opening .plt files

[Chantal]

I can't open .plt files in autocad r14. I get an error message that reads, "Can not find the specified drawing. Please verify that the file exists." I am going into explorer to open this file so I know that it's there. Am I missing something? [sig][/sig]

 

[Imagineer]

Given that it's a plot file, why do you want to open it? What do you want to do with the file?
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[shadow]

there is a couple of ways to do this but first was it created with an hpgl or hpgl2 device to be able to open it in one of the 2 ways you would have to have used an hpgl device to creat the plot file now for the nity grity
1 use the express tool &quot;convert plt to dwg&quot; you will only have this feature if you have volume 9 of the express tools for acad 2000

2 if you have corel draw some times i can get corel to open plt files and i can then save as dxf or dwg depending one the version of corel draw

 

HOW DO YOU PLOT A SHADED DRAWING?

 

[SteveSmith]

Some viewer programs like CAMtastic! (

http://www.camtastic.com/en)

let read HPGL & Gerber files and export them as DXF files. Steve Smith
Product Engineer
Staco Energy Products Co.

http://www.stacoenergy.com

 

[loeb]

PLT files are nothing more than postscript files (PS). You can open them with GhostScript or convert them to PDFs using Distiller. You can also print PLTs from a command line

copy /b FILE1.PLT LPT1