Plotting DWG to PDF lisp

Hi guys,

I'm looking for lisp to create automatically pdf's. I will eventually have too many command to do that.

I have to measure the paper and create a custom paper size (pick the corner), due to the drawing scale.

And I always plot my drawings in model space, I never used layout.

If someone interest in my request, I can post more detail.

Because maybe anyone could be interest in my task and I don't wanna bother.

Thank in Advance!

Give your file .dwg

Will the custom paper size at least be the same for all plots or will it change from drawing to drawing?

Do you plot "Extents, Window, Display or Limits"?

Will the scale remain consistent or will that change for each drawing?

Thank you for replay, guys

I don't use the same paper for other project. I have to create a custom paper size for each drawing.

Depends on the size of my project, then I set the scale for the best fit.

I don't use a standard paper like A0, A3 and so on.

Maybe a lisp can help doing that. But I don't know how far lisp can do that.

Maybe this will help :

Why do you have to create a custom paper size in the first place? Couldn't you make things easier on yourself if you used a standard size and adjusted the scale of the drawing to fit? Additionally, why aren't you making use of layouts and viewports where the layout itself is plotted 1:1 and it is the viewport (and subsequently its contents) that are assigned a scale?

Because there isn't standard size for my project.

More importante for us is the drawing scale instead for the paper size. We have a maximum size to plot and we obey that.

I think plot in model space is easier for me.

That must make for an interesting collection of sheet sizes with nothing being standard.

Perharps a lisp can help me out...

I was wondering if a lisp can created a paper sizer for me in the DWG to PDF plot.

Just specify the corners of my drawing and divide by the scale and multiply by 100.

I don't know if it is possible.

plot test.dwg

We would never do what you have done our version would be a overall sheet and then the model in blown up sheets and done using layouts andthen just press a button and plot all at a true scale see DWG I have only spent a couple of minutes on it.

plot20test.dwg

Hi BIGAL,

Thank you for the help.

But I don't understand your file.

Did you divide the project in layouts (D01, D02, D03)?

I'm little bit confused...

Right ?

plot1.pdf

Hi Maratovich,

If the paper size were 1002,53mm - x and 298,43mm - y.

Yes. Right

Its very hard to find a desk to put a plotted sheet over a metre long and not at some form of scale, I sent back the way we would do it the layouts are at true scales and you would plot 3 sheets. If you plot to a A1 using window of -20,-20 821,574 plot centered at a scale of 1:1 you will get a perfect A1 sheet, or A3 use scale 1:2. This is just the way we would do it.

If you want to do non standard big plots then you need to set up some custom sheet sizes, you do this via PLOT under Properties of the printer and add a custom sheet. A standard A0 sheet from memory is 1189x841 which could be used for what you want. The HP will plot in excess of 2m if you have a roll feed.

Yes. Right

How to do it, I told you before message #5:

Maybe this will help :

Have you watched the video?

I do not understand this:

If the paper size were 1002,53mm - x and 298,43mm - y.

You have a single drawing or a lot?

Tell us what else you need.

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Hi maratovich

The video is great, and seems to be exactly I'm looking for.

But I barely understand english and I can't speak russian at all. lol

Try to watch without sound

Madruga_SP - I sent you a private message.