In Carlson Civil Suite (w/ ICAD), is it possible to batch print/plot multiple layout tabs at once instead of each individually? Any insight would be appreciated. Thank you.
glad you asked. I was looking for that yesterday. hope someone knows.
looks like add ons are out there
Does it not work as in Autocad where you highlight (control key and pick or shift key and pick) the tabs and "Publish Selected Layouts" ?
> In Carlson Civil Suite (w/ ICAD), is it possible to batch print/plot multiple layout tabs at once instead of each individually? Any insight would be appreciated. Thank you.
I was out of the office on vacation when this was originally posted and forgot to reply back to it.
I spoke with Dave Lorenzo who is the Development Director at the IntelliCAD Technology Consortium. He indicated a batch plotting mechanism does not currently exist in the core IntelliCAD source code but that he and his development team are "spec-ing" out the functionality for a future release of IntelliCAD.
Since I can't speak on the reliability of other IntelliCAD batch plotting utilities, "one-off" printing is what I'd recommend for now.
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Has anyone figured out a way to batch plot layout tabs? I've got multiple projects that I could really use this on....
Thanks in advance.
The IntelliCAD Technology Consortium (ITC) released the PUBLISH command with IntelliCAD 8.1 back in July 22, 2015. Based on my research this evening, it has the ability to perform the functionality you desire. Also, there is the Carlson Output Layouts to PDF routine (released with Carlson 2019) which could also be used to get you the desired result if you don't mind sending a PDF file to your output device. I hope this information helps.
PUBLISH is also a command in AutoCAD, of course. Not sure just when it was added but it hasn't been around all that long.
Thanks Ladd, I will give the publish command a try.
I'm pretty sure that the Publish command has been around for at least a dozen years. I've been using Sheet Set Manager to publish sets of drawings for that long, if not longer. The lack of a SSM and a convenient way of publishing a large set of drawings were a couple of the many things that I struggled to live without during my short term using Intellicad a few years back.
As the oldest guy at my company, I frequently get ribbed for referring to something "recent" that turns out to have happened 20 or more years ago.
You may well be right about recent being 20 years. There have always been batch plotting apps. I don't think that they were in the form of the current PUBLISH command until maybe 5 or 6 years ago. As witness I note that IntelliCAD added it just a couple years back, and they are usually just a release or so behind AutoCAD with new functions.
I used the publish command yesterday on a couple of different projects and it worked perfectly.
Thanks for the assist!
Mike
Being the curious sort, I did research this. Autocad introduced the Publish command in 2004. It was included with Sheet Set Manager in 2006. It incorporated the ability to publish to PDF in 2010. I'm pretty sure I've been using it religiously since at least 2006, so my original estimate of a dozen years was actually pretty close.
You are right about batch plotting being around forever. I can remember writing a batch routine (maybe a script file?) that worked with DOS based Autocad. Was it (3) that plotted drawings from the main menu? I think (1) created a new drawing, (2) opened an existing drawing, and (3) plotted drawings. Have it create plot files for all the drawings, then copy *.plt to the plotter port. Start it when you were leaving in the evening and everything was usually plotted by the next morning. Memory lane.
It's interesting how people view a software product differently. While you say that IntelliCAD was close behind Autocad, one of the main reasons I disliked IntelliCAD so much was that I felt like I was constantly trying to remember how I used to do things 15 years in the past in order to accomplish something with IntelliCAD. Of course take that with a grain of salt, given my opinion of IntelliCAD.
I can confirm that the IntelliCAD 9.0 command PUBLISH works just like the one in AutoCAD. It allows you to combine tabs from multiple open drawings into a single pdf file. You cannot, however, make a Quick Key alias for it (grr).
To do the same thing for multiple tabs in a single drawing file, you can also use PDFEXPORT. You *can* make a Quick Key alias for that command (yay). But instead of selecting the tabs you want from the list, you have to remove the ones you don't want.
Cheers,
Su
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