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Menu: Plugins>Batch Plotter
Default command line shortcut: bp
Related Settings:
None
The Batch Plot plugin allows you to select any number of layouts to print from project drawings.
The first step is to click the [Rescan] button. This populates the list with all drawings and layouts.
The Plot This checkbox determines which layouts to send to the printer.
The [Plot/Print] button is the same as the File>Plot/Print menu command and sends all selected layouts to their respective printers.
The [UP] and [Down] buttons move the selected layout up or down in the list thereby reordering their output order.
If you want to delete a layout. Select the layout in the list and click the minus [-] button in the navigation window in the lower left hand corner of the grid
Clicking the [Preview] button will preview the selected layout in the Preview Pane regardless of whether it is selected to in the Plot This column
•Batch Plot lets you select the drawings and layouts that you want to send to the printer and print them as a batch.
•You may print any layout in any drawing in the current WireCAD project.
•You may also specify how many copies and in what order to print.
•Batch Plot allows you to save Batch Plot files for reuse at a future time.
•Batch Plot now supports output to multi-page PDF.
•Batch Plot now saves the selected print settings with the plot file.
•Batch Plot does not print project reports.
•Batch Plot does not collate layouts with multiple copies set.
Controls
•Full Preview - Render actual output. Otherwise show margin box.
•Preview On Plot - Render the full preview (full or not) on output to the printer/plotter.
•Use Layout Settings - Ignore the Batch Plotter settings and use those stored with the drawing layout. Selecting this disables printer, paper, and margin settings in favor of those in the layout.
•Paper - Printer paper size. If this dropdown is empty, select a printer first.
•Margins - Set your margin unit of measure first, then the left, right, top and bottom.
•Black and White - Output in black and white.
•Scale to Fit - Force all entities in the selected layout onto the page.
•Extents - Print the extents of the layout.
•Landscape - Landscape output.
•Select Printer - Choose the printer that all selected layouts will be sent to.
•New Batch Plot File - Creates a new file scanning the project drawing set and adding all drawing and all layouts.
•Open Batch Plot File - Opens a saved Batch Plot file.
•Save - Saves your settings to a Batch Plot File. This is helpful if you change the default order of the list or the number of copies, etc.
•Save As - Save your setting as a new file name.
•Print/Plot Selected - Prints the selected (Plot This) layouts to the printer settings determined in the layout. So be sure to Print Preview (from the drawing layout) your layouts first and set up all of your output settings.
•Export Multipage PDF - Output the selecte (Plot This) layouts with the selected printer settings to a multipage PDF document.
•Cancel Queue - Stops the function. Does not purge any print jobs already in the windows print queue.
•Exit - Done.
•Rescan - Clears the list and re-scans the project drawings for all layouts. This function is like the File>New function but differs in the it does not create a new file name.
•Add Drawing - It may be desirable to keep all of your setting and add an additional drawing to the list.
•Remove Layout - Removes the selected layout.