Plotting suggestions
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Topic: Plotting suggestions
Posted By: draftingsaycore
Subject: Plotting suggestions
Date Posted: 10.May.2011 at 15:13
Our current setup is like this. We plot our plan sheets (ARCH D/ARCH E) from paper space. There are typically 2 to 10 of these sheets.
We plot our plant production sheets (Legal size sheets) from model space. There can be anywhere from 10 to 500 or even 1000 of these sheets. These can be cumbersome to print as we click previous plot and select a window around each new sheet we print.
Any suggestions to make this easier to plot? I was searching around and had read how someone worked at a place that could print multiple sheets in model space with one click as long as it had a certain title block rectangle around it.
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Posted By: John Connor
Date Posted: 10.May.2011 at 18:23
AutoCAD LT 2005? Yikes.
Is there a PUBLISH command in that version?
In full AutoCAD I'd say do it with a script file but I cannot recall if scripts can be used in LT.
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Posted By: draftingsaycore
Date Posted: 10.May.2011 at 19:06
Yeah, we really have had no reason to upgrade yet...
Yes there is a publish command but isn't there a limit on the number of layouts? On big jobs we can have 500+ production sheets.
And yes you can add a script. I can control where the sheets are in model space, but can't control the number of sheets per job. I've been trying to set up an excel file that I enter the number of sheets and it will generate the script file. However, when pasting the excel file into notepad to save as a script it seems to pull over spaces that messes up the script file.
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Posted By: heinsite
Date Posted: 11.May.2011 at 04:13
You almost have a reason to upgrade now. AutoCAD LT 2012 supports Sheet Sets.
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Dave Hein, P.E.
Hawaii District Engineer
Kona International Airport
AutoCAD Certified Professional
Autodesk Expert Elite
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Posted By: draftingsaycore
Date Posted: 11.May.2011 at 15:56
I'll look into that.
For now, I've come up with this. Using excel and mostly a bunch
of IF statements I type in the number of detail sheets I'm plotting and
it generates the script in the column A. (the x and y coordinates of
the sheets and the sheet size is the same for every drawing, just the
number of sheets change) I copy and paste column A to notepad, save it,
and run it in AutoCAD.
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