Topic: Plot routine

[A_LOTA_NOTA]

Does anyone have a routine that will plot all the tabs of every open drawing? I guess it would have to make sure there was a title block first. Sometimes the title block would be in model space and others in paper space. If it was in model space no need to look in paper space. Then send it to the default system printer.

This might have to be more of a custom routine but I thought I’d ask here first.

[ronjonp]

PUBLISH (won't check where your titleblocks are but will give you an interface to plot)

[A_LOTA_NOTA]

PUBLISH (won't check where your titleblocks are but will give you an interface to plot)

PUBLISH wont plot all the drawings I have open will it? I would have to make a list of the drawigns I want published.

[T.Willey]

You might have to have the lisp create a script, as the drawing has to be current to plot, IIRC.  I tried printing, batch style, with lisp, and couldn't get it to work the way I wanted.  I had to go the C# route.

[ronjonp]

PUBLISH (won't check where your titleblocks are but will give you an interface to plot)

PUBLISH wont plot all the drawings I have open will it? I would have to make a list of the drawigns I want published.

It should put them into a list .. then you'd have to select what to plot. Saving a list is optional.

[A_LOTA_NOTA]

You might have to have the lisp create a script, as the drawing has to be current to plot, IIRC.  I tried printing, batch style, with lisp, and couldn't get it to work the way I wanted.  I had to go the C# route.

I knew that but wasn't thinking when I posted here. I should have posted in the .NET section.

Thank you for the reply

[T.Willey]

You might be able to do it if it is only dealing with drawings that are already open.  Look into the system variable LispInit.

That idea won't work either, as it would have to make the other drawing current, and when it did it would stop the lisp.  Back to my original post.

[Krushert]

Publish will plot open and closed drawings.  You load the desired files.  You can then remove and add layout tabs (and reorder) as you see fit. 

[] Repeat after me.[/]  The publish command is my friend! 

[A_LOTA_NOTA]

PUBLISH (won't check where your titleblocks are but will give you an interface to plot)

PUBLISH wont plot all the drawings I have open will it? I would have to make a list of the drawigns I want published.

It should put them into a list .. then you'd have to select what to plot. Saving a list is optional.

What I was saying was, I would need a list of drawings I want ploted then I would also need to know tabs I wanted ploted. I don't want to have to make a list then add it to publisher. I just want to type DO-IT (or whatever) and the routine plot all tabs that have title blocks in all the open drawings.

[A_LOTA_NOTA]

[] Repeat after me.[/]  The publish command is my friend! 

This might be true if publisher knew what drawings are currently open and would publish them with no other input from the user. But I don't think this is the case.

[ronjonp]

Maybe your PUBLISHALLSHEETS variable is set to 0. Change it to 1 and it will populate all open drawings.

[alanjt]

Maybe your PUBLISHALLSHEETS variable is set to 0. Change it to 1 and it will populate all open drawings.

I don't mean to thread jack, but do you know why in 2009 (haven't tested in new version), when you run publish on a number of layouts, it opens the active drawing in a temp folder? I've never seen publish do this in any other version, is it some strange setting?

[ronjonp]

Maybe that's what happens when publish in background is selected. I've had that unchecked for years (setvar 'backgroundplot 0) because of speed (on larger drawings).

[alanjt]

Maybe that's what happens when publish in background is selected. I've had that unchecked for years (setvar 'backgroundplot 0) because of speed (on larger drawings).

Nope, I don't use/like background plot - variable is also set to 0.

[ronjonp]

Maybe that's what happens when publish in background is selected. I've had that unchecked for years (setvar 'backgroundplot 0) because of speed (on larger drawings).

Nope, I don't use/like background plot - variable is also set to 0.

No answer ... sorry