Topic: Copy page setup?

[craigr]

Bob Wahr -

did you try what I gave you?  The last N says, No, I don't really want to plot after all but please apply the changes I said Yes to earlier.  It really kinda pisses me off when people ask for help, get given an answer, and without trying it, assume they know how it works and that it won't work.

Bob, PLEASE don't get 'Pissed off'. I'm trying to learn. we all have made mistakes before, and no I didn't follow your macro thru when I saw that it was a 'plot' routine. I didn't know that YOUR responses were 'gospel'. As I started to step thru your routine, I saw that it was a plot routine and assumed that you misunderstood what I am trying to do. Which is why I didn't carry it thru.

I'm sorry that I ruined your day, (or week?), by misunderstanding what you were trying to do.

To the all of you, I appreciate ALL of the help I am given, on this and other questions, that is what we are here for, to help each other.

craigr

[deegeecees]

If this is all you need:

...It uses a bit of LISP and a bit of VBA respectively...

I am assuming by this statement that you wrote a lisp that calls a VBA dialog box. If this is true can you send me those files. I would like to do some of that as well.

Thanks,

Sorry whdjr, its a DCL file that calls subs in VBA, probably not what you're looking for. Basically, return values from the DCL file are run through the LISP wringer and booleaned to match a plot parameter in VBA. Its a lot faster than AutoCADs native plot if you're constantly using the same parameters.

Craigr,
I am going to assume that what you are trying to do (based on your posts) is set up plotting defaults for your particular drawing. If this is correct then I'd like to point out that the "Page Setup" is just a "Hand Holding" technique that AutCAD uses to store plotting values. This can all be done manually as well with a predefined macro or Lisp function. I'm pretty sure that this is what people are showing you, only you're stuck on the belief that "Page Setup" is the only solution. In other words, every single plot parameter in the "Page Setup" dialog can be set WHEN YOU ARE READY TO PLOT. Given that, then worrying about your "Page Setup" info before hand is an exercise in futility at best.

Just trying to clear things up, hope I did.

To quote Mike Perry:

Have a good one. 

[craigr]

Then if I understand your explanation correctly, I don't need to have a 'pagesetup' assigned to every dwg since I already have a macro for printing to 11x17, landscape, etc...

You are correct in the fact that I WAS stuck in the assumption that I HAD to have a 'pagesetup' assigned in every dwg, since the originals had them. - I'm not very good at letting something go until I understand it, and the help file wasn't helping me.

Thanks to all for your help.

craigr

[Bob Wahr]

Craig, sorry you caught it.  It has been a pretty stressfull week and it is something that annoys me.  There was no need to take it out on you though.  As far as I know, that is the only way to apply a page setup from the command line.  There is no requirement that you have a page setup in a drawing but I personally prefer it as not all of the client title blocks we use will work with a generic configuration.  Page setups also make it a lot easier to use publish succesfully.

[Andrea]

If this is all you need:

Device name, Plotter & plot size info

Then I have a "quick plot" routine I use. It looks like this:



It uses a bit of LISP and a bit of VBA respectively.

Yeah, what he said ^

deegeecees, I have noted that you use Océ plotter..isn't it ?
if yes,..wich model do you use..
we have 2 OcéTds600 here...and have problem with Drivers here.

[deegeecees]

Andrea, we have the TDS600 model, its quite the work horse around here. If you are having problems, here is a starting point for you.

[Andrea]

Deeg...

I already have a Océ support...

5 techniciens specialists in Océ came in our office to examine the problem and they even reproduced this problem at their offices for tests, However they do not know how to solve it. They confirm that the drivers is the problem.

just need to know if someone els have the same problem..

the problem is...
When Printing in Vellum mode.. the OcéTDS600 do not make automatic rotation and Automatic cut.

[deegeecees]

No, we don't use Vellum, not since I've been here anyway...

Thanks for the heads-up though, I'll make a note of it.