Plotting MX Roll Plans
Plotting Roll Plans Within MicroStation
Plotting MicroStation Cut Sheets
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- From MicroStation, enter
"BatchPlot":
File => Batch Print/Plot
- Upon entering BatchPlot,
you should receive the following error message:
(This is due to users not having write access to all
of the M drive.) Ignore this
message by either minimizing the message or click on MicroStation.
The message will disappear when you close MicroStation.
- From "BatchPlot",
specify the drawing file(s) by selecting the "Add Design Files"
button, or:
Edit => Add Files
- Select file(s) to plot. Hit the "Add" button. An entry should
appear in the "Selected Files" list box.
- Click "Done"
to return to BatchPlot. Selected
files should now be listed in the "Design Files To Plot" list box.
- In the "Specifications
Controlling Plotting" list box, highlight "Printer".
- To specify a printer,
select the "Select Specifications" button, or:
Specifications => Select
- Select the desired printer
from the "Select Printer Specification" list.
- Select "OK" to
return to BatchPlot.
- In the "Specification
Controlling Plotting" list box, leave "Plot Area" set to "Borders"
(BatchPlot will find all borders in your selected design files).
- Also in the "Specification
Controlling Plotting" list box, leave "Layout" and "Display"
set to "Default".
- Should you only want plots
from some of the files listed in the "Design Files to Plot" list box,
then select the files that you want to print.
Select a single design file with the left mouse button or use
<Shift> or <Ctrl> to select multiple design files.
- In BatchPlot, select the
"Print" button or:
File => Print
- From the "Print"
panel, in the print range area, select either "Selection" to print
only the selected files or "All" to ignore any selection and print
all files.
- Select "OK" to
send the files to the printer. In
the lower right section of the screen you should see the following: BatchPlot:
files:X, plots:Y, failures:Z". "X"
is the number of files scanned, "Y" is the number of borders that were
printed, and "Z" is the number of errors that occurred.
To check what errors occurred, if any, open the "batchplt.log" file,
which should be either in the CADD or the PRJ directory of your active project.
- BatchPlot files can be
saved for repeated use. Either use
the File => Save or the File => Save As command.
- Upon exiting from
BatchPlot, you will encounter the following error message: if any modifications
were made to the "Printer", "Plot Area", "Layout"
or "Display" specification properties (using the "Specification
Properties" button or Specifications => Properties).
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General notes
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Portrait and landscape
borders will need to be in separate BatchPlot files, i.e. the vertical cross
section borders will need to be separate from the rest of the cut sheet borders.
Borders brought
in before 12/12/01 will need to be updated in your design files, in order for
BatchPlot to be able to find them. To
update the border cells use the "Replace Cells" button (method update) from
the following toolbar: Tools => Main => Cells.
You will need to update all borders in all your dgns in this way.
BatchPlot will find the borders if the outside cut line
of the border is Level=1 (Level=Border  ), Style=0, Weight=0, Color=84(yellow), and in View 1. To plot properly, the border rotation should be either
horizontal or vertical with respect to View 1.
Batch plot is setup by default not to print
construction lines.
The order in which the files are listed is the order
that they are printed. You can use
the following commands to manipulate their order:
Edit => Move Files to Top
Edit => Move Files Up
Edit => Move Files Down
Edit => Move Files to Bottom
If your design files have moved to a different
directory, or its name has changed, you will need to do the following:
1. Remove the files from BatchPlot and then
re-add them or
2. Edit the file path by: Edit => Edit File
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