Help with plot of 500 plans

[Anonymous]

Hello!

I may get quite "nasty" task.
I have about 500 parcels and need to plot each on indiwidual plan.

the parcels are in shp file and each one has reference number.

what I'm doing now is: in paper space I have my title block (with project name, etc), I query the parcel number, move parcel in viewport, scale viewport and plot the drawing. I use the same layout tab, I just querry the new parcel and move it in viewport.

I would have to repet it more than 500 time which I think would take me about a week.

Is there a easy way to do that?

Script, lisp, map book....anything?

Maybe somebody has an idea how to simplify or speed the process (except clicking the mouse faster

I would appreciate any help!

Thanks,

Ania

[Alfred.NESWADBA]

Hi,

>> Script, lisp, map book....anything?

Lets say LISP or ANYTHING ... imho a short tool has to be done. Question is what type of programming language do you know, and how far are you able to solve that by yourself?

Or ask your dealer or support-company if they can do that for you.

- alfred -

[Anonymous]

Yes, i'm a lisp newby. I can create/update/adopt simple lisps.

I will contact my dealer and ask them for help if it's not that straight forward.

Thanks for reply,

Ania

[Alfred.NESWADBA]

Hi,

>> [...] ask them for help if it's not that straight forward

No, as I don't know any standard-function that can do that it has to be created for you ... and this can't be straight forward as this depends from your data-structure.

Just to have an imagination:

• if your geometry is ready prepared in modelspace (all parcels are correct visualised, all parcel lables are set correct
• if your layout is finished ... one viewport (scale is set) and one titleblock (= block with attributes)
• the list of parcels is recognizable in the drawing

it should not use more than a few hours to have that macro/tool finished.

Good luck, - alfred -

[Anonymous]

I also thought that maybe someone had similar task to do and could share their ideas...?

[Alfred.NESWADBA]

Hi,

>> and could share their ideas

Ok, what would I do:

Prepare a layout, that

• contains one viewport, correct layer-settings, correct scale-settings (at least the biggest parcel should fit into it by defined scale)
• place one titleblock with a known attribute for parcel-id (that has to be filled)
• correct settings for a plot (DWF or PDF)

Next prepared the parcel-borders and -labels

• graphical represetation for the borders fitting to the given scale
• parcel-lables are set/and readable for the given scale

...that could all be done by the SHP-stylization

And then the tool will do:

get a list of parcels to plot

• go to layout
• go into viewport
• for each parcel:
•      zoom to center of parcel (without changing the viewport-scale!
•      save the parcel-id into the titleblock-attribute
•      plot
• next parcel

HTH, - alfred -

[Anonymous]

How to zoom to center of parcel without changing the cale?

I have already filtered the parcels that are affected by search corridor and there are 556 parcels to plot (I think it would take me about 41h!).

To filter parcels (in order to show only one on a plan) I use Query < ID = 'value from a list' > can I add some expression so it centre the parcel?

Thanks a lot for help! 🙂

[Alfred.NESWADBA]

Hi,

>> How to zoom to center of parcel without changing the cale?

E.g. with PAN 😉

Or _ZOOM and option _CENTER (look >>>here<<< for details to the options)

- alfred -

[Anonymous]

ah, yes.....I thought there is something I could use as expression in my query.

ah.....my hand is already aching