Printing header and footer wit drawing(s) plot/print

Svend Nielsen
Svend Nielsen
in Printing and Plotting

Hi,
Is it possible to use header and footer as in e.g. Excel to print a drawing head?

The purpose is not have the drawing head on screen when making the drawing, and also to be able to print several pages with same or slightly modified drawing head.
The drawing can we very wide, but the same height is used all over the drawing.
Imagine that the drawing should be as A4 landscape high and 2-10 time A4 landscape wide.

Maybe it can be done by using the Paper space ??

 

Comments

  • Daniel Eiszele
    Daniel Eiszele

    Have you looked at the plotstamp option in the print dialog?  Otherwise the only real option without writing code is to set up your layouts (paperspace) with the desired information.  Is the header and footer information static or dynamic; what does it contain?

     

    Regards,

  • Svend Nielsen
    Svend Nielsen

    The drawing head is based on our usual information, Project, place, date, page No. etc.
    The information is stored in a database in connection with the application.

    Page No. should be calculated on each page. The information may the user be able to edit for the single page.

    Svend

  • Jason Bourhill
    Jason Bourhill

    Can you provide some more detail on what your trying to do? Bricscad/AutoCAD doesn't do header footers like excel. As suggested by Daniel the closest feature to this is plotstamp, but it won't pull through database information (as far as I'm aware). Some printers/plotters also provide a plotstamp feature, but again options of what you can show is probably limited.

    The closest solution I believe is to use multiple layouts with paperspace. Its not as dynamic as your request you need to set it up, However once you have a setup that works you can save it as a template for future use.

    For example. you have prepared your drawing in model space that its very wide. You want to print the drawing on multiple sheets of A3, with each sheet showing a particular section. You also want a long print of the drawing that is A3 high, but 3 or so A3 long. In paperspace you would:

    1. Create a Layout and set the paper size to A3. Create a VPORT in paperspace and inside that viewport Zoom and pan to the section of the drawing you want to show (matchlines in modelspace may be a useful aid here). Easiest way to set the print scale of this view is to use the property pallete (press CTRL + 1), select the viewport, then in the property pallete set its scale. Create a block with attributes that you can put your header info into (same idea as a title block). You may want to do a check print here to see that you are getting what you want.
    2. Copy the layout you just created, then inside the viewport PAN until you get to the next section you want to show, adjust the details in your header block if necessary.
    3. Repeat Step 2 for the remaining sections.
    4. Copy the first layout, and then adjust the papersize to your custom length. Drag out the viewport until you can see the whole of your model space drawing. Move the header block to the correct location.

    Layouts are useful in that each layout one can have its own printer settings (AutoCAD has multiple). Also VPORTS can have their own layer settings, which allows you to turn layers on and off. For example on your A3 sheets you may show hidden detail, and matchline information, on your long plot you would turn these layers off to simplify the drawing.

    Hope this is of use.

    Regards,

    Jason Bourhill

    CAD Concepts

    http://www.cadconcepts.co.nz

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