I 've created a little vb program that finds drawings from a list and plots
them with an R14.01 session.
It works except that the drawings do not plot the size I specified in my
code. My program is supposed to plot the drawings one size smaller (D size
drawing on a C size paper, etc.) by using preset pc2 files via the
ThisDrawing.Plot.PlotWithConfigfile method.
After endless messing with the pc2 files and the logic behind calculating
drawing sizes by the extmax/extmin variables, the drawings continually plot
basically scaled to fit, but to the wrong size paper, resulting in the
borders 'falling' off the edge of the paper. I have read may threads in
this group and others basically stating the Plot object is somewhat broken
in R14.01 and doesn't always honor directions in vb and vba programs.
I was experimenting today with this method:
ThisDrawing.Plot.Loadpc2
ThisDrawing.Plot.PlotToDevice
ThisDrawing.Plot.Savepc2
,but this doesn't seem to work either.
Does ANY method work to automatically plot drawings on specified paper size
and scale ratio using R14.01? And perhaps more importantly: does the Plot
object in AutoCAD 2000/i work correctly with pc3 or pc2 files?
Thanks,
