Plotting
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This request from Thomas Longnecker languished in my inbox for several weeks before I finally found the time to work on it. It would be tremendously helpful to me if you could give an explanatory example of how to: Create a new layout, add a page-setup with plot-settings and then either delete the default viewport […]
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I stopped by the Fab Lab in Neuchâtel, last week, to say a quick hello and find out what's being worked on. Gaetan Bussy, the Lab manager, spent some time talking to me about some projects they have in the pipeline, one of which is to hack their Ultimaker to make it work with polar […]
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I'm very pleased to announce the availability of this really interesting Plugin of the Month over on Autodesk Labs: Batch Publish for AutoCAD. Here's an excerpt from the ReadMe (which I happen to have written, but anyway): This plugin can be used with AutoCAD to simplify the process of publishing sets of drawings to DWF […]
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This post extends this previous post that dealt with driving a single-sheet AutoCAD plot by adding some code to handle selection and transformation of a window to plot. First order of business was to allow the user to select the window to plot. For this I used the classic combination of Editor.GetPoint() for the first […]
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A comment came in on this previous post regarding how best to know whether a media name is valid during your plot configuration. There are a few approaches, other than the one I chose of hardcoding the device and media names. The first is to implement a user interface of some kind which allows the […]
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This was a fun one to work on. The code in this post combines and extends upon techniques shown in two earlier posts: one showing how to plot multiple sheets and the other showing how to preview a single-sheet plot. One of the key differences when plotting or previewing is that while plotting can directly […]
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This week's posts take the code I threw together last week for single-sheet and multi-sheet plotting, and introduces the concept of "plot preview". I'm learning as I go for much of this, so there are structural (although usually not functional) changes being made to the code as it develops. In this instance, for example, I've […]
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Somewhat symmetrically I'm posting this from Chicago airport, once again, but thankfully I'm now on my way home. It was a busy week of meetings, but I did get the chance to put together some code that extended the last post into the realm of multi-sheet plot jobs. The following code took some work, but […]
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I just missed my connecting flight in Chicago, so have 3 hours to pass until the next, and decided to post some code I finally got around to writing on the plane from Zurich. I've had a few requests for code showing how to plot using the .NET API in AutoCAD. There's an existing ObjectARX […]
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We sometimes receive questions on how best to automate the printing of DWF files. Autodesk Design Review 2008 now has a new Batch Print Plug-in enabling just this. Once you've installed the plug-in, you'll be able to use the Batch Print Wizard in Design Review (on the file menu, once a DWF has been loaded). […]