FELIXJM Posted November 30, 2011 Posted November 30, 2011 How to obtain the effective area of plot, plot in command? Ok. Quote
ReMark Posted November 30, 2011 Posted November 30, 2011 Are you plotting from model space or from a layout? Why are you interested in this information? What are you going to do with it? Quote
FELIXJM Posted November 30, 2011 Author Posted November 30, 2011 Are you plotting from model space or from a layout? Why are you interested in this information? What are you going to do with it? I have an office that serves the plot area and the need to avoid having to measure effective role in the design and plotted charge for the service. Until the 2004 version of AutoCAD that information was shown in the preview, since 2005 it is no longer shown. It is a small piece of information that can be achieved in various ways but imagine doing this over 1000 times per day. OK. Quote
ReMark Posted November 30, 2011 Posted November 30, 2011 You are being charged not by the sheet size but by the effective area of the plot? Isn't the difference between the two rather trivial? Quote
FELIXJM Posted November 30, 2011 Author Posted November 30, 2011 You are being charged not by the sheet size but by the effective area of the plot? Isn't the difference between the two rather trivial? In the PLOT command have a plotter with a paper size set to 910 x 3000mm. 910 is the width paper roll plotter in 3000 and is a length that fits most of the drawing to be plotted. Once the scale is provided if you put the cursor over the image will be shown Preiew the paper size and plot area (without margins) but the mainline which is the effective area (the size of the drawing) is no longer shown and this makes me miss. I'm willing to make a donation to forum if I get this information. OK. Quote
ReMark Posted November 30, 2011 Posted November 30, 2011 Answers to questions are not predicated on someone making or not making a donation to the forum. If you are implying that we only provide answers to those who pay then you are mistaken. Quote
ReMark Posted November 30, 2011 Posted November 30, 2011 The effective plotting area is provided to you by AutoCAD on the command line. Are you looking for a way to "capture" this information every time you plot? Quote
FELIXJM Posted November 30, 2011 Author Posted November 30, 2011 Answers to questions are not predicated on someone making or not making a donation to the forum. If you are implying that we only provide answers to those who pay then you are mistaken. I see no reason to be offended because I want to make a donation to the Forum. There are more than 8 years I've been trying a way to solve this problem and no one even gave me an answer. OK. Quote
ReMark Posted November 30, 2011 Posted November 30, 2011 I was not offended because you want to make a donation. Let's be clear on that one point. I gave you some information in my last response. You care to comment or what? Quote
ReMark Posted November 30, 2011 Posted November 30, 2011 You've tried for more than eight years to get an answer to your problem? Did you ever come across this? http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/Printing-and-Plotting/actual-plot-data-autocad-programmers/td-p/291924 Or this? http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/Visual-LISP-AutoLISP-and-General/actual-total-effective-plot-area/td-p/803319 Or.... (dictsearch (namedobjdict) "acad_plotsettings") What plotter are you using? Some plotters track this information on their own. Quote
FELIXJM Posted November 30, 2011 Author Posted November 30, 2011 The effective plotting area is provided to you by AutoCAD on the command line. Are you looking for a way to "capture" this information every time you plot? Thanks for responding. Yes, this information can be captured in a variable or Windows registry? OK. Quote
ReMark Posted November 30, 2011 Posted November 30, 2011 Did you read my post with the two links in it? Quote
ReMark Posted November 30, 2011 Posted November 30, 2011 Someone in the AutoCAD Discussion Groups forum suggested using VBA to create an app that would retrieve such information as GetPaperSize, GetPaperMargins and GetWindowToPlot. I don't do programming so I can't help you with that. Quote
FELIXJM Posted November 30, 2011 Author Posted November 30, 2011 Someone in the AutoCAD Discussion Groups forum suggested using VBA to create an app that would retrieve such information as GetPaperSize, GetPaperMargins and GetWindowToPlot. I don't do programming so I can't help you with that. Yesterday search several sites (incluisive Autodesk) and all the topics that I found had no answers. I will analyze the links and later sent me give you a return. I also see it on the VBA program in AutoLISP and VBA and this is what I'm trying. Thank you again. OK. Quote
ReMark Posted November 30, 2011 Posted November 30, 2011 I too found no definitive answer to this question nor was I able to track down a lisp routine that would collect the necessary information. I even looked in the plot.log file AutoCAD creates but the effective area of plot is one piece of information that does not appear within. Quote
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