Batch Plotting for AutoCAD LT

[nathan_burgessD3F2K]

Hi guys,

I'm currently doing some volume work where I have 15 project files that each house 5 visibility states with each one housing a dynamic block that represents a facade frontage. I was wondering if anyone has a script or an idea on how to batch plot all the layouts in the file of one visibility state and save it as a single combined pdf before then filtering into the next visibility state and repeating the process again. Any help would be great!!

[Moshe-A]

@nathan_burgessD3F2K  hi,

if you have at least LT 2024 you can use this function to switch visibility

(setpropertyvalue ename "Visibility1" "your visibility state name")

to iterate layouts use (layoutlist) function

does that put you on track?

Moshe

[Sea-Haven]

I use ghostscript to combine PDF's into one PDF. Its free software. Using a lisp program to plot the layouts then run Ghostscript to join back into a single PDF. Have used it on 88 layouts.

Need the Effective name of your dynamic block and the names of all the visibility states. In your layouts do you use one title block and is it located relevant to 0,0, need name also. Then may be able to do something as code I have uses window for plot selection.