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Printing Project in Electrical 2015

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William.GC
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Printing Project in Electrical 2015

I'm having trouble printing a project in Electrical 2015. I can get the project to print but the window it prints is never the size I want and it is different for each page. I know when you print individual pages you can select a window range, which is what I usually do, but it's very inconvenient. I read on other posts to use "_plottermanager" but when I type it it just opens a file browser. I feel like the solution to this is simple but I am just not realizing it. 

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Icemanau
in reply to: William.GC

The plot project tool has two modes of plotting.

 

It either plots using the saved plot layout on each dwg or uses a plot setting that overrides every dwg.

 

It sounds like that the plot layout saved on your dwgs is not set to what you need, or what you are plotting is changing from plot to plot within each dwg.

 

I would suggest that you go through your project and set up the plot settings for each dwg. This should then allow you to use the plot project tool without problems.

 

Regards Brad



Icemanau (NNTP handle: Brad Coleman
AutoCAD Electrical User and IT Hardware Support

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jalger
in reply to: William.GC

Hi William.GC,

 

If the pages are the same Size Plot Project will work, but you may need a page setup.

(Big "A" > Plot > Page Setup)

On the page setup you can configure the page size, what is to be printed, and where it sends the print.

I recommend creating a new page setup template (One drawing with all of your page setups) and then you can call them in as needed.

Most of the commands allow an import.

 

If the Pages are different sizes then you need to use Batch plot.

Same as before you need a Page setup for it to run smoothly.

This way you can print off A, B,C,D,and E type drawings (A0,A1,A2,A3,A4 for the guys in europe with metric page sizes) all at the same time.

 

I hope this helps,

 

James

James Alger
(I'm on several hundred posts as "algerj")

Work:
Dell Precision 5530 (Xeon E 2176M)
1tb SSD, 64GB RAM
Nvidia Quadro P2000, Win10
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William.GC
in reply to: jalger

I tried making a new page setup but I cannot figure out how to import it. When I select import from the page setup manager it opens up "My Documents" and I am not sure where the page setup saves to. 

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jalger
in reply to: William.GC

Page setups are saved in the Drawing File that it was created in.

I'll post picks for importing in a few minutes.

 

James

James Alger
(I'm on several hundred posts as "algerj")

Work:
Dell Precision 5530 (Xeon E 2176M)
1tb SSD, 64GB RAM
Nvidia Quadro P2000, Win10
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jalger
in reply to: jalger

Hi William.GC,

 

Sorry about that i got a little side tracked with other things. (Better late than never)

Here are the Screenshots:

 

Plot Project

 

Select the Page setup coming from the active drawing (Doesn't have to be from the project just the open drawing)

PLOT Project.png

 

 

Batch Plot

 

Lets you import drawing Plot Setups from any existing drawing.

This is an Awesome option when you have to print multple page sizes.

BATCH PLOT.png

 

Let me know if your having any issues with them.

 

I hope this helps,

 

James

James Alger
(I'm on several hundred posts as "algerj")

Work:
Dell Precision 5530 (Xeon E 2176M)
1tb SSD, 64GB RAM
Nvidia Quadro P2000, Win10

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