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GDF

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ObjectDBX Plotting
« on: February 25, 2006, 07:34:13 PM »
ObjectDBX Plotting. So why can't this be done? If not I wish Autodesk had a way to do it.

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Re: ObjectDBX Plotting
« Reply #1 on: February 25, 2006, 07:43:49 PM »
Any particular reason why you want to use DBX for Plotting Gary ?
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Re: ObjectDBX Plotting
« Reply #2 on: February 26, 2006, 02:58:05 PM »
Gary,

What I was told from someone (I think it was on the AUGI Lisp Guild) a while back was the only way to use ObjectDBX to plot is to have a Liscenced version of ObjectDBX, not what we use it our Acad versions.

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Re: ObjectDBX Plotting
« Reply #3 on: February 27, 2006, 10:52:25 AM »
Just looking for a faster way to plot. We are using Acroplot for plotting and it runs from a script. Sets sdi to 1 a it is slooooooow.
From what I have seen from playing with objectdbx, its faaaaaaaaaaast.

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Re: ObjectDBX Plotting
« Reply #4 on: February 27, 2006, 11:20:04 AM »
Not sure if this will help you speed things up but there was a feature of PlotTabs where you can call it without the dialog box.
http://www.theswamp.org/forum/index.php?topic=1916.msg37939#msg37939

There were many changes to the routine and this feature may not be up to date with all the options.
i have not tested after the many updates to the routine as no one seemed to use that feature.
It's intent was to be able to call PlotTabs from a script or other lisp routine.
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Re: ObjectDBX Plotting
« Reply #5 on: February 27, 2006, 11:52:38 AM »
Allen

Thanks for the heads up. I will check into it.

I am just supprised that AutoCAD does not have a builtin objectdbx plotting.
I want to plot fast, without the need to open up each drawing. We only use
one layout per drawing.

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Re: ObjectDBX Plotting
« Reply #6 on: February 27, 2006, 02:06:11 PM »
Isn't 'background plotting' using objectdbx?
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Re: ObjectDBX Plotting
« Reply #7 on: February 27, 2006, 02:43:27 PM »
Gary,

Have you tried using the publish command?  Ya know..."just set it and forget it"... :-)

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Re: ObjectDBX Plotting
« Reply #8 on: February 27, 2006, 03:29:38 PM »
I'm going to have to get back to you on the publish command. I think we always want the output to be in a pdf file.

No one here in our office has used publish.

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Re: ObjectDBX Plotting
« Reply #9 on: February 27, 2006, 03:39:24 PM »
Gary,

If you have a PDF driver installed you can then make you a .pc3 file for AutoCad to use and therefore you can publish to it.

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Re: ObjectDBX Plotting
« Reply #10 on: February 27, 2006, 05:13:44 PM »
Thanks

I will look into this. I am not the plotting guy in our office. I will get him to test out all of the tips.

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