running a script on drawings prior to opening?  Anything?

RE: Plotter error in drawings

If you are using AutoCAD 2002 and above, you can use 'Page Setups'.  Set up the plotter you want to use in a blank drawing (or in your template drawing) and save as a setup drawing.  Then you import the setup from this drawing into your current drawing, for each current drawing.  Once imported, it stays in the current drawing, and you just select it from the dropdown box when you plot.

RE: Plotter error in drawings

You can create a lisp program, a custom button, or once you get the settings how you want it, paste the command into the command line. This is a reworked version of something we have used...


(if (= (getvar "PSTYLEMODE") 0)
    (command "CONVERTPSTYLES")
    ) ;if
  (setq PT1 "0,0")
  (command "-PLOT" "Y" "Layout1" PRINTER PAPSZ "Millimeters" "Landscape"
           "N" "Window" PT1 PT2 "1=1" "0,0" "Y" "YourPlotStyle.ctb"    "Y" "N"    "N" "N"
           "N" "Y" "N")

"Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right "
.. Henry Ford

RE: Plotter error in drawings

(OP)
Thanks borgunit, I have already a script set up for batch plotting that uses the -plot, but never really thought of doing like your way.

I like your capition by Henry Ford.  That man was way ahead of his time.  One of my favorite sayings is by Einstien "Great ideas often encounter violent oposition from medicore minds"

Red Flag This Post

Please let us know here why this post is inappropriate. Reasons such as off-topic, duplicates, flames, illegal, vulgar, or students posting their homework.

Red Flag Submitted

Thank you for helping keep Eng-Tips Forums free from inappropriate posts.
The Eng-Tips staff will check this out and take appropriate action.

Reply To This Thread

Posting in the Eng-Tips forums is a member-only feature.

Click Here to join Eng-Tips and talk with other members!


Resources