Forgot how to send Plot directly to plotter

Re: Forgot how to send Plot directly to plotter

ryan108 — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 04:58:27 GMT

Got it. Thanks!

Re: Forgot how to send Plot directly to plotter

Roy Gallier — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 04:53:06 GMT

COMSPEC is a system var & DGN_PLT_ARCHIVE is one Idefine in my pcf as a location to archive (this one is commented in the pltcfg).

Re: Forgot how to send Plot directly to plotter

ryan108 — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 04:45:29 GMT

Thanks

Re: Forgot how to send Plot directly to plotter

Roy Gallier — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 04:35:53 GMT

Thy these two threads How to print using HPGL2 plotdriver? & bently drivers not supporting multiple copies

Re: Forgot how to send Plot directly to plotter

ryan108 — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:10:09 GMT

Hi Roy - I would like to try this out. Is there any chance you have this included in a PLTCFG and would be willing to post it?

Also, which configuration variables have to be set in our configuration? Just COMSPEC & DGN_PLT_ARCHIVE? How do you define COMPEC - I think that it the only piece that I really don't understand.

Thanks!

Re: Forgot how to send Plot directly to plotter

Roy Gallier — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:13:58 GMT

I have copied pdf.plt and made these additions to print directly to our postscript ready KIP plotter:

default_outFile/auto_overwrite = "t:\$(USERNAME).pdf"

; The following line is defined in standards.cfg to define the temp archive paths
; program /wait /post /command='$(COMSPEC) /c xcopy "$(MS_PLTOUT)" "$(DGN_PLT_ARCHIVE)" /i /y /q'

; The following option will direct output to the plotter
program /wait /post /command='$(COMSPEC) /c copy $(MS_PLTOUT) \\kipstf\KIP6000'

; The following option will open the plotted pdf
; program /wait /post /command='$(COMSPEC) /c "t:\$(USERNAME).pdf'

HTH - Roy

Re: Forgot how to send Plot directly to plotter

Johnny Johns — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 03:15:52 GMT

Thanks Inga, That aricle did jog my memory. I'm working in a temporary position at the moment and I'm the only one here that knows Microstation, so I'm having to do some things from scratch. I have a question though. In the image, I understand the information from Net Use but does the Printer name (highlighted in blue) have any relevance?

Thanks again Inga!

Re: Forgot how to send Plot directly to plotter

Inga Morozoff — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 02:38:10 GMT

There might be something of interest in this old article:

http://communities.bentley.com/Communities/Other_Communities/AskInga/w/AskInga/how-to-plot-a-file.aspx