Plot multiple drawings (publish not an option)

[timothyjturner]

Hello,

EDIT: I forgot to include I'm using AutoCAD Electrical 2008.

Our problem is that we have no way of plotting multiple drawings quickly.

Way back in the day somebody wrote some plot lisp routines that we are still using. These routines include all of the normal stuff that you see in a plot layout (i.e. - plot scale, pens, etc,etc). In addition they create a plot stamp manually within the program. So, now all of our old existing drawings have custom text, in a custom area, that gets deleted and readded by the plot routines. As far as I can tell, you can not do this with a layout. This is why I believe publish is not an option.

I need a way to run these lisps on several drawing files at once. Any suggestions?

[T.Willey]

I don't understand why you can't use your old routine anymore. What does it not do that you think it should do? Have you changed the way you do drawings, so now the routine won't work?

If the problem is that you think you can't add text to a paper space layout like you can in model space, then that is not an issue, as you can add/delete text from any place in the drawing.

[timothyjturner]

I don't understand why you can't use your old routine anymore. What does it not do that you think it should do? Have you changed the way you do drawings, so now the routine won't work?

If the problem is that you think you can't add text to a paper space layout like you can in model space, then that is not an issue, as you can add/delete text from any place in the drawing.

Our problem is that we have no way of plotting multiple drawings. The script still does the same thing that it always did, but I want to be able to plot multiple drawings at once.

[T.Willey]

So the lisp work, but it only works on one drawing. Could you use ScriptPro? I don't use it, but it may work for you.

[Ed Jobe]

You can find ScriptPro (http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/item?siteID=123112&id=4091678&linkID=9240858) at adesk.

[timothyjturner]

You can find ScriptPro (http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/item?siteID=123112&id=4091678&linkID=9240858) at adesk.

Downloaded it... thought it was going to be the answer to all of my dreams. However, it looks like u can't use multiple .lsp files....I don't think i can do everything that the .lsp does with a .scr. (for example, the text removal & creation based on drawing scale.

EDIT - I think i spoke too soon...it looks like I can accomplish more than i thought with a script file. This may work.

[ccowgill]

Hello,

EDIT: I forgot to include I'm using AutoCAD Electrical 2008.

Our problem is that we have no way of plotting multiple drawings quickly.

Way back in the day somebody wrote some plot lisp routines that we are still using. These routines include all of the normal stuff that you see in a plot layout (i.e. - plot scale, pens, etc,etc). In addition they create a plot stamp manually within the program. So, now all of our old existing drawings have custom text, in a custom area, that gets deleted and readded by the plot routines. As far as I can tell, you can not do this with a layout. This is why I believe publish is not an option.

I need a way to run these lisps on several drawing files at once. Any suggestions?

this may be a dumb question, but why is publish not an option?

[rkmcswain]

this may be a dumb question, but why is publish not an option?

I was wondering the same thing....

If you have replaceable text that is updated at plot time, you may be able to accommodate this by using SSM.

[FRAMEDNLV]

So the lisp work, but it only works on one drawing. Could you use ScriptPro? I don't use it, but it may work for you.

Autodesk has not fixed script pro to plot (since R2005). If you try it on a large plot it will cancel out the plot.

EZscript will work: http://www.angelfire.com/clone/ezscript/ (turn on popup blocker).

Chris

[FRAMEDNLV]

this may be a dumb question, but why is publish not an option?

We have the same problem here, publish just doesn't do the things we need it to do. If they included a publish with script/lisp options that would be cool.

Chris

[Richard.Kent]

Hello,

EDIT: I forgot to include I'm using AutoCAD Electrical 2008.

Our problem is that we have no way of plotting multiple drawings quickly.

Way back in the day somebody wrote some plot lisp routines that we are still using. These routines include all of the normal stuff that you see in a plot layout (i.e. - plot scale, pens, etc,etc). In addition they create a plot stamp manually within the program. So, now all of our old existing drawings have custom text, in a custom area, that gets deleted and readded by the plot routines. As far as I can tell, you can not do this with a layout. This is why I believe publish is not an option.

I need a way to run these lisps on several drawing files at once. Any suggestions?

Publish through the SSM can take care of the pens, etc, etc,. There is a setting in there for including a plot stamp. Are your drawings all done with Paperspace or do you use only Modelspace?