Topic: Hello Im new and have a quick question.

[hardeight]

How do you write a plot script and insert the paper size with inches in the size?
What format allows it to work?
Say, for example, the paper size required is "Letter (8½x11")"
When I put this into my script, it gets to the "inches" symbol, the second ", and blows up. Is there a way to format this in the script to allow it to read it correctly?  Can you put character maps in a script? Say perhaps (strcat "Letter (8½x11" (chr 34) )") or can a script not read any lisp functions?
I am banging my head against the wall over here.... :ugly:

[JohnK]

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(strcat "Letter (8½x11\")")

[jbuzbee]

. . . and welcome to the swamp!

 

[Andrea]

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(strcat "Letter (8½x11\")")

why STRCAT ?

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(setq papersize "Letter (8½x11\")")

but maybe he forgot a cote "
(setq papersize "Letter (8½\"x11\")")


[Spike Wilbury]

why STRCAT ?

He probably type it to fast or simple forgot.... had happen to me many times... no biggy

[JohnK]

i duno.  ...I'm not paying attention really; The high school hockey tourney is on in the big conf. room and i just added that one piece and posted it quick (cut and paste).
Sorry,

[Andrea]

well it happen often on me too..

[hardeight]

Thanks for that Quick response. It worked great.
Now my problem is, some of the drawings are in Model Space and some are in Paper Space. So that script I wrote isn't going to cut it. I guess I will have to write the script to call on a separate Plot.lsp that uses variables in each drawing.
But this helps me on my command prompts.
That was driving me crazy.

[A_LOTA_NOTA]

Why use a script? Why not use lisp for it all?

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(if (= (getvar 'tilemode) 1)
    (plotModelSpace)
    (PlotPaperSpace)
 ); end if

[hardeight]

That is basically what I ended up having to do. But I wanted to use it on multiple drawings. Basically a batch plot lisp that allows the user to pick an entire directory and it finds the relevant files to plot and writes a script to do that.

[Andrea]

That is basically what I ended up having to do. But I wanted to use it on multiple drawings. Basically a batch plot lisp that allows the user to pick an entire directory and it finds the relevant files to plot and writes a script to do that.

BLP2007 (Batch Lisp Process) can do it.