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I have over 2000 dwg files that i converted from an other format file so I
don't have correct page orientation in this files (Landscape/portrait). When
i try to plot with the batch plot I get wrong plot in the files that would
be plotted in portrait. I can't open, change the page setup and resave all
the files that must be plotted in portrait mode (there are about 1000
files), there is any script or other solution to auto check the file
dimension and print according to it (es. width<height -> plot portrait) ?

 

If you can work out a way to change the orientation of the drawings using
the -plot command without the plot dialogue box, you could create a script
file and then use "ScriptPro" to run the script file on a selection set of
drawings.
Just open one of the drawings, use -plot at the command line and see if you
can redo the plot dialogue.

The other way is to open one of the drawings in a set, redo the plot
information from the plot dialogue box and then save a "page setup name".
Now you should be able to use the batch plot again and assign the page setup
name to a list of drawings to plot.

I have never had any real sucess with batch plotting myself but there you
go.

Dave Alexander

 

If the drawings will plot, albeit with the wrong orientation, then all you
are wasting is paper and the time it takes to trim the plots.
The alternative of changing the orientation before plotting is much more
costly in time and effort.

If the drawings don't plot at all, then that is another matter.

Will the drawings plot at all? If so or if not what kind of output do you
get?

Dave Alexander

 

The draw is plotted bat smaller or to big for the paper and is plotted only
the center.
It's not a waste of paper the problem, the problem is that all this draws
will be
binded to form a manual and is not good to have some draw in half paper,
some in the 70%
some vertical plotted as orizzontal ecc...

 

I don't think that you have much choice.
Unless you know that size the drawings are, and what the orientation is you
will have to check them all manually.

The way I would do it is to try and figure out which drawings are which size
and which orientation.
If you have to load each to do this then start loading. As you load a
drawing, correct the plot settings and plot it. Be sure and save the page
setup name. Are the drawings in model tab or layout tab? Are the plot scales
the same?

Dave Alexander

 

The are converted from another CAD (Thinkdesign). I don't know if the are
model tab or layout tab
(I don't know Autocad...) but are 2D design.
I think will be a very long task to open and check/config/save over 2500
draws....

 

You are right. But, you may have 20 or 30 different types of drawings that
are set up the same. This means that you only have to identify the different
groups of drawings that are the same, setup one of each group to plot
correctly and then you can plot the others of the same type using batch plot
or run a script file or ?

You will not know until you start. At the worst, you may end up going
through 40 or 50 different types requiring different plot setups, but after
that, you may start encountering the same drawings as you have already setup
for plotting at which point you can save time.
Once you have one drawing of a specific sheet size, orientation etc. set
up, you can apply those settings to others of the same type.

You have to start somewhere.

Start loading the drawings and plot them. As you go, a pattern will emerge
that you can turn into a script file or whatever and start to automate it.
But you still have to start plotting to even begin automating.

Dave Alexander

 

The problem is that i don't know command for autocad.
If I know the right command I didn't have problem.
I need these command:
1) Open a draw
2) Check the size (when you set the page setup, it must know the draw size)
to determinate landscape/portrait
3) set landscape/portrait format
4) plot
5) close draw
With these command i can make a script that do all the job without
problem...

 

Now that is a problem. You can learn AutoCAD on your own or take a course.
I would start with the manual, see how you start by loading a drawing, then
how to plot a drawing.
Once you are okay with that, you can move on to automation.

Post back to the ng with specific questions and as you go.

Dave Alexander

 

Try using our AcroPlot software from www.cadzation.com to convert them to
PDF and then you should be able to plot them from Adobe Reader to any
plotter. The new Reader 6.0 is supposes to handle plotting the different
sizes to your plotter if it has different trays or rolls for the A3 and A4.

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Rodney McManamy
President
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www.cadzation.com
AcroPlot - The easy way to convert multiple AutoCAD and Word files to PDF.

 

Thank you very much!!
It does all the thing I need!!

 

That's great to hear. Just one more use for our cool program.

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Rodney McManamy
President
CADzation
www.cadzation.com
AcroPlot - The easy way to convert multiple AutoCAD and Word files to PDF.