Printing many drawings in one time

Hello.
I'm looking for method that I'll can print many SW drawings on plotter
in one action (without opening each other).In other words, how can I
mark some drawings and after that I'll print all of them.
Could you advice me how can I do that.
Thanx

 

use the SW task scheduler. start, programs, solidworks 2004, solidworks
2004 Task Scheduler.



(Felix) wrote in

 

Use the Task Scheduler. It works great for this.
I've been using it to print out quite a few drawings at one time and it
makes it so much easier and quicker than opening each one seperately.

Richard

 

Another tip to automatically print all draings for an assembly:

Store all of your released drawings as .prn or .hp2 or .plt files by
printing each drawing to a file.

Next create a batch file for each drawing that will automatically print
that drawing AND the drawing for each component if the drawing is of an
assembly.

For example, say you have a drawing of assembly XYZ. XYZ includes
components X, Y, and Z. So, you should first create XYZ.prn, X.prn,
Y.prn, and Z.prn.
Your batch file(s) should look something like this:

XYZ.bat:
COPY "C:\DRAWINGS\XYZ.prn" LPT1
CALL "C:\BATCH\X.bat"
CALL "C:\BATCH\Y.bat"
CALL "C:\BATCH\Z.bat"

X.bat:
COPY "C:\DRAWINGS\X.prn" LPT1

Y.bat:
COPY "C:\DRAWINGS\Y.prn" LPT1

Z.bat:
COPY "C:\DRAWINGS\Z.prn" LPT1

(if your printer is a network printer,
relplace LPT1 with \\server_name\printer_name)

Now, if you want to print all drawings for assembly XYZ, all you need to
do is run XYZ.bat and all will be printed automatically. When changes
are made to an assembly, you must make sure the batch file is kept up to
date, mostly this just involves the batch files for assemblies to ensure
it calls all the right components.
It should be possible to create a macro that does all of this
automatically from SWX, but I have never tried it.

 

I just was playing around with the solidworks viewer and it seems that
you can use it to print from the command line.
Here's how:

path to solidworks\Viewer\swviewer /p "name of file to print"

Anders