Comments on: Writing Scripts

By: nilesh

nilesh — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 09:17:46 +0000

Hi friends…..
i have written one script for Plan & Profile dwg
from this .scr i uesd to create 5 viewports & 3 text lines
but after 60% script run autocad giving me “Fatal error”
i think the script i have written is too much heavy …….
alos my dwg is around 10mb
so is there any way to simplfy script …use some variable or something like that …

By: Suresh

Suresh — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 09:04:21 +0000

Josh,

All I need to do is change the Line Space Factor and Height of a mtext. I select the text, rightclick, properties and inthe Properties dialog box, I change the height & Line space factor. I tried with scripts, but unsuccessful so far. Can u please help me with a script or lisp program

By: Josh Jones

Josh Jones — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:20:11 +0000

Thanks for the batch file tip Charlie!

You can also try printing to Cute PDF with the PUBLISH command in AutoCAD. A friend of mine uses Cute PDF all the time.

http://www.cutepdf.com

By: Charlie

Charlie — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 09:21:53 +0000

Steve can you share how to plot a layerd drawing?

I have a Distiller script that merges all plot-files i a folder to a PDF. Maby something like that will work if you tick the "plot to file" option?
I also have batch file for a program caled PDFtk, it will merge singel pdfs into a multipage pdf.

@ECHO OFF
C:\PDF\pdftk.exe C:\PDF\blad\*.pdf output C:\PDF\%1-6.pdf
DEL \Q C:\PDF\blad\*.pdf

By: Josh Jones

Josh Jones — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 16:00:08 +0000

For plotting a bunch of drawings to a single PDF file, you will want to use either Sheet Set Manager (simply import your sheets into a new Sheet Set) or the PUBLISH command. This is the fastest way to create a single PDF file of multiple drawing sheets.

By: Steve Wright

Steve Wright — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 20:16:33 +0000

Is there a way to plot a layered drawing to a single pdf file. I have created a script that works great when printing directly to a printer (each layer opens, prints, closes and next one opens etc. until it gets to the last layer), but when using Adobe Acrobat the first layer prints, it doesnt close and the next layer opens as well then everything just stops. Any help or a point in the right directionwould greatly be appreciated.

By: Lazy Drafter » Writing Simple Scripts

Lazy Drafter » Writing Simple Scripts — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:23:28 +0000

[...] those of you who are new to writing scripts, I have included a simple script as an example to show you how it [...]

By: Josh Jones

Josh Jones — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:21:53 +0000

Binu Mathew,

If you have any specific questions about writing scripts, feel free to ask them here in your comment. I’d be happy to help.

Thanks for stopping by!

By: Binu Mathew

Binu Mathew — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:06:56 +0000

Very cute command and would like top know more about script, how can i learn. thanks for your help to CAD community

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