Printing with iLogic

karthur1 · ‎05-17-2023

I am trying to print via iLogic. In my printer driver there is a ARCH D page size that I would like to use. I can get my code to work with Tabloid or Letter size, but not the ARCH D.

Here is what I see in my printer settings.

And this is the code I have so far.

Dim oDrgDoc As DrawingDocument
oDrgDoc = ThisApplication.ActiveDocument
' Set reference to drawing print manager' DrawingPrintManager has more options than PrintManager' as it's specific to drawing document
Dim oDrgPrintMgr As DrawingPrintManager
oDrgPrintMgr = oDrgDoc.PrintManager
'Set the printer name. Either Change this to match the system printer name, or change the system printer to this name
'(comment this line to use Default printer Or assign another one).
oDrgPrintMgr.Printer = "PDF"
oPrintMgr = ThisApplication.ActiveDocument.PrintManager
'oPrintMgr.ColorMode = kPrintGrayScale
oPrintMgr.ColorMode = kPrintColorPalette
'oPrintMgr.Orientation = kPortraitOrientation
oPrintMgr.Orientation = kLandscapeOrientation
oPrintMgr.PaperSize = kPaperSizeArchD
'oPrintMgr.PaperHeight = 36
'oPrintMgr.PaperWidth = 24
oPrintMgr.ScaleMode = Inventor.PrintScaleModeEnum.kPrintBestFitScale
oPrintMgr.SubmitPrint

I think the issue is the line

oPrintMgr.PaperSize = kPaperSizeArchD

I just don't know how to tell it to use "ARCH D".

Thanks

bradeneuropeArthur · ‎05-17-2023

modified:

Dim oDrgDoc As DrawingDocument
oDrgDoc = ThisApplication.ActiveDocument
' Set reference to drawing print manager' DrawingPrintManager has more options than PrintManager' as it's specific to drawing document
Dim oDrgPrintMgr As DrawingPrintManager
oDrgPrintMgr = oDrgDoc.PrintManager
'Set the printer name. Either Change this to match the system printer name, or change the system printer to this name
'(comment this line to use Default printer Or assign another one).
oDrgPrintMgr.Printer = "Microsoft Print to PDF"'"PDF"
'oDrgPrintMgr.PaperSize
'oDrgPrintMgr = ThisApplication.ActiveDocument.PrintManager
'oDrgPrintMgr.ColorMode = kPrintGrayScale
oDrgPrintMgr.ColorMode = kPrintColorPalette
'oDrgPrintMgr.Orientation = kPortraitOrientation
oDrgPrintMgr.Orientation = kLandscapeOrientation
oDrgPrintMgr.PaperSize = Inventor.PaperSizeEnum.kPaperSizeArchD
'oDrgPrintMgr.PaperHeight = 36
'oDrgPrintMgr.PaperWidth = 24
oDrgPrintMgr.ScaleMode = Inventor.PrintScaleModeEnum.kPrintBestFitScale
oDrgPrintMgr.SubmitPrint

Regards,

Arthur Knoors

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Frederick_Law · ‎05-17-2023

https://help.autodesk.com/view/INVNTOR/2023/ENU/?guid=GUID-F3166287-12EE-4F7A-B424-AB33E4F81E53

No Arch D in enum.

Might need to use kPaperSizeCustom and set paper size with PaperHeight, PaperWidth.

https://help.autodesk.com/view/INVNTOR/2023/ENU/?guid=GUID-D44850E3-B0CE-4608-AEA6-02373305804C

karthur1 · ‎05-18-2023

I got it to work using kPaperSizeCustom. NOTE: units are in cm.

'Set Paper Size. Height x Width units are in centimeters.
oPrintMgr.PaperSize = kPaperSizeCustom
oPrintMgr.PaperHeight = 91.44
oPrintMgr.PaperWidth = 60.96

Dim oDrgDoc As DrawingDocument
oDrgDoc = ThisApplication.ActiveDocument
' Set reference to drawing print manager' DrawingPrintManager has more options than PrintManager' as it's specific to drawing document
Dim oDrgPrintMgr As DrawingPrintManager
oDrgPrintMgr = oDrgDoc.PrintManager

'Set the printer name. Either Change this to match the system printer name, or change the system printer to this name
'(comment this line to use Default printer Or assign another one).
oDrgPrintMgr.Printer = "PDF"

oPrintMgr = ThisApplication.ActiveDocument.PrintManager

'Set Color Mode
'oPrintMgr.ColorMode = kPrintGrayScale
oPrintMgr.ColorMode = kPrintColorPalette

'Set Orientation
'oPrintMgr.Orientation = kPortraitOrientation
oPrintMgr.Orientation = kLandscapeOrientation

'Set Paper Size. Height x Width units are in centimeters.
oPrintMgr.PaperSize = kPaperSizeCustom
oPrintMgr.PaperHeight = 91.44
oPrintMgr.PaperWidth = 60.96

' Set to print all sheets.
	oPrintMgr.PrintRange = kPrintAllSheets
	'oPrintMgr.PrintRange = kPrintCurrentSheet

oPrintMgr.ScaleMode = kPrintBestFitScale
oPrintMgr.SubmitPrint

Thanks

karthur1 · ‎05-18-2023

@Frederick_Law

@bradeneuropeArthur

I thought I had it figured out, but I have another related question. "What-if" I wanted to print using the Windows default system printer? I thought that I could just comment out the line

'oDrgPrintMgr.Printer = "\\SRV-VM-RUS-DC2\FMI Engineering - BW Ricoh MP C4504EX PCL6"

When I do that, it will use which ever printer was used to print the last file. It might be PDF or a different printer.

I want it to use the printer set as Default in Windows. Is there a way to do that?

Thanks

Frederick_Law · ‎05-19-2023

Part of the problem is Windows.

Default is "last printer".

You might need to hard code the printer.

Now you can setup (copy) a printer and rename it in Windows (like "IV Default").

Use that as "Default" in your code.

You can also add form so user can change default printer and paper size.

Frederick_Law · ‎05-19-2023

I did not use printer to make PDF.

I used IV PDFAddIn.

Public Sub PublishPDF()
    ' Get the PDF translator Add-In.
    Dim PDFAddIn As TranslatorAddIn
    Set PDFAddIn = ThisApplication.ApplicationAddIns.ItemById("{0AC6FD96-2F4D-42CE-8BE0-8AEA580399E4}")

    'Set a reference to the active document (the document to be published).
    Dim oDocument As Document
    Set oDocument = ThisApplication.ActiveDocument

    Dim oContext As TranslationContext
    Set oContext = ThisApplication.TransientObjects.CreateTranslationContext
    oContext.Type = kFileBrowseIOMechanism

    ' Create a NameValueMap object
    Dim oOptions As NameValueMap
    Set oOptions = ThisApplication.TransientObjects.CreateNameValueMap

    ' Create a DataMedium object
    Dim oDataMedium As DataMedium
    Set oDataMedium = ThisApplication.TransientObjects.CreateDataMedium

    ' Check whether the translator has 'SaveCopyAs' options
    If PDFAddIn.HasSaveCopyAsOptions(oDocument, oContext, oOptions) Then

        ' Options for drawings...

        oOptions.value("All_Color_AS_Black") = 0
        oOptions.value("Remove_Line_Weights") = 0
        ' Resolutions: 150, 200, 300, 400, 600, 720, 1200, 2400, 4800
        oOptions.value("Vector_Resolution") = 1200
        oOptions.value("Sheet_Range") = kPrintAllSheets
        'oOptions.Value("Custom_Begin_Sheet") = 2
        'oOptions.Value("Custom_End_Sheet") = 4

    End If
    
    Dim DrawingName As String
    DrawingName = " "
    Dim DrawingPath As String
    DrawingPath = " "
    Dim DrawingFullName As String
    DrawingFullName = oDocument.FullFileName

    Call SplitPath(DrawingFullName, DrawingPath, DrawingName)
    
    'Check if folder exist, create if not
    On Error Resume Next
    Dim fs, f
    Set fs = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
    Set f = fs.CreateFolder(DrawingPath + "PDF")

    'Set the destination file name
    oDataMedium.Filename = DrawingPath + "PDF\" + DrawingName + ".pdf"
    
    'Publish document.
    Call PDFAddIn.SaveCopyAs(oDocument, oContext, oOptions, oDataMedium)
End Sub

karthur1 · ‎05-19-2023

@Frederick_Law wrote:

Part of the problem is Windows.

Default is "last printer".

You might need to hard code the printer.

That's what I was afraid of. I am trying to make a generic Global form for everyone here to use. There are several users that use different printers, so I have to create a iLogic rule that has the name of their "Default" printer in the rule.

If I had a way for them to pick from a list of available printers, that might work too.

This is what my form looks like so far. I have a different rule for each button here.

Frederick_Law · ‎05-19-2023

@karthur1 wrote:
If I had a way for them to pick from a list of available printers, that might work too.

You'll need to get a printer list from Windows.

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