Looking for lisp routine to change plotter

[stevev0983]

I send drawings back and forth between 3 different customers and we both have to change the plotter configuration on every paper space tab whenever either one of us gets the drawing. For example, they use an HP 1100 plotter and a plot scale at 1:1. I use a brother printer and plot scale at "fit to paper". At times there may be as many as 20 paper space tabs in one drawing and changing each one by selecting the tab, right clicking on page setup manager, and then manually changing it one at a time is a real pain.

Any idea on a routine that will change those 2 variables in one fell swoop? I have no problem inserting my specific  plot file names if someone call just call it "brother" and "hp" for now.

Thanks.

[M_Hensley]

If you use PUBLISH for plotting you can import a layout from any drawing then apply that as an overide to whatever your sheets have saved in them, then you will never have to worry about that again.

[stevev0983]

Publish doesn't seem to accomplish what I want. I don't necessarily want to even plot the drawings at this point. All I want to do is change the 2 variables that I mentioned and then change them back before I send the drawings back.

[scot-65]

Investigate the -plot command.

I think the last question asked is "About to plot, OK?"

Just Say No.

You will need the printer driver and / or PC3 file from previous installed

on your machine before you can revert.

???

[Ian_Bryant]

Hi,

 I would suggest that you create a dwg called MY-DWG,

and in this dwg, create a named page setup called MY-PAGESETUP.

Save this DWG to a folder in your ACAD search path.

Now when you have opened one of your customer's drawings,

you can load the attached LSP file, and run the new command PAGESET.

This imports the page setup MY-PAGESETUP from the dwg MY-DWG

and sets it current in all of the layout tabs.

Ian

[stevev0983]

That worked! Thanks for the help. This will save me a lot of time.