Good Evening,
I spent about an hour or so the other night trying to figure out how to set up a custom sheet size. My plotter is an HP Designjet 650C, and I am using Carlson Survey 2008 with embedded Autocad.
One of the counties I do a lot of work in requires plats to be recorded on 20" tall by 24" wide sheets.
I can send the sheets to a print shop, but they are 45 minutes away. I would really like to be able to print these sheet sizes here at the office.
Can anyone shed any light on how to set up a custom sheet size on this plotter and software? I would greatly appreciate it. I got this latest project out, but I wasted a lot of paper, and had to hand trim the pages.
Thanks!
Jimmy
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Thanks Stephen. It may be a day or so. I will be out of pocket tomorrow, and I hit the road again on Monday.
Sorry, thought you were in front of the offending machine when you posted.
I've always gone under Plot, select the plotter that you want to modify, then click properties. This should pop up a new window where you'll want to click on the Custom Properties button on the Device and Document Settings Tab. This will bring up yet another pop up window, select the Paper/Quality Tab, then look for the custom button below the drop down list for paper sizes. Name your custom paper size and set its dimensions, then click ok/save on each of the windows as you back out. At the end AutoCAD will ask if you want to create a temporary PC3 file for the current plot (default) or modify the existing PC3 file. Pick the option that is not for the current plot only. In the future select HP 650.pc3 rather than the plain HP 650 under the list of plotters to have access to the custom paper size.
I've used the above process with HP750, HP500, and HP800 with good results. Give me a call if you get stuck or it acts different.
I've started plotting most everything as a PDF, especially the larger and odd size drawings.
The main reason is that I can see how it will turn out before I load the paper.
I've found it best to choose press quality.
B-)
We use the 36" roll for everything. Scissors are my friend.
