mrromeo333 Posted December 19, 2005 Share Posted December 19, 2005 I'm new to AutoCAD and I need to create over 100 drawings to pdf. I can do it by file and print with a single drawing. Is there a way to do a batch plot that will print all the drawing to pdf? I need step by step as new to CAD. Thanks in advance, Romeo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spageddie Posted December 19, 2005 Share Posted December 19, 2005 Have you tried batch plotting to PDF ? There are few of them around... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrromeo333 Posted December 19, 2005 Author Share Posted December 19, 2005 Spageddie, I'm new to AutoCAD so I haven't tried anything yet. I only tried publishing in AutoCAD but that only creates dwf's. I would apreciate if you give me a how to guide so I can start somewhere. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spageddie Posted December 20, 2005 Share Posted December 20, 2005 The autocad batch plotter may be starting point... Goto Start -> Programs -> YourAutocad -> select Batch Plot Utility This launch a new session of autocad and open the batch plot dialog .. Step to use are.. 1/ Add the drawings 2/ Set the plotting paramters 3/ Initialise plotting. Which version of autocad are you using ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrromeo333 Posted December 20, 2005 Author Share Posted December 20, 2005 Thanks for the quick response, I'm using AutoCAD2004. I checked and I don't have the Batch Plot Utility. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spageddie Posted December 20, 2005 Share Posted December 20, 2005 Try looking the installation directory ... look for a file named batchplt.exe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spageddie Posted December 20, 2005 Share Posted December 20, 2005 If you have no luck with this then you mave to purchase a batch plotter/convertor... There are a few around .. here is a link to one of them http://www.geowebtech.com/acad2pdf.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbroada Posted December 20, 2005 Share Posted December 20, 2005 We use a batch plotter that I wrote for drawings but we have just bought this http://anydwg.com/dwg2pdf/ for PDFs. There's a couple of little "features" I could do without but it's got us out of trouble this week. (400+ pdfs required to get a milestone payment) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spageddie Posted December 20, 2005 Share Posted December 20, 2005 dbroada wrote: We use a batch plotter that I wrote for drawings If you don't mind my asking...what did you write the batchpotter in ? I wrote one in VBA the works nicely, which I have given the ability to do electronic files such as jpgs, tiffs and PDFs but it require that a PDF printer driver be installed... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbroada Posted December 20, 2005 Share Posted December 20, 2005 It's not really a batch plotter but an AutoCAD script generator, specifically for writing a plot script IYSWIM. I also have a script generator which reads a template and fills in the gaps. They are both writen in VB6. For PDFs we used to ooutput an EPS file and then let acrobat distiller create the PDF files but I haven't installed distiller on my new machine for various reasons. CutePDF is the company standard but in our (free or cheap) version you have to type the file name into a box which is why how I managed to get a project to buy us the DWGtoPDF software. I also wrote a batch plotter in VBA but could only get it to run reliably in MD mode. We want to run in SD mode as we often have to print about 500 drawngs at one go and AutoCAD doesn't like that many drawings open at a time. (and I don't trust our network that much either) Interestingly I was about to ask you what you wrote yours in (I noticed in a previous post) when I spotted this post of yours. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrromeo333 Posted December 20, 2005 Author Share Posted December 20, 2005 I found the batch plot by doing a search. It works now. I thank you guys very much. Good day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spageddie Posted December 21, 2005 Share Posted December 21, 2005 dbroada, The one I wrote works MD mode and can plot as many drawings as you select from a folder or folders .. I used it to plot in excess of 1500 drawings in one morning.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbroada Posted December 23, 2005 Share Posted December 23, 2005 dbroada,The one I wrote works MD mode and can plot as many drawings as you select from a folder or folders .. I used it to plot in excess of 1500 drawings in one morning.. I might try it again then. I only tried MDI on the AutoDesk supplied routine on 2000. The machine using a script and SDI one machine had finished while the MDI machine (400MHz, only just enough memory) ground to a halt with about 50 drawings open - and each "next" drawing took longer than the previous one. Anyway, that's enough from me for this year - I expect you are already finished! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rohit1979 Posted September 17, 2009 Share Posted September 17, 2009 We have been converting our drawings to pdf by using a combination of batch plotter and pdf printer and thought it would be great to share our method. We are using dwgPlotX from karvamsoft as batch plotter, which is excellent in what it does. For pdf conversion, we are using pdfcamp printer from verypdf . This printer has an option to append successive printed pdfs in one single file. (Selecting Executive paper gives best results here). We find this combination economical and easy-to-use, and it has worked wonders for our setup. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
judyfennelly Posted September 18, 2009 Share Posted September 18, 2009 DWG to PDF, there are lots. Search dwg to pdf, convert dwg to pdf, dwg to pdf converter, dwg2pdf, etc. and you will get as much converters as you want. You can also try AutoDWG PDF converter which I'm using for batch converting DWG/DWF to PDF. Oh this is a really old thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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