Hide Plot The Hide Objects plot option, which lets you plot a 3D drawing with hidden lines removed, does not work for views in the Layout tab viewport. You need to turn on the viewport's Hideplot property. Select the viewport, right-click, then select Hideplot|On
Plot PLT Files from the Right-Click Menu
Doug Martin sent in this tip to speed up plotting:
Create a batch file named PLOTIT.BAT in your AutoCAD support
folder with the following lines.
copy /b %1 <insert the path to your plotter here>
cls
@echo off
echo -------------------------------------------
echo The plot file Has been sent to your Plotter
echo -------------------------------------------
For example for our office we use:
copy /b %1 \\Ntserver01\Oce9400R
cls
@echo off
echo ----------------------------------------------
echo The plot file has been sent to the Oce Plotter
echo ----------------------------------------------
Next open up Explorer, select View|Options|File Types tab and
pick AutoCAD Plot and edit. Select New and in the Action space,
type Plot plt file. In path, type the path to your newly created
batch file (example: C:\Program Files\AutoCAD
R14\SUPPORT\plotit.bat) Select OK and OK. Now when you right-
click on a PLT file, you'll see the option to plot the file.
Managing Multiple Layout Sheets
Drawings can contain multiple layouts, however, when additional
layouts are added in drawings that already contain 256 layouts,
the tabs for the new layouts are not displayed.
By design, the maximum number of layout tabs that can be
displayed is 256.
You can, however, use the Set option for the LAYOUT command to
specify the layouts
you want displayed, or activated. To do so:
AutoCAD now switches to the named layout.
Control Multiple Layout Plotting
Layouts are not plotted in consecutive order. They are plotted
by the layout name's
character value,not by integer value, and the first layout in
the sequence (in plot order, not
tab order) is not plotted first.
When you have 8 or less layouts, the first layout plots
last.For example, the plot order for
8 layouts, named Layout1 through Layout8, is Layout
2-3-4-5-6-7-8-1. If you have 5
layouts, the plot order is Layout 2-3-4-5-1.
If you have 9 or more layouts, the order in which they are
plotted depends on the value of
the first character, and the layout in the middle of the list
is plotted first, while the first
layout is plotted in the middle of the order.
For example, 15 layouts plot in the following order: 2-10-11-12-13-14-15-1-3-4-5-6-7-8-9
(1
and 2 are swapped). Eleven layouts plot in the following
order: 4-10-11-2-3-1-5-6-7-8-9 (1
and 4 are swapped).
If you have an even number of layouts, the first layout in the
second half of the list is
swapped with the first layout.For example;12 layouts plot in
the following order:
4-10-11-12-2-3-1-5-6-7-8-9 (1 and 4 are swapped).
The order is determined by values of the individual characters
comprising the integer. For
example, 10 is not "ten"; it is "1, 0", 25
is not "twenty-five"; it is "2, 5."
Solution
Name your layout tabs in alphabetical order as you create them
(for example, LayoutA,
LayoutB, LayoutC, and so on). The layouts will plot
consecutively, in alphabetical order,
with the exception of the first and middle layout being
switched, for which there is no current workaround.
The Plot Continues When Hideplot is on for a viewport or when plotting with hidden line removal, AutoCAD 2000 plots all entities with the same line weight as the last entity added to the database (last entity drawn). AutoCAD 2000 appears to ignore user selected line weights.Autodesk acknowledged that this in fact does happen and are investigating it.