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bk
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Thu Nov 11, 2004 11:37 pm Post subject:
Plt files |
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Yesterday our plotter was down. Dead as a door stop. My staff couldn't make
PLT files.
They told me we had to have a plotter that the computer could communicate
with. This sounded
crazy, but I pick my battles. So I had them email the DWG files to our
printer for them to make the PLT's.
Who's crazier here, me or my staff??
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Marc Clamage
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Thu Nov 11, 2004 11:55 pm Post subject:
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You are, for listening to your staff.
You could have set AutoCAD to "plot to file" and sent those plot files to
your service bureau for output. A lot of service bureaus insist upon this,
since it saves them the trouble of loading your plotter styles.. Of course,
you would need to install the driver for the plotter being used by the
service bureau, but that's not a big deal.
Fire 'em all and get new ones! (I'm available).
Marc
"bk" <thelifer@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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| Quote: | Yesterday our plotter was down. Dead as a door stop. My staff couldn't
make PLT files.
They told me we had to have a plotter that the computer could communicate
with. This sounded
crazy, but I pick my battles. So I had them email the DWG files to our
printer for them to make the PLT's.
Who's crazier here, me or my staff??
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Michael Bulatovich
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Fri Nov 12, 2004 12:26 am Post subject:
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Sending DWG files to the printer is one way to do it, and
I do it all the time. See Marc's post for another.
--
MichaelB
www.michaelbulatovich.com
(I'm staying out of the who's crazier debate.)
"bk" <thelifer@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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| Quote: | Yesterday our plotter was down. Dead as a door stop. My staff couldn't
make
PLT files.
They told me we had to have a plotter that the computer could communicate
with. This sounded
crazy, but I pick my battles. So I had them email the DWG files to our
printer for them to make the PLT's.
Who's crazier here, me or my staff??
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R.K. McSwain
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Fri Nov 12, 2004 7:04 am Post subject:
Re: Plt files |
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On 11/11/2004 12:37 PM bk wrote:
| Quote: | They told me we had to have a plotter that the computer could communicate
with. This sounded
crazy, but I pick my battles. So I had them email the DWG files to our
printer for them to make the PLT's.
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You do not need a plotter to make plot files. Period. |
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Tim Arheit
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Fri Nov 12, 2004 7:17 pm Post subject:
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On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 18:37:58 GMT, "bk" <thelifer@hotmail.com> wrote:
| Quote: | Yesterday our plotter was down. Dead as a door stop. My staff couldn't make
PLT files.
They told me we had to have a plotter that the computer could communicate
with. This sounded
crazy, but I pick my battles. So I had them email the DWG files to our
printer for them to make the PLT's.
Who's crazier here, me or my staff??
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You don't need a plotter to create PLT's. We do it all the time.
-Tim |
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