Batch plot

   NanoCAD button – Plot >  Batch Plot

    Menu: File – Batch plot…

    Toolbar: Main –

 Command line: PUBLISH

The command allows you to create and send to print the list of drawing sheets from one or several files both from model space and from layout space. The simultaneous plot of sheets from model space and from layout space is also possible.

For each sheet in a dialog it is possible to specify the page setups, including that different printers can be assigned to different sheets. There is a possibility to sort sheets in the list, add and delete sheets from the list. Having preliminary selected several sheets using Ctrl and Shift keys, you can delete entire groups of sheets, move them up and down the list, set sheet parameters for them. The formed sheets list (plot set) can be stored for further use.

The Multi-sheet job option allows you to place sheet list in one or more files, for example, when creating *.pdf-files using virtual printers. The order of the sheets in the *.pdf-file corresponds to the order of the sheets in the list.

After starting the command, the Publish dialog box opens:

Options:

Columns

Left double click on the column names separator automatically changes the columns width.

To sort alphabetically by a specific column (parameter), click on the column heading.

Buttons

To create named publish lists to plot (plot set):

1.    Open one or more documents, the layouts of which it is necessary to plot.

2.    Start the Batch plot command.

3.    When opening the Publish dialog box, the list of all layout tabs available in all opened documents is formed automatically. The following order of the layouts in the dialog box is set by default:

·         the first displayed in the list is a document from which the Batch Plot command was started, it is followed by documents in order of their tabs in the graphic editor window (from left to right);

·         the first displayed in the document is the Model tab, followed by Layout1, Layout2, A4, A3 tabs, etc.

4.    To edit the list:

·         to remove layouts unnecessary to plot, select the sheet in the list by left click and click Remove from list button or press DEL.

·         to change the order of layouts, use the Move up and the Move down buttons.

5.    To specify the plot settings for each page, click the Page Setup button (left double click on any selected layout column, except the State column, also opens the Page Setup dialog box).

6.    Click the Save publish list button.

7.    Enter the list name in the Save publish list dialog box.

8.    Click OK button to save the list.

9.    Click the Close button to close the Publish dialog box.

To edit the publish list to plot:

1.    Open the document.

2.    Start the Batch plot command.

3.    In the Publish dialog box select the necessary list in the drop-down Publish lists list.

4.    Make necessary changes in the list (change the layout composition or page setups).

5.    Click the Save publish list button.

6.    Click the Close button to close the Publish dialog box.

To rename the publish list to plot:

1.    Open the document.

2.    Start the Batch plot command.

3.    In the Publish dialog box select the necessary list in the drop-down Publish lists list.

4.    Make necessary changes in the list (change the layouts composition or page setups).

5.    Click the Save publish list as button.

6.    Enter a new list name.

7.    Click OK button to save the renamed list.

8.    Click the Close button to close the Publish dialog box.

Features of the Batch Plot from the Model Space

For the batch plot from the model space:

1.    Start the Page Setup Manager.

2.    In the opened dialog box, click the New button.

3.    In the New Plot Set dialog box, enter the set name, for example, A4 Portrait.

4.    Click OK button.

5.    In the opened Page Setup dialog box, select printer, paper size - A4, paper orientation - Portrait, set the plot scale and other plot options.

6.    Set by the Window the 1-st plot area of A4 format, then the 2-nd and all other plot areas of A4 format ( Add window print area button). To delete the last specified plot area, use  Delete last print area button. The Preview button allows you to see a preview plot result of the selected areas. The preview option can be used at any stage of setting plot areas.

7.    After setting the last plot area of A4 format, to finish the procedure of creating page setup set of A4 Portrait, click OK button in the Page Setup dialog box.

8.    Click the New button to create the next page setup (for example, A3 Landscape) in the same way.

9.    Repeat the procedure to form all the other plot sets (for example, to create sets A2 Portrait, A1 Landscape, etc.).

10.After specifying the last plot set, click the Close button in the Page Setup Manager.

After creating all named sets of page setups of the model space, it is possible to start the batch plot.

For the batch plot of the created name sets of pages setup:

1.    Start the Batch Plot command.

2.    In the Publish dialog box, click the New publish list button to clear the current list.

3.    Click the Add page to plot button.

4.    In the opened Add page to plot dialog box:

·         in the drop-down Document list select a document (if the batch plot is performed for multiple documents at once);

·         in the Layout list select Model parameter (displayed by default when plotting from model space);

·         in the Page setup list select the A4 Portrait parameters set.

5.    Click OK to add selected name set in the plot list.

6.    Click the Add page to plot button to add the next set (for example, A3 Landscape).

7.    Add similarly the rest parameter sets (for example, A2 Portrait, A1 Landscape etc.).

8.    To send the formed set to plot, click the Publish button.