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Old 01-17-2009, 12:25 AM
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Question Multiple documents continuous printing possible?

Hi.

I heard from an operator helping designers that she is having a hard time printing Drafting files.
Because, she has to manually print each one of the ME10 files and it takes quite a time while it had to done quickly due to the dead line being so close.

I personally, don't feel that way, but is there is a way to automate the printing work, I wish I could suggest it.

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Old 01-19-2009, 12:33 PM
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Re: Multiple documents continuous printing possible?

I admit: I do not find right now what I'm looking for

Once upon a time (and I think it's no fairy tale) one posted the possibilty to have on the context menu of the windows file explorer an action wich immediatly prints the selected MI file.

There's the possibility to activate drafting and give it a macro during startup to work on.. that way the document was printed.. or was it using MEplot?

Hmmmmm.. hope you have more luck when searching the forums..
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Old 01-20-2009, 11:53 AM
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Re: Multiple documents continuous printing possible?

When you install Drafting it should add a right click Print option for *.mi files. From an Explorer window you can select multiple MI files using Shift-Left-Mouse or Ctrl-Left-Mouse then right click to print all the selected files. It will print to the default Windows printer with some default settings but this can be configured. See this thread for more details.

Batch print with ME10 v10.50
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Old 01-20-2009, 12:27 PM
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Re: Multiple documents continuous printing possible?

Thank you, Wolfgang, And John!!
I will try them.

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Re: Multiple documents continuous printing possible?

BTW, this seems to work with *.mi not the one without mi extension... am I right?
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Old 01-21-2009, 10:15 AM
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Re: Multiple documents continuous printing possible?

Yes, it will only work with files that have a .mi extension. It uses a standard Windows feature for assigning right click options to a "File Type". In this case the file type is "Me10 Document" and the extension is "MI". The right click Print options have to be file type specific because they use must use a specific application to print each file type. For example, if you right click on a *.doc file and click Print it uses Word, if you right click print on a *.txt file it uses NotePad.
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Old 01-21-2009, 02:35 PM
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Re: Multiple documents continuous printing possible?

Thank you.

P.S.
She got tons of no extension files.... so no way for her to right click to shorten her working time.
Perhaps good for her at the moment like these days, ironically..
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Old 01-22-2009, 07:36 AM
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Re: Multiple documents continuous printing possible?

Just find out how ME10 is called for printing when you start it by right-clicking an .MI file, then write a simple batch file which runs on a set of files (no matter which extension) and uses the magic printing options.

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Re: Multiple documents continuous printing possible?

Good suggestion Claus. The command run by right click Print is:

<install-dir>\me10.exe -pelook 0 -p filename

So you could create a batch file to print a series of files.

Code:
 
set InstallDir=C:\Program Files\CoCreate\CoCreate Drafting 2008 
set Command=%InstallDir%\me10.exe -pelook 0 -p
%Command% file1
%Command% file2
%Command% file3
....
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Re: Multiple documents continuous printing possible?

Thank you John.

From command prompt, I could print any of the Drafting.
There are only two issues.

1. I need to execute from a small software to run the command. Which I suppose to be able to do using ShellExcute API with Windows.

2. The print direction of Landscape or Portrait is still arbitrary.

Otherwise, the command works fine for me.
Thank you, again.
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Re: Multiple documents continuous printing possible?

The print orientation (portrait or landscape) and other print options can be controlled by editing the users customize_p.m file. See the links provided in earlier replies for more details.
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Thank you John.

I will try to make a software which list the file name out of a specific folder and execute printing.
But I have to finish the current work which should have been finished by now, too.

Thank you again for your information.
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Re: Multiple documents continuous printing possible?

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Good suggestion Claus. The command run by right click Print is:

<install-dir>\me10.exe -pelook 0 -p filename
The -p option invokes the old MEPLOT version of Drafting, the thing to be careful about here is that there is a different startup, customize and defaults (this is the setup file for plotting configurations) file that get read and loaded.

So if you have any type of customization in your normal startup of Drafting that handles special fonts or linetypes and plot settings these will not get loaded using the -p option. You need to recreate these customizations in the MEPLOT files.

Also MEPLOT is also not a full running version of Drafting but only a lite version so if you use the 2D Hidden Line functions on drawings this will not work in MEPLOT these lines will print.

The two files are located in the C:\Program File\CoCreate\Drafting folder and are labeled startup_p.m, customize_p.m and defaults_p.m.

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