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- From: dev_russell@vd.seqeb.gov.au
- Newsgroups: alt.cad.autocad
- Subject: Re: Help - multiple network plotters?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan20.095514.21891@vd.seqeb.gov.au>
- Date: 20 Jan 93 09:55:14 +1000
- References: <1993Jan15.075040.15746@coe.montana.edu>
- Organization: South East Queensland Electricity Board
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- In article <1993Jan15.075040.15746@coe.montana.edu>, pcnot4me@cs.montana.edu (Craig Pratt) writes:
- > We have a 10-station Novell network running AutoCAD 12 for DOS. We
- > also have 4 HP 7475A plotters, 1 Houston Instruments DMP-52, a Calcomp
- > 1043, a HP LaserJet III and a HP DeskJet 500C. Now, AutoCAD 12 will
- > let me create configurations for all these plotters and all the
- > printer queues exist. BUT, how do I determine within my batch file
- > (given by the ACADPLCMD variable) which queue a plot file should be
- > spooled to? Currently, the batch file just NPRINTS the file to the
- > most commonly used plotter. Is there another unnamed variable ACAD
- > will pass like the %s parameter that returns the plotter configuration
- > number or something?
- >
- > Thanks
- >
- > --
- > Craig Pratt pcnot4me@cs.montana.edu
- > Montana State University, Bozeman MT gcp1070@msu.oscs.montana.edu
- > What's the difference between a used-car salesman and a computer salesman?
- > A used-car salesman knows when he is lying. - Andrew Loewenstern
-
- Ive got similar problems We've got 90 AutoCAD stations on a network and mobs of
- pen plotters and half a dozen HP design jets directly conected to the network
- vit TCP cards.
- There are masive warnings about tampering the plot.dcl file so I wrote a new
- one to set the plotter name variable from the set configured and then select
- which que to point the output. This then uses the correct plotter and then
- under C control modifies the acadplcmd file and the redirection of the port.
-
- But this is a real pain, why didn't Autodesk get it right if you have multiple
- plotters you have to have multiple acadplcmd settings or some other
- redirection method.
-
-
- Hope this help
-
- Russell Masters
- ACAD Solutions.
-