How do i create a batch plot in UG v18

[GdrCad]

Hi, I have about 300 dwgs that I need to plot out.
I searched the help and didn't find much help in there.
I asked the guys that work here and they said you have to do them one by one. That seems insane. any help would be great. thanx

greg

 

[looslib]

You can process them with a GRIP or UG/Open API program.


"Wildfires are dangerous, hard to control, and economically catastrophic."

Ben Loosli
CAD/CAM System Analyst
Ingersoll-Rand

 

[GdrCad]

i searched the help for "grip" and dont see anything about makeing a batch plot... can you give me some keywords to use in the search or post a website that has the info.... the help in this thing isn't to helpfull... i'm a proE guy so this isn't easy

thanx for help

greg

 

[looslib]

Well if you are a Pro/E guy, how do you batch plot from Pro/E? We are moving to Pro/E (corporate decision, not the users') and batch plotting has become an issue for us. I have looked at Rand, etrage, FroTime and some others but haven't ecided on which is the bset way to plot all drawings in an ECN, etc.

I will see what GRIP programs I have in my 'library' for batch plotting. There are some questions when it comes to batch plotting in UG.
Are all the files in a single directory or under a single directory?
Are all of the files in the directory to be printed?
Do the files have a consistent and common drawing naming convention?



"Wildfires are dangerous, hard to control, and economically catastrophic."

Ben Loosli
CAD/CAM System Analyst
Ingersoll-Rand

 

[GdrCad]

I've never had to print more than 10 proE files so i couln't tell you how to make a batchplot in proE. All of the UG files i want to plot are in the same directory with a consistent naming convention?

thanx for the help

greg

 

[Dave K]

I'm looking to do something similar...I have numberous UG files in various directories, but the drawing files all start with "d.". I'd like to run a batch program to plot out everything that starts with "d." (specifically using a plot queue that plots to a file, and then gets converted to .pdf). I could put all the "d." files in a single directory easy enough.



-Dave

http://www.moslerauto.com

"Everything should be designed as simple as possible, but not simplier"

 

[looslib]

I found some programs, but I need to look at them a little closer to be sure they work in a generalized format, not company specific.

Three assumptions:
1 - you have GRIP Development
2 - you know how to read and modify gRIP strings
3 - you are on a MSwindows environment

I will post again when I have at least 1 program that works.


"Wildfires are dangerous, hard to control, and economically catastrophic."

Ben Loosli
CAD/CAM System Analyst
Ingersoll-Rand

 

[Simon99]

Hi Ben,

Did you ever have any luck with this?
If so could you post a batch plot grip?

Ive got 1,2 & 3...

Thanks

Simon C