Reset plotter on all layout tabs
Jim Nelson
companies. When I work with them, I want to change the page setup on all
layout tabs all at once to be compatible with my plotters, but I don't see a
way to do that. Logic tells me to highlight all the layout tabs (using the
mouse in combination with shift or ctrl), then right-click and select Page
Layout, and change the settings. But under this scenario the Page Layout
option is greyed out.
My current solutions/workarounds are:
A. Manually go to each layout tab (did I mention there are often over a
hundred of these per drawing) and fix each one
B. Fix the first layout tab, plot it, then go to each of the rest, one by
one, and select "Previous Plot" from the page setup box
C. Make a copy of my .pc3 file, and rename the copy to be the same name of
the "expected" printer/plotter, and hope for the best
I am aware that the plotting can be accomplished using scripts and third
party script generation programs (such as Multi-Batch), and I'm going to
revise my home-brewed R14 AutoPlot routine when I have time. But am I
correct in my assumption that AutoDesk did not (does not) provide a way to
change the layout settings globally, or am I overlooking something obvious?
Thanks!
Jim
Dave Jones
if you are using Page Setups this is very easy to do and I have posted the
code to do it twice in the last two weeks. Just do a search in this
newsgroup for my name and you'll find it.
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"Jim Nelson" <jne...@mscon.com> wrote in message
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Dave Jones
each layout tab. I don't use multiple layout tabs or I'd write it for you :)
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"MarcelGosselin" <mgos...@umagroup.com> wrote in message
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> I would like to plot 30 layout tabs in a drawing. You can check off to
print all layout tabs, but as far as I can tell you can't globally set all
the layout tabs to a certain page setup? So do you phiscally have to go to
each layout to plot?
>
Jim Nelson
to this problem, but it wouldn't be the first time we've had to improvise
and code our way around a roadblock. I think Marcel wants the same thing I
do - mark the tabs, right click, and set the page setup for all of them at
once. I suppose I could set up various "master" page setups in a "master"
drawing file for every conceiveable situation and use those, but there
always seems to be a bit of improvisation when dealing with these drawings.
Oh well.
"Dave Jones" <da...@ddptrinidad.com> wrote in message
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and everytime I need a new one I just add it to the template. I have code in
my acaddoc.lsp file to "renew" my page setups in each layout tab everytime I
open a drawing so I'm always up to date...
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layout tabs...
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"MarcelGosselin" <mgos...@umagroup.com> wrote in message
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> Thanks for your reply Dave. I guess my question is why does AutoCAD have
the option to plot all layout tabs if you can't globally control which
pagesetup is being used?
>
Jim Nelson
on drawings that are sent to us.
As a footnote, the ability to change multiple layout tabs is a current wish
on the AUGI Wish List. Hopefully Autodesk will show interest in a future
release. A simple script file is handling my needs for now. Thank you all
for your help!
Jim
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Shaan Hurley
What if this ability was added to the eTransmit feature, would that be
sufficient? In most cases the problem where you want to set the Layouts to
None is when exchanging drawings with outside contacts.
Sincerely,
Shaan Hurley
Autodesk, Inc.
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Jim Nelson
I think that would be an excellent option, and would work well. While I'm
asking for things, I would still like to have the ability to make the
changes while in the drawing, to fix problems or otherwise make changes due
to employee error, indecisive engineering dept. etc. Perhaps even a plug-in
could be added to the CAD Standards feature to address page setups, layouts,
and so forth.
Thank you for your time!
Jim
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Shaan Hurley
Thank you for the feedback and I will see what we can come up with. As far
as your other requests I would mention them in the AUGI wishlist as well.
Cheers,
Shaan
"Jim Nelson" <jne...@mscon.com> wrote in message
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> Shaan,
>
> I think that would be an excellent option, and would work well. While I'm
> asking for things, I would still like to have the ability to make the
> changes while in the drawing, to fix problems or otherwise make changes
due
> to employee error, indecisive engineering dept. etc. Perhaps even a
plug-in
> could be added to the CAD Standards feature to address page setups,
layouts,
> and so forth.
>
> Thank you for your time!
>
> Jim
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Jeff White
one page setup. It displays a dialog box with 2 panes. The left pane
is a list of all the layouts in the drawing and the right pane is a list
of all the page setups. You just select all the layouts you want to
plot and tell it which page setup to use, it then plots all the selected
layouts using the selected page setup. It also has a toggle to save the
page setup with the layout. Let me know if you would like to try it. I
have not tested it on more than 20 layouts.
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