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Plotting w/o AutoCAD

Anonymous — Sun, 28 May 2000 13:07:26 GMT

Is it possible, in a distributed application
written in Visual Basic 6.0, to plot drawings
when the users may not have AutoCAD on their
system?

Thanks for any help.

--wayne.harpster@sea.siemens.com

Re: Plotting w/o AutoCAD

Anonymous — Mon, 29 May 2000 11:25:11 GMT

Wayneth,

You could probably use Volo View to view and Plot dwg/dxf/dwf files.
Please visit
http://www.autodesk.com
for more information.

Thilak

Wayneth wrote in message
news:ef1d3af.-1@WebX.SaUCah8kaAW...
> Is it possible, in a distributed application
> written in Visual Basic 6.0, to plot drawings
> when the users may not have AutoCAD on their
> system?
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> --wayne.harpster@sea.siemens.com

Re:

Anonymous — Tue, 30 May 2000 13:49:58 GMT

Volo View still isn't out yet.
Volo View Express is, but will not allow you to automate plotting.

"Thilak" wrote in message
news:ef1d3af.0@WebX.SaUCah8kaAW...
> Wayneth,
>
> You could probably use Volo View to view and Plot dwg/dxf/dwf files.
> Please visit
> http://www.autodesk.com
> for more information.
>
> Thilak
>
> Wayneth wrote in message
> news:ef1d3af.-1@WebX.SaUCah8kaAW...
> > Is it possible, in a distributed application
> > written in Visual Basic 6.0, to plot drawings
> > when the users may not have AutoCAD on their
> > system?
> >
> > Thanks for any help.
> >
> > --wayne.harpster@sea.siemens.com
>

Re: Plotting w/o AutoCAD

Anonymous — Tue, 30 May 2000 14:45:14 GMT

We use a utility called 'Plot Pack Spooler' available at http://ftp.mcneel.com/ftp/pub/util/ . It queues and plots .plt files and does not require AutoCAD to be installed. It's free and reliable, but you can't view the drawings. -Walter

Re:

Anonymous — Tue, 30 May 2000 17:09:29 GMT

There's a beta at http://betaprograms.autodesk.com/

Jon Hargett wrote in message
news:ef1d3af.1@WebX.SaUCah8kaAW...
> Volo View still isn't out yet.
> Volo View Express is, but will not allow you to automate plotting.
>
> "Thilak" wrote in message
> news:ef1d3af.0@WebX.SaUCah8kaAW...
> > Wayneth,
> >
> > You could probably use Volo View to view and Plot dwg/dxf/dwf
files.
> > Please visit
> > http://www.autodesk.com
> > for more information.
> >
> > Thilak
> >
> > Wayneth wrote in message
> > news:ef1d3af.-1@WebX.SaUCah8kaAW...
> > > Is it possible, in a distributed application
> > > written in Visual Basic 6.0, to plot drawings
> > > when the users may not have AutoCAD on their
> > > system?
> > >
> > > Thanks for any help.
> > >
> > > --wayne.harpster@sea.siemens.com
> >
>

Re:

Anonymous — Wed, 31 May 2000 19:40:00 GMT

jhargett@progressrail.com (Jon Hargett) wrote in
:

>Volo View still isn't out yet.
>Volo View Express is, but will not allow you to automate plotting.

Even though VVE does not allow for batch processing does not mean that you
can't write an application that simply uses VVE as an engine for plotting.
You would essentially be creating the batching part.

----------------------------------------
Robert B. Brown
Lead Visualization Specialist
----------------------------------------
Autometric Inc.
http://www.autometric.com

Re:

Anonymous — Wed, 31 May 2000 20:01:51 GMT

All you can do with VVE Express is call the ShowPrintDialog, which opens the
standard Windows print dialog box. That certainly wouldn't do for a batch
plotting program.
Do you know of any methods that allow you to plot without any user
interaction?

"Robert Brown" wrote in message
news:8F4596B97rbrownautometriccom@167.216.240.240...
> jhargett@progressrail.com (Jon Hargett) wrote in
> :
>
> >Volo View still isn't out yet.
> >Volo View Express is, but will not allow you to automate plotting.
>
> Even though VVE does not allow for batch processing does not mean that you
> can't write an application that simply uses VVE as an engine for plotting.
> You would essentially be creating the batching part.
>
> ----------------------------------------
> Robert B. Brown
> Lead Visualization Specialist
> ----------------------------------------
> Autometric Inc.
> http://www.autometric.com