Setting plotter upon open

[Dave Cooley]

I'm sure this has been addressed before but I can't find the final answer. When I ship drawings to my customers they have to set the plotter to their internal plotter and not the one I use internally. I want to set up a routine for them so the correct plotter is loaded when they open the drawing or any drawings they open to be a default internal plotter for them. I'm starting to see that psetupin is maybe a start but how do you set the plotter to what has been loaded.

Dave

 

[ECCAD]

Dave,
Each time you select a particular 'plotter', and plot something, it registers to Windows, saves 'last' plot settings, etc. AND, unfortunately, saves info in the .dwg as passed along. I have found it more useful (for the customer), to just supply a 'Plotme' button somewhere on the menu or toolbar that merely does a (command "_script" "plotme.scr"); And, make up a plotme.scr specific to their 'standard' way of plotting. Expanding on this, you could have a [Plotme 8x11], [Plotme D-Size] etc, each calling specific scripts. In the script, just have:
(command "_plot" "E" "" "" "" "" "" "" ""....), mapped to the local hardware. This method should also work for the customer, in that they may get dwg's from many other suppliers as well.

Just a suggestion: Avoids trying to 'duplicate' their enviroment, and swapping .pg3 files, etc.

Bob Shaw

 

[Dave]

I have seen discussions of setting plotter settings inside of lisp with the VBA functions. Have you or anyone seen this method.

Dave

Dave,
Each time you select a particular 'plotter', and plot something, it registers to Windows, saves 'last' plot settings, etc. AND, unfortunately, saves info in the .dwg as passed along. I have found it more useful (for the customer), to just supply a 'Plotme'

button somewhere on the menu or toolbar that merely does a (command "_script" "plotme.scr");

And, make up a plotme.scr specific to their 'standard' way of plotting.

Expanding on this, you could have a [Plotme 8x11], [Plotme D-Size] etc, each calling specific scripts.

In the script, just have:
(command "_plot" "E" "" "" "" "" "" "" ""....), mapped to the local hardware. This method should also work for the customer, in that they may get dwg's

from many other suppliers as well.

 

[ECCAD]

Dave,
Sure it can be done with VLisp, VBA or combo. My point was that a 'simple' method would work for the Customer, since they get .dwg's from elsewhere - without the 'code' to swap in their 'local' printer / plotter.

Bob