LISP - Invoke Publish command

[MKearney028]

I just ran across this same dilemma last week and found that routine from cadforum, and found that it didn't work. The other thing I found was the command "PSetupIn". Run it with (command ".-psetupin" "template location" "Template page setup") to insert a template page setup. I made a quick script of

(command ".-psetupin" "X:\\GPI CADD Settings\\New Drawing Template\\Plan Production\\Old MassDOT Title Block.dwt" "24x36 OcePW300")
(foreach lay (layoutlist)(setvar "CTAB" lay)(command "._-plot" "_N" "" "24x36 OcePW300" "MA1 - OcePW300.pc3" "_N" "_Y" "_N"))

and ran it through 330 layouts in about 10 minutes. Worked great.

[woodman78]

You have 330 layouts in a single drawing????? Ah just saw your PC spec. Now it makes sense!!

[MKearney028]

They were actually in a few drawings, most had 20 layouts or so and one had 127 layouts. I started by using Autoscript by Caddig, but with other people in some of the files, it was just as easy to open the files myself when I got to it and run the script.

(And I forgot that my PC specs needed to be updated. )

[irneb]

One of my old routines: http://forums.augi.com/showthread.ph...-Setup-Manager

About the FieldEval setting: That helps, but be careful about nested fields, e.g. say you've got a field extracting an area, then another copying that text and concatenating it with something else. No matter what the FieldEval is set to you might find one updating correctly, but not the other. For this reason I try to steer clear of such fields, not always possible though!

[BIGAL]

heres another example plots all but not model

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

[woodman78]

Bigal, the link doesn't work!

[pBe]

----> Bigals Link

BTW: Are you taking another route? Thought you want to stick with PUBLISH?

[BIGAL]

Thanks pBe cut and pasted wrong

[woodman78]

Hi pBe, I am sticking with publish for printing hard copies of drawings. But for multi printing pdf's I need something else. I have tried the pdfexport facility but i think it leaves a lot to be desired really and I can't get it to print the drawing to scale properly.