Pagesetup in LT2005

[khairulfikri]

Right... after 3 years languishing in the cupboard, the office I work in finally decides to install the LT2005 they have, an upgrade from LT2002.

A couple of days on it and I'm getting more and more annoyed, but that's for another day.

My main annoyance now is how any and all pagesetup that I do, whether on the pagesetup manager or the plot wizard doesn't get saved and I need to set it again and again. It's so stupid that if I were to set up a plot, preview it to see if it's alright, as soon as I get out of the preview the whole thing's reverted back to the default settings (ie: the wee epson printer on A4).

Does anyone have any ideas? It's driving me nuts!

[Gar]

Are you using a common template?

If so try opening the template, make the changes, then save the template so as to overwrite the older template... that should make the changes stay....

Hope that helps....

[khairulfikri]

No. This is on drawings that were set up using LT2002, so I'm trying to print out old drawings.

The strangest thing is that it can't even hold a print setting after it's been previewed.

[StykFacE]

follow these steps AFTER setting up your drawing exactly how you want it, plotstyles/paper settings/units/layers.... etc (im sure you get the idea lol)


File > Save As > save the file as a template (*.dwt)



go to Tools > Options > System, make sure the "Show Startup dialog box" is selected.


now everytime you start a new drawings, select the template. does this help ya out? ;-)

[khairulfikri]

That would work only if I'm starting new drawings. For some reason old drawings that worked fine before now don't. I can't be creating new layouts based on new templates and setting up all my old drawings again..

[StykFacE]

oh okay i see what you're saying.

can't help ya with that one. someone far above me would have to help ya i'm guessing lol.

[LSR]

Not familiar with LT but in Autocad there is called Plotter Manager that list plotter configuration (PC3).
If you have created one for your printer, you should have EPSON.PC3
You can use this configuration all the time for new and old drawings.

Larry

[khairulfikri]

There are pc3 files for every printer installed for use with ACAD.

So far I've been using the system installed printers, of which the OCE A0 plotter is one. That has been fine all the while with LT2002 and I don't see why it should be a problem with LT2005.

Anyway, tried to use a custom printer setup saved as a pc3 file just to see what happens, and the whole thing crashed!

Next thing I did then was to uninstall and reinstall the whole thing. Did it help? No. Same thing again.

Any ideas?

[LSR]

It looks like a printer/plotter driver conflict; check for newest driver for LT2005.
How about the others PC3 for other printer? Have you try it if it work?

[khairulfikri]

..it's the same with all the installed printers. It just reverts back to the default settings (ie: paper size, scale, "what to plot" - window/layout/extents) for whatever printer it is.