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How to find out using AutoCAD command line, if a DWG file is having Portrait or Landscape orientation

Anonymous — Tue, 01 Jun 2021 20:08:28 GMT

We are trying to generate a pdf with AutoCAD Command line , it works well. but we are having issues with orientation in the generated PDF.

We can either set it to Portrait or Landscape in the script file. There is no option as such to keep this setting dynamic.

If we set it to portrait …all drawing are adjusted to portrait mode and vice versa.

So if there can be any way to find out the orientation of the DWG file already, we can update the script accordingly and run the batch file to generate the pdf.

Any help, best practice is appreciated. Thanks a lot. if there any questions please ask me.

Re: How to find out using AutoCAD command line, if a DWG file is having Portrait or Landscape orientation

rkmcswain — Tue, 01 Jun 2021 20:16:24 GMT

The -Plot command should be able to do it

Re: How to find out using AutoCAD command line, if a DWG file is having Portrait or Landscape orientation

Anonymous — Tue, 01 Jun 2021 20:33:24 GMT

As i am not an expert in AutoCAD , Please let me know what should be exact command to run in a batch file to find the orientation of a AutoCAD DWG file?

Re: How to find out using AutoCAD command line, if a DWG file is having Portrait or Landscape orientation

JTBWorld — Thu, 03 Jun 2021 16:00:24 GMT

There is no out-of-the-box command for that. You need to create it for example with AutoLISP. We offer custom development services if interested.

Re: How to find out using AutoCAD command line, if a DWG file is having Portrait or Landscape orientation

Valentin_CAD — Fri, 04 Jun 2021 12:19:00 GMT

The orientation for each "Paper Space" drawing Tab in each drawing can be managed, verified or modified using the File > "Page Setup Manager" (in regards to Landscape or Portrait drawing orientation). Once every drawing in the batch is verified, a PDF of every sheet can be created using File > Publish .

Re: How to find out using AutoCAD command line, if a DWG file is having Portrait or Landscape orientation

Anonymous — Fri, 04 Jun 2021 12:30:01 GMT

Thanks for your suggestion...But i am looking for some automation through scripts/command line, so that i can find out the orientation or page size and pass it out to a variable in a program or at least put this info in to a text file so that the program can read it from there.