topic Re: Plotmaker -Date Printed when plotting or printing in Documentation

Plotmaker -Date Printed when plotting or printing

Anonymous — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 15:22:04 GMT

Is there a way to have plotmaker print the date when printed and possibly the source of the file on the edge of the sheet every time one plots or prints from plotmaker? I have discovered how you do this in Archicad but not in Plotmaker.

David Rulon
Dell Athalon xp1500 533mb ram
Windows 2000
AC 8.1.0.1307

Re: Plotmaker -Date Printed when plotting or printing

Anonymous — Thu, 08 Jul 2004 20:17:06 GMT

Just put the right autotext on your master sheet. You can insert it into a text area using the Edit > Autotext > and select from the popup list or you can type the placeholder text directly (once you know what it is).

Re: Plotmaker -Date Printed when plotting or printing

Anonymous — Thu, 08 Jul 2004 20:35:16 GMT

Thanks, that works.
David Rulon

Re: Plotmaker -Date Printed when plotting or printing

Anonymous — Fri, 09 Jul 2004 15:10:07 GMT

Matthew,

You have to leave these easier questions for us posters that are trying to advance from Junior Member status!

Re: Plotmaker -Date Printed when plotting or printing

__archiben — Fri, 09 Jul 2004 16:10:49 GMT

Jay wrote:
Matthew,

You have to leave these easier questions for us posters that are trying to advance from Junior Member status!

what's autotext?

~/archiben

Re: Plotmaker -Date Printed when plotting or printing

Thomas Holm — Fri, 09 Jul 2004 16:21:13 GMT

I like being junior. Makes me feel young again!

Re: Plotmaker -Date Printed when plotting or printing

Anonymous — Fri, 09 Jul 2004 16:41:29 GMT

~/archiben wrote:
what's autotext?

ArchiBen,

Thank you for this opportunity to better my standing in the ArchiCAD-Talk community. To help accelerate my status change, I have decided to answer your question with individual emails detailing each of the twenty-or-so AutoText options that are available. I will then re-post every one of those emails in the "Installation / New User" and "Other Problems" forums. After that, I'm sure Djordje will repost all of them in the "Tips and Tricks" forum. Soon I shall join the ranks of "Active Member"!

Re: Plotmaker -Date Printed when plotting or printing

__archiben — Fri, 09 Jul 2004 17:01:32 GMT

no problem

i'll look forward to them . . .

and maybe next: what's the pet-palette?

~/archiben

Re: Plotmaker -Date Printed when plotting or printing

Thomas Holm — Fri, 09 Jul 2004 17:12:15 GMT

Pet=small animal
Palette= Shovel (see the thread about AC9 screen shots)

This means pet-palette must be the small shovel you use when getting rid of the small piles of something your animal sometimes leaves behind in inappropriate locations!