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Publishing and temporary filepath

Anonymous — Tue, 22 Jan 2019 23:58:52 GMT

Hello, I am still trying to figure out an issue I have with publishing multiple drawing files and having a filepath plot stamp(with a diesel expression) not working. When I publish more than a few sheets and files at once, the plot stamp I have in my title block changes, seeming to a temporary file location, instead of the actual filepath location. I'm wondering if it is a printer memory issue, or what? Is anyone else familiar with this problem?

Thanks,

Michael

Re: Publishing and temporary filepath

Anonymous — Wed, 23 Jan 2019 00:01:19 GMT

The filepath changes to something like:

"C:\Users\*username*\AppData\Local\Temp\AcPublish_1234\*filename* ....."

Re: Publishing and temporary filepath

Alfred.NESWADBA — Wed, 23 Jan 2019 00:16:46 GMT

Hi,

does the same happen when you turn off background-plot in the publish dialog?

- alfred -

Re: Publishing and temporary filepath

Anonymous — Wed, 23 Jan 2019 00:22:14 GMT

It does. Well, it did when I turned ON background-plot(I don't normally have it enabled; it takes forever, if it works at all on computer). It appears to behave the same either way.

Re: Publishing and temporary filepath

Alfred.NESWADBA — Wed, 23 Jan 2019 00:27:38 GMT

Hi,

which Diesel expression is it?

What happens when you let just display the save-file name as field content, do you then also get different content?

- alfred -

Re: Publishing and temporary filepath

Anonymous — Wed, 23 Jan 2019 00:34:11 GMT

Well, here is the diesel expression:

$(getvar,dwgprefix)$(substr,$(getvar,"dwgname"),1,$(-,$(strlen,$(getvar,"dwgname")),4))-$(getvar, "ctab") $(edtime,$(getvar,date),ddd"," mon/dd/yy hh:mmam/pm)

But, my co-worker uses the same diesel expression and has not experienced my problem at all. We have gone through "plot and publish" in options and cannot find a difference in our settings.

I will try the field option.

Re: Publishing and temporary filepath

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Jan 2019 01:17:15 GMT

The field option did not work, unfortunately.

Re: Publishing and temporary filepath

Alfred.NESWADBA — Thu, 24 Jan 2019 01:21:42 GMT

Hi,

sorry to hear that.

Can you try to login with a different user account on your system and try the same again?
As your colleague's workstation does the job fine it might depend on your AutoCAD profile. Before resetting your profile the "other user on this workstation" could be a good test.

- alfred -