1. Printer Setting : Set the printer for allplot, paper size, style and offset.

Example

you can select SETALLPLOT icon in [DJDG]UTITITY of POPUP menu or SETALLPLOT button in utility toolbar, the following dialog appears.



Define the printer type, paper size, plotstyle name and offset in order from the top and press the ok button to terminate SETALLPLOT
The program will write the above information to a file called allplot.set in the djdg room. Open allplot.set and it should look like this:

---- Allplot.set ----
HP LaserJet 4V
A3 297 x 420 mm
acad.ctb
-5,2

Now you are ready to use allplot.

2. Using Allplot : Finds the border in a file and prints them to a printer or to a file.

Command: allplot

Write the plot to a file? ile/< P >lotter: f

[Choose whether to output to file or plotter. If you select P, the settings made in setallplot is applied. That is, the printer, paper size, style, and offset in the allplot.set file in the djdg room are applied]

Plot Millimeters=Drawing Units or Fit or ? it/< S >cale/: a3

[Set print scale.
F Scale to Fit,
S Scale of border is applied. That is, it is used to output to A1.
A3 Print drawing That drawed as A1 to A3 size, That is, program appliy exactly twice the scale of border, if border scale is 1: 100 then Allplot apply 1: 200 scale. Therefore, unlike Scale to Fit, the scale of the printed drawing is accurate..]

C:\Program Files\ACAD2000\Drawing1 is Plotted

To print all borders in the current DWG file command: ALLPLOT FF ¡ç What you have to do is just these all

Second Suggestions!Using APLOT.LSP!
Most of the above functions are functions to find and plot all border in DWG file. But there are cases like this. There are 10 angles in the DWG file, but you only want to output 3 of them. In this case, using ALLPLOT or PLOTA1 would be a waste. In this situation, you can use a program called APLOT.LSP. in COMMAND: status, type APLOT, then you are asked to select borders.
 After selecting the desired borders and finishing with , you are asked to name them in turn. Give them names in order, PLT FILE will be made.

Third Suggestions!Automatic printing of different size borders
In the case of a regular drawing, you can insert a border or externally refer to it with xref, so you can use programs such as allplot or aplot which are auto plot programs. However, you cannot use such a program unless it is a formal drawing such as a structural calculation illustration. Two programs, MKBDR.LSP and PLOTBDR.LSP, makes borders and print automatically borders that have not equal size. The previous MKBDR.LSP is a program that creates borders, and the later PLOTBDR.LSP is a program that finds and plots these borders.
  ¡ØNotice -
When you create a border with mkbdr.lsp, the border's name starts with 'BDR$', such as BDR$1, BDR$2, BDR$3 .., and so on. If you keep creating a border, 'BDR$' is created by adding 1 to the last number of borders created last. -If you need several same borders, it's better to make one and copy that rather than continue using the mkbdr command. Because it takes up a lot of memory.
- You can plot all borders or selected borders with PLOTBDR command.


Example Create border with MKBDR.LSP
Pick point: {p1} [Pick first point of plot window]
Pick Second point: {p2} [Pick second point of plot window] ¡æ blocks called BDR$1 are made at that positions
Pick point: {p3} [Pick first point of plot window]
Pick Second point: {p4} [Pick second point of plot window] ¡æ blocks called BDR$2 are made at that positions

Example Auto plotting borders made with MKBDR(plot all borders)
All/<Select>: a ¡æ Enter 'a' to plot all borders whose names begin with BDR$)

Example Auto plotting borders made with MKBDR(plot selected borders)
All/<Select>: s
Select object: {Select borders that you want to plot}
Select object: [Finish selecting] ¡æ Selected borders will be plotted.