Create dwf's from multiple drawings

[Anonymous]

I want to create dwf's from all of our details. Since there are hundreds of
details I do not want to open each one to create the dwf file. What is the
best program to do this? I am using Land Desktop 4

Thanks,
Jason Stevens

[Anonymous]

A fast way:

1) Generate a list of files in a text document.

2) Use VBA to read the file.

3) now...

Do While Not EOF(#)

open the drawing here then
do your plot set up (if any) here then

ThisDrawing.Plot.PlotToFile(yourDWFLocation, yourPlotConfig)

now close the drawing

Loop

Does this help,
Rick

[Anonymous]

BATCHPLOT utility, free with AutoCAD.

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Dean Saadallah
Add-on products for LT
http://www.pendean.com/lt
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[Anonymous]

We use AutoM8 from www.m8tools.com for exactly this. One nice thing - it
gives the same name to the dwf as the dwg has - no appending -model to the
name. It also allows you to run pre-commands on each file when it opens - in
our case, we have it zoom extents before creating the dwf files.

You can download an eval version, and the retail price is extremely
affordable.

Highly recommended!

John

"Jason Stevens" wrote in message
news:80E5E3DED51AE568331FEC34D1B18F1E@in.WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
> I want to create dwf's from all of our details. Since there are hundreds
of
> details I do not want to open each one to create the dwf file. What is
the
> best program to do this? I am using Land Desktop 4
>
> Thanks,
> Jason Stevens
>
>

[Anonymous]

You can also use the new PUBLISH command in AutoCAD 2004 for this. Rather
than selecting the "Multi-sheet DWF file" option, select the "Plotters named
in page setups" option. This will allow you to create a bunch of single
sheet DWF files. You'll need to define the page setup in the "Page Setup"
column. I normally do this by making an empty template DWG file that has
all the standard page setups I use and then just reference that special
empty template DWG.

--
-Brian Mathews
Autodesk, Inc.
brian.mathews@autodesk.com


"Jason Stevens" wrote in message
news:80E5E3DED51AE568331FEC34D1B18F1E@in.WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
> I want to create dwf's from all of our details. Since there are hundreds
of
> details I do not want to open each one to create the dwf file. What is
the
> best program to do this? I am using Land Desktop 4
>
> Thanks,
> Jason Stevens
>
>