Reading HPGL into AutoCAD

[GigaStream Web Master]

I've an application sequence that works as following;

- A software developed by the company I work generate some diagrams, saving a file with HPGL (plotter) commands.

- The drawing is made as usual with ACAD, but it's plotted to a file.

- With a TYPE command the conjunction of both is then plotted.

 

Now, that we go to access full eelctronics, I need to reed the first file into the drawing.

 

DOES ANYBODY KNOW HOW I CAN DO THIS ?

 

Chris.

[Kenneth Anderson]

If I understand your question correctly

There are a few different stand alone apps that allow you to view HPGL and
HPGL2 files. Some of these allow you to save as .DXF format.

This would be the simplest solution.

there is one here from CERN that looks like it might work...

http://www.cern.ch/CERN/Divisions/EST/CAD/hpglviewer.html

I have not tried it though
This would be the way to go.
These guys have one that you can buy
http://www.camcad.com/
dont know anything about it though

this is an interesting concept, this guys program reads HPGL 1 (I think)
files and parses it into an autoCAD script file
The program will create a SCR file that you can import in AutoCAD (inside
AutoCAD type _script and then
enter the location of the SCR file ).
hmmm.... what a neat idea!
from shareware.com searched HPGL to get to here:

ftp://ftp.orst.edu/pub/mirrors/ftp.winsite.com/pc/win95/miscutil/hpgl2scr.zi
p

I doubt it would work that well though....
good luck, hope this helps.

K.

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Chris.

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[Roger Brown, P.E.]

GigaStream Web Master wrote:
> I've an application sequence that works as following;
> - A software developed by the company I work generate some diagrams, saving a file with HPGL (plotter) commands.
> - The drawing is made as usual with ACAD, but it's plotted to a file.
> - With a TYPE command the conjunction of both is then plotted.
>
> Now, that we go to access full eelctronics, I need to reed the first file into the drawing.
>
> DOES ANYBODY KNOW HOW I CAN DO THIS ?

You may be interested in taking a look at my page, below:

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Roger Brown http://reality.sgi.com/autocad/Developer/HPGL/

[Jim Patrick]

On Fri, 17 Sep 1999 16:30:41 -0700, "Roger Brown, P.E."
<rog...@pisco.engr.sgi.com> wrote:

>GigaStream Web Master wrote:
>> I've an application sequence that works as following;
>> - A software developed by the company I work generate some diagrams, saving a file with HPGL (plotter) commands.
>> - The drawing is made as usual with ACAD, but it's plotted to a file.
>> - With a TYPE command the conjunction of both is then plotted.
>>
>> Now, that we go to access full eelctronics, I need to reed the first file into the drawing.
>>
>> DOES ANYBODY KNOW HOW I CAN DO THIS ?
>
>You may be interested in taking a look at my page, below:

Do you (or anyone else) know of any Win32 applications that do it
also?

[Georg Mischler]

Kenneth Anderson wrote:

> this is an interesting concept, this guys program reads HPGL 1 (I
> think) files and parses it into an autoCAD script file
> The program will create a SCR file that you can import in AutoCAD
> (inside AutoCAD type _script and then
> enter the location of the SCR file ).
> hmmm.... what a neat idea!

Well, I thought it was an even neater idea to import the same
data directly right into the drawing, and modified this program
to be an ADS (later ARX) extension a few years ago:

http://www.schorsch.com/download/pltin/

This was my first programming experience with C back then,
so don't expect any wonders! But for this kind of HPGL 1
files it seems to work sufficiently well. Just that hardly
anyone still creates HPGL 1 files anymore nowadays...

Have fun!

-schorsch

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+schorsch.com+ -- lighting design tools -- http://www.schorsch.com/

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[Peter Sheerin]

Roger,

Nice idea, but I doubt if most people here have access to Irix....

Roger Brown, P.E. <rog...@pisco.engr.sgi.com> wrote in message
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> GigaStream Web Master wrote:
> > I've an application sequence that works as following;
> > - A software developed by the company I work generate some diagrams,
saving a file with HPGL (plotter) commands.
> > - The drawing is made as usual with ACAD, but it's plotted to a file.
> > - With a TYPE command the conjunction of both is then plotted.
> >
> > Now, that we go to access full eelctronics, I need to reed the first
file into the drawing.
> >
> > DOES ANYBODY KNOW HOW I CAN DO THIS ?
>
> You may be interested in taking a look at my page, below:
>

[Norbert Grund]

On Thu, 16 Sep 1999 19:43:42 -0300, "GigaStream Web Master"
<gst...@zaz.com.br> wrote:

S-Plot HP-GL and HP-GL/2 viewer also converts to DXF ==>
http://www.czechia.com/anovy/index.htm

HTH
Norbert
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