To configure a HPGL Plotter.
From Options Pull Down Menu choose Configure:
Or type CONFIG at the command line.
Press ENTER until the Configuration Menu is displayed in the Text Window.
Enter 5 at the command line to choose Configure plotter
At the Plotter Configuration Menu choose 1 to add a plotter configuration. The two lines above the Plotter Configuration Menu shows the current plotter configuration.
A list of available plotters is displayed at the screen. From this list choose a Hewlett Packard (HPGL) plotter.
A list of supported models is displayed at the screen. From this list choose the model HP7585B.
Set the port time out to 30 sec.
Select Parallel LPT1 as your port for the plotter.
AutoCAD displays a list of the current settings. Enter <N> to continue configuration or enter <Y> to go back and make changes to the settings.
AutoCAD then prompts for a description of the plotter: Save the settings as HPGL 7585B.
Exit Plotter Configuration and Configuration Menu by entering 0 twice.
AutoCAD then ask if you want to keep configuration changes. Enter <Y>.
To setup your newly configured HPGL Plotter with the correct pen assignments in AutoCad R13:
First download the file CERNP_HP.pcp from the WEB. Save it anywhere convinient to your self. This file contains information about the penassignments, and will be used to associate screen colours with pen widths for the plotter configuration. You will be asked to point to the file at a later stage in the printer setup sequence.
From File Pull down Menu choose Print:
The Plot Configuration Dialog box is displayed:
Click the "Device and Default Selection" button.
From the Device and Default Selection dialog box choose the HPGL Plotter you want, then click the "Get defaults from file" button.
Browse to the file CERNP_HP.pcp which you downloaded earlier.
Click OK until all dialog boxes are closed.
You have now configured a HPGL plotter and set the pen assignments to be in accordance with CERN standards.
To produce a plot file from AutoCAD R13.
From File Pull Down Menu choose Print
In the Plot Configuration dialog box choose Plot to file
Click the button: File Name and specify the directory and the file name you want to plot to. AutoCAD always gives the extension .plt to plot files. A plot file can be plotted later without using AutoCAD.
Choose other parameters such as metric paper size and scale etc. according to your needs and press OK, AutoCAD will then create a plot file of your drawing.
To configure a HPGL Plotter.
From Tools Pull Down Menu choose Preferences:
You can also acces the Printer Setup dialog box from File Pull Down Menu by choosing Printer Setup.
Click the Printers Tab and click the New button:
In the list of available plotter drivers choose a HPGL plotter, and enter a name for the plotter in the box below the list of plotters ( the name you want to use for identifying this plotter) and press OK.
From the list of supported models choose HPGL 7585B.
The questions which follow from AutoCad will vary a bit depending on your configuration, but you should just answer in accordance with your PC configuration.
Select Parallel LPT1 as port for your plotter. If you are asked to set seconds for port time out choose 30 seconds.
When you have entered all necessarry information, AutoCad will return you to the Printer Setup dialogbox. To activate your new plotter configuration, highlight the plotter describtion and press "Set Current" button.
Just above the printer selcetion window, you see which plotter is current, and below the printer selection window your se the configuration of the highligthed plotter.
When you have selected the correct plotter exit the Printer Setup dialog box by clicking OK.
To setup your newly configured HPGL Plotter with the correct pen assignments:
First download the file CERNP_HP.pcp from the WEB. Save it anywhere convinient to your self. This file contains information about the penassignments, and will be used to associate screen colours with pen widths for the plotter configuration. You will be asked to point to the file at a later stage in the printer setup sequence.From File Pull Down Menu choose Print
In the Print/Plot Configuration dialog box click the Device and Default Selection button.
In the Device and Default Dialog Box highlight the HPGL plotter you want to set the penassigmnets for.
Then click the Merge button
Browse to the file CERNP_HP.pcp which you downloaded earliere, click the Open button and click OK unitl you are back in the Print/Plot Configuration dialogbox.
You can check that the pen assigments are right by clicking the Pen Assignments button in the Print/Plot Configuration dialog box and see that the penwidth vary.
To produce a plot file from AutoCAD R14.
From File Pull Down Menu choose Print
In the Plot Configuration dialog box choose Plot to file
Click the button: File Name and specify the directory and the file name you want to plot to. AutoCAD always gives the extension .plt to plot files.
Choose other parameters such as metric paper size, scale etc. according to your needs and press OK, AutoCAD will then create a plot file (*.plt) of your drawing and save it in the directory you have specified. A plot file can be plotted later without opening AutoCAD.
Charlotte Sorensen 1999-05-18 - Update M.Mottier 2002-07-17