New Plotter

So we have a new plotter at work, and I am trying to use it with the publish command. However, because all of our old drawings are saved with our old plotter name, choosing the new plotter isn't an option for all of our old dwgs that havent been set up using the new plotter name. Since our dwgs number in the 1000s, going through each one and renaming them would be impracticable.. but having to individually plot each one is pretty impracticable as well..

So I tried to figure out a workaround, by opening up our new template that has the new plotter configuration on it, hoping I would be able to use it to set all the old dwgs that I have open at the time to the new plot setting.. but the printer name comes up as something different when I try to use it for publish, and if I use it, I get an error and nothing prints. I know the settings used in the new template work, I have been able to print it out.

So what I'm asking is, is there anyway I can use the new plotter to publish all of our old drawings?

Thanks in advance.

Publish will allow you to pick a pagesetup override, get your files listed in publish, select all, pick the drop down for one file that has the new pagesetup and it will use that for all selected. This will not push the pagesetup into the drawing.

Also, you can get your new plotter .pc3 all setup, make a copy, rename it to the old plotter.

This is a good reason to make .pc3 files with generic names instead of naming them specific to the brand name and model.

Publish will allow you to pick a pagesetup override, get your files listed in publish, select all, pick the drop down for one file that has the new pagesetup and it will use that for all selected. This will not push the pagesetup into the drawing.

 

Also, you can get your new plotter .pc3 all setup, make a copy, rename it to the old plotter.

 

This is a good reason to make .pc3 files with generic names instead of naming them specific to the brand name and model.

I was going to suggest your first idea as well.

Your second one is something I didn't even think about either.