oce plotters

when we plot it doesnt plot with the window we selected it shifts the drawings to the edge of the paper oce 9300 and oce 9400 hdi 8 drivers

 

Seems to be typical for Oce. What I do here is draw a box the size of
the paper in color 255 (set to 0% screening and 0.00mm width)so I can
see the size, then put tick marks in the upper left and lower right
corners, also in color 255, at 0.04" inside the paper frame. The
plotter is set for a 0.03" border.

You'd think that as much as an Oce costs the drivers would be able to
plot WYSIWYG from the AutoCad preview window, but I haven't found a way
to do so without tick marks within the "printed area".

Martin

 

does the tick marks print out on the sheets?

 

They don't print on the TDS400 in my office. I have noticed that the
tick marks do print at as a very light gray the local plotting service
if I send them a DesignJet 650c .PLT file of the same drawing. If you
make the tick mark very small it shouldn't be very noticeable in any case.

Martin

 

From what I have been able to figure out with the OCE is that unlike HP
which will see an object on an unplottable layer the OCE will not. Thus it
will go to the first thing it does see, namely the border itself.
I put plotting corners set for the paper size and it does all right.

Tim W.

 

thank you it works alot better than what i was originally having to do

 

thanks