-PLOT — Plot (command line)

Plots the drawing to PDF, PNG or SVG asking at the command line.

• Command: -PLOT · Global name: _-PLOT · Alias: -PRINT

Command-line version of PLOT, with the same questions and in the same order as AutoCAD. It is the one scripts use.

Usage

1. Enter -PLOT.

Detailed plot configuration? [Yes/No] <No>:

2. With No, it asks for the layout, a saved page setup, the output device if the layout has none, the file name, whether to save the changes to the page setup and whether to proceed.
3. With Yes, it asks in addition for the paper, its units, the orientation, the area (with Window, the two corners; with View, the name of a view of the drawing), the scale, the offset, the plot style table, the lineweights and, in a layout, the paper space options.

Enter paper size or [?] <…>:
Enter plot scale (Plot …=Drawing Units) or [Fit] <…>:
Enter file name <…>:

Notes

• The file extension (.pdf, .png or .svg) decides the format.
• Only the active layout is plotted: change to its tab first.
• The shade plot settings other than as displayed and hidden are not available.
• If the plot stamp is on (PLOTSTAMP), it appears on the sheet.
• Plotting is synchronous: there is no background plotting.

See also

PLOT · PUBLISH · PAGESETUP · Layouts