Plotting to PDF - Same source folder and filename

[j0ewhite]

Hi, I just re-install my ACAD to a new PC.

When I do plotting from DWG to PDF now, it doesn't plot to the same folder as the DWG file and the filename also. It used to do that on my old PC.

Go through the settings and it doesn't have an option to let me plot to the same DWG folder or an option to plot to PDF with the same filename as the DWG.

Any ideas?

[SLW210]

I got an Idea. Tools>Options>Plot and Publish>Plot to File>Default Location for Plot to File Browse to the folder you want to send them to. Now when you Plot to PDF that should be the folder you are in, you should default to the drawing name with -Model at the end.

Put some screen shots up of what you have happening when you try to plot.

[rkmcswain]

Command: ._exportsettings>Options
You can set the location and also set "Type" to "Single-sheet file".
Press OK.

Now when you run the ExportPDF command, just press Save on the next dialog.

May or may not apply to your version of AutoCAD. Tested in 2011 and 2012.

[YZ]

Old thread, but right on topic for me. I can see how SLW210 and rkmcswain have pointed OP to where to set the default path for exporting PDFs. However, if I set this for one drawing then for the next one it defaults back to that same drawing that I set.

Is there a way to make it dynamic and in fact open the PDF naming dialog box defaulted to the same path where the dwg is stored?

[rickh]

here is a link to a possible solution (haven't tried myself), which was started by another Joe...

http://forums.augi.com/showthread.ph...-File-Location

if this solution works, it would not open any dialogs, but rather just create the pdf in the same location as the current drawing.

[BIGAL]

Have a look at this it plots to location of dwg

http://www.cadtutor.net/forum/showth...=Printing-LISP

[YZ]

Thanks rickh and BIGAL. I was looking for a solution that is within AutoCAD LT but not a workaround.

It works OOTB for etransmit command. When you view the settings for etransmit it appears to be sending it to the folder for the current drawing, but somehow it is dynamic and changes when you go to the next one. But if you ever try to set the path to be the current drawing then it will stop being dynamic and will always go back to that folder as the new default. I accidentally did this last week. I am restoring it from another user's default.

It made me think that perhaps it works for PDF export also. And the original 2 replies suggest that it will, but they all say to "set the source folder to the drawing". I find that all this does is set it permanently to whatever drawing you happened to be in at that time, rather than a helpful and dynamic default that goes to source folder of every drawing from then on.

[rickh]

Oh, sorry, I always forget about the LT version. I can't think of any other way, but maybe someone else will educate us both if they do.