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HI, I HAVE A SIMPLE SCRIPT FILE THAT PRINTS SPECIFIC TABS INSIDE A CAD FILE, IS IT POSSIBLE TO CHANGE THIS TO MAKE IT PLOT MULTIPLE TABS "LAYOUTS" IN THE SAME FILE, BASICALLY WILL BECOME EQUIVALENT TO A PUBLISH "BATCH PLOT" COMMAND.

 

 

 

-PLOT

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PV2.00

DWG TO PDF.PC3

ARCH full bleed E1 (30.00 x 42.00 Inches)

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L

N

L

F

 

Y

SoCore_2014.ctb

Y

Y

Y

N

 

N

Y

Y

 

 

 

THNX

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BASICALLY WILL BECOME EQUIVALENT TO A PUBLISH "BATCH PLOT" COMMAND.

 

The obvious answer would be to use publish and named page set-ups. (Or is it sets-up?)

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Here is a quick answer, we have 2 versions plot all or this one plot range.

 

;Plots layouts by range
; By Alan H Feb 2014
(defun AH:pltlays ( / lay numlay numend)

(setq numlay (getint "\nEnter Start tab number"))
(setq numend (getint "\nEnter last tab number"))

(setq len (+ (- numend numlay) 1))

(repeat len
(vlax-for lay (vla-get-Layouts (vla-get-activedocument (vlax-get-acad-object)))
(if (= numlay (vla-get-taborder lay))
 (setvar "ctab" (vla-get-name lay))
) ; if
(princ (getvar "ctab"))
) ; for
(setq lay nil)


(COMMAND "-PLOT" "Y" "" "COLOR-PRNA3" "A3" "m"    "LANDSCAPE"	   "N"   "W"  "-6,-6"    "807,560"	"1=2"  "C"
       "y"	  "Designlasercolor.ctb" "Y"	"N" "N" "N" "N" "N" "y"      )

(setq numlay (+ numlay 1))
) ; end repeat
) ; defun

(AH:pltlays)

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FWIW -

 

AUTOPUBLISH was implemented in 2009, and can plot to multi-document PDF, and DWF in a relative (to DWFPREFIX), or specified (always the same, i.e., Documents, etc.) path of your choosing.

 

Configured to use a named page setup, I simply SAVE* a document, and resultant PDF is produced automagically. :thumbsup:

 

Cheers

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Autopublish does it beautifully, thank you very much

 

You're welcome, YAZ; I'm happy to help.

 

 

 

FWIW - I also use a custom app to make AUTOPUBLISH only produce electronic documents for exhibits and sheets, and not for DREF/XREF-only drawings... Should that be of interest, see the Exchange link in my signature.

 

Cheers

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