Oce TDS 600 drivers and AutoCAD 2000

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Jason Hickey

We've just installed our new Oce TDS 600 plotter, and we're trying to make
it plot correctly from AutoCAD. Problem is, we can't get it to plot the
entire page. For example, when plotting a layout that's 24"x36", it's
returning a paper that's sized 21 3/8"x36". It does that when we plot by
window, extents, layout, whatever. We've had someone tell us to use a HP
driver for the Oce, but that doesn't sound right at all. Is anyone else
running this plotter, and what workarounds have you found to make this thing
plot correctly?

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Jason Hickey

Goodwyn, Mills, and Cawood, Inc.
1102 South 20th Street
Birmingham, Alabama, 35205
(205) 879-4462
www.gmcnetwork.com
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We've just installed our new Oce TDS 600 plotter, and we're trying to
make it plot correctly from AutoCAD. Problem is, we can't get it to
plot the entire page. For example, when plotting a layout that's
24"x36", it's returning a paper that's sized 21 3/8"x36". It does
that when we plot by window, extents, layout, whatever. We've had
someone tell us to use a HP driver for the Oce, but that doesn't sound
right at all. Is anyone else running this plotter, and what
workarounds have you found to make this thing plot correctly?

Please cc: any responses to [email protected]
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Jason. Go into the custom properties and change the finishing to standard
size, assuming the 600 has the same settings as the 9400. If not, let me
know.
 
I'm assuming your plotter has the same problem as our Oce9400. Our plotter
will clip to whatever the last entity is and ignores, page, layout etc...
quite annoying. If you have an object in the corner of the sheet it will
plot correctly. Our work around is to put tick marks at the corners 0,0 36,0
36,24 0,24 on a color that is .01 thick and shaded at 0%. If you look close
you can still see it but its not too bad.

Bottom line draw a box around the extents and I'd bet it would plot
correctly. Annoying yes.

Sage
 
Sage Cowsert thought for a minute, then typed the following:
Bottom line draw a box around the extents and I'd bet it would plot
correctly. Annoying yes.

Sage
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That's what they wanted us to do, but I told them that was unacceptable. I
don't want to change the way my users do things just because. We've found
a good fix for it, but it only works because we use only architectural sizes
for our plots.


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Jason Hickey

Goodwyn, Mills, and Cawood, Inc.
1102 South 20th Street
Birmingham, Alabama, 35205
(205) 879-4462
www.gmcnetwork.com
http://jasonhickey.blogspot.com
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Your right, its not the best answer more of a work around to what I think is
a bug. The problem with our setup is we use so many different sheet sizes
the standard sizes just don't always work. The crop marks at the corners was
the best we could do other then scrap the plotter. We xref in our
titleblocks so for us a quick lisp routine to add the crop marks to that
drawing was all it took, one extra step.

Now if I can just get AutoCAD 2005 not to multiply the plot file size 4x and
I'd be happy.
 
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