Anyone know how to set pagesetup settings from lisp?

[rapidcad]

I've got a setup lisp that we use to pick sheet size and scale to dump in a border. It sets the dimscale within the parent and child dimstyles, the ltscale, then the limits and finally runs a style generator to set up our styles to scale. I'm looking into how to set the pagesetup so that it points to the right plotter, sheetsize, scale, etc.. but "-pagesetup" isn't available on the command line like "-layer" is so i'm having a hard time finding all the pagesetup settings so I can set them within the program. Is there a list available? I can't seem to find anything about this in the help facility.

 

[rapidcad]

Thanks Gary / Dan. I'll look into these when i can get back to it - gottta get home now, gotta draft quite a bit for a few days. Then I'll try your -plot idea, and look into the vlax stuff (clueless on the extensions but i suppose it's time i get into them) - thanks again..

 

[jonesr]

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"rapidcad" <> wrote:

I've got a setup lisp that we use to pick sheet size and scale to dump in a border. It sets the dimscale within the parent and child dimstyles, the ltscale, then the limits and finally runs a style generator to set up our styles to scale. I'm looking into how to set the pagesetup so that it points to the right plotter, sheetsize, scale, etc.. but "-pagesetup" isn't available on the command line like "-layer" is so i'm having a hard time finding all the pagesetup settings so I can set them within the program. Is there a list available? I can't seem to find anything about this in the help facility.

 

[R.K. McSwain]

Posted this the other day: http://tinyurl.com/kfjp

I've got a setup lisp that we use to pick sheet size and

scale to dump in a border. It sets the dimscale within the parent and child dimstyles, the ltscale, then the limits and finally runs a style generator to set up our styles to scale. I'm looking into how to set the pagesetup so that it points to the right plotter, sheetsize, scale, etc.. but "-pagesetup" isn't available on the command line like "-layer" is so i'm having a hard time finding all the pagesetup settings so I can set them within the program. Is there a list available? I can't seem to find anything about this in the help facility.

 

[rapidcad]

Well, I've got quite a bit of the routine to do what i want it to. But alas, I've run into one last stumper. I can do all the necessary vlax-put-"blah-blah" in for all conditions except one that occours if we select a "civil" scale. Because we as structural engineers measure in architectural units, we would use a "civil" scale sheet occasionally for example 1"=10'(meaning plotscale of 120 NOT 1:10). This means that I must set a custom plotscale rather than use a standard one from the list. So this forces me to do three things. #1, (vlax-put al "StandardScale" 0), #2 (vlax-put al "UseStandardScale" :vlax-false), and finally here's the stumper: How do I set the custom plotscale? I see no property for that one here. I must be looking in the wrong place for that one. Any ideas where I can access the custom plotcsale?

 

[DonB]

(vla-setCustomScale

 

Since I don't have a lot of experience with this, I suggest checking out the VBA help on the SetCustomScale method.

 

Good Luck,

 

Don

 

"rapidcad" <> wrote:

Well, I've got quite a bit of the routine to do what i want it to. But alas, I've run into one last stumper. I can do all the necessary vlax-put-"blah-blah" in for all conditions except one that occours if we select a "civil" scale. Because we as structural engineers measure in architectural units, we would use a "civil" scale sheet occasionally for example 1"=10'(meaning plotscale of 120 NOT 1:10). This means that I must set a custom plotscale rather than use a standard one from the list. So this forces me to do three things. #1, (vlax-put al "StandardScale" 0), #2 (vlax-put al "UseStandardScale" :vlax-false), and finally here's the stumper: How do I set the custom plotscale? I see no property for that one here. I must be looking in the wrong place for that one. Any ideas where I can access the custom plotcsale?

 

[rapidcad]

Thanks Don. It took some trial and error to come up with the proper use of this but I finally got it - thanks to your tip. the final section looks like this for those who might need this: (vla-setCustomScale al 1 re%dimscale) where al is a variable set to the table name of the active layout, 1 is the 1 that you'll see in the inches box and re%dimscale is a variable set to the dimscale which will evaluate to the apprporiate number in the units box.
HTH and thanks to all..