End of Publish Event - 2005

How do you capture the end of Publish event, not when

the command disappears, but when all of the background

plotting is done.



- Ted

WD Partners

 

EndPlot perhaps?

 

I believe, publish will go into background plotting and fire multiple begin
and endplot events.

- Ted

 

You're correct, for each layout published a endplot event will fire. If you
are doing a multi-page, publish will generate the individual DWFs in the
temp folder, compile them into the single DWF file and place it in the
output location.

Best thing to do is count the endplots to see when they equal the number of
sheets sent, then turn on a folder watcher to locate the new file. Trying
to use a straight folder watcher gets tricky because the final DWF can
appear before AutoCAD is finished compiling it depending upon the number of
layouts, their complexity and the processing time.

-- Mike
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Mike Tuersley
CADalyst's CAD Clinic
Rand IMAGINiT Technologies
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Mike,

Counting the number of endplots seems like a good idea. Where is the number
stored?

I am not just doing DWF or printing to a file, but also printing to
accounting for plots
directly to a device. I guess that I could undefine the pesky Publish
command until
Autodesk gives us some proper events to monitor.

- Ted Schaefer
WD Partners

 

Counting the number of endplots seems like a good idea. Where is the number

Its not. Use two counters. When you issue the plot command, set counter1 to
zero and counter2 to the number of layouts. Then setup a loop that compares
counter1 to counter2 and doesn't exit until they are equal.

To increment counter1, add code to the EndPlot event so it updates it ---->
counter1 = counter1 + 1

cheesy but it works.

-- Mike
___________________________
Mike Tuersley
CADalyst's CAD Clinic
Rand IMAGINiT Technologies
___________________________
the trick is to realize that there is no spoon...

 

Mike,

"Cheesy but it works" > This kind of thing seems to be S.O.P. when you try
to track plotting in AutoCAD with VBA.
Hey, but I love cheese.

In 2005, what if you want to Publish drawings that aren't open in the
editor. Can you count the layouts?

Here's another way that I just got to work.

When you start plotting, startup a timer and watch for the creation of
PlotandPublishLog.CSV.
I have been focusing on this file anyway because it provides the most
reliable plot information so
far, except it still doesn't track the number of plot.

The implentation is a little tricky because you have to trap for plotting
from the preview command
and when a user cancels. Then you have to decipher, paper sizes from words
like "letter" and "A0" and "ArchD". You have to be careful to delete the
file as well.

Thanks for your thoughts.

 

In 2005, what if you want to Publish drawings that aren't open in the

Yeah, good point Ted. My apps are usually automated so I know what layouts
are there since my app created the drawing. You could open them first inn
DBX to get the layouts, but it sounds like your workaround is working for
you.

-- Mike
___________________________
Mike Tuersley
CADalyst's CAD Clinic
Rand IMAGINiT Technologies
___________________________
the trick is to realize that there is no spoon...