Pluton I spent all day bringing up Acad12 again... I had to load DOS on a machine and then find all of the bits and pieces of the Acad12 code etc. What a walk down memory lane that was! Finding mouse, digitizer and plotter drivers etc. Remembering that the command is Acad -R to reconfigure Acad. Anyway, Acad12 happily plotted my long plots just fine. Even though Acad12 is retro it sure is fast! Just as I was about to leave for the evening, I gave one more try to Acad15. Yep, it can plot long plots too...you just have to find the right tabs in the plotter profile burried really deep. Nothe that the command HPConfig is no longer supported. Now if I could just get Acad15 to work with my big Summagraphic digitizers. For digitizing with these monsters I still appear to need Acad12, as Acad doesn't appear to support old school digitizers. REX
All I can plot from Map2000 on a Win2K machine using the windows driver for the HP650C/ C2859B. This driver appears to not allow for paper sizes larger than ARCH E 36-48. I remember plotting plots longer than 48" on this plotter with previous versions of ACAD...can I still do it with the new Windows version? I've downloaded updated versions of the plotter drivers from HP. When I try to plot with two of them, Acad protests with a "Memory Allocation Error". On the third driver I can't get the installation passed the question for the configuration file location. I give it the Acad2000.cfg and Map2000.cfg and it balks. The readme file talks about this being an administration privelege issue. But I Am logged on as the administrator for this computer. So... I'm stumped. None of the drivers from HP seems to work for me ... Any ideas on what things I can try to get long plots? On another issue: HP talks about Acad 14 and 15 and I don't see any version in my version of Acad's splash or help screens. Any ideas on to ask Acad on what version it is? REX
OK, I found my upgrade patches for acad executable and plotter application to acad and repatched acad. The patch knew that my version was Acad15. Now there is no memory alocation error when I try any of the drivers. Howerver ... The Win driver gets confused in puting the plot correctly into landscape or portrait...but the HP driver seems to work. The HP driver reminds me that I am using the computer's memory for rasterization...hence the plotter won't run out of memory...now that's food for thought. My newest ColorPro Driver doesn't seem to know about large paper like E size, hence I'm back to using the HP driver and making multiple panels to get a full plot. Interestingly, the HP plotter knows about conserving paper if the full 48" length is not required any of the panels! I guess qualifies as my making progress on this issue...but I still lack the ability to plot longer than 48" in one go. I wonder if this is a Windows issue ... maybe the old plots I produced under DOS long ago were files that required just pen movements and didn't require rasterization? That would explain why infinite plots could be created ... in the olden times of DOS. REX
you can set a new sheet in the printer options, something like a 1000x3000 mm or greater. maybe you can't save this paper size in the layouts or the drawing, but you can print long plots.
