Ganapathy13 Posted February 23, 2010 Posted February 23, 2010 Hi, I was using the AutoCAD 2006, in that whenever we create the CAD drawing file we will use the template which will defined with particular printer/plotter. Hence all the drawings files have their default printer/plotter within drawing file itself. So if we give ctrl+p, then it is getting printed with the printer which configured internaly with the drawings. Now i have moved AutoCAD to different server with AutoCAD 2010 map version. Hence the previous network printer/plotter are not available. If w open the drawings and give ctrl+p , it is showing the error that the printer/plotter is not available. How to make the chnage for all the drawing files to refer the network printers. I am very new to AutoCAD softwrae itself, i am involing this migration work. Could you please assist me on this. Regards, Ganapathy.S ganapathy1323@gmail.com Quote
JohnM Posted February 24, 2010 Posted February 24, 2010 First I would change all templates to reflect the new printer/plotter paths so your issue doesn’t grow. There needs to be a little more info here How many different printer/plotters are there? How many different page sizes are you dealing with? Are you looking to just correct the page setup on a drawing that someone opens to print? Are you looking to run a batch script so you can convert all drawings in a particular directory? Quote
rkmcswain Posted February 24, 2010 Posted February 24, 2010 Now i have moved AutoCAD to different server with AutoCAD 2010 map version. Hence the previous network printer/plotter are not available. If w open the drawings and give ctrl+p , it is showing the error that the printer/plotter is not available. How to make the chnage for all the drawing files to refer the network printers. Changing hundreds or thousands of drawings is no trivial task. Can you deal with them one at a time as they require dealing with? If so, you can script the -PLOT command to effectively change the page setup, which is what you want to do. Then you can put this script (or macro) into a toolbar button or create a keyboard shortcut and then as you work on an existing drawing, run this macro/script. As for future drawings, set you template drawing(s) up right now. Quote
Ganapathy13 Posted February 24, 2010 Author Posted February 24, 2010 yes, We have 10 .dwg template files as below. A0 landscape.dwg, A0 Portrait.dwg Similarly two files for A1,A2,A3,A4 size, hence we have totally 10 set of files in previous environment which configures with one printer (A3,A4) and plotter (A0,A1,A2). Now as you mentioned we can chnage these tempate and save agin, then we can solve this issue for new drawings. Now the problem is how to chnage the printer/plotter name for the existing drawings...??? How to run the batch script (with plot command) or create new toolbar with the macro/script... I have no idea about to make this change.. Please provide some assistance for me... Thansk a ton in advance... Ganapathy.S Quote
rkmcswain Posted February 24, 2010 Posted February 24, 2010 How to run the batch script (with plot command) or create new toolbar with the macro/script... I have no idea about to make this change.. Please provide some assistance for me... The most basic way... Grab a pencil and paper, then sit down with AutoCAD. Run the -PLOT command (note the leading hyphen) and as you respond to the prompts, write down your replies. Then when you are done, compile your replies into a menu macro - when you are done with that, you can put this in your CUI as a button, or keyboard shortcut.. Quote
JohnM Posted February 24, 2010 Posted February 24, 2010 are you printing /plotting from paper space or model space? Quote
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