Okay CAD Pilots, I need some help.
I have about 400 files I want to plot.
I don't feel like opening, and plotting everyone.
So a script. Easy enough.
The problem is each file can be up to four different paper sizes.
Also, none of the origins are 0,0. They are all different.
The papersize is listed as an attribute of a block in each file.
Is there a script I can write where it will open the drawing, determine the papersize and layout (IE "B", Landscape, compared to "A", portrait.), plot, close, and repeate another 400 times?
(Note: I didn't orginiate the files. If I were the one who did, they would all be set up on the same paper size.)
I prefer the term CAD Monkey, thank you very much!
And no I cant help you. My boss asked me a month ago if I could "publish" all our old jobs so everyone could access them with the viewer application. I told him it would take forever to publish 3000+ jobs, but If he wanted I'd do the last 2 years worth over the winter when we slow down.
Are you plotting to a file, PDF or real paper?
Quote from: FatguyRacer on September 09, 2008, 07:27:52 AM
Are you plotting to a file, PDF or real paper?
I'd like to have the ability to do both.
I think you should find whoever made them and kick them in the throat. That's the most retarded thing I've ever heard. Who sets papersize in a block attribute? I always thought pagesetup was a good place for my, you know, page setups.
Alas, my scripting skillz are not up for retrieving values. :-[
Oh, trust me -- there are 1,000,000,000 other things that are so make the beast with two backsing unbelievable about our system that make me [bang].
The problem is that it was never designed to do anything outside of what it was specifically designed for. So if you take the drawings out of the custom AutoCAD enviornment and try to do anything in Raw CAD -- your make the beast with two backsed.
The true power of CAD is limited the way they have it set up. Which really sucks, you could of done some neat things.
But that is all behind me for the most part. Most of our data is now in GIS -- but they are really make the beast with two backsing that one up to. This time I now know who to blame though.