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Frequent contributor Michael Partenheimer notes that the National CAD Standard (NCS) no longer associates a color to a plot thickness. He has submitted three separate but related L...  Read more

Tip#: 4446
Author: Michael Partenheimer
Rename File To: LayerColorUtilities/,LayerColorUtilities/Color2lineweight.lsp,LayerColorUtilities/Lineweight2Color.lsp,LayerColorUtilities/NCSpstyle2lineweight.lsp,LayerColorUtilities/NCSv5.stb
Published on: 30-Mar-2015
Downloads: 522
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Sometimes it is nice to plot a drawing with one entity or one group (layer) in color. Rather than using a separate CTB file with color pens, or dedicating pens in your CTB file to color, you can si...  Read more

Tip#: 4408
Author: Jeff Carper
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Published on: 05-Jan-2015
Downloads: 0
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Frequent contributor Danny Korem discusses plotting an AutoCAD drawing to a PDF file instead of to paper.

"Sometimes you won't be able to plot directly to a pl...  Read more

Tip#: 3853
Author: Danny Korem
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Published on: 26-Mar-2012
Downloads: 0
Rating:
5
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Tipster Danny Korem shares with us some tips to help organize some of your support files in AutoCAD, particularly those needed to print drawings properly. This tip provides quick a...  Read more

Tip#: 3611
Author: Danny Korem
Rename File To: No Files
Published on: 27-Mar-2011
Downloads: 0
Rating:
3.5
  Rated by 2 users

Space Management Specialist Mitch Hirschklau discusses the many benefits of plotting AutoCAD drawings to PDF.

"Now that I'm using AutoCAD 2010 full-time, I've been...  Read more

Tip#: 3450
Author: Mitch Hirschklau
Rename File To: No Files
Published on: 27-Jun-2010
Downloads: 0
Rating:
3.5
  Rated by 2 users

Kevin ”the CADiator” Mukbel sent us a quick method he uses to better plot files he receives from outside sources that do not include a plot style file.

"Have...  Read more

Tip#: 3230
Author: Kevin Mukbel
Rename File To: No Files
Published on: 05-Jul-2009
Downloads: 0
Rating:
4.5
  Rated by 2 users

Quick Plot Command Set (Tip #2137) is bit of LISP programming from JD Henman is intended to be a template to help you set the plotter variables and operate the Plot command so that you don't have t...  Read more

Tip#: 2137
Author: J.D. Henman
Rename File To: Tip2137: QPLOT.LSP
Published on: 01-Aug-2006
Downloads: 709
Rating:
4
  Rated by 1 users

a routine that displays the current drawings plot size and scale.

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Tip#: 778
Author: Sean Cooper
Rename File To: TIP778.LSP
Published on: 01-Jun-1992
Downloads: 1374
Rating:
4.5
  Rated by 2 users

a batch file for creating long plots with the HI DMP-52 plotter.

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Tip#: 728
Author: Cliff Haas
Rename File To: No Files
Published on: 01-Jan-1992
Downloads: 0
Rating:
4
  Rated by 1 users