just in the lst day when trying to creat a plot file it goes through the process like it's working fine but after creating the plot file ist's empty 0 memory. It shows the plot preview correctly but after sent to plot the plt file is 0 memory and has nothing to plot. This just started never happened before. Using 2000
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Whenever I create a PDF file the capital Ms and Ws get "spikey", if that makes sense. I use the simplex font primarily. I have C3D 2012, but this issue has been present back to LD 2009, and maybe farther. Only happens when I make PDFs, not other formats.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have just switched over to 2014 and i cannot for the life of me get my batch plot to plot PDF's to a single file! Instead, it's printing all 37 layouts separate. I tried switching between multi-file & single file in the publish options, but nothing!
i know that it took me a while to perfect my settings the last time i set up a new version, but i am struggling to work it out now.
2004 and how to turn "plot to file" off? Any time they go to plot the plot to file is already set and grayed out. It has been way too long since 2004 and I don't know where to have them look although I assume it is in Options somewhere.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am plotting a file that has a pdf referenced into it. The quality of the plot is degraded only at the inserted pdf. The rest of the AutoCAD file looks fine. The inserted pdf is a printed AutoCAD file which looks clear and even has embedded layers and linework I can snap to (which seems to indicate that there is vector information present when it is in Autocad.
I have attached an image with 4 zoomed-in screen shots to show what I'm describing.
how to find out using the .NET API if a plot device requires a file name when ploting?
E.g. choosing the plot to PDF device would require a file name.
How to turn plot and publish log file off? (see attached pic)
I found out how to turn the one off under plot stamp settings, but I would like this box to be unchecked also and I want to do it automatically for all my users.
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Using someone elses template. When I plot to PDF the layout sheet name is not the PDF plot file name, it uses the drawing file name (and hence the same file name for all plots, not what I want). When I plot in paper space, my layout sheet name is the output file name, is there a way to change this?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI have one drawing per file at model tab. When I need to plot a multiple page file, I use:
Print > Batch Plot.
The problem is that I have to set plot configurations ( plot style table, plot area, paper size, etc) in each file before use Batch Plot.
Now I received 722 files with a wrong Plot Style Table. For this time I change the associated *.ctb file at Plot Style folder, but I will need to associate the right *.ctb to each drawing. It's also common to have to change other properties.
Trying to create a ARCH D size pdf in landscape orientation and it cuts off the image and places it back in a protrait orientation. 11 x 17 works great.
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Both are creating the PDF with acroplot . I am using autocad Civil 3d 2013.
I have attached both PDF's.
Is it possible to create a lips that does the following:
- In the Modelspace
- Get 2 points to create a plot window / give two points. (get point 1, get point 2, list points)
- Divide the window into A3 size windows
- plot scale 1:100 / prompts to ask
- Plot / Print the A3 size windows with the given / preset configuration(s)
- Perhaps even add a number to each page.
In other words, Plot / Print a A2, A1, A0 or bigger onto several A3 pages.
Depending on how big the page is, number of A3 pages, plotscale 1:100
Or asks what plot scale I want to use.The only thing I think I will need is something like:
Get point 1, get point 2, List the points. So I can set the window.
I have (unfortunately) the necessity to modify into some files (which are used as models) the print style preset.
These files, which are necessary for the realization of electrical diagrams, have inside hundreds of layout.
Each layout set default printing parameters, so as "Laser b/n.pc3," as the paper size "A4" scale "Scale to Fit", and plot style "Schemi.ctb", etc. ..
Is there a way to create a macro (a field unknown to me) or something similar, to automatically change in all the default layout, for example, the printer "Colori.pc3" and the print style in "Schemi_colori.ctb "?
My issue revolves around plotting a pdf from paper space. I made a viewport from model to show the pdf on the drawing. It shows up in paper space, when I go to plot it, hit preview, pdf doesn't show up on the preview. Funny thing is, the rest of my viewports show up on the drawing and come out fine when I plot them, just not the pdf.
I used layer 4(cyan) as my outer image border. Not sure why its not picking up the pdf image when I plot it out.
Having an issue where the .ctb works in some paper space tabs and not in others. When we do the plot preview on one tab the line weight is correctly shown, and when we go to a different tab, the preview displays colors and no line weight. We tried this on two separate machines both running the same operating system, AutoCad 2013 and using the same .ctb.. We tried creating a new copy of the ctb. There must be a setting that is different in the viewports, but I can not figure out what it is.
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View 2 Replies View RelatedIn R2013, the default file naming convention for plotting to a file (jpg, pdf, etc) was [your dwg's filename].pdf
Since R2013 SP1 (including R2014, which I've just moved onto), it has changed to [your dwg's filename] [name of the sheet you're plotting].pdf - as in "DSMC-AS-L Model(1).pdf" instead of "DSMC-AS-L.pdf"
I don't like that at all. Having to manually change it every time is pretty obnoxious.
Is there an way to change this?
I implemented the code from the autodesk developers guide for plotting. [URL] .... I made a few minor changes such as making it a sub instead of a command, and commented out a few of the plot settings
the routine seems to work except that I don't get a PDF
I added the actrans.commit() to see fi that might work = nope.
also note that ACF.acdoc & ACF.db in my code replace acdoc & acCurDb in the original code
'<CommandMethod("PlotCurrentLayout")> _ Public Sub PlotMe(suBpath As String, subFileName As String) '' Get the current document and database, and start a transaction 'Dim acDoc As Document = Application.DocumentManager.MdiActiveDocument 'Dim acCurDb As Database = acDoc.Database Using acTrans As Transaction = ACF.Db.TransactionManager.StartTransaction()
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I am looking for a solution to publish or plot a dwg file to PDF or DWF with a transparent Background. This would remove the white paper background from the file and allow anything under the file to show through if overlaid such as a raster image.
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In our drawings we have a layout with a view port and tittle block.
Default printer set for that layout is "dwg to pdf.pc3" and paper is "ISO A3".
I had to plot this layout [extence] to a plt file for the use of our Production ERP.
We had to print to a specific windows printer with paper size A3.
We use to do it in VBA with the bellow code. How to do it in .Net
Public Function BetsyPlot2() As Boolean
Dim Plot As AcadPlot
Dim alayout As AcadLayout
Dim lowerLeft(0 To 1) As Double
Dim upperRight(0 To 1) As Double
Dim retval As Boolean
retval = flase
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Could we can use 1 ctb file for all drawing scale? The problem is the lineweight at 1:100 is OK but at 1:5 it is quite light.
Could we use scale lineweght?
I am experimenting with a simple form of CAD/CAM and would like to be able to export the coordinates of my drawing to a data file in order to use it as an input file forthe CAM system. I am running AutoCad 2000 and would expect to be able to have this option available under the Plot command but have not been able to see how it can be done. For example, taking the simple case of a rectangle, I would like to be able to write to file the coordinates of the four corners of the drawing.
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Using Civil3D r2011
Is there an option to eliminate AutoCAD from automatically inserting the layout tab name into the file name when creating a PDF? Once upon a time it would only use the file name (i.e. A-101). Now it uses "A-101_Layout1" (or whatever the layout name is) by default. I either have to live with it or manually change each file name during the process of creating the PDF or after it's been created.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have a user who is trying to plot several design drawings which all have a connection to one shape file. The file in question is used as background data for the design and is apparently fairly large. When he plots the drawings only part of the shape data comes through. Based on the information I have it sounds like the software does not have enough time to retreive all of the shape data before the plot data goes to the printer.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI am new to autocad, I downloaded autocad 2013, When I tried to print/plot it always blank(white), Is there any settings I need to for print/plot?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am trying to locate Plot Style file. In Option: File: Printer Support File Path I get following directory:
C:Program DataAutodeskACAD 2011 enu PlotterPlot Style.
My problem is: I can not find "Program Data" any where, in "Program files" and by any search I can not see "enu".
I am trying to plot to PDF and it wont do it.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI want to plot model and layput in a dwf file in AutoCAD 2013. So is it possible to plot model and layout in a dwf file?
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