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1. Illustration 5 3 Print preview of M PRINT Print pictures with M PRINT Preview pictogram In a graphics window the content is displayed just the same as the output will occur The properties of the output filter and the style are considered Also the physical boundaries of printers and plotters are considered If a paper rotation 1s in the output fil ter defined this 1s displayed too If you change options or you select another style filter the display will be updated Also the assigning of new output colors is displayed directly The weight filter is also con sidered On the display the line weight cannot be displayed 1 1 therefore the impres sion can arise that nothing changes Comment The orientation of the preview dependents directly on the selected output filters If no paper rotation is indicated in the output filter the display is always in the portrait for mat Exceptions are output filters that don t support paper sizes Enhance rendering If raster displays are available in the input format these are displayed if the output filter provides this possibility In the preview application the pictures are trimmed on the cor responding size That can result in the consequence that you cannot recognize the con tent anymore Activate for this purpose the control box Enhance rendering The pic tures are recalculated and smoothed The output is now importantly better but requires a longer CPU time Options
2. Sets the index of the desired weight filter This is used for the conversion of the color and line attrib utes from the image file This option can be applied only on meta or vector files With the index the desired color schema is selected This option can be applied only on meta or vector fi les As arguments at least one input file must be declared The input files can be local or provided with absolute paths Environment variables can be used also These must be set during the startup and valid 57 M PLOT Chapter 4 58 Example of UNIX platforms mplotbatch HOME ideas 8 501000 pff mplotbatch HOME ideas pff data picture img jpg mplotbatch driver tiff pff Example of Windows NT 2000 gt mplotbatch HOMEPATH ideas 8 501000 pff gt mplotbatch HOMEPATH ideas pff T picture img jpg gt mplotbatch driver tiff D data pff pff Special notes As input files ASC and DWG files can also be used presupposed when you do not work with I DEAS 8 and the program draftbatch is installed on your computer If you like to set properties which are not available directly as an option in M PLOT batch this can be done by specific filters weight color style and device Generate a new device filter that is used only for background printing A specific style filter can be linked then to this filter With the aid of this device filter you can execute also an external script and determine what is suppos
3. The options change directly the representation format of the graphics When you select a control box you see the result in the display immediately The format of the input file stands also in the title of this frame Some options are only active if the input file has the necessary information Has the style filter this option enabled or disabled this value is stored in an intern way The user simply cannot select this option 85 M PLOT Chapter 5 Command Use background infor mation for output Dither solid fill polygon only B W mode Draw paper sizes as a thin box on the paper Put additional text on output format Description This option becomes active when the input format stores the background explicitly Currently these are the input fil ters CGM PFF and PNG With all other input formats the control box is deactivated If the input format supports filled polygons rectangular circles cake diagram or polygons an additional query must occur during the output in a monochrome format If the control box is activated the filling is dithered Other wise the filling is put in black color Why this query As a rule you want filled arrows in full black and not dithered In I DEAS a polygon is supposed to be displayed dithered This option draws the paper dimension according to a fine pen 0 2mm and the line type phantom That makes it for you possible that you can trim the format if the paper
4. 197 M PLOT Appendix B 198 Add a new submenus Defined as in our list we have two departments Why these do not declare as sub menus Of course all these could stand also under each other as a practice we want to build up this architecture Y Select the line PDF file and press then the button New submenu The submenu is inserted direct below on the same level The default text of the menu is transmitted You can only subsequently change the text when you change the text and press the button Apply V Shift the new entry onto the end of the list therefore according to the separator line Y Repeat the step for our second submenu Y Rename the two submenus so that they correspond to the graphics If a mistake should happen to you you can delete the submenu at any time again Please think of it the text is taken over first if you press the button Apply V Shift the entries until you receive the same architecture ae A That you get exactly the same output like in Ocgm CGM file Gede SDRC file the graphic you must shift the separator line separ OP sae If this is at the end of the list the level is cannot be shifted You must shift first the Hitiff TIFF file separator line above the submenu Then Uprig PNG file select the submenu and shift these about the Mipeq JPEG file li A lt th li menu Operations department separator ine As a result the separator line menu Design department is on
5. Deletes an entry from the list All further options are deleted also You can cancel the operation when you exit the window with Cancel A cancel of the window sets all settings to the state before the call was done This button makes it possible to copy the complete selected entry All options are also copied The index 1s automatically increased You can change the index at any time with the but ton Apply 109 M PLOT Chapter 7 110 Command Description Default index An entry in the list must be declared as default so that M PLOT can select a filter automatically The default is selected with a hook Through a double click onto the line within the list the selected line is set again as default Sort order With the two arrow keys you can determine the sequence in the selection The M PLOT user sees exactly this sequence Properties This button turns on a new window with all properties of the selected entry The entries in this window are explained then more exactly Palette This button turns on a new window At this place the standard palette can be created for all entries This is helpful that for every entry in the list the same color map does not have to be created repeatedly All entries and commands are explained then more specific The use of color filters Properties of the color filter To the individual entries the properties can be changed In this case propertie
6. Description This area defines the output size of the content on the out put format e Fit in all entities visible calculates always the op timal scale so that the input format has space on the out put format Also the style filter 1s considered for this The printer margins are ignored e Scale Define or select the desired picture scale In the display application the result is immediately visible If nothing is visible that can have been enlarged either into a white area or the scale 1s so small that no display occurs 127 M PLOT Chapter 8 Further information 128 In the frame title appears under the column Definition the name of the loaded weight filter file This information is helpful so that you can check which file is just processed During saving of the file M PLOT creates automatically a backup file You can restore the last state at any time The modifications may be done also directly in the ASCII file Every option is shortly explained Please note that the syntax 1s checked only relatively If you understand the architecture greater modifications can be made elegantly At a further save of the file additional comments will be ignored Also the representation format is created inde pendently M PLOT uses this table at every startup From that at least one valid entry must be de fined M PLOT expects that the file exists on the operating system If the file mplot sty should becom
7. M PLOT Appendix B Now we must tell M PLOT which operating system printer can select this plotter V Press the button Properties The window with the device filter properties opens Our plotter has a coil We can assign a specific style filter to the device filter It is reasonably that this always uses the style Scale to sheet size That guarantees that the user uses always the correct style Y Activate the control box Style filter and you choose the line Scale to sheet size from the menu The default of the weight filter is ISO standard Therefore we do not need to acti vate the control box at this place But you may generate this shortcut of course Device filter Color plotter Modifications on current device File np designiet 750c 36 rtl def m E External settings Mo Style filter melot sty Scale to sheet size C Weight filter mplot waot ISO standard al C Color filter mplot map Wo assignment al Frint commands necessary for printer FALUNIS platforms ay M Remove plot file after plot command is executed Cancel Illustration B 24 Example 4 Properties of the color plotter rT Vindows MT 2000 202 Examples Remark Please note we don t have Windows NT 2000 in the English version Maybe some commands are not ex actly the same But we are sure you will fig ure out what we mean Now it becomes a little bit more
8. The dialog box Device filters can be called from different applications Either you call the program M ADMIN M PLOT or M PRINT From M ADMIN Start M ADMIN on the console or through a double click onto the shortcut Choose then the button Adapt M PLOT to your environment A new window opens Choose now the button Device filters From M PLOT or M PREV Start the application on the console or through a double click onto the shortcut Choose then the menu command Settings in the menu bar Choose next the menu item De vice filters If the menu command Settings is deactivated you do not have then any rights to change these settings Login yourself as the M QUEST administrator at the system or ask your system administrator 131 M PLOT Chapter 9 Properties of the main view 132 The window was built up so that you see all important features at a glance In the list you find all already available entries An entry is a record of settings During the instal lation different output filters are arranged With these output filters you can work al ready The window offers to you as usual a button with the properties of the selected output filter Further more you can limit the list either for the registered user or workstation Device filters Bel Ed Definition Ccimquest200 1 custem mplot2k Timplot set All defined device filters Description in M PLOT menu i Remove Copy A menu Translator Raster Im
9. Description If true M PRINT is exited after printing other wise the user must quit M PRINT explicitly If true the user can select the control box Re move output file otherwise the command is dis abled If true the user can select the button Modify in M PRINT and can change the print com mand Determine the paper rubric for the paper selec tion in the device driver If the value is empty all available format items are used ISO and ANSI Default pen width for M PLOT This is used when you choose the menu Thickness from in put and no weight 1s defined in the input file Default text for the additional label of the output format This text can be set also in the style fil ter mplot sdrc mappeng automatic manual If the value is set to automatic it is deter mined by means of the input format whether it is a question of a Drafting or I DEAS drawing A Drafting drawing is set to Color Line thick ness and the I DEAS drawing with Style Line thickness manual excludes the settings and uses the defaults from the style filter 159 M PLOT Appendix A Variable mplot mplot mplot mplot mplot mplot mplot mplot sdrc sdrc sdrc sdrc sdrc sdrc sdrc sdrc drafting drafting drafting drafting drafting drafting drafting drafting filename Viewborder intellfonts plotlayer nowei
10. tion To the output filter a pure image raster file 1s always sent Vectors Raster data IsaM PLOT license needed yes yes yes HP PCL GL2 That is not an official emulation This is used to initializing PCLS printers with the PCL emulation and sends the graphics as a pure HP GL 2 emulation on the laser printer by M PLOT Through that the formatting 1s correct on the paper and no license has to be ordered in M PLOT Vectors Raster data IsaM PLOT license needed yes no no Setting up of device filters Epson ESC P2 This language is used for EPSON printers The language accepts only raster informa tion All vectors must be first converted into pixels The colors are created only through dithering of the different color planes Every printer s ink CMYK is sent for itself The enhancement P2 can be applied only on EPSON Stylus printers The languages ESC and ESC P are not yet supported by M PLOT Vectors Raster data Is aM PLOT license needed yes yes yes Adobe PS PostScript That is with distance the most familiar printer language This is applied in the profes sional DTP area In order to work off the enormous functional scope the output filters have own hardware interpreters So that PostScript may be used a license must be ac quired That is also the fact why PostScript printers are expensive especially as an own computer and royalties are included in the purchase of the devices M PLOT supp
11. A new window opens Choose now the button Weight filters From M PLOT or M PREV Start the application on the console or through a double click onto the shortcut Choose then the menu command Settings in the menu bar Choose next the menu item Weight filters If the menu command Settings is deactivated you do not have then any rights to change these settings Login yourself as the M QUEST administrator at the system or ask your system administrator 91 M PLOT Chapter 6 Properties of the main view 92 The window was built up so that you see all important features at a glance In the list you find all already available entries An entry is a record of settings In our case this are color or line evaluations It can be well possible that several different allocations have to be evaluated During the basic installation you find two entries e ISO standard e ANSI standard Weight filters Op x Definition Ccimquest200 Ticustomimplot2k Timplat wot a defined weight filters EEA in M PLOT menu Remove Cars ANSI standard Copy Properties W Default index Sart order a EF Palette Unique index iso 88 Apply New M English ISO standard W French WSO standard M German ls6 Standard M italian ISO standard M Spanish WSO standard Cancel Illustration 6 1 Weight filters Main view The number of the entries and the description can be changed at
12. If you want to consider the settings more exactly then select the desired line in the list and press the button Properties The use of style filters Create change or delete entry in list The procedure for the declaration of the entries requires only a few commands The dif ferent language fields are in this case also considered You will see this procedure on many further M PLOT dialog boxes Command New Apply Remove Copy Description Enter an unambiguous index in the input field Unique in dex An index is used in an intern way to identifying the en try All characters are allowed except the point the colon and the blank Rename now the entry in the desired languages If you do not want all languages deactivate the language control box This setting is valid for all entries So that the new entry is transferred into the list press the button New If you have not generated any new index before the existing index is in creased around the value one This can be renamed then at any time If you select the entries in the list the respective field are re initialized automatically If you want to change a value that 1s valid also for the index you must press the button Apply af ter the modification If you change onto another list entry first the modification is ignored Deletes an entry from the list All further options are deleted also You can cancel the operation when you exit the win
13. Login yourself as the M QUEST administrator at the system or ask your system administrator 117 M PLOT Chapter 8 Properties of the main view 118 The window was built up so that you see all important properties at a glance In the list you find all already available entries An entry is a record of settings During the instal lation two entries are created e Scale to user border the graphic is fitted onto the sheet centrally no matter what the size of the output format is A margin of 10 mm is created always around the size of paper That sets up surely that big input formats are completely visible on a smaller output format presupposed the hardware margins of the output filter are smaller or equal 10 mm e Scale to sheet size corresponds to the requests as under Scale to user border with the difference that no margin are considered Nevertheless the hardware mar gins are however valid Style filters ojx Definition Ccimquest200 1icustom mplot2k Timplot sty All defined style filters Description In M PLOT menu Remove Copy Properties Default index Sart order Al F Unique index fit2border Apply New M English Scaletouserborder M French Scale to user border M German Einpassen auf Begrenzung M Italian Scale to user border M Spanish Scale to user border iz Sfitsnect Seale to a size Cancel Illustration 8 1 Style filters Main view
14. Default All entries are deleted and initialized with the original values 99 M PLOT Chapter 6 Properties of the weight filter Caution Are already made allo cations under the note book Color a ma nipulation of the color palette can deleting a defined entry Check therefore always the color allocation 100 To the individual weight filters the properties can be changed In this case properties are the evaluation of the color and or line types Every weight filter has its own settings The standard palette serves as the global input format settings If all entries of the stan dard palette were removed the palettes must be declared locally Otherwise the weight filter cannot be used Notebook Color table This color table replaces the global color table for this weight filter If you activate the control box Create a new color table you must define at least one color If you should not know the colors you simply press the button Default M PLOT creates then all primary colors of SDRC Weight filter ISO standard Iof se Color table Line table Calor Line Create a new color table Define all available colors for assignment Color name Color value oC Remove Sart Default Color name Apply New Calor value Mix color Cancel Illustration 6 6 Weight filter Notebook Color table The use of weight filters Notebook Line table The use of a line
15. For that you find only few menu commands in the action bar Menu File Command Exit Description Terminates M PLOT All open previews and existing jobs in the process list are exited This command can also be exe cuted directly from the keyboard with lt Ctr1 gt lt x gt Menu Settings When you are not the author on the file mplot set or you don t have any write au thorizations on this file the command is disabled Following instructions stand for the selection Command Weight filters Color filters Style filters Device filters Description Colors or line types can be assigned to specific line weights The settings are in the file mplot wgt stored see also chap ter 6 The input colors can be converted into new output colors All settings are stored in the file mplot map see chapter 7 You can generate your own printing styles and store it into the file mplot sty see chapter 8 New device filters can be arranged Restrictions can be set to registered users or host names The settings are stored in the file mplot set see chapter 9 27 M PLOT Chapter 1 Menu Help Command User manual Version Description Opens this document with the external application Adobe Acro bat Reader The current M PLOT version is shown to you Browse the operating system environment On the operating system environment you can directly view
16. Master Drafting Macro menu Selection of the file format Selection of the drawing sheets Selection of the print area Print parameter CIN CS pea es ie ee eae cae ntes I DEAS Master Series Printing in the background Start of M PLOT batch Example of UNIX platforms Example of Windows NT 2000 Special notes Vil M PLOT Table of contents viii Print pictures with M PRINT 59 starb Ott M RINT a E 60 Start of M PRINT from external applications ccccccccccccccccecceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees 6l Example o UNIX PIATOM auroa eee eee 63 Example of Windows NT 2000 cccccccccccccceceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee es 63 Prop rtiesof the main WInNdowWsonietsneen menon a 64 OUP dEV CE usr E T ee eae eta 65 PEMA TAT OC 53 Se anced cacataly aneneen 66 CODICS eee se 66 Style information on output format cc ceeeeeesesssssssesesssssseessesesessseeeeeeeeseees 67 Prop ries OF anoutput TILCR caer tanane a etiam Gaeta ce nanaaetatantals 68 Picturedimensi ONS eene a a oe 69 Princgualil Vesneri rai e A E E E 69 1a E E EEE EEE A AEE ESE EEE A AEE TE EE E E 70 OUD UC SIZE iaia EEE EEA EA EA E anit lad 71 Paper S ZO apain n a anes auton daseniateaeae 71 DIZO a N 71 DAN as IE ied IE EE E AE EE IE AAEE E E I subedtorees 12 FCS OMG OD senean A OA I2 Orientation esisiini olaina ataoa a aea essa i aaa a eia 73 60 6 OUPO eria R a er ee 73 Dither ma erenn A T AT 74 Re MAC aeaa Perce Pm U SRR A e E E
17. We will use only the languages German and Eng lish in our example V Start M ADMIN on the console or through a double click onto the shortcut You choose then Adapt M PLOT to your environment A new window opens Choose now the button Weight filters Y Press the button New V Change the index in pmc Y Change the text fields English and German Enter the description Mold Tool Corporation Y Deactivate the control boxes French Ttalian and Spanish V Press the button Apply Weight filters lel x Definition Ccamquest200 1icustomimplot2k Timplat wat All defined weight filters Description in M PLOT menu Remove Copy Miso SO standard Properties Sort order a Palette Unique index pme Apply New Clans ANSI standard Default index M English Mold Tool Corporation BOP ee M German Werkzeugbau AG T taian fo l Spanish PO Cancel Example 1 Create a new weight filter Illustration B 1 165 M PLOT Appendix B 166 Create new color table for customer Now we must make a decision We have two possibilities to evaluate the colors from the drawing 1 We use the standard palette and add the new color Gray 50 The advantage is we don t have to define all values again Only the new color must be added The disad vantage is that we do not know anymore which colors are in the individual tables in use We would have to check all entries
18. You can determine yourself whether you want to optimize a filter or you work with the de faults 221 M PLOT Appendix B Comments 222 The M PLOT filters are not perfect A filter of a printer manufacturer is increasingly better M PLOT can offer an alternative to you in order to work with the very same print program in heterogeneous platform environments The administration occurs on a workstation whichever platform it is The most different mechanisms allow the optimal configuration of M PLOT with re spect to the application Not the easiest way for the administrator or the application 1s searched instead the user 1s supposed to be unburdened M PLOT has the philosophy that a printer language independently of the manufacturer of the devices must be available only once The functions are reduced internally to a minimum so that all understand the same dialect Please forgive us if we provide the new filters with a license That guarantees that we can advance M PLOT We have still many ideas which we want to integrate Together we can reach this objective If you have ideas or suggestions for improvement you can inform us of these with pleasure Please think of it that we give customer the advantage which uses M PLOT with a license Examples 223 att OGEST ee SOFTWARE AG
19. also manually Please consult for this purpose the online help of Windows NT 2000 You can do a double click on the icon and M PREV starts The language cannot be changed directly The shortcut must be edited for this purpose You add for this purpose the option 1x at the end of the command The x corresponds in this case to the lan guages 0 English 1 French 2 German and 3 Italian Exit In order to exit M PREV choose Exit in the menu File M PREV is closed and the console released 35 M PLOT Chapter 2 Properties of the main window If M PREV is started the main window appears This is divided as follows e An action bar with commands for the call of further commands Commands which are acting at other places are not performed in the action bar e An icon list with different commands for the graphical operation on the display The icons can according to the input be deactivated e Register cards in the form of individual picture sequences If several pictures are contained in the file an index 1s constructed for every individual image e Graphics area of the display application Scroll bars allow the scrolling of the picture within the graphics area e Status bar for the output of information M PREV D Users Markidrawing pff Eile Settings Help lt i gt gt fe ala BEI S ah Illustration 2 1 Main window of M PREV 36 Preview pictures with M PREV Commands in the acti
20. and a plotter pen Weight filter Mold Tool Corporation Color table Line table Calor Line Assign line style to line weight rPen Sie With Remove solid 0 5 center 0 35 dash 0 25 phantom 0 25 dashdot 0 25 amt a d Sorn JE Style dot Apply Width lo 2 5 Millimeter New Cancel Illustration B 7 Example Assign line type to a line weight If all entries are created the notebooks of Color table Colors and Lines received now new values They can check simply when you select the corresponding notebook Y Exit you the window with OK and you return to the main window 173 M PLOT Appendix B 174 Save new weight filter The settings are stored in the file mplot wgt So that you have always the possibility to restore modifications the file is updated only then if the button OK is pressed The button Cancel ignores all modifications V Press the button OK The file is updated and the preceding settings transferred into the backup file mplot wgt bak A further opening of the window Color filter must list now our new entry Mold Tool Corporation The properties of our before defined entry are visible when you press the button Properties If you would delete now the entry Mold Tool Corporation also our settings would disappear The color table will not be updated This table is valid for all entries Please be careful when you delete co
21. any time During the installation you receive a default which you can accept change or delete Also new en tries may be created The use of weight filters Create change or delete entry in list The procedure for the declaration of the entries requires only a few commands The dif ferent language fields are in this case also considered You will see this procedure on many further M PLOT dialog boxes Command New Apply Remove Copy Description Enter an unambiguous index in the input field Unique in dex An index is used in an intern way to identifying the en try All characters are allowed except the point the colon and the blank Rename now the entry in the desired languages If you do not want all languages deactivate the language control box This setting is valid for all entries So that the new entry is transferred into the list press the button New If you have not generated any new index before the existing index is in creased around the value one This can be renamed then at any time If you select the entries in the list the respective field are re initialized automatically If you want to change a value that 1s valid also for the index you must press the button Apply af ter the modification If you change onto another list entry first the modification is ignored Deletes an entry from the list All further options are deleted also You can cancel the operation when you exit the
22. considered for the printing 50 M PLOT and external applications I DEAS Master Series Until DEAS MS7 all image files that were created in I DEAS are automatically adopted to the TDM Often you want to generate only a snapshot and do not need the image file then anymore M PLOT helps you in this case and deletes also the image file correctly from the TDM With I DEAS 8 this step is not necessary anymore The macro recognizes automati cally the version and executes the necessary steps automatically You don t have to care about the data organization Remark If you want to archive file pictures please generate these manually Then you can start M PLOT as a separate application and print out the pictures If M PLOT is started from I DEAS the image file is always removed automatically M PLOT is started from I DEAS with a keyboard shortcut Press for this purposes the keyboard key lt Ctr1 gt lt p gt simultaneously If M PLOT should not start check the SDRC environment Another possibility to run the macro is directly from I DEAS with File Execute Program You find the M PLOT macro at following place for I DEAS Platform Macro including path Windows NT 2000 MQUEST INSTL mplot prg mplot ideas prg UNIX MQUEST INSTL mplot prg mplot ideas prg You may copy the macro also to another place At an update you must guarantee that you update the macro 51 M PLOT Chapter 3 Illustration 3 4
23. department cccccccecccseeeeeeeees 209 stall FEM document progr mek nnn R 211 PDF archive for POM syste M arrere renr n A TEE OOE EE ERE 214 Example of a script file for Windows NT 2000 cccsssssssssseeesseseeeeeees 214 COMTE dor Orel RAW zeres iesuna tore dou seschannnni hanes tonadiaatmeasesabasenetans 217 Adapt thie CorelDRAW filter civics teats d maine dlate ti nelle utd ase 218 ROMANCES saci tesa clesteeceent E E Saat eetaetadeeatpheencatads 222 Xiv Illustrations Illustrations Illustration 1 1 Illustration 2 1 Illustration 3 1 Illustration 3 2 Illustration 3 3 Illustration 3 4 Illustration 5 1 Illustration 5 2 Illustration 5 3 Illustration 6 1 Illustration 6 2 Illustration 6 3 Illustration 6 4 Illustration 6 5 Illustration 6 6 Illustration 6 7 Illustration 6 8 Illustration 6 9 Main window of M PLOT u0 cc cccccccceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees 26 Main window of M PREV cc9 2cciccsaleicenestteeneanteaiergnne aera eae 36 Fletormmat se lecHoN sisenes aaa a 47 Selection drawing sheets acuinn E T 48 Prmtarea seleccion senerara a E 48 Macro menu imn FDEAS pueraria E COCA EREE 52 Main Window of M PRIN Toussiinenniianionaon ian a 64 Properties of an Output Ter scrin aN 68 Print preview of M PRIN T ceeston e a 84 Weight filters Main ViCw eeeneeeeeseeseeeseessseeseeeeeeeeeeessssssssssses 92 Weight filters Palette notebook Color table 0000000000000000 96 Weight filters Pal
24. difficult We must build up the communication In our example we work on a Windows NT 2000 workstation We need the server name and the released printer name You can read out the information directly Choose for this purpose the following commands in the environment Windows NT 2000 V Press Start onto the button in the line at the lower edge of the screen Y Go onto Settings and select the menu choice Printer Y A window opens Select the printer and press the right mouse button Select Proper ties Y Y A further window opens Press the button Test page Y Get the test page from the printer We need two information s from this page Y Exit the printer windows If you consider the output more exactly you will recognize that some useful informa tion are onto this sheet We need following lines for setting up M PLOT Line Example Description Workstation name wsmm The name of the workstation which takes over the printing service of the output filter Released printer name pr The printer name as it can be addressed We go back again onto our window Device filter We must do still some settings Y Activate the control box Windows NT 2000 The menu is enabled Y Choose the menu command SDRC Print Utility and press than the button 1 The command line is transferred in the upper row 203 M PLOT Appendix B Press the button A new window opens Change the command line with the val ues from our tes
25. elements Important The linking of external filters with the current style is efficient but can contain also some risks in it A thickness or color filter can also be linked directly to a device filter If the value does not change it can be that at a preceding place the value was already set The priority of setting filters 1s as follows 1 Input arguments of M PLOT batch 2 Device filter mplot set 3 Style filter mplot sty 4 Default value of the individual filters mplot wgt mplot map mplot sty We recommend following procedure At a device filter a link to an external filter is only then created if the line weights deviate on this devices or the hardware margins require an own style filter When a different device is in M PRINT selected the style filter is changed only if this is in fact necessary In the style filter the external defaults can be then linked individually That facilitates the location of links much more easily Alike which technique you decide for M PLOT allows the individual configuring of default values 125 M PLOT Chapter 8 Default settings These settings can also in M PRINT with the button Preview changed It is reason able to adapt the style filter so that the user of M PRINT should not make any modifi cations in normal case That increases the performance and we come closer to the one button plot Command Use background information for output Dither solid fill polygo
26. have arranged a printer M PLOT does not know where the plot file is supposed to be sent yet Or you want to guarantee that during the selection of the device filter the correct style filter is selected automatically You can assign all these features at any time Device filter HP Color LaserJet 4500 _ Of x Modifications on current device File np coloriaserjet 4500 ps2 def adl External settings Mw Style filter melot sty Scale to user border C Weight filter mplot wat ISO standard C Color filter mplot map Wo assignment al Print commands necessary for printer lh All UNIX platforms p dpr1 oraw c PLT_FILE E Ip Line Print x Fo Windows NT 2o00c sdreNTip d wwsmimpr1 r t PIC_FILE PLT_FILE led SDRC Print Utility x M Remove plot file after plot command is executed Cancel Illustration 9 3 Device filter Properties of the selected device filter Modifications on current device This section shows the physical position of the filter file to you You can reload also at any time another filter In this case the properties are not modified only the filter file copied again 145 M PLOT Chapter 9 146 Command File f Description File name of the current output filter The dialog box turns on for the interactive selection of a new device filter This can be selected directly on the operating system The dialog box Choose of a
27. into a file A valid file name must be in dicated for this purpose If you like to switch the directory or se lect a current file name use the button New file to change the name Remove If the control box is active the plot file is deleted after the job is executed Should not be used if the output is sent into a file since the file is deleted immediately by M PRINT More info s The most important settings are displayed to you in an separate win dow 65 M PLOT Chapter 5 66 Print range The print range relates to the number of pages within the loaded input format If you have loaded an image file with several individual images you can decide which page frame you want to print Command Description Area e All pictures marks all available pictures in the image file e Current picture 1s the default if you call M PRINT You see by means of the display number which picture would be converted e Range allows you to convert only a specific image range The print area can be indicated with the entries from and tol All onto the same If this control box is active all defined pictures are printed on page each other If the command is deactivated the pictures are printed after each other Copies Because M PRINT can handle also documents with several pages it can be desirable the output can be sorted if more than one copy 1s defined If the device filter supports cop ies also the sort
28. manually 2 We create a new color map for our customer The advantage would be we know ex actly which colors are valid for this entry If we delete the entry also all correspond ing values are away The disadvantage is we must declare more In this example we choose the second variant The working method 1s identically only that we do the modifications at another place as for variant one V Press the button Properties The window Weight filter opens Y Activate the control box Create a new color table Y Press the button Default The 16 primary colors by SDRC are created An infor mation message appears that points out that all existing entries are being deleted in the list You can confirm the message with Yes because the list 1s empty As an example we will do now a step which is not necessary We delete all colors which we don t need Unnecessarily because all not required colors are being masked out automatically by M PLOT Y Select now a color which is not used by us V Press the button Remove The color is deleted Y Repeat these steps until all colors are deleted which we don t need Examples At the end the list should contain following colors blue oooat OOffoo O0aett O00 255 000 O00 166 255 O0aatt ffoOooo ffffoo 000 170 255 299 000 000 299 299 000 O0agtf 000 169 255 Illustration B 2 Example 1 Create a new color table As default we know that we must draw
29. medium is bigger than the chosen paper size If the paper medium is of the same size as the output format or if hardware margins are defined this option is ignored If the control box is activated an additional text can be po sitioned below to the left on the output format The text can be entered individually Use for this purpose the button E at the end of the line The text can be preset also in the style filter or in the M QUEST parameter file 86 Print pictures with M PRINT Command Set picture size on out put Description This area defines the output size of the content on the out put format Fit in all entities visible calculates always the op timal scale so that the input format has space on the out put format Also the style filter 1s considered for this The printer margins are ignored Scale Define or select the desired picture scale In the display application the result is immediately visible If nothing is visible that can have been enlarged either into a white area or the scale 1s so small that no display occurs Scale thickness During the output it can be useful that the thickness of the line weight can be controlled Four possibilities are avail able Constant the line weights are not changed independ ent of the output scale Proportional the line weights are changed dependent on the output scale When bigger 1 1 the line weights are enlarged
30. missing you can copy the pa rameter line from the M QUEST parameter file into the custom parameter file Some parameters demand a directory or a file name Since these parameters can be set at different places the name of the parameter file is brought in the column Value This file 1s read at a standard installation at last Short survey of the possible parameters Variable mplot dir model mplot dir library mplot file device mplot file style mplot file weight mplot file colormap mplot file prg ideas Values custom2k1 param mquest2k1 param custom2k1 param custom2k1 param custom2k1 param custom2k1 param mquest2k1 param Description Determines the position of the installed M PLOT device filters Points onto the directory of the filter library Defines the file with all installed output filters Defines the file with all style filters Defines the file with all weight filters Defines the file with all color filters Points onto the I DEAS macro If you rename the macro or copy the macro onto another place you must adapt this parameter Drafting does not need this parameter The position is di rectly indicated in the icon file drafting icn or masterdrafting icn 158 M PLOT installation Variable mplot exit mplot rmoutputfile mplot outputcommand mplot paper list mplot penwidth mplot stamp Values true false true false true false iso ansi 0 3 mn Text
31. not load the filter manually from the filter library directory Use always the button M for this task If you have new filters you can store these also into the library directory At an updating of the software only existing filters are replaced Also new subdirectories may be created M PRINT reads the complete directory architecture each time you push the button Y All settings at our color plotter are executed We can exit the window Press the but ton OK so that the settings are stored internally 207 M PLOT Appendix B 208 Save modified device filters The settings are stored in the file mplot set So that you have always the possibility to restore modifications the file is updated only then if the button OK is pressed The button Cancel ignores all modifications V Press the button OK The file is updated and the preceding settings transferred into the backup file mplot set bak A further opening of the window Device filters must list now our newly create de vice structure and the color plotter Install color printer for design department We installed already a plotter The installing of the color printer does not distinguish from the color plotter If the following execution 1s too abstract to you please test first the example Install color plotter for design department Y Select the entry Color plotter and press the button New device Y Select the printer HP Color LaserJet 4500 PS 2 from
32. only then if the output scale is bigger than one When smaller 1 1 the line weights are justified only then if the output scale is smaller than one 87 M PLOT Chapter 5 Command Interprets Weight filter Color filter Description Three options for the selection stand to you e Thickness of output evaluates the thickness informa tion directly from the input file e Color Line thickness searches from the chosen weight filter the allocation for color and adds the thick ness to the element e Style Line thickness searches from the chosen weight filter the allocation line type and adds the thick ness to the element Determine which weight filter is supposed to be applied The definition are interpreted directly from the menu n terprets Determine which color filter 1s supposed to be applied onto the input format The command has an influence only onto vector elements State In this area you find useful information on the used input format The values change if you start M PRINT with another input format For the duration of the M PRINT ses sion these information are constant 88 Print pictures with M PRINT Special feature If you mainly use M PRINT from Drafting or I DEAS you can fit the color template of the windows to the SDRC application Change for this purpose the variable mquest color in the M QUEST custom parameter file After a further startup of M PRINT t
33. parameter file the specifications can be transferred also to individual uSCIs The respective variables are in the parameter file documented sufficiently Following variable has a direct influence on the display creation and the running performances of M PLOT from Drafting Variable mplot mplot mplot mplot mplot mplot mplot mplot sdrc sdrc sdrc sdrc sdrc sdrc sdrc sdrc drafting drafting drafting drafting drafting drafting drafting drafting filename viewborder intellfonts plotlayer noweight nosolidfill deviation layers Description Defines whether the name or the drawing number are used for the plot file This entry is only active if Drafting is started with the TDM Determines whether the view borders are printed or not If this variable is set the line types are broken up into individual lines You see then the same output exactly on the output filter If the vari able is not set the output filter creates the line types The representa tion format is not identical but more rapid If the value is set also the layer attributes are read If this value is set no line weights are processed within Drafting even if the drawing contains such The output is importantly faster and the plot file smaller Filled faces are not processed Determine the precision of the curves Defines which layers are supposed to be
34. submenu Translator is supposed to remain the filters of CGM file and SDRC file are supposed to be on the same level as the other filters We do not need the Printer Formats anymore The two redundant filters testl and test2 can also disappear Then we create two new submenus for our new printers 195 M PLOT Appendix B 196 Shift filters CGM and SDRC Y Select the line SDRC file V Shift the line with the arrow keys E and M until the entry appears above the sepa rator line of the submenu Translator Y Repeat the same one also for the entry CGM file The output should look like this then E menu Translator menu Raster Image Formats Fr menu Printer Formats O gl HF SL Lidl HP GL 2 Ops PS LI jpeg separator Ww test O test PDF file EPs file TIFF file PNG file JPEG file PDF file TIFF file You noted perhaps that when the entry is the last element of a submenu and the line is moved a row down this entry is set a level higher equal to the previous submenu level Would you shift the entry CGM file again a line after above this remains on the same level and appears therefore above the sub menu Printer format Is the same entry shifted a row down again the submenu is considered and therefore the entry is inte grated into the substructure Deleting of the submenu Raster Image Formats Y Select this line and press the button Remove LI jpeg separator lv t
35. the more commands are internally supported Not all preview programs support the full command set Vectors Raster data IsaM PLOT license needed yes yes yes Setting up of device filters TIFF Tagged Image File Format This raster format is today a standard Many applications can read this format and re process this format TIFF supports many different compressing procedures in order to reduce the file size The respective compression format is dependent directly on the color depth of the TIFF file The compression method LZW is not supported from le gal grounds in M PLOT Vectors Raster data Is aM PLOT license needed yes yes yes JPEG Join Photographic Experts Group This file format is established in the Internet The great advantage of JPEG is in the possibility to pack the picture information very well Also the replacement with other graphics applications is guaranteed Pure monochrome pictures must be stored in the color mode 8bit JPEG does not have any explicit 1 bit mode In this case TIFF is the better choice Vectors Raster data Is aM PLOT license needed yes yes yes PNG Portable Network Graphics Also this format is used more and more on the Internet It replaces the distributed GIF format A specialty of PNG is the possibility to mask out the background of a picture explicitly That makes the placing of graphics with transparency possible M PLOT supports this technology Vect
36. the button Apply Style filters ojx Definition Ccimquest200 1 customi mplot2k Tmplot sty All defined style filters Description in M PLOT menu Remove Copy O fitzborder Scale to user border fit sheet Scale to sheet size Properties Default index Sort order a m Unique index fem Apply New M English FEMprintout B Peery Le M German FEM Ausdruck C Italian C Spanish Cancel Illustration B 16 Example 3 Create new style filter 190 Examples Modify properties According to our known input values we must still modify the margins and other op tions V Press the button Properties A new window opens Y Modify the defaults in accordance with the illustration Y Close the window with OK so that our settings are taken over Style filter FEM printout iof Since it is a question mainly of I DEAS Border dimensions Unit Millimeter Border Left 20 Right 10 5 Lower 10 Upper 35 5 Ficture origin Upper Center al External settings Scale thickness Proportional Interprets Style Line thickness C Weight filter ISO standard i C Color filter No assignment al Default settings M Use background information for output Draw paper size as a thin box on the paper M Dither solid fill polygon fonly BA made M Put additional text on output format ed Set pictu
37. tial paper dimension can be determined again Print pictures with M PRINT Output size This command is very powerful M PRINT can change also pure raster formats in the size That has the consequences that according to the input unit and the output filter dif ferent information are necessary At this place it decides itself how efficiently and surely the output can occur Paper size The output size is defined about the dimension of standard values The resultant picture scale is determined by means of the unit the resolution and the desired size Command Description Custom size Is the paper index defined the dimensions can be set also indi vidually The width and height ratio remains constant Resolution The resolution has at this place only a subordinate importance It is used to set the intern resolution to the output format and setting the additional text into a specific relationship on the output If the output device is in pixel the additional text requires a factor so that the text height can be set into the desired relationship to the whole picture Size The output size is determined about an individual dimension in pixel The aspect ratio is constant Command Description Resolution The resolution is needed if the input device is in millimeter other wise the menu is deactivated 71 M PLOT Chapter 5 Scale The output size is determined directly about the scale If the input
38. to the M PLOT tool program for the documentation of FEM pictures The users are sup posed to have also access on the standard filters of M PLOT We know following parameters Device designation Place Description in M PRINT HP DesignJet 750C 36 Rolls Design department Color plotter HP Color LaserJet 4500 Design department Color printer HP LaserJet 5SiMX Operations department Laser printer CGM file for CorelDRAW All of them CorelDRAW file FEM dump on PS printer Design department FEM documentation Filing PDF for PDM File Not visible 194 Examples Organize device list If you have already installed M PLOT a device list of all available output filter files ex ists This is supposed to be only an example In our case we want to reorganize this list Y Start M ADMIN on the console or through a double click onto the shortcut You choose then Adapt M PLOT to your environment A new window opens Choose now the button Device filters The list with all already available device filters appears E menu Translator menu Raster Image Formats Ocom CGM file Lisdre SDRC file menu Printer Formats Lgl HF SL Og HP GL 2 Ops Ps separator Oi pdf PDF file Oeps EPS file C tiff TIFF file O png FNG file Olipeg JPEG file separator Li test TIFF file Illustration B 19 Example 4 Current device filters We want to organize these again The
39. to do anything with the one for the assigning of the line weights Under the requests we stated that our customer uses the color gray blue for the cooling drill holes The output occurs in water blue We must integrate therefore two colors The gray blue color must correspond exactly to the one in the drawing We may optimize the second at any time V Select the newly defined Mold Color list entry V Press the button Properties The window Color filter opens Y Enter the new color name water_blau in the entry filed Color name Color filter Mold Color Color table Calor assignment Define all available colors for assignment Color name Color value IL Remove Sart blue OOOO 000 000 255 cyan OOtttt O00 255 255 dark_green apago 000 168 000 dark_green apago 000 169 000 dark_green Gaa 000 170 000 l Default Color name lwater_blue Apply New Calor value 000000 Mix color Cancel Illustration B 10 Example 2 Define a new output color Y Since we want to mix the color press the button Mix color The dialog box for creating of a new color opens Y Mix the color until you have the RGB value 31 54 255 That corresponds to a hexadecimal value of 1F36FF Examples Mixing color ojx RGB color value Color value hex vaule Red 31 i amp Color ry Green 54 IPS S asce Enter Buo 2555 MA e Fre defined colors Previews _ M
40. unambiguous and it is now possible to incorporate the entry into the list Weight filter Mold Tool Corporation OOOO OOOO O0astt OOagtt OUaaft frOOOC ffffO0 igray50 olor Name jgrays0 o Apply FAFAFA Mix color Illustration B 4 Example 1 Updated color table with new mixed color 169 M PLOT Appendix B Check line table We set already the ISO line table under standard palette Our customer works also with ISO line types Our settings are based also on the ISO norm Therefore we need not ex plicitly to declare new line types Y Y Choose the index Line table Y Is the control box Create a new line table then you have copied an existing list en try Deactivate it Weight filter Mold Tool Corporation Illustration B 5 Example Use standard line table 170 Examples Assign a specific color to a line weight Now we are so far to assign the colors to one of a determine line weight Y Choose the notebook Color The list is still empty since no colors were assigned When you now select the menu Color you will see all our colors that we defined under the notebook Color ta ble We assign now a line weight and a plotter pen to every color Do you remem ber this We have still a pen plotter which we want to support too V Set the pen to our table for the plotter Y Assign the color V Define the line weight V Press the button New The list is updated
41. unit is in millimeter the printing resolution is still needed for a pure raster format Command Scale Resolution Description A real value Must be larger than zero A scale of 1 0 is the default The resolution becomes only then active if the input format is in mil limeter Resolution The output size is determined only about the printing resolution This menu becomes only active if the input device is in millimeters and the output device is in pixel With all other constellations additional information are still needed Command Resolution Description It is especially well suitable for the archiving of vector drawings which ones are stored into a raster format As a rule these are printed out later directly to a device It provides that the printing resolution is indicated directly Example An A3 drawing is supposed to be archived Create for ex ample a TIFF file with 300 dpi M PRINT calculates the screen size and writes the resolution also into the TIFF file If this TIFF file 1s sent directly at the printer now the printer can determine the initial format from the stored resolution and can select the correct A3 paper tray Please think of it how larger the resolution is the more intern memory is needed We recommend that a picture archiving should not be larger than 300 dpi executed 72 Print pictures with M PRINT Orientation This command rotates only the input format with respec
42. up still the color Gray 50 We proceed for this purpose the same way like we created the list entry Mold Tool Corporation 167 M PLOT Appendix B 168 Y Enter the value gray50 under Color name This is internally also an index Before you can create the entry now the color value must be still unambiguous In this window the color name may appear repeatedly the color value however only once When you know the RGB color value for Gray 50 you can enter this di rectly and push then the button New Or you can compute the values by M PLOT V Press the button Mix color The window for mixing of a color opens Since it is a question of a gray shade R G B we can use the option Gray scale 50 of 255 correspond to a value of approx 127 Y Choose the radio button Grayscale Shift one of the three small arrows to the value of 127 Mixing color ojx RGB color value Red 1277 O O ry Green 1277 Es Color value hex vaule C Color Grayscale z Enter Bue M EK Fre defined colors Em im la __ i i eet Cancel Illustration B 3 Example Mix anew color Y You see in the entry field Enter the converted hexadecimal value If the input is right confirm the window with OK The color value is transmitted Y Press the button New so that our new values are transmitted also in the list Examples Our color value is
43. values must also be considered Command Means Dither image No Adaptive Diffusion Dispersed Clustered Description It is used a threshold value by 127 If the color value is greater than in 127 the color becomes white If this is smaller the color becomes black No gray levels can be simulated This dithering pattern distributes the colors very beauti fully The pattern is not regular Also monotonous faces are distributed correctly The dithering pattern can be applied on ink jet printers In case of high resolutions the dithering pattern tumbles down The dithering occurs with an error distribution according to Floyd Steinberg Four neighbor pixels are changed in this case The pattern looks good on irregular pictures Monotonous faces always have an error at a corner The additional menu Number of gray can tune the colors If a small color process is chosen the picture looks finer but only as many as colors are set in the menu can be simulated The dithering occurs about a sorted pattern In case of very high printing resolutions the dithering pattern tumbles down This dithering pattern works like Dispersed The col ors are simulated by different point sizes The technique is the same one as in a daily paper The more highly the Number of gray in a larger way the point Is ideal for printing resolutions gt 300 dpi 74 Print pictures with M PRINT Rendering Raster ima
44. 13 Color cono HON E nicl eee gna etaaen 76 C OMIPECSSIOM upsir T T E ig aeeiat seein alates 77 Smoothing of the color palette JPEG 0 eeceeeeeeeeeeeeeseesesssstessssseeeeeeeeeens 78 Codina opera on ICE Cr ste ties es teeta eee atau acest eet 78 Version of the output format PDF cenit ected cel teteecthei AEA NE 79 Table of contents SMPH Vonen tee nee nee ere eee ee Ree reer emer ene Pronks COM ra n e E A k Fie ty Pe CC GIVI heer cas Haneanasiatacantichadeaattaancy tetas Paper Di Derrien sa east adatedaaeealastalateas COUT U ED renia edccseodet ne ee eneeee I UNC 5 taste gt ance onan Sate eee Ati essence aa G aes PPCM Ve Weare ae tetera nesta iaciints ha tatit tena ls anaut Met ccnteaheiats Preview PICO CLAN eenia a eiei Enhance eo 018 7 8B Czas ee en te et nee ore ee ODO e een ee aa Ween coment S Sea eee Cae ee rere The use of weight filters Call of the dialog box Weight filters ee eee Fon MADMIN rean ee ten From M PLOT or M PREV oseese Properties of the main VICW cccccccccccececeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees Create change or delete entry in list Define standard pallet for weight filters Notebook Color table cccccccccccccceeeeeeeeeeeeeeees Notebook Line table 2 4 ce ni a Properties of the weight filter 00000000000000000000000000000 Notebook Color table serorei a a Notebook Line tablones hens Notebook Color Ssaeosassnnoineinoaa INOLEDOOK LinS iscscernndn A Further info
45. 183 Illustrations Illustration B 13 Illustration B 14 Illustration B 15 Illustration B 16 Illustration B 17 Illustration B 18 Illustration B 19 Illustration B 20 Illustration B 21 Illustration B 22 Illustration B 23 Illustration B 24 Illustration B 25 Illustration B 26 Illustration B 27 Illustration B 28 Illustration B 29 Illustration B 30 Illustration B 31 Illustration B 32 Illustration B 33 Example 2 Assign output colors ccccccccccccccccseeceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees 184 Example 2 Selection of the new color filter in M PRINT 186 Example 3 Style filter for Fe Ms cucunestiieaceieaeead 189 Example 3 Create new style fer ici 29icsssisteiinnnneucdn ae 190 Example 3 Settings for FEM style filter ceeeeeeeeeeee 19 Example 3 Selection of the new style filter in M PRINT 193 Example 4 Current device filters cccccccccccccccscseceeeeeeeeeeeeeeees 195 Example 4 Reordered device List cccccccccccccccceceeeeeeeeeeeeeeees 198 Example 4 Install color plotter for design dep 000000000000000 199 Example 4 Select plotter from device library cece 200 Example 4 Integrated color plotter into device list 201 Example 4 Properties of the color plotter ceeeeeeeeees 202 Example 4 Enter print command cccccccccccccceceeeeeeeeeeeeeeees 204 Example 4 Set print command for color plotters 205 Example 4 Defaults of color p
46. 29 Display selected Mlee AN 30 Select les TOR PIO ODS rnrn S 30 Staro StoP PIOk PrOCES Sariren E ae ee eee 31 Chande OUND I ET S eia E At he eae a cee 31 Restore modifications on output device oo ccccccccccccccccsceeeeeeeeeeeeeseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeas 32 Number OL pioleta a TERA aR AS TENA 32 Remove Tues Tonr plot liS earna N 32 Preview pictures with M PREV 33 Start amd ELIO MPRE Veee SA E E 34 SAONE CONSO E eona a E A AR 34 Eximpleor UINEX pan ae etre acta ues eratcacdaass 35 Example of Windows NT 2000 s cccccccccsecovsssnonecsansensnasnneaccsnatensedsectecssssevevecds 35 no CT Ua Volare nc OC Rae mente re ere te si reer nee ge oR ev Ne Re OY ene OS Ne 35 EX Seat ee ee a re Ro er re ee ee ere ne ee en ee ee ee 35 Properties of the Main Window eror aaae aA iR 36 Commands in the achon Dal sorene nrar a E 37 Mema Fe mereen a E E N Manabi d Maeda hoists De Ment Senos oiire iea N e r aione 38 Mema Telp seriea ee E E E ES 38 Commands Im tae Con DaT zessen R AA OOR 39 Show Mid Wada imat eS ree A E 39 Printing mane TE ea ENEO AEEA 39 VA 1 E OE E EE EAAS AE EE AEE TE AA EEA EE E E ESAE AE E 40 R S a E E E 40 CAE TONENE PEOD rea da cere eaeeactanieeearseansete semen tenet oetucn deeeecesereN 4 Table of contents 3 M PLOT and external applications PREPS QUIS lereni nN Declare SDRC environment in M QUEST Example of UNIX platforms Example of Windows NT 2000 Adapt SDRC environment Check the communication Drafting Detailing and
47. 4 Create FEM documentation 211 M PLOT Appendix B 212 V Press the button Properties The window with the properties of the copied prin ter opens Y Activate the control box Style filter and select our style filter FEM printout We have created this filter in Example 3 The print command is set still as if the output goes directly to our printer But we must still do the required inputs before the print file is sent to the printer Exactly here we in sert the call of our program Y Choose the line Analysis PostScript in the menu Windows NT 2000 Press then the button so that the line is transferred Press onto the button E in order to edit the line A new window with a very long command line appears Every one of these characters has an importance Please do not delete any from that string Y Y Change now the address of the print queue as is valid for this devices In our case that is the address wsmm pr1 Editor OY x Print command or output text custom set PLT FILE cmd exe c sdrcNTlp d wsmm prl r PLT FILE Ea eee Test page Current variables PIC_FILE Picture file name Cancel Illustration B 29 Example 4 Print command for FEM program Examples V Press the button Test page and the program is executed The query with the addi tional texts occurs Analysis Description ojx Figure Figure A Part Name Druckbehalter PartNumbe
48. C P D EPSON Stylus Color 1520 ESC P2 D EPSON Stylus Color 200 ESC P 2 D EPSON Stylus Color 3000 ESC P2 D EPSON Stylus Color 400 ESC P 2 D EPSON Stylus Color 440 ESC P 2 D EPSON Stylus Color 460 ESC P 2 D EPSON Stylus Color 500 ESC P 2 gt Load filter fram disk Selected EFSON Stylus Color 1160 ESGP2 Cancel Illustration 9 2 Device filter New device filter from library The list contains more than 700 different filters During the first opening all filters must be opened shortly in order to determine the necessary information That takes at least a certain time Please do not become impatient therefore 135 M PLOT Chapter 9 136 Then all filters are listed after manufacturer Unfortunately we cannot create all filters available on the market But the most customary filters should be available If your printer should not be available you can use a generic filter instate This filter makes the most important properties available Initial sequences will not be sent Remark The output device must be able to interpret the emulation automatically Otherwise the devices must be set in a way that the printer language is understood After you selected a filter this is copied from the library into the subdirectory cus tom mplot2k1 model You can then modify the filter without changing your original filter During the loading of a filter which is not in the library a link is generated di
49. E A N AE OK Cancel Illustration B 11 Example 2 Mix color water blue V When you have justified the color press the button OK The color value is trans ferred Y Now press the button New and the color is created in the list Y The same we do now with the color gray blue This has a RGB color value of 0 50 255 Color filter Mold Color Color table Color assignment Define all available colors for assignment Color name Color value pink tfaaff 255 170 255 H Remove red FFOO00 255 000 000 white fittft 205 255 255 yellow FFFFOU 205 255 000 aoa 1Ti6tf 031 054 255 TE Default Color name ic blue Apply N w Color value 003 2ff Mix color Cancel Illustration B 12 Example 2 Expanded color list 183 M PLOT Appendix B 184 Assign new colors We defined the new colors We can create now the entry for the assignment Y Choose the notebook Color assignment Y Choose as input color Input color yellow and as output color Output color water blue V Press then the button New and the entry is transferred into the list Y We must still do the same one with the second color Choose gray blue as input color and as output color again water _ blue Y So that now all remaining colors become black we use the value as input color We choose as output color black Color filter Mold Co
50. Macro menu in I DEAS 52 Macro menu According to input of lt Ctr1 gt lt p gt you can change still default values in order to opti mize the picture creation Command Description Picture type Defines which output format is used Following selection are pre sent SDRC picture type PFF or CGM binary Solution With this value you determine the resolution The value must be be tween 0 1 and 7 5 As default 1 0 is used How bigger the value is the longer the display design takes Quality If the value is set to plotter a paper size can be declared Graph ics does not write any paper size into the image file No scaling of the line weight can occur Paper size If a paper size is chosen a size of paper can be preset so in M PRINT automatically A scaling of the line weights is also possible When you have a big assembly and you choose an A4 format the lines were processed then more thickly Would you choose an AO format the lines were processed then more thickly The format size is directly responsible for the pen scaling Redraw If you have printed already a picture and want to generate still a new snapshot nevertheless from another perspective then you can use this command in order to refresh the graphics area again The com mand Plot can then called again Plot The image file is created and M PRINT is started Meanwhile M PRINT runs I DEAS is locked Done The image f
51. OT and M PREV too Examples Install FEM document program M PLOT offers a small but very useful tool This can label documents on a PostScript printer Pictures and texts can be added Some FEM users use these working methods to document their FEM sheets The setup of the header file is not explained especially If you want to use this program we go out that the documentation in the setting file is sufficed The header file is in the subdirectory custom mplot2k1 analysis The file is configured in a way that it is compatible with our style filter FEM printout M PLOT is also prepared already The command syntax 1s already integrated This example can help you to select your own programs As already at the beginning mentions the program needs a PostScript compatible de vice filter HP GL 2 or PCL does not work Y Select the line Color printer and create a copy of the line with the button Copy Y Change the index to fem and appoint the label in FEM documentation Y Insert a new menu separator above the entry That allows a better overview in the M PRINT print menu E menu Translator Ocom CGM file Osdre SDRC file separator Opd PDF file Oeps EPS file LI tiff TIFF file Opng PNG file Ojpeg JPEG file A menu Operations department Lj Laser printer E menu Design department Calor plotter Calor printer separator j_1 Laser printer Illustration B 28 Example
52. Reads all JPEG pictures to and with release 6 2 The color formats RGB gray and color pallet are supported The complete standard is supported The alpha channel is evaluated too All listed filters are considered The Drafting filter 1s not considered when the I DEAS version 1s larger than eight Was the file structure meanwhile changed this will not be updated automatically in M PLOT This can be done manually when you close and open the directory again That can be done by clicking onto the directory indicator s or through a double click on the directory names 29 M PLOT Chapter 1 30 Display selected file With a double click onto the selected row the linked display application is opened The display applications can be defined in the M QUEST parameter file If several files are selected the command is vain If a Drafting drawing is opened the command line application draftbatch must be in stalled and a valid Drafting license must be present When the display application was not changed in the M QUEST parameter file the drawing is first converted into a PFF file The new image file receives a name extension and is stored in the temporary direc tory of M PLOT You can define Drafting to be the display application Change for this purpose the M QUEST parameter file Remark When you work with I DEAS 8 or higher you cannot consider any Drafting drawing directly of the operating system level It simply takes t
53. V cccccccccccccsssseeeeeeeeeeeeneens Properties Of the Main VICW ccccccccccccceeeeceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees Create change or delete entry 1n list eeeeees Choose anew Output HEr secrecion a File MEL rans atl eisirean Fmulaoiersssnan ie sancdatnnteasQaueeneennianeale acne HP GL Graphic Language ccccccccccccccccceeeeeeeeeeees HP GL 2 Graphic Language Extended HP RTL Raster Transfer Language cccccee HP PCL Printer Command Language 064 HERPE OOL eaa AT EPSOM ESO P2 ic csin an N EEEE NEE Adobe PS PostScript cccccccccccscccecccsecsnecccsecceceees Adobe EPS Encapsulated PostSceript 0000050002 Adobe PDF Portable Document Format TIFF Tagged Image File Format c sesseeeeees JPEG Join Photographic Experts Group PNG Portable Network Graphics 0000000000000000000 PFF Picture Formated File ccccccccccceceeeeeeeees CGM Computer Graphics Metafile cceeeee Xi M PLOT Table of contents xii Properties ofthe device Hite ecrini oe eae 145 Modifications on Curent deV Enreta e e clasts celal A E EER eeii 145 Externak SCLC nE A REREN 146 Printeoninand Soi E A O S 147 Chane print conmand serenon ANE oMd oltmladl ae ea 148 Rest eoa a ee Ee ea a ee ROE Pr ree ee RON Ee eet nee reer ne 149 XS cd 0 A Up Ucn i ee nt eee ne ge Pe en ned Pe en ee ee 150 Unknown NOS HUIS CL si
54. You see the plotter pen in the first column in the second column the color name in the third column the corresponding line weight on the output filter and in the fourth column the unit Repeat the steps until you have assigned all colors If a mistake should happen you can change the wrong value at any time and modify the wrong value with the button Ap ply ne 171 M PLOT Appendix B At the end the window should have following content Comment Weight filter Mold Tool Corporation Color table Line table Calor Line The pen number is P Assign color to line weight used only for pen plot l tee POD A other Pac wan emve Il 0 5 output filters uses the A a7 numerical value of the gray50 0 35 line weight green 0 25 red 0 325 light_blue 0 25 mm Sort DE Color light_blue Apply idth lo 2 5 Millimeter Mer Cancel Illustration B 6 Example Assign colors to a line weight The sequence is not important A sort of the list causes that the pens are sorted again You will maybe recognize that every color may occur in the list only once The menu Color becomes increasingly smaller already used colors are disabled 172 Examples Assign line type to a specific line weight As last one we assign a line weight and or pen to every line type Y Y Choose the notebook Line Y Proceed now the same way like we assigned the colors to a line weight
55. age Formats Printer Formats Properties Default index Sort order aF Restrictions Unique index legn Apply New device M English CGMfle 2 4 W French CGM file New submenu M German ICGM Datel Add separator M Italian CGMfile 2 4 M Spanish CGM file Cancel Illustration 9 1 Device filters Main view If you want to consider the settings more exactly then select the desired line in the list and press the button Properties Setting up of device filters Create change or delete entry in list The procedure for the declaration of the entries requires only a few commands The dif ferent language fields are in this case also considered You will see this procedure on many further M PLOT dialog boxes Command Description Apply If you select the entries in the list the respective field are re initialized automatically If you want to change a value that is valid also for the index you must press the button Apply af ter the modification If you change onto another list entry first the modification is ignored Remove Deletes an entry from the list All further options are deleted also You can cancel the operation when you exit the window with Cancel A cancel of the window sets all settings to the state before the call was done Copy This button makes it possible to copy the complete selected entry All options are also copied The index 1s aut
56. and to start the application in order to process ASC or DWG drawings Application for displaying of ASC or DWG drawings If the value is not set the drawing is converted first into a PFF file with the defined applications mplot asc process or mplot dwg process Determine the application for the displaying of PFF files If the value is not set M PREV is started Determine the application for the displaying of CGM files If the value is not set M PREV is started Determine the application for the displaying of TIFF files If the value is not set M PREV is started Determine the application for the displaying of JPEG files If the value is not set M PREV is started Determine the application for the displaying of PNG files If the value is not set M PREV is started If a value is not set correctly please check the entry also in the custom or user parame ter file If you still have questions to the setup of the parameter file you can consult the user manual M ADMIN 2001 161 M PLOT Appendix B 162 Examples The manual is built in a way that all menus and commands are explained This can look sometimes very abstractly since the relation is missing A simple example can explain a lot of things at the same time From this point of view we want to show example from the field So that we don t have to begin always by Adam and Eva this chapter is built in a way that preview examples are recognized Th
57. ared in the argument string Please be careful with this option As arguments as many as desired input files can be delivered These can be local or pro vided with absolute paths Environment variables can be used also These must be set during the startup and must be valid 24 Working with M PLOT Example of UNIX platforms mplot mplot 12 HOME ideas 8 501000 dwg mplot test pff data pff pff Example of Windows NT 2000 gt mplot gt mplot 12 HOMEPATH ideas 8 501000 dwg gt mplot test pff D data pff pff Start as a shortcut M PLOT can be run also via a shortcut This cycle of operations is applied under Win dows NT 2000 If you work on a UNIX platform you can make also a shortcut on your desktop Please consult for this purpose the manual of your operating system manufac turer Remark During the installation of M PLOT the shortcut icon 1s created under Windows NT 2000 automatically If that is not the case this can be done also manually Please consult for this purpose the online help of Windows NT 2000 You can do a double click on the icon and M PLOT starts The language cannot be changed directly The shortcut must be edited for this purpose You add for this purpose the option 1x at the end of the command The x corresponds in this case to the lan guages 0 English 1 French 2 German and 3 Italian Exit In order to exit M PLOT choose Exit in the menu File All hangin
58. at is the default M PLOT uses the SDRC picture format Filled areas are simulated with lines Line weights with parallel lines CGM binary A binary CGM format is used Filled areas are computed as polygons Line weights can be evaluated directly 47 M PLOT Chapter 3 Selection of the drawing sheets If several drawing sheets are in the current drawing you are first inquired to which sheet you want to print If you have only one sheet in the drawing the query is skipped over Command ROW ALL SHEETS Description All available sheets are shown in the list The currently active sheet is through the characters lt gt marked If you choose a sheet which is not currently active this is dis played in Drafting If this line is chosen all pages are copied into a new im age file A specific page can be addressed then explicitly in M PRINT Printing of all pages 1s also possible Illustration 3 2 Selection drawing sheets Selection of the print area The print area determines the representation format size According to the chosen selec tion Drafting trims the image file automatically Command Complete drawing Graphic window Portion by two points Illustration 3 3 Description The whole drawing 1s considered independently of the current view area The rectangular area of the graphics window is consid ered The view factor is taken over The zoom can be indicat
59. ated only once All already used input colors are disabled The output colors can be repeatedly in use If you like to evaluate all not indicated input colors use the color for that In our example the red color remains unchanged and all other input colors are linked to the green output color 113 M PLOT Chapter 7 Further information 114 In the frame title appears under the column Definition the name of the loaded weight filter file This information is helpful so that you can check which file is just processed During saving of the file M PLOT creates automatically a backup file You can restore the last state at any time The modifications may be done also directly in the ASCII file Every option is shortly explained Please note that the syntax 1s checked only relatively If you understand the architecture greater modifications can be made elegantly At a further save of the file additional comments will be ignored Also the representation format is created inde pendently M PLOT uses this table at every startup From that at least one valid entry must be de fined M PLOT expects that the file exists on the operating system If the file mplot map should become corrupt you find a correct input format in the original direc tory mplot The use of color filters 115 M PLOT Chapter 8 8 The use of style filters A style filter determines the appearance on the output filter This includes the fitt
60. be exe cuted the syntax of the command is correct Y Press the button OK The content of the window is transmitted into the command line Y Deactivate the control box Remove plot file after plot command is executed That is urgently necessary since otherwise M PRINT deletes the file If you look at our script exactly you will imagine that the script deletes the file already This tech nique is necessary that the script can finish the task and not M PRINT Y Y Exit the window with OK 216 Examples CGM file for CorelDRAW Why this example If you want to exchange dates with a specific program the filter must be sometimes optimized That guarantees that the user cannot do any wrong set tings the output occurs then always correctly During the standard installation a CGM filter is installed We want to use this and to optimize the filter optimally for the application CorelDRAW Y Select the line CGM file in the list window and create a copy with the button Copy ie Y Y Change the index in corel and rename the label of the line in CorelDRAW file V Shift the entry onto the lower end of the list The selection is then visible on the first level A menu Translator Olegm CGM file O1sdre SDRC file Separator C pdf PDF file O pdf batch Oeps EPS file C tiff TIFF file O png PNG file Ojpeg JPEG file E menu Operations department Lj Laser printer E menu Design departmen
61. cicsias ces vocesndetdssndaeedeshaictlaacestostandahadeehddatiabaasaaceentaid heres 150 Selection according to registered hOst USe cc ccesseseesseesssssesseeesssseeseens 151 FBEIN 9 Ma O raae waninne Cae REN mnie ren Cen em atnn ce OMm Rn mn 153 M PLOT installation 154 The directory structure of M P LO Fr gissisccme exesacceztaicestdsenndatavcediaadesedtactialvietiseenderiiees 155 CMG WIN and cmd UNA directory arrra aa aca aadirvac tenants adananseadeeeetnaests 156 TIN lee UO My ices cian aa e E ot ea seta see ce enc eee eerie eee ote oped ee EAEE 157 CU SOM MECC LOL yr rnidan oia aa iaaa 157 MPLOLC Parameter o 5 ssnaceaceuarevacendvosvectaenasessnatica E 158 Examples 162 PDE eea E RE E eo YE 163 Whatyou learn in his exaimplec tentre cede i o i n EOE 163 Staline POSION rrean aa T ATOR 163 What can the customer do for US sscreiscunrinrar esii EEE 163 HOw dowe wantto proceed sesir a A ENEE OA 163 Create a new weicht ONET oeesonnroniii ontani ara n a E i arroi 165 Create new color table for CUStOMET ccccccceeeeseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees 166 Chec cal Hs feat 2 0 Ka ane ane eee E ee Oot ear A E 170 Assign a specific color to a line weight o c c sccssc cc cigsciiiveestiseesiel ncaa easeeees 171 Table of contents Assign line type to a specific line Weight ccccccccccccccccceeeceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees 173 DAV FIG Wy Cl MA O 2 cin ctien as See e op enlace oles co E ee oauieea
62. commands are packed e ASCII character is a very special format The information s are stored in the CALS standard Is not distributed very much e Clear text format a CGM file that can be loaded in every text program Ideal also for a look up and check Print pictures with M PRINT Paper bin This command is only then effective if the output filter has different paper bins Also a manual entry 1s regarded as a bin Command Description Paper bin The menu lists all available paper trays of the output filter From the output filter the default is set If a bin is missing this must be inserted in the output filter Output bin This is exactly the opposite of paper bin The command determines the output bin at the printer Some printers offers the possibility to sort the output or that the document is with the writing above Command Description Output bin The menu lists all available output bins of the output filter From the output filter the default is set If a output bin is missing this must be inserted in the output filter Features Many output filters have still special features These cannot be explained at this place because that would explode the manual In the output filter the command option is evaluated for this reason All declared options are performed at the lower end of the menu The default of the respective feature is set also in the output filter If a generic output filte
63. contains all necessary files for the execution of M PLOT Please do not change any files in this directory The modification does not become effective All rele vant files for the modifying appear in the directory custom The macros for Drafting and I DEAS are in the subdirectory prg stored When you don t work with M BASE you can copy the macros onto a different place and you can modify the macros If you want to use the macros the SDRC environment must be in M QUEST known and set If that is not the case the macros cannot be started custom directory The custom directory is a component of the M QUEST environment The default of the position is direct below the M QUEST installation directory You can subsequently change the position with the M QUEST varbs file If M PLOT 1s installed the directory mplot2k1 is checked of existence If this does not exist the relevant files are copied into this directory by M PLOT The environment in the parameter file is set onto this directory If this already exists nothing is done there Important All settings are stored in the subdirectory mplot2k1 The device drivers are copied au tomatically into this directory from the library 157 M PLOT Appendix A M PLOT parameter M PLOT has a large number of parameters All parameters are defined in the M QUEST parameter file Modifications at the defaults are brought in the custom parame ter file If a parameter which you would like to change is
64. cooling drill holes are colored The rest remains in black Cooling drill holes color Color on printer Yellow Water blue Grey blue Water blue All other ones Black Examples Create a new color filter First we create the entry in the list We will use only the languages German and English in our example Y Start M ADMIN on the console or through a double click onto the shortcut You choose then Adapt M PLOT to your environment A new window opens Choose now the button Color filters V Press the button New V Change the index in plastic Y Change the text fields English and German Enter the description Mold Color Y Deactivate the control boxes French Italian and Spanish Y Press the button Apply Color filters ojx Definition Ccimquest200 1 customimplot2k Timplot map All defined color filters Remove Index Description in M PLOT menu default No assignment Clwhitetoblack VWhite to Black Copy O blacktownhite Black to white O sample Sample SIP RSLS eros Le Ie ee ee ee ee Properties W Default index Sort order aT Unique index plastic Apply New M English Mold Color M French PO M German Spritzform F Italian fo M Spanish es Cancel Illustration B 9 Example 2 Create a new color filter 181 M PLOT Appendix B 182 Extend colors for customer The color filter has an own color map This does not have
65. cted style filter are listed Further options can be set individ ual 67 M PLOT Chapter 5 Properties of an output filter 68 Mentioned as already at the beginning this information s are initialized from the active output filter Through that the appearance changes Not every output filter has the same command set M PRINT can support only commands which are defined in an intern way Therefore all possible commands are explained at this place shortly It is a question of the output filter of an image file like TIFF JPEG and so forth other commands appears for the selection than an output filter for a device printer Only the buttons and control boxes which have also a direct influence on the output are displayed Properties HP Color LaserJet 4500 PS 2 Illustration 5 2 Properties of an output filter Print pictures with M PRINT Picture dimensions Shows the dimensions of the input format as the file that already is loaded in the main memory At a conversion into another output format this information can be helpful The current M PRINT unit is also indicated If the input unit is millimeter a line scaling can be done even the output filter is a pure raster format If the unit is in pixel it becomes already more difficult M PRINT will change the provided menu in a way so that the user can change the size in a simple way Print quality The print quality determines the degree of detail of the output T
66. ctions First if you delete the users or the workstation from the list these are also removed in a permanent way The procedure for the placing of a new workstation or user is as follows Y Ifno name is performed in the list until now you must first declare a valid name in the entry field Press then the button New An output filter is moved automatically into the new limited device list At least one device must be selected since otherwise the restriction does not do any sense Y Move now as many as desired devices from the table Available devices with the arrow key The number of available devices depends from the number installed device filter Y You can modify also the list of the Released devices when you change the default value or determine the sequence again in M PLOT Y If you agree you must press the button Apply If you enter a new name first the modifications are ignored V Repeat these steps until you have done all needed restrictions Y Quit the window with OK in order to take over the settings The button Cancel ignores the modifications 151 M PLOT Chapter 9 The window could have following content test TIFF file tests HP Color LaserJet 4500 gl HF SL jpeg JPEG file cgm CGM file ps P sdre SDRC file Vescriplonin M CE g2 HP GL 2 png PNG file Illustration 9 6 Device filters Example of restriction on a workstation Remark If you add subsequently n
67. d delete the label But do not deactivate the con trol boxes of the languages All filters would then not be visible anymore Translator COM file SDRC file PDF file EPS file TIFF file PNG file JPEG file Operations department Laser printer Design department Color plotter Ocli Color printer separator L fem FEM documentation separator j_1 Laser printer Illustration B 31 Example 4 Install PDF filter for PDM system Y Turn on the properties of the filter with the button Properties Y Activate the control box Windows NT 2000 and choose in the menu the entry Ex ternal command Move the value with the button Y Open the editor with the button E 215 M PLOT Appendix B Y Change the command line that our script file is called Editor 2 a x Print command or output text cmd exe c start MQUEST CUSTOM INSTL3 mplotzkl batch cmd PLT FILE Test page Current variables PIC_FILE Picture file name Cancel Illustration B 32 Example 4 Command line for external script file The call cmd exe c must be indicated otherwise the script file cannot be started The command path must stand between the brackets at least a backslash is present in the text If you don t do that an unintentional character replacement is done in M PRINT Y Press the button Test page Occurs the message that the command could
68. ditional analysis application Place of the installed device filter files from M PLOT All available device filters All available style filters All available weight filters All available color filters Illustration A 1 M PLOT directory tree part 1 155 M PLOT Appendix A L7 mplot 7 model v7 driver Device filter library O pdf def A tiff def L prg mplot_draft prg Drafting Detailing macro mplot_ideas prg I DEAS Master Series macro mplot_quick prg I DEAS one button plot macro L src Language file English A mplot 10 ini Language file French O mplot l1 ini Language file German O mplot 12 ini Language file Italian A mplot 13 ini Language file Spanish A mplot 14 ini M PLOT program O mplot mqx M PLOT Batch program A mplotbatch mqs M PLOT Print program O mprint mqx M PLOT Preview program A mprev mqx M PLOT Replay program mreplay mqs i A mplot set Original files O mplot sty mplot wgt mplot map L7 tools Bold modification can be done on this files Illustration A 2 M PLOT directory tree part 2 cmd win and cmd unix directory According to the used platform the different start scripts are created Do not modify these manually If the M QUEST environment is created in M ADMIN all startup scripts are created or rebuild 156 M PLOT installation mplot directory This directory
69. dow with Cancel A cancel of the window sets all settings to the state before the call was done This button makes it possible to copy the complete selected entry All options are also copied The index 1s automatically increased You can change the index at any time with the but ton Apply 119 M PLOT Chapter 8 120 Command Description Default index An entry in the list must be declared as default so that M PLOT can select a filter automatically The default is selected with a hook Through a double click onto the line within the list the selected line is set again as default Sort order With the two arrow keys you can determine the sequence in the selection The M PLOT user sees exactly this sequence Properties This button turns on a new window with all properties of the selected entry The entries in this window are explained then more exactly Palette This button turns on a new window At this place the standard palette can be created for all entries This is helpful that for every entry in the list the same color map does not have to be created repeatedly All entries and commands are explained then more specific The use of style filters Properties of the style filter For every style you must set still the default values Before this task 1s not executed the style filter cannot be used Exactly these settings will appear in the print preview of M PRINT In the title
70. drawings and image files or mark drawings and image files for the printing process Directories are opened or closed by a double click The same can be achieved when you click on the directory indicator a or a If no files are displayed below the marked di rectory no files are available according to the file filter The indicator disappears and becomes first again visible when you open the parent directory 28 Working with M PLOT Set file types The filter file types help you to list only the files that are valid input formats for M PLOT Following input formats are supported Filter SDRC picture file SDRC Drafting CGM meta file TIFF image file JPEG image file PNG image file All files Extension Format pff ASCII dwg Binary asc Text cgm Binary CALS ASCII tiff Uncompressed tif Packbits Fax CCITT G3 Fax CCITT G4 CCITT RLE jpeg all of them jpg png all of them Description The binary format pfb as well as the encouraged im age file pfr are not supported Until DEAS MS7 the local Drafting drawings can be read directly For this purpose the application draft batch is necessary Only the CGM 1 0 release is supported All other re leases cause an error message Reads all TIFF pictures to and with release 6 0 The color formats RGB gray color pallet and monochrome are supported The compression LZW is not supported from license reasons
71. e corrupt you find a correct input format in the original direc tory mplot The use of style filters 129 M PLOT Chapter 9 9 Setting up of device filters All used device filters are registered in M PLOT once A device filter can be a printer plotter or an interpreter for a picture file The input format is sent through an intern in terpreter and translated into the respective language Then the plot file can be stored on the operating system or sent directly to an printer queue The sending to a output filter occurs always via a existing queue on the operating sys tem M PLOT does not arrange any printers on the operating system That likes to ap pear complicated onto the first look but has the advantage that you can use every arbi trary program to send the job onto the printer Even your own scripts can be called this way The interpreter operates as a filter A filter 1s a pure ASCII file with the file extension def in M PLOT Unlike M PLOT 6 no further settings have to be done on this file If you understand the setup of the file you can do arbitrary optimization in the fil ter file But in normal case that is not necessary Remark All filter files at this time approx 700 pieces are available in the languages of English French German and Italian You can get the most actual filters also directly from our home page 130 Setting up of device filters Call of the dialog box Device filters
72. e for the setting up the changing and the deleting of device filters The releasing of devices to a certain host or users is explained by means of an example Appendix A M PLOT installation allows the optimal tuning of M PLOT The setup of the parameter files and the directory structure are explained Appendix B Examples explained the different setting possibilities of M PLOT Solutions are shown from the experience of the previous version by means of simple examples XXi M PLOT Introduction Further information M PLOT is integrated in the M QUEST architecture Central settings the administra tion and the licensing are guaranteed through other products For further information please consult the corresponding manuals Conventions M ADMIN 2001 configures all M QUEST products the work environment and as well as the external applications M LOCK 2001 describes the licensing of M QUEST products and the installation of a license server Subsequently the conventions are listed which ones are used in this manual Bold highlights and window names Italic buttons entry names and notebooks Normal general text Quotation mark menu title and sub menus Fix width file names directories environment variables source code examples and command syntax Bold and fix width input through customers keyboard commands lt Ctr1 gt are marked between lt and gt sign Quotation marks are also used
73. e the information s as follows 163 M PLOT Appendix B 164 Name of the customer Mold Tool Corporation Evaluate colors Evaluate line types Line type Line weight Solid lines 0 50 mm Center lines 0 35 mm Invisible lines 0 25 mm All other line types 0 25 mm Color Line weight Green 0 25 mm Light blue 0 25 mm Gray 50 0 35 mm Red 0 35 mm Yellow 0 50 mm Blue 0 70 mm Pen carousel of the plotter Pen no Line weight Pen 1 0 25 mm Pen 2 0 50 mm Pen 3 empty Pen 4 empty Pen 5 0 70 mm Pen 6 empty Pen 7 0 35 mm Pen 8 empty Remark The color can be operated at a pen plotter only about a roundabout with colored pens The thickness of the lines on the other hand with the pen width The allocation of the round about must be known in M PLOT The pens do not have to be arranged in turn M PLOT notices the space and the pertinent thickness The thickness is necessary so that the op timal pen can be determined also at pure monochrome output The small est misalignment is then computed Examples Tip If you would change now onto another list entry then the entries are read again and re initialized If you select an entry before you pressed the button Apply the modifica tion is ignored Change again onto our newly defined entry Mold Tool Corporation Create a new weight filter First we arrange the entry in the list
74. e think how ever you are being responsible to update the macro files at an update of M QUEST The settings are updated for the SDRC environment by the installation program pro vided that the environment is known in M QUEST Generally the macro functions are changed only very seldom by SDRC It can occur that commands receive new shortcuts or functions new options These commands are ignored by the macro and the next command line 1s executed That can result in not be ing able to start M PLOT since no image file is created This problematic can occurred when you install sub version of SDRC We are endeav ored to update the macros currently Printing in the background 4 Printing in the background If you want to translate image files in the background you can use for this purpose M PLOT batch M PLOT batch is identical with M PLOT with the difference that no user interface appears All device weight color and style filters can be addressed You can call M PLOT batch for every drawing or send a list with input files 55 M PLOT Chapter 4 Start of M PLOT batch 56 M PLOT batch can be executed unlike other M PLOT applications only on the console In this manual we go out that the search path is set up to the start directory of the M QUEST installation To find out more for this purpose please contact the user manual M ADMIN 2001 In order to start M PLOT batch on the console you use following sy
75. e user prompting 1s fully explained at the be ginning and with the time less and less That allows us to show you more possible ex amples and facilitates also the overview is much better Should you lose therefore once the red line go back again to an example you feel se cure No fear M PLOT uses always the same provided menus If you have understood the system once you can derive all other commands Examples Example 1 What you learn in this example If you test this example you understand the idea of a weight filter you can create an individual color table and assign specific line weights and plotter pens to new colors Starting position We closely collaborate with another company This company can have the same CAD system like we have Is that not the case the drawings can also be exchanged about an external file format like for example CGM What can the customer do for us We know that this company provides 2D drawings with color identification A line weight can be assigned to every color If 3D templates are exchanged the color of the lines cannot be evaluated since this information is needed for the displaying of the as semblies In this case the application writes line weights into the file The information of the line types is also saved How do we want to proceed We have a modern ink jet plotter and an older pen plotter Both devices must print out the information correctly We evaluate for this purpos
76. ed interactively about a startup and final point Caution with multiple views The main view must then be active otherwise the selection does not work Print area selection 48 M PLOT and external applications Print parameter If all queries are answered the image file will be exported with the Drafting command File Export Picture file Then the application M PRINT is started How do you work with M PRINT you can look up the commands in the chapter 5 After you quit M PRINT the temporary image file is deleted on the operating system If you want to archive the image export them manually in Drafting and start M PLOT as a Separate application From Drafting no image file can be printed which was not created automatically Important The macro is started as a parallel process Drafting is after the queries ready again for new inputs If you click by mistake into the Drafting window M PRINT disappears in to the background If M PRINT does not start please reduce first Drafting on icon size If M PRINT is now visible you can print the drawing Repeated simultaneous starting of M PRINT wastes unnecessary memory space 49 M PLOT Chapter 3 Settings The requests at M PLOT can be very different In order to take care to this subject some important default values were set into the M QUEST parameter file That makes it to you possible to tune M PLOT optimally for Drafting Through the declaration in the M QUEST
77. ed to occur to the plot file Print pictures with M PRINT 5 Print pictures with M PRINT M PRINT is the main printing solution of all M PLOT applications M PREV M PLOT and as well as M PLOT batch calls this application M PRINT was designed in a way so that it can be integrated without problems into other applications The appear ance was chosen so that users on Windows NT 2000 and users on UNIX platforms are satisfied Why a proprietary solution again Windows NT 2000 has a powerful printing solution The respective hardware manufacturers develop all device drivers On other platforms these device drivers are not available because the manufacturers do not support them This circumstance scrambles us since also these operating systems have their authoriza tion If that would not be the case they would not be anymore at the market M QUEST supports currently six different platforms We want to do the development only once Therefore the print files are not created under Windows NT 2000 with the system device drivers That can make no sense or confuses you But it can have the ad vantage that many output formatting that will not work with the system devices are pos sible Example If you print on a HP DesignJet 750C PS the plotter cuts always 20 millime ters off The system driver does not support an additional paper rotation in PostScript mode M PRINT expands automatically the PostScript print area so that no margin arises T
78. er The manipulation was dramatically optimized in comparison with M PLOT 6 Still some information must be entered by hand You see two control boxes one for the UNIX platforms and one for the platform Win dows NT 2000 Again the file mplot set can handle both platforms The commands for sending the plot file are completely different From this basis the section was di vided into two areas If you do not print in a heterogeneous environment you only acti vate the control box for your used platform Remark This step is only then necessary if you want to send the plot file to an output device These options are deactivated if you print into a file Command Description EA The menu shows different predefined print commands to you Select the desired one The entry is not activated before the button is pressed The complete line is reinitialized E After pressing the button a simple text editor is opened The complete command is performed You can process the command line now after the requests of your print program All commands of M PLOT must be still checked 147 M PLOT Chapter 9 148 Change print command After you pushed the icon Ba simple text editor opens This allows you to change the current command and or to create a complete new command with the M PLOT vari ables Editor Ol x Print command or output text sdrcNTlp d wamm prl e t PIC FILE PLT FILE Test page Current var
79. esired inputs formats and press the right mouse button You can select the number directly by the provided submenu if the number is not higher than copies If number is greater than four select the command n copies A new window opens and you can enter a value up to 999 This command you can select also directly about the keyboard Press for this purpose the lt Ctrl gt key and then a number between 1 and 4 Remove files from plot list When you should have by mistake selected too many files in the list then you can re move them very simply The files will not be deleted on the operating system Only the intern linking is removed Select the files that you do not need anymore and press the right mouse button Choose the command Remove plots and the files are removed Preview pictures with M PREV 2 Preview pictures with M PREV The display application of M PLOT with the short name M PREV makes the display ing of all input files of M PLOT possible The command set is still limited nevertheless the files can be displayed very simply and fast Also image files with several individual images can be displayed For every picture an own page is created You can look at every picture individually 33 M PLOT Chapter 2 Start and Exit of M PREV 34 M PREV can be started in different kind and manner For which kind you decide de pends on the type of use and the available operating system In this manual we go
80. est O test Printer Formats HF SL HPF SL PS COM file SORC file FOF file EPS file TIFF file PNG file JPEG file FDF file TIFF file The area updates itself the submenu is removed That worked without problems since the submenu was empty Examples Deleting of the submenu Printer Formats Please think of you remove first the entries below the submenu First after that the menu can be removed V Select the line HP GL and press the button Remove M PLOT stated that this filter is not required by any other entries in the device list Therefore the device file can be deleted also from the directory model V Press the button yes to confirm the deleting action We do not want to keep any superfluous filters in our directory If we should need this filter again we can re trieve it also from the library Y Y Repeat these steps until the whole submenu is away Ocgm CGM file Cisdre SDRC file Oi pdf PDF file Oeps EPS file C tiff TIFF file O png FNG file Ojpeg JPEG file separator test PDF file Otest TIFF file Y In this case we can remove also the two test entries test1 and test2 Those ones are only duplicates You will recognize that you now not were inquired That comes of both entries be ing still used in the list The PDF file 1s still set in the submenu Translator The name does not play any roll here the filter name 1s checked
81. ette color selection 97 Weight filters Palette notebook Line table ccccccccceees 98 Weight filters Line definition ccccceeeeesssessssseseessssseeeeens 99 Weight filter Notebook Color table cccccccccccccccccccccecceeceees 100 Weight filter Notebook Line table ccccccccccccccccccccccccccceeeees 101 Weight filter Notebook Color oo ccccccccccccccccccccceccecceceeeeeeeees 102 Weicht filter Notebook Line users eek 103 M PLOT Illustrations Illustration 7 1 Illustration 7 2 Illustration 7 3 Illustration 7 4 Illustration 8 1 Illustration 8 2 Illustration 8 3 Illustration 8 4 Illustration 9 1 Illustration 9 2 Illustration 9 3 Illustration 9 4 Illustration 9 5 Illustration 9 6 Illustration A 1 Illustration A 2 Illustration B 1 Illustration B 2 Illustration B 3 Illustration B 4 Illustration B 5 Illustration B 6 Illustration B 7 Illustration B 8 Illustration B 9 Illustration B 10 Illustration B 11 Illustration B 12 Color filters Main View wiice cdiareisen henidancienidentintadiawdunes 108 Color filter Notebook Color table ccccccceccesststceceeseeeeeeees 111 Color Tiler C OOF Selection coe T 112 Color filter Notebook Color assignment c e 113 Style filters Main View cierra a A T a eens 118 Sletter PLO CLUS iE A A 121 Style filter Margin Settines nis io2ctahcgenitecedseeanenteaetaceebatndeats 122 Style filter PIC tire Origins serio rernisu
82. euedeonea wes 174 How Can I access this weight filtet scssictsccransacncearedscavavsasgadatedadanadsasacaatwiatavarvactas 175 PRACTICES coionnan ietaeelodamieaniaal 176 Different pen assignment on pen Plotter cccccccccccceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeseeeeeees 176 Line weights are constantly too thick on a printer cccccccccccccceeeeeeeeeeees 177 Line weights are not correct on a printer oo cece ccccececeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeas 178 A specific color can not be evaluated cc cccccccccccccccceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeseeeeeeeas 179 EXIME are Net A rN Ar ee ee 180 Wial you learn an this 6 xan le sisceutvcessvonlehdcenaues E A eto owes 180 SANDO POSO st ere eects A teagan areas esau ce ecoeaeeeneees eee 180 What Can the customer do for US aperi aiina na A EEA ARS 180 HOw do we want to proceed eenoprronren paa oeri Raai 180 Ceat anew color leian 181 Pxtend colors for Custome 4 occ chstnc ccivonschdceuavoed AS R Meealeeanets 182 Faso C82 NB en COIG S eia a A 184 DAVE neW Color TICE ecen E S 185 How can Taccess this color Hilter ririecreran aana e AREA TR aR 186 PAC COS ea bat raltae None Santana te sahaau tide nee lave tuntnealaeachaae tant 187 Make modifications on drawing VISIbDIe ccc cc ceeeeeceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees 187 Archive external file formats occ cnsisdsadiccandeesniansch saved deaosinbeadoccendscantauadeoeaddeawne 188 EX aie oara ae oe a eee eee 189 What yo learn div this example acorn cco occasion daared ine e suadsteu
83. ew output filters in M PLOT you must release the new de vices per users or workstations 152 Setting up of device filters Further information In the frame title appears under the column Definition the name of the loaded weight filter file This information 1s helpful so that you can check which file is just processed During saving of the file M PLOT creates automatically a backup file You can restore the last state at any time The modifications may be done also directly in the ASCII file Every option is shortly explained Please note that the syntax 1s checked only relatively If you understand the architecture greater modifications can be made elegantly At a further save of the file additional comments will be ignored Also the representation format is created inde pendently M PLOT uses this table at every startup From that at least one valid entry must be de fined M PLOT expects that the file exists on the operating system If the file mplot set should become corrupt you find a correct input format in the original direc tory mplot 153 M PLOT Appendix A A M PLOT installation M PLOT is seamlessly integrated into the M QUEST environment In this chapter the peculiarities of M PLOT and the directory structure are explained You can look up the general setup of the M QUEST architecture in the manual M ADMIN 2001 You can adapt M PLOT If you install a new output filter you deviate already from the s
84. facilitates you the setting The number of available colors dependents on the color table Weight filter ISO standard Jof x Color table Line table Calor Line Assign color to line ile Pon cee vic ero cyan light_blue 0 36 golden_orange 0 5 magenta O70 pink 1 00 rt DE Calor orange Apply Width 0 18 Millimeter New Cancel Illustration 6 8 Weight filter Notebook Color If you have a pen plotter the pen number is sent then to the plotter The order is not de cisive The pen number corresponds to the space in the roundabout On all other print ers the line thickness 1s sent Therefore these values can be repeatedly identical Only the color is unambiguous The units refer only to the line thickness and not to the output format The scaling occurs automatically in M PLOT The use of weight filters Notebook Lines At this place you indicate the evaluation of the line types The principle is identical as under the notebook Color Weight filter ISO standard Sle Es Color table Line table Calor Line Assign line style to line weight Prone via E ier dashdet 0 25 center 0 25 phantom 0 25 solid 0 5 Sort 2 Style dash Apply Width 0 25 5 Mlilimeter New Cancel Illustration 6 9 Weight filter Notebook Line Reference Even if you print only about a weight filter you can set the line types The decision ac cording to w
85. filter which is supposed to be considered Y Rename this in a way it is clear that this is supposed to be valid for this specific prin ter V Change the line weights in the new filter it agrees with the specific printer Y Do not expect this selection of the user Link this weight filter directly with this spe cific printer If you create that link with the printer the user does not need to do yourself any thoughts If this printer is selected in M PRINT the correct weight filter is set auto matically Examples A specific color can not be evaluated That can happen if you want to assign a special color The problem is in the evaluation of the color value This must be in an one hundred percent way identical in M PLOT otherwise the color value cannot be found Resolution You must determine the exact RGB color value If this is known either the standard palette or the corresponding color table of the weight filter must be updated That means the color must be known additional Then the color can be assigned to a line weight Y Y Start M PREV and load the file which contains the combination color Y Choose the menu Settings and then the menu command Picture colors Y Search for the RGB color value from the list which corresponds to the special color Y Change the color composition of this combination color Or when still not available insert the color Several same colors name with a different color compo
86. g jobs are stopped open previews are closed and the console released 25 M PLOT Chapter 1 Properties of the main window If M PLOT is started the main window appears This is divided as follows e An action bar with commands for the call of further instructions Instructions which are acting at other places are not performed in the action bar e The operating system environment tree The startup path can be set in the parameter file If this is not set or unavailable the current start directory is used by M PLOT e Selection menu for the input filters If the filter 1s changed all paths are updated be low the marked folder e File list for the printing process All ready input files for the conversion are listed The sequence is determined by the selection If M PLOT is executed with an argu ment string of input files these are brought in this list e Status bar for output of information like process state file size etc M PLOT 2001 licensed Oy x Eile Settings Help sche of D Users Mark File list for plot process E E E cand SEUA Race a _ delivery ai pdm J sdre _ staroffice 3 Users ae Ea ee es ee e E plottest cgm G mquest File types All Files l Start plot File DA Wsersi Markidrawing pff Illustration 1 1 Main window of M PLOT 26 Working with M PLOT Commands in the action bar The instruction set was reduced to the minimum
87. ge files can be smoothed too With a mathematical function the neighbor points are optimized with the current color point In particular case of decreasing or in creasing such a filter can correct the output importantly The disadvantage appears that additional memory is needed and the creation of the file becomes importantly longer around factors Not only color transitions can be optimized so also the picture borders are smoothed That can be executed only then if the background 1s known CGM PFF or PNG know exactly which pixels are selected as background At this place no border smoothing can be done I DEAS pictures with shaded templates are created always as a RGBA color template That allows the exempting of templates shade You want to publish now this picture on an Internet page it is sometimes advantageous if the background of the page is used and not the background of the picture For this purpose you must select the output filter PNG Portable network Graphic and disable the background The color smoothing would consider the initial background at this place for the border smoothing You would recognize that on the Internet page immediately Therefore M PRINT notices whether the background is supposed to be used When the color borders are smoothed then only the color transitions are optimized and the color borders remain unchanged It would explode this manual if all filters and the techniques were explained Various specialis
88. geheight prof profparam SC a4 ale 1 0 500 0 coreldraw prof proflabel profmode profencode profarc profellipse profrectangle proftext profmarker prof font profhatch coreldraw CorelDRAW corel binary disabled disabled disabled enabled enabled enabled enabled There is only one selection This is set directly to coreldraw 219 M PLOT Appendix B 220 color color color color color label 12 Farbe label 11 Couleur label 10 Color label 13 Color mode color gamma 1 hue 0 saturation 0 brightness 0 All other color settings are removed The index is set to color provided if not set al ready resolution resolution 300 resolution 300 label 12 300 dpi label 11 300 dpi abel 10 300 dpi abel 13 300 dpi value 300 colormode all Also all resolutions are removed The default must be set again on 300 Y After you executed the modifications you can save the file You can look at any time at the modification in M PRINT Examples Y Load a drawing into M PLOT or M PREV Choose the button Printing Y Choose the entry CorelDRAW file and press then the button Properties Y The menu may offer you now only the selection that we put in the filter You see with few modifications you can hold the user of executing wrong inputs
89. ges in Stop plot and allows you to halt the plot process at any time A file which just is converted cannot be aborted All further files are stopped M PLOT marks out the file which is just in process You will see that at the printer symbol Remark According to the size of the file which just is in process the abnormal exit of the plot process can use some time Change output filters If at least a file is available in the job list the standard output filter is set automatically This corresponds not to the default printer of your operating system but to the standard output filter in M PLOT If you do not agree with the specification you can select the files and press the right mouse button Choose the menu Change device A new submenu opens You see all installed output device filters Select the desired filter and the entry in M PLOT changes 31 M PLOT Chapter 1 32 Restore modifications on output device When you changed the filter parameters in M PRINT and you are not anymore sure then you can set the settings at any time back to the initial status The specifications are set to the selected output filter Select for this purpose the input file and press the left mouse button Choose then the command Set to default The yellow printer symbol switches to the standard icon Number of plots The number of plots copies can be modified directly You do not need to start M PRINT at any time Select the d
90. ght nosolidfil deviation layers Values item name item number true false true false true false true false true false 0 0254 1 256 Description Defines whether the name or the drawing num ber are used for the plot file as a file name This entry is only active if Drafting is started with the TDM Determines whether the view borders are prin ted or not If this variable is set the line types are processed as individual lines You see then exactly the same output on the output filter Is the variable not set the output filter creates the line type The representation format is not identical but faster If the value is set the layer attributes are also read Line weights are not processed within Drafting even if the drawing contains such The output is importantly faster and the plot file smaller Filled areas are not filled Determines the precision which the curve se quences are processed Defines which layers for the printing are sup posed to be considered 160 M PLOT installation Variable mplot mplot mplot mplot mplot mplot mplot mplot mplot asc process dwg process asc preview dwg preview pff preview cgm preview tiff preview jpeg preview png prev1ew Values mquest2k1 param custom2k1 param custom2k1 param custom2k1 param custom2k1 param custom2k1 param custom2k1 param Description Comm
91. h the respective emulation It can be good that you had other experiences HP GL Graphic Language This emulation was developed primarily for pen plotters Lines circles are sent so forth as vectors to the output filter The device must be able to construct a line about the startup and final point A pen plotter can do this task since this moves the physical pen Also polygons can be filled This task is just the same as if you fill a polygon with a pen If another line weight is supposed to be drawn the pen is changed or an offset along the existing line is drawn with the same pen Pictures raster data cannot be dis played With a trick pictures can be emulated when every pixel element is drawn with a filled rectangular That takes a long time and requires a gigantic data set Vectors Raster data IsaM PLOT license needed yes no no Setting up of device filters HP GL 2 Graphic Language Extended The number 2 stands for extension The emulation was expanded with new commands Line weights can be determined directly about a real value Also colors can be ad dressed directly This emulation is regarded today as standard on large size printer Dithering of surfaces is supported Pure pixel information s are not supported Vectors Raster data Is aM PLOT license needed yes no no HP RTL Raster Transfer Language This emulation is the logically further development of HP GL 2 Also raster data can be computed aga
92. hat you learn in this example If you test this example you understand the idea of a style filter and you can generate an individual style Starting position M PLOT offers a tool program for labeling of documents The setting up of the pro gram is explained in the next example So that the text and the pictures have space suf ficiently the drawing must be placed into a specific area of the paper That is supposed to be the task of the style filter We need a binding edge of 20 mm So that en asin our logo and the text have space the picture Best tae is supposed to be placed from 35 mm above ia The margins to the left and below are per 10 mm wide yy Y The picture is supposed to be fitted in always The anchor point is above in the middle see yellow point Copyright Illustration B 15 Example 3 Style filter for FEM 189 M PLOT Appendix B Create a new style filter for FEM First we arrange the entry in the list We will use only the languages German and Eng lish in our example V Start M ADMIN on the console or through a double click onto the shortcut You choose then Adapt M PLOT to your environment A new window opens Choose now the button Style filters V Press the button New Y Change the index in fem Y Change the text fields English and German Enter the description FEM printout Y Deactivate the control boxes French Ttalian and Spanish Y Press
93. he additional outlay for the setting up of a proprietary device filter can be abso lutely profitable 59 M PLOT Chapter 5 Start of M PRINT 60 M PRINT cannot be called directly You need always an application That can be M PLOT M PREV Drafting or I DEAS These applications load the input format and send this to M PRINT When you press the button Print the input format is converted into the chosen output format and sent to the output device That can be a file a printer or a program You can in the M QUEST parameter file determine whether the window is automati cally terminated or whether you must close this explicitly with the button Exit Latter case has the advantage that you can send the same input format which is already in the memory onto different devices Print pictures with M PRINT Start of M PRINT from external applications If you have other CAD applications in use M PRINT can be helpful to print also the external formats for you A specific command script was developed which reads a spe cific path and shows you a file list with all available files After the selection of a file M PRINT is started That makes a simple integration into other CAD applications pos sible if the input format can be read by M PRINT In this manual we go out that the search path is set up to the start directory of the M QUEST installation To find out more for this purpose please contact the user manual M ADMIN 2001 I
94. he more highly the value is the more intern memory 1s needed and the output can take importantly longer Command Description Print quality A selection menu lists all declared solutions The unit is always dots per inch shortly dpi Input The input field becomes only then active if the menu command Custom size is selected An arbitrary value can be entered now 69 M PLOT Chapter 5 70 Paper size This command becomes active if paper sizes are defined in the output filter Command Paper size Best Description A selection menu lists all declared format items The default is de termined from the size of the input format In order to limit the paper list not all declared sizes are listed If you want to activate the ANSI input formats that can be done by the variable mplot paper list in the M QUEST parameter file Set the value to ansi and start M PRINT again This button determines the best paper size matching Is the input unit in millimeter the size 1s compared directly with the paper sizes and the best matching size is chosen Is the input unit in pixel the resolu tion is read and the size of paper is determined In this case also the output resolution of must be considered with the output filter Example The input format is a TIFF file with 300 dpi the output resolution 1s set to 300 dpi The picture dimensions are divided through the resolution of 300 dpi and the scale certain Now the ini
95. he windows appear also in the same color as the SDRC application If you do not have any access on the file login as yourself as the M PLOT administra tor 89 M PLOT Chapter 6 6 The use of weight filters Attributes are features which ones can be evaluated If you want to print a drawing for example the color of the elements can be assigned to a certain line thickness or a cer tain plotter pen Another possibility consists in evaluating the element information line type All solid lines are supposed to become thicker than for example a centerline M PLOT was developed exactly for this working method The working method can be facilitated if you assign a specific screen color for every line weight M PLOT assigns a pen or line thickness to every color and sends this information directly onto the output filter If you use the color information however for the representation format of the drawing for example assemblies then the evaluation can occur also about the line style If the input format is a CGM file the line weight can be read also directly from the file 90 The use of weight filters Call of the dialog box Weight filters The dialog box Weight filters can be called from different applications Either you call the program M ADMIN M PLOT or M PRINT From M ADMIN Start M ADMIN on the console or through a double click onto the shortcut Choose then the button Adapt M PLOT to your environment
96. hich criteria the image file is supposed to be evaluated is defined in the style filter Particularly pictures from I DEAS are to be evaluated more efficiently with the help of the line types The colors are mostly used in a 3D system for the identifica tion of the design steps 103 M PLOT Chapter 6 Further information 104 In the frame title appears under the column Definition the name of the loaded weight filter file This information is helpful so that you can check which file is just processed During saving of the file M PLOT creates automatically a backup file You can restore the last state at any time The modifications may be done also directly in the ASCII file Every option is shortly explained Please note that the syntax 1s checked only relatively If you understand the architecture greater modifications can be made elegantly At a further save of the file additional comments will be ignored Also the representation format is created inde pendently M PLOT uses this table at every startup From that at least one valid entry must be de fined M PLOT expects that the file exists on the operating system If the file mplot wgt should become corrupt you find a correct input format in the original direc tory mplot The use of weight filters 105 M PLOT Chapter 7 7 The use of color filters This command was implemented upon request of a lot of users Until now the colors could be changed on the ou
97. hoose then the menu command Settings in the menu bar Choose next the menu item Color filters If the menu command Settings is deactivated you do not have then any rights to change these settings Login yourself as the M QUEST administrator at the system or ask your system administrator 107 M PLOT Chapter 7 Properties of the main view 108 The window was built up so that you see all important features at a glance In the list you find all already available entries An entry is a record of settings During the instal lation four entries are created e No assignment this entry is the default It is no color changes executed All input colors are sent directly to the output format e White to Black only the white color is converted into the black color All other colors are sent directly to the output format e Black to White 1s exactly the reverse one described as above For logical reasons are selected when the background is recognized e Example example for linking all not defined colors onto a new color Color filters ojx Definition Ccimaquest200 Ticustemimplot2k Timplot map All defined color filters Remove Description in M PLOT menu default No assignment Olwhitetoblack White to Black Copy O blacktowhite Black to White Properties Default index Sort order a F Unique index sample Apply New M English Sample M French Sample M German Beispie
98. iables PIC_FILE Picture file name Cancel Illustration 9 4 Device filter Change print command for device filter The entries which still have to be modified are marked with the characters lt gt Replace the character with the necessary information s An example of a Windows NT 2000 computer Default sdrcNTlp d lt host gt lt printer gt r t PIC FILE PLT FILE After the modification sdrcNTlp d wsmm pr4 r t PIC FILE PLT FILE So that you can check the connection and the print command M PLOT can send a test page to the output filter An already formatted drawing is sent for this purpose to the print command You will get a message how the test has performed Setting up of device filters Restrictions M PLOT offers the possibility to you to limit the device list either for the user or the workstation That gives you the safety that the user can select only output filters which are certain for this user or workstation Reduce device list TIFF file test TIFF file pdf PDF file tests HP Color LaserJet 4500 gl HF GL jpeg JPEG file cgm COM file ps PS sdre SDRC file gl HP GL 2 png PNG file Illustration 9 5 Device filters Activating restriction of the device list 149 M PLOT Chapter 9 150 Set new criteria If you have not set any restrictions yet the complete window is deactivated In this case all users have full access Determine first according to which c
99. icated besides on a UNIX platform If M PRINT is started on a UNIX workstation this entry is evalu ated Also additional links onto other filters can be generated That makes sure that if this printer is selected these filters are prepared explicitly All options which were set by the user are reinitialized If you do not completely understand this working method yet we recommend not gen erating any links Otherwise you do not know anymore why an option is always back spaced onto a default values For working in the background we recommend to set all settings about this links The call becomes shorter and you can check at any time all settings 205 M PLOT Appendix B 206 Check default values of the device filter We want to check still the default values of our color plotter We would like that the plotter always is in the color mode If a monochrome drawing is supposed to be printed the user is supposed to do this setting interactively Press the button in the frame Modifications on current device A new window opens The representation format depends on the available settings of the output fil ter Modify default settings Sel x Device HP DesignJet F500 36 HF ETL Paper size 80 Ad Rall Quality Moarmal Display Black vVhite Cut Media On L L L Cancel Illustration B 27 Example 4 Defaults of color plotter Y Change the menu Display to the value Co
100. ile is removed from the TDM to and with MS7 and I DEAS is released In I DEAS 8 and bigger the image file does not have to be deleted anymore from TDM Backup The macro is terminated and M PRINT 1s not started Cancel M PLOT and external applications Print parameter After the command Plot was selected the image file is created and M PRINT starts How do you use M PRINT you can look up the commands in the chapter 5 After the termination of M PRINT the macro menu appears again and you can generate further snapshots If you work already with I DEAS 8 or higher the macro is termi nated automatically since the TDM does not have to be clean up anymore Problems during the creation of the picture file If M PRINT starts after the picture file creation with following message The file doesn t exist on the operating system then the image file ideas pic is still in the TDM adopted and does not exist anymore on the operating system M PRINT cannot start because the file doesn t exist Proceed for this purpose into I DEAS as follows Y Select the icon Manage Items in the icon list A new window opens Y Choose the option All Types Search for the line ideas _ pic Y Select these line and delete the entry with the menu Actions The TDM is clean up now You can start M PRINT again 53 M PLOT Chapter 3 Update 54 The M PLOT macros are documented and can be modified by you Pleas
101. in All vectors are sent in the format HP GL 2 and all raster data in the format HP PCL If no vectors are available the picture can be printed immediately that is as soon as the first scan line received the output device That makes it possible to process gigantic pictures with a very small printer memory If only a single line follows the picture the complete picture must be loaded first into the printer main memory in order to construct the line M PLOT supports both processes TIFF pictures are proc essed on principle according to the first means I DEAS pictures are checked whether vectors are contained or not If that is the case the output device must be able to load the complete picture Also oversize plots are supported This filter was developed espe cially for HP DesignJet plotters Vectors Raster data Is aM PLOT license needed yes yes yes 139 M PLOT Chapter 9 140 HP PCL Printer Command Language PCL was developed for the laser printers This emulation offers a gigantic language range All information s are computed internally in printer points The printer resolution plays an important roll in this case Different levels still are distinguished between PCL3 is the first step All information must be computed by the software like color dithering etc PCLS has already an expanded command set M PLOT supports both levels Vectors are converted first into a image file and joined with the picture informa
102. ing can be used Command Description Number of prints Indicates the number of the desired outputs Sorted If the control box is active the output is sorted The plot file con tains then all pages in the correct sequence So that sort becomes active some defaults must be fulfilled The print area must contain at least two pictures and the number of copies must be larger than one Print pictures with M PRINT Style information on output format The output filter converts the content of the input format into the corresponding output language The requests onto the formatting can occur homogeneous for all devices Therefore this information s are summarized into style filters You can create these by yourself You find out further information on that in the chapter 8 In order to change the default setting fast and easily all important settings of the style filter were released for the user Press the Preview button and you see directly the effects Command Description Style filter Select the corresponding style from the list If you change the output filter the style filter can change too provided that the output filter has a linking onto a other style filter The settings for the preview are also reset The style filters can be deactivated if an output filter 1s selected which one does not approve any adaptation Preview A new dialog window opens with a print preview The properties of the sele
103. ing of the graphics the margins and a lot of things more The orientation and the placement on the paper are not determined in the style filter That 1s task of the device filter First this cycle of operations makes it possible a universal device filter can be used Remark In M PLOT 6 the style filter was connected at the respective device format If you want to save several styles so every device filter and printing style had to be re designed The device filter thus became directly dependent on the customer M PLOT 2001 treads another way You define as many styles as you need These are automatically valid then for all device filters For specific device filters the style filter can be assigned directly 116 The use of style filters Call of the dialog box Style filters i The dialog box Style filters can be called from different applications Either you call the program M ADMIN M PLOT or M PRINT From M ADMIN Start M ADMIN on the console or through a double click onto the shortcut Choose then the button Adapt M PLOT to your environment A new window opens Choose now the button Style filters From M PLOT or M PREV Start the application on the console or through a double click onto the shortcut Choose then the menu command Settings in the menu bar Choose next the menu item Style filters If the menu command Settings is deactivated you do not have then any rights to change these settings
104. is A value larger of zero intensifies the color Brightness 0 100 With this controller you can brighten the whole picture Also the additive RGB colors or the subtractive CMY colors are elucidated in this case The colors white and black remain in an unchanged way A value of zero corre sponds to the normal brightness of the picture Print pictures with M PRINT Compression The device filter allows the compression of the information s The output file is then importantly smaller Not all device filters have this command although the format would support compression Either M PRINT makes that automatically or a compres sion method is patented An example For the algorithm LZW Lempel Ziv Welch royalties must be paid when it is used in M PLOT That is the reason why M PRINT does not support the compression LZW in the output filter TIFF Command Area Loss of quality 0 100 Compression TIFF EPS Description This command is only at JPEG activated A value of 0 does not pack and with the value 100 the maximum pic ture compression occurs But caution The compression of JPEG 1s affected with loss How larger the compres sion value is the larger way the modifications are at the output image The default value is set directly in the filter and is set to 50 TIFF supports different compression modes according to the color template M PRINT uses only a specific selec tion of compression methods e None w
105. l M Italian Sample M Spanish Sample Cancel Illustration 7 1 Color filters Main view If you want to consider the settings more exactly then select the desired line in the list and press the button Properties The use of color filters Create change or delete entry in list The procedure for the declaration of the entries requires only a few commands The dif ferent language fields are in this case also considered You will see this procedure on many further M PLOT dialog boxes Command New Apply Remove Copy Description Enter an unambiguous index in the input field Unique in dex An index is used in an intern way to identifying the en try All characters are allowed except the point the colon and the blank Rename now the entry in the desired languages If you do not want all languages deactivate the language control box This setting is valid for all entries So that the new entry is transferred into the list press the button New If you have not generated any new index before the existing index is in creased around the value one This can be renamed then at any time If you select the entries in the list the respective field are re initialized automatically If you want to change a value that 1s valid also for the index you must press the button Apply af ter the modification If you change onto another list entry first the modification is ignored
106. last separator line It is ex actly the same printer It is supposed to be alike whether the user selects this in the submenu Operations department or directly on the first level 209 M PLOT Appendix B 210 We can achieve this if we copy this printer M PRINT puts on automatically a copy Only the index is set unambiguous All other settings are identical Y Select the entry Laser printer and press the button Copy The copy is created di rectly below the existing printer Y You may change now the index or also the name This step is not necessary V Shift the new printer onto the end of our printer architecture Y Do a double click onto the printer and this is selected with a hook as default printers E menu Translator Ocom CGM file Osdre SDRC file separator Opd PDF file Oeps EP file LI tiff TIFF file Opng PNG file Ojpeg JPEG file E menu Operations department Lj Laser printer E menu Design department Odi Color plotter Ol cl Color printer Separator That was it already If the user likes to print from I DEAS or Drafting this printer 1s ta ken automatically as default If you want to check how this printer architecture looks in M PRINT you can quit the window with the button OK and start M PRINT from I DEAS Drafting M PREV or M PLOT Comment M PRINT is the actual printer program The macro for I DEAS or Drafting calls this application M PL
107. lor The device driver is newly cre ated when you hit the button OK Replace or update device drivers from library When you retrieved the wrong device driver by mistake from the library but mean while all settings are set already this can be exchanged simply We want to retrieve the PostScript filter of our plotter as an example Press the button M in the frame Modifications on current device It opens the window with all library filters Y Choose the filter HP DesignJet 750C 36 PS2 by a double click on the line The filter is copied now also into the directory model and the field Fi e updated The default values can be now different although it is a question of the same output fil ter Examples Replace or update device drivers manually We would like to use our old filter again This appears still in the directory model pro vided that this was not deleted With this technique you can install also a filter which was retrieved directly from the Internet Copy the driver into the driver directory cus tom mplot2k1 model and proceed as follows Y Press the button in the frame Modifications on current device It opens the window for the selection of a file Y Select the filter hp designjet 750c 36 rt1 def with a double click The filter appears now in the filed File When you have loaded the filter from another place then the absolute path appears be fore the filter file Important Please do
108. lor _ Of x Color table Calor assignment Assign input color to a new output color input color assign to Output coir Remove gt water blue gt water blue Sorn Input color Apply New Output color black Cancel Illustration B 13 Example 2 Assign output colors If all not defined colors are supposed to remain unchanged then remove the last entry All colors were sent then unchanged This technique is reasonable if you like to link certain colors Y Exit the window with OK and you switch back into the main window Examples Save new color filter The settings are stored in the file mplot map So that you have always the possibility to restore modifications the file is updated only then if the button OK is pressed The button Cancel ignores all modifications V Press the button OK The file is updated and the preceding settings transferred into the backup file mplot map bak A further opening of the window Color filter must list now our new entry Mold Color The properties of our before defined entry are visible when you press the button Properties If you would delete now the entry Mold Color also our settings would disappear The color table will not be updated This table is valid for all entries Please be careful when you delete colors in this table 185 M PLOT Appendix B How can I access this color filter As soon as the c
109. lors in this table Examples How can I access this weight filter As soon as the weight filters are stored these are available in M PRINT If you have se lected the weight filter as default this is selected automatically provided that the stan dard device filter did not link a different weight filter More information for this pur pose you will see in a following example Preview Scale to user border _ oO x Options SDRC Picture C Enhance rendering M Use background information for output M Dither solid fill polygon fonly BA made Draw paper size as a thin box on the paper M Put additional text on output format e Set picture size on output Fitin fall entities visible C scale lea 1 0 4 Scale thickness When smaler 1 1 Interprets Thickness fram input Weight filter SO standard Color filter SO standard ANSI standard State D Input format Creator Drafting Detailing Type of format Yector Dimensions 641 0 x 594 0 Millimeter _Eroperties __ cancel Illustration B 8 Example Selection of the new weight filter in M PRINT 175 M PLOT Appendix B 176 Practices Cordial congratulation you tested the example and you now became an idea of the many possibilities of M PLOT Now you can solve also requests from the field How as often the requests are not the same ones like in this sample examples We offer you at this place so
110. lotter 00000000000000000000000000000000 206 Example 4 Create FEM documentation ccccssssscccceeeeeeees 211 Example 4 Print command for FEM program 000000000000000000 212 Example 4 Inquiry mask of FEM program eececccccceeeeeeeeees 213 Example 4 Install PDF filter for PDM system 0 ee 215 Example 4 Command line for external script file 216 Example 4 Install CGM filter for CorelDRAW ee 217 M PLOT Illustrations xviii Introduction I Introduction This documentation describes the print program M PLOT and the additional help pro grams M PLOT is a component of the M QUEST product family and can be used seamlessly with all other products of M QUEST xix M PLOT Introduction What you should know before you read this book This manual provides that you are familiar with your operating system Commands and instructions for the different platforms are performed separately If you work on a UNIX platform it is provided that you understand the most important UNIX com mands You should also be able to set up a print queue M PLOT does not arrange any print queue These must already be installed and to be functional If a print out does not appear on the output device the error does not have to appear urgent at M PLOT Therefore it is necessary that you understand the cycle of operations of your printer queue Introduction What this manual includes This
111. ly too thick there is a more effective way available vV Edit the device filter file in a text editor If only a long line is visible then open the filter in a word processing program The line feed is missing Next set the new adjustment value weightcorr in the section feature The value is a factor Example The line weight 0 5mm appears on the output filter with a thickness of 0 65mm The adjustment value would be in this case x 0 65 0 5 0 769 Save the device filter file Y Check the output on the printer Comment If the adjustment value is not visible in the device filter file you have still an older M PLOT device filter in use Replace this filter from the device filter library or from the Internet www m quest ch download If the result is not satisfactory the correction 1s then not proportional Every thickness must be patched with another value You will find more information s for this purpose in the next examples Set the adjustment value again to the value 1 0 in the filter 177 M PLOT Appendix B 178 Line weights are not correct on a printer The line weights are wrong only on a specific printer A constant correction factor does not solve the problem In particularly thin lines are too thick Resolution Must have a color several different line weights this 1s not possible with a single weight filter The existing weight filter must be copied and modified V Copy the weight
112. manual contains following chapters Chapter 1 Working with M PLOT presents a survey of the graphical user inter face of M PLOT the peculiarities and the commands for the call on the console Chapter 2 Preview pictures with M PREV allows the viewing of the supported input formats The graphical user interface and the call on the console are described shortly Chapter 3 M PLOT and external applications show starting of M PLOT from ex ternal programs It is shown the necessary settings and the graphical user interface Chapter 4 Printing in the background describes the M PLOT batch enhancements This application converts all input files into the corresponding output formats in the background No graphical user interface occurs to the user Chapter 5 Print pictures with M PRINT present a survey of the instructions for the conversion of the output format These settings are directly used by all M PLOT applications Chapter 6 The use of weight filters describes the procedure for the evaluation of graphics attributes The input format is evaluated by means of the defined thickness information and modified the output format directly Chapter 7 The use of color filters explained how input colors are exchanged in simple way into new output colors Chapter 8 The use of style filters show as the appearance of the output format simply and fast can be changed Chapter 9 Setting up of device filters describes the procedur
113. me examples from the practice So that you do not have to invent the gear again we provide you also the solution This is however very abstract We go out that you worked out this example Different pen assignment on pen plotter The pen plotter has a color roundabout and a roundabout with black pens The order of the pen numbers is different so that also other application has access onto the same plot ter Resolution If the pen spaces are different that cannot be directly implemented with a weight filter The color green for example can notice only one pen space The existing weight filter must be copied and modified Y Copy the existing weight filter Y Rename it that it is clear that this is for another certain roundabout Y You change the pen assignment in the new filter so that this agrees with the other roundabout M PLOT does not change the weight filters automatically when a different color mode is chosen That is task of the user The weight filters can be linked directly at the device filter or the style filters Is that unreasonable for the user the device filter can also be copied and the respective weight filters to be linked on this new device Examples Line weights are constantly too thick on a printer On a specific printer the line weights are drawn too thickly On other devices the output is correct Resolution This can be achieved also with a new weight filter If the line weights are proportional
114. n only B W mode Draw paper sizes as a thin box on the paper Put additional text on output format Description This option becomes active when the input format stores the background explicitly Currently these are the input fil ters CGM PFF and PNG With all other input formats the control box is deactivated If the input format supports filled polygons rectangular circles cake diagram or polygons an additional query must occur during the output in a monochrome format If the control box is activated the filling is dithered Other wise the filling is put in the black color Why this query As a rule you want filled arrows in full black and not dithered In I DEAS a polygon is supposed to be displayed dithered This option draws the paper dimension according to a fine pen 0 2mm and the line type phantom That makes it for you possible that you can trim the format if the paper medium is bigger than the chosen paper size If the paper medium is of the same size as the output format or if hardware margins are defined this option is ignored If the control box is activated an additional text can be po sitioned below to the left on the output format The text can be entered individually Use for this purpose the button E at the end of the line The text can be preset also in the style filter or in the M QUEST parameter file 126 The use of style filters Command Set picture size on out put
115. n order to start M PLOT batch on the console you use following syntax mprint mprintf option value option file An option starts always with a minus sign and an argument is at the end of the input line ordered Option Values Description h Lists all available options M PLOT batch is not started x Switches the user language The placeholder x is to replace with one of the following numbers 0 English 1 French 2 German and 3 Italian rf false true Ifthis option is set after the printing the input file is deleted on the operating system This option 1s rea sonable when the calling macro is not able to re move a temporary print file b false true Determine whether the file selection is supposed to be shown Is in the script mprintf as default set 61 M PLOT Chapter 5 Option Values Description dir directory When the option b is indicated a list of the input files can be defined optionally If this is not indi cated the variable mquest mprintf dir is read in the M QUEST parameter file ext cgm pff tif When the option b is indicated the file extension tiff jpg can be indicated optionally for the selection of the jpeg png files If this 1s not indicated the variable mquest mprintf ext is read in the M QUEST pa rameter file If the option b is called with the value false then an input file must be delivered as argument The input file can be local or pro
116. new device filter turns on That allows you to load a new filter from the filter library The existing filter is not de leted in this case If you execute these steps repeatedly and you do not use the filter the filters are in the subdirectory custom mplot2K1 model stored but not in use The dialog box turns on for the tuning of the defaults of the current filter Only listing values can be set All other defaults must be set directly in the device filter External settings The idea of this section is that you can explicitly assign a style filter and or a weight fil ter to an output filter Alike what the preceding setting was as soon as the user selects this output filter the settings are changed Command Style filter mplot sty Weight filter mplot wgt Color filter mp lot map Description If the control box is activated a certain style filter can be assigned This is always set when the user selects this output filter in M PRINT If the control box is activated a certain weight filter can be assigned This is always set when the user selects this output filter in M PRINT If the control box is activated a certain color filter can be assigned This is always set when the user selects this output filter in M PRINT Setting up of device filters Print commands This section is the heart of M PLOT First when this option 1s enabled and defined you can send a plot file to the print
117. ni rpe i 123 Device filters MIN V EW esne hevieciceradieenvnchs 132 Device filter New device filter from library eee 135 Device filter Properties of the selected device filter 145 Device filter Change print command for device filter 148 Device filters Activating restriction of the device list 149 Device filters Example of restriction on a workstation 152 M PLOT directory tree part lsu caiectiee tees 155 MEP EC directory ree part 2 acacia stacey stcsareses de deewsesadigadeeseeuetaaies 156 Example 1 Create a new weight filter ee eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees 165 Example 1 Create a new color table ccccseeeessseseeseeeeeeees 167 Example WMix ainie wCOlOn sii snc dnsasatetemelenadaaiieusasseds 168 Example 1 Updated color table with new mixed colot 169 Example 1 Use standard line table eee eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees 170 Example 1 Assign colors to a line weight ceeeeeeeees 172 Example 1 Assign line type to a line weight 00008 173 Example 1 Selection of the new weight filter in M PRINT 175 Example 2 Create a new color filter eeeeeeseeeeeeeeeeeeeeees 181 Example 2 Define a new output COlOD cceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees 182 Example 2 Mix color water blue ccceceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees 183 Example 2 Expanded color list cccccceeeesseeeeeseeeeeeseseeseenees
118. ntax mplotbatch option option file file An option starts always with a minus sign and an argument is at the end of the input line ordered Option Values Description h Lists all available options M PLOT batch is not started x Switches the user language The placeholder x is to replace with one of the following numbers 0 English 1 French 2 German and 3 Italian copy 1 999 Number print copies Is only for print formats effec tive sort false true The output sort order on a printer Is active when the number of copies is larger than one and the input file has more than one pages page all current Determines whether all pictures or only the current one always the first for the process is supposed to be considered driver index Current device indices The index can be determined from the device listmplot set Printing in the background Option paper color layout weighttable colortable Values index index index index index Description Paper index of the desired paper size The index can be determined from the select device filter xxx def section paper Alike paper the color index is read instead Determines the style filter If this value is not defined it is tested whether in the existing device filter is a style filter defined If no value is also at this place available then the standard index of the style filter is used
119. ntrol box is active the picture can be displayed as whole on the screen In this case the block size is at the beginning very coarse and becomes increasingly finer during loading But the preview program must support this technique Print pictures with M PRINT Version of the output format PDF As a rule the output filter determines automatically which version of the format is to apply At PDF the version is important Not every preview program has the necessarily language range implemented to display the most current PDF version Therefore you may determine with which PDF version you would like to work Command Version Description The PDF version determines the command set of the PDF format It is decisive which version you used According to this version there must be a specific Adobe PDF Reader version present otherwise the file cannot be displayed correctly PDF 1 0 the first PDF format This is as a pure text format Pictures are coded with RLE and ASCII85 Should work with all preview programs PDF 1 1 this format can already be binary The output is identical like PDF 1 0 PDF 1 2 the format is binary and the pictures are coded with ZIP and ASCII85 The commands are not packed RGBA pic tures are stored line for line Urgently necessary for Adobe reader less version 5 0 PDF 1 3 everything is packed The file is binary RGBA pic tures are masked First the Adobe reader 5 0 can show this pic
120. ntry matches an evaluation can occur Therefore it must be indicated in M PLOT to which criteria is according to be evaluated We thought long about how we want to treat this information As a rule you have al ways the same requests You want to subordinate the drawings also to a company stan dard From this basis M PLOT has a central or global palette At this place you de clare your company norm If an entry should deviate from the norm the palette must be declared then also there again 95 M PLOT Chapter 6 96 Notebook Color table The color table evaluates the colors from the image file All colors which are declared at this place appear in the further menus and can be assigned to a line weight A pen al location to know it here as them in M PLOT 6 is superfluous In M PLOT 2001 a simpler idea is pursued You determine a color name and the related color value A color name may occur repeatedly That makes sense because under circumstances the color Golden orange is not defined everywhere alike Weight filter Global Color table Line table Define all available colors for assignment eel name Color value o Remove Sort blue OO00TF 000 000 255 cyan aaffff 000 255 255 dark_green apago 000 168 000 dark_green apago 000 169 000 dark_green OOaatd 000 170 000 Default Color name black Apply New Color value 000000 Mix color Cancel Illustra
121. nts 1 l Sorted R pipi Frint range C All pictures 3 Current picture 1 C Range From 14 To 15 T Allon the same page Style information on output format Style filter Scale to sheet size Preview Illustration 5 1 Main window of M PRINT Print pictures with M PRINT Output device This area determines how the input format is supposed to be converted For this purpose you can select the corresponding device filter from a device filter list Since the de mands on a TIFF format or on a large size printer are not identical the chosen device filter initializes automatically the corresponding filter features After the properties are set you can decide how the output is supposed to occur You have the choice to write it into a file or directly into the print queue In the latter case that happens always with an operating system command The command must exist on the operating system M PRINT does not have any intern commands in order to initiate the plot file Command Description Name List all available output filters for the logged in user After selection of a new device the values are initialized in M PRINT Properties Shows the properties of the chosen device filter Output e Direct calls the indicated command script in the same line If the line is empty an error message is returned The line can be changed with the button Modify e File sends the output
122. o much time to load the complete I DEAS module in memory Select files for plot jobs You can mark individual files with the lt Ctrl gt or lt Shift gt key Through pressing and moving the left mouse button selects several file Press then the right mouse button A menu appears at the mouse pointer and you can move the selected files into the right window when you select the command Mark for plot The location of the original files does not change in this case Only a reference is made You can change at any time into other directories and select further files to move them to the plot process list M PLOT notices the locations of the original files When you moved too many files select these files in the right window and press the right mouse button You can remove them by the command Remove plot from the plot process list Working with M PLOT Start Stop plot process You can start the plot process All files in the right window are converted upon request into the output format and sent according to the specifications to the output filters Since the requests can be very different you have some possibilities to handle the out put A double click onto an input format does not start the display application M PREV In this case the application M PRINT is started You can look up more precise information in the chapter 5 The plot process can be started if the button Start plot is pressed The text of the but ton chan
123. o run always in the background It 1s in fact not necessary that the user find this printer in the selection mask We can achieve that in letting the label of the printer empty The index is needed so that we can address the printer directly in M PLOT batch Example of a script file for Windows NT 2000 We want to operate the position of the image file on the operating system As default the image file is copied always into the start directory We have a PDM system and this is supposed to manage the PDF file We need a script file to do this task for us This file could look as follows echo off setlocal rem rem pdf2pdm cmd rem This script moves a generated PDF file from M PLOT to a rem specific location for the PDM system The PDM system checks rem this folder for new files rem set PDM DIR D pdm incoming copy 1 PDM_DIR del 1 endlocal echo on Examples We save this script file at MQUEST CUSTOM INSTL mplot2k1 batch cmd that we can call it directly at any time Now we must inform M PRINT in a best known way what is to be done according to the call We do not call for this purpose the printer queue instat an External command Y Select the line PDF file or load the filter from the library Copy this device filter with the button Copy Y Change the index in pdf_batch an
124. o the M QUEST installation path Change the installation directory from SDRC and indicate the path and name of the used I DEAS parameter file set SDRC_INSTL d sdrc ideas8 set IDEAS PARAM d sdrc team8 Master Config ideas param8 dat Then you can save the file The paths in this text are only an example Replace the paths with your SDRC installation Adapt SDRC environment That the SDRC and M QUEST environment can work together the SDRC environment must receive still a call Otherwise when Drafting or I DEAS is started M QUEST is not informed You do not have to do these operation steps manually The administrator program M ADMIN takes over the task for you Start for this purpose M ADMIN and choose the button Modify Restore SDRC settings Then press the button Modify All necessary scripts are created or adapted Check the communication You can very simply check the communication Start for this purpose Drafting or I DEAS In the command window now additional variables must appear This informs you which variables are set and to which entries these refer If no new entries appear check the settings in the M QUEST varbs file and repeat the process 45 M PLOT Chapter 3 Drafting Detailing and Master Drafting M PLOT can be started in both applications The macro recognizes by means of the I DEAS parameter file which version it is The start can occur on two different kinds e Directly about the built in mac
125. of the window you see which style you just process Style filter Scale to user border oix Illustration 8 2 Style filter Properties 121 M PLOT Chapter 8 122 Border dimensions The margin dimensions determine the margins with reference to the paper margin of the selected device filter The values must be entered in the defined unit The unit refer only to the current style filter and not to the input format Command Unit Border Description Choose the unit for the margins The input can occur in millime ter or inch The margins are dependent on the orientation of the input format The description 1s valid for a portrait format With a landscape format the description is rotated around 90 degree clockwise European consideration or first angle portrait landscape left right gg lower upper Upper max print area lower printer hardware markgins Illustration 8 3 Style filter Margin settings When your printer has a not a printable area and you define the values in a smaller way than these boundaries then the difference is not printed The use of style filters Command Picture origin Description With the picture origin you determine where the graphics are supposed to be placed For this purpose nine different origins stands for you to select The orienta
126. olor filters are saved these are available in M PRINT When you marked this filter as default the color filter is automatically selected provided that the standard device filter did not link any own color filter See more information s for this purpose in the next example Preview Scale to user border _ oO x Options SDRC Picture M Use background information for output C Enhance rendering M Dither solid fill polygon fonly BA made Draw paper size as a thin box on the paper Put additional text on output format i Set picture size on output Fitin fall entities visible Seqe 1 1 0 4 Scale thickness Y hen smaler 1 1 Interprets Thickness fram input Weight filter Mold Tool Corporation Color filter No assignment No assignment White ta Black State Input format Creator Black to Vhite Type of format sample Dimensions Mold Color _ Properties __ Cancel _ Illustration B 14 Example 2 Selection of the new color filter in M PRINT 186 Examples Practices Cordial congratulation you tested the example and you now became an idea of the many possibilities of M PLOT Now you can solve also requests from the field How as often the requests are not the same ones like in this sample examples Make modifications on drawing visible With trick modifications can be made visible very fast on a drawing A s
127. omatically increased You can change the index at any time with the but ton Apply Default index An entry in the list must be declared as default so that M PLOT can select a filter automatically The default is selected with a hook Through a double click onto the line within the list the selected line is set again as default 133 M PLOT Chapter 9 Command Description Sort order With the two arrow keys you can determine the sequence in the selection In this list the arrow keys have a special impor tance E A selected entry shifts a position with every click after above A hierarchical architecture is skipped over on the same level If the entry is a submenu the complete archi tecture of this menu is shiftd then A separator line is treated as a printer entry E The selected entry 1s shiftd around a position after below If the next line is a submenu it is changed into this archi tecture If the submenu is not available yet the architec ture is generated If the selected entry is the last line within the architecture the entry is placed a level more highly but at the same position Properties This button turns on a new window with all properties of the selected entry The entries in this window are explained then more exactly Restrictions This button turns on a new window for the limiting of the number of device filters The restriction can be set either to the user or the work
128. on bar The instruction set was reduced to the minimum For that you find only few menu commands in the action bar Menu File This menu contains all commands which ones can be applied for all parts in M PREV Command Description Open The dialog box for opening new external image files opens This command can also be executed directly from the keyboard with lt Ctr1 gt lt o gt Print M PRINT starts This command can also be executed directly from the keyboard with lt Ctr1 gt lt p gt Exit Terminates M PRINT This command can also be executed di rectly from the keyboard with lt Ctr1 gt lt x gt 37 M PLOT Chapter 2 Menu Settings When you are not the author on the file mplot set or you don t have any write au thorizations on this file the command is disabled Following instructions stand for the selection Command Weight filters Color filters Style filters Device filters Description Colors or line types can be assigned to specific line weights The settings are in the file mplot wgt stored see also chap ter 6 The input colors can be converted into new output colors All settings are stored in the file mp ot map see chapter 7 You can generate your own printing styles and store it into the file mplot sty see chapter 8 New device filters can be arranged Restrictions can be set to registered users or host names The settings are
129. on of a specific style filter all neces sary external filters are also reset If the control box is not selected the default value of the respective filter is used Command Scale thickness Description During the output it can be useful that the thickness of the line weight can be controlled Four possibilities are available Constant the line weights are not changed independent of the output scale Proportional the line weights are changed dependent on the output scale When bigger 1 1 the line weights are enlarged only then if the output scale is bigger than one When smaller 1 1 the line weights are justified only then if the output scale is smaller than one Interprets Three options for the selection stand to you Thickness of output evaluates the thickness information di rectly from the input file Color Line thickness searches from the chosen weight filter the allocation for color and adds the thickness to the element Style Line thickness searches from the chosen weight filter the allocation line type and adds the thickness to the element The use of style filters Command Description Weight filter Determine which weight filter is supposed to be applied The definition is interpreted directly from the menu Interprets Color filter Determine which color filter 1s supposed to be applied onto the input format The command has an influence only onto vector
130. ors Raster data Is aM PLOT license needed yes yes yes 143 M PLOT Chapter 9 144 PFF Picture Formated File This is an exotic file format The company SDRC uses this format for the data ex change the archiving and for printing M PLOT can read and write this format That guarantees that an existing archive keeps on being able to be continued even if this for mat is not supported anymore by SDRC PFF does not support any compressing procedures Therefore caution is offered when big image files are converted into this format The file size can get extreme dimensions Vectors Raster data IsaM PLOT license needed yes yes no CGM Computer Graphics Metafile CGM 1s a high complex file format Vector and raster dates can be stored together Al so several documents can be in the same file stored The functional scope increased continuously In the meantime data s can be exchanged with this file format from the most different applications M PLOT supports currently only the version 1 0 of CGM Patterns and fonts are not supported yet All other elements are read and converted correspondingly Even com plex CGM files of CorelDRAW can be read Vectors Raster data IsaM PLOT license needed yes yes only for writing reading is free Setting up of device filters Properties of the device filter After you installed a filter in M PLOT you can subsequently change the properties of this filter If you
131. orts the PS levels 1 and 2 According to the output color model the best PS level is chosen PostScript Printer with level 3 can be also used because they support also level one and two Vectors Raster data Is aM PLOT license needed yes yes no 141 M PLOT Chapter 9 142 Adobe EPS Encapsulated PostScript This emulation was developed especially for DTP desktop publishing During the set ting of the graphic within the document the content is supposed to be displayed in coarse manner The content 1s supposed to be sent with the maximum quality on the output filter Following technique is applied for this purpose The image 1s a pure TIFF file and for the output a PostScript file 1s used Both files are combined into an EPS file You see that an EPS file cannot be sent to an output device directly This must be inte grated in a document before it can be printed Vectors Raster data IsaM PLOT license needed yes yes yes Adobe PDF Portable Document Format This file format is ideal for the archiving of drawings and pictures The company Adobe offers a preview program free of all charges Adobe Reader Vectors are stored as such The printing about the preview program is no problem and can occur in the maximum quality M PLOT can create the PDF file directly The properties of the input format are exhausted in this case optimally Caution is offered with the chosen PDF version The more highly the PDF version
132. ou can take over the standard values These are already optimized for Drafting and I DEAS 97 M PLOT Chapter 6 98 Notebook Line table The line table is used for determining the line types again Not every country has the same norm Therefore we let it up to you to declare the line types Unlike the color pal ette you cannot appoint the line types yourself M PLOT must know what a center line is Only the appearance is variable Weight filter Global Jof x Color table Line table Define line style properties sive Pattern Remove mA dashdot 410 2 1 center 410 2 1 phantom 4 10 2 1710 2 1mm Default Style dash Pattern l4 2 Millimeter Apply Cancel Illustration 6 4 Weight filters Palette notebook Line table The values correspond to the line segments Define so many segments until the pattern can be repeated again The startup begins always with a visible segment The unit be longs on the pattern and not onto the picture format M PLOT converts the unit self continuously The use of weight filters Example dash dot The character string would look as follows 4 units 0 2 units pen down pen down l unit pen up Illustration 6 5 Weight filters Line definition The defaults correspond approximately to the ISO values If these are not valid for you you may modify these values Have you mistyped or when you lost then you can use the button
133. out that the search path is set up to the start directory of the M QUEST installation To find out more for this purpose please contact the user manual M ADMIN 2001 Start on the console In order to start M PREV on the console use following syntax mprev option option file An option begins always with a minus sign Option Description h Lists all available options M PLOT is not started x Switches the user language The placeholder x 1s to replace with one of the following numbers 0 English 1 French 2 German and 3 Italian As arguments only one input file can be delivered This can be local or provided with absolute path Environment variables can be used also These must be set during the startup and must be valid Preview pictures with M PREV Example of UNIX platforms mprev mprev 12 HOME ideas 8 501000 pf f mprev test pff Example of Windows NT 2000 gt mprev gt mprev 12 HOMEPATH ideas 8 501000 pff gt mprev D data pff test pff Start as a shortcut M PREV can be run also via a shortcut This cycle of operations is applied under Win dows NT 2000 If you work on a UNIX platform you can make also a shortcut on your desktop Please consult for this purpose the manual of your operating system manufac turer Remark During the installation of M PREV the shortcut icon is created under Windows NT 2000 automatically If that is not the case this can be done
134. pecific cycle of operations is for this purpose needed In Drafting the properties of the system layers are exploited Create for this purpose a new layer with the name modification The colors of this layer are chosen that it does not appear anywhere else in the drawing We take the color redlining as an example All new elements are drawn onto this layer During the output exactly this color can be assigned again Does a new modification occur the existing elements must be moved first onto the other layers before the new elements can be created That shows you in Drafting at a glance which elements belongs to the last modifications Resolution The new input color redlining is linked onto the red color All other colors in the drawing are linked to green That shows the manufacturing immediately which ele ments changed The line weights remain unchanged from that Y Create anew color filter with the name modification Y Add the new color redl ining or your special color Y Assign the output colors so that redlining becomes red and all other colors become now green The user can simply select this color filter in M PRINT for this specific output and the drawing is printed dichroically This cycle of operations can be automated with Draft ing macros very well 187 M PLOT Appendix B 188 Archive external file formats If you want to integrate external formats of other customers into your archive
135. r 8 501 100 Copyrighti Copyright ic M QUEST Illustration B 30 Example 4 Inquiry mask of FEM program V Press the button OK and the documentation is created and sent to the printer If the command line is functional the information window appears and tells you that the command could be executed without errors Y Press the button OK and the modifications are stored in the properties mask V Press the button OK and the property sheet again is terminated The menu can be combined individually and also the defaults can be determined indi vidually Unfortunately the pictures must be still in the GIF format These are proc essed directly by Tcl Tk If the program should find his customers we will transcribe the routines so that also TIFF PNG and JPEG pictures can be read directly Inform us of your comment About creative proposals for resolution we are always thankful 213 M PLOT Appendix B 214 PDF archive for PDM system This example shows you how you can create a PDF file from a document and store the se at a specific place The place can vary and 1s directly dependent on the name of the document That works only if after the conversion an external program is called which evaluates the information of M PRINT and reprocesses the information In this example we want to do that with an external shell script If you understand this cycle of operations the whole world stands open to you This process 1s supposed t
136. r is used no features are listed As a rule these are in general known dependently of the respective printer s 83 M PLOT Chapter 5 Preview 84 The preview was developed that the user gets an idea of that what the chosen style fil ter causes That not for every combination of possible settings style filters has to be cre ated the most important settings were summarized and setup for the user The options are preset through the style filter The current style is displayed in the window title e The preview pictogram shows how the appearance looks on the output filter e Options with information of the input format These are preset through the style filter e State of the input format Useful information helps to execute the selection even more effectively Preview Scale to sheet size Oy x Options SDRC Picture C Use background information for output C Enhance rendering M Dither solid fill polygon fonly Biv made C Draw paper size as a thin box on the paper M Put additional text on output format ed Set picture size on output Fitin all entities visible se 1 1 o 4 Scale thickness When smaler 1 1 Interprets Thickness fram input Weight filter ISO standard Color filter Mo assignment State Input format Creator Drafting Detailing L L L L Type of format Vector Dimensions 641 0 x 594 0 Millimeter _Broperties _ __Cancel__
137. re size on output Fitin all entities visible c Seale 11 E Cancel Illustration B 17 Example 3 Settings for FEM style filter picture the evaluation was set Style Line thickness That allows it that invisi ble edges and centerlines are displayed more thinly Besides it still was indicated that the print datum is supposed to appear on the output You can set the settings of course in a way as you consider it is correct It is supposed to be objective that the user does not have to do any thoughts about the settings 191 M PLOT Appendix B 192 Save new style filter The settings are stored in the file mplot sty So that you have always the possibility to restore modifications the file is updated only then if the button OK is pressed The button Cancel ignores all modifications V Press the button OK The file is updated and the preceding settings transferred into the backup file mplot sty bak A further opening of the window Style filter must list now our new entry FEM printout The properties of our before defined entry are visible when you press the button Properties If you would delete now the entry FEM printout also our settings would disappear Examples How can I access these style filters As soon as the style filters are saved these are available in M PRINT When you marked this filter as default the style filter is automatically selected pro
138. rectly onto this file Therefore caution while changing After the confirming of the button OK the information are transmitted into the main window Setting up of device filters File filter translator Filters that always create a file are in the library list translator combined These filters are optimized so that the output file is created just the same as the input format is Scal ing orientation and so on are ignored Following file filters are available File filter Description Adobe EPS PostScript file with included TIFF image This file cannot be printed out directly The output must occur always about an application Adobe PS PostScript file without formatting Adobe PDF PDF file for preview programs like Adobe Reader HP GL HP GL file without formatting HP GL 2 HP GL 2 file without formatting TIFF TIFF image file JPEG JPEG image file PNG PNG image file SDRC SDRC formatted image file CGM CGM image file 137 M PLOT Chapter 9 138 Emulation An emulation is nothing else than the language of the filter M PLOT was expanded with new emulations The praxis showed us that the least users know the differences be tween the emulations In M PLOT it is decisive that you use the correct emulation Therefore we want to explain all emulations shortly Remark The author does not know all formats into the last detail Comments are personal ex periences wit
139. riterion you want to do the restrictions Command Allow access to all devices Only for registered workstations Only for registered users Description That is the default all users or workstations have access onto the complete device list This setting is reasonable if you have installed only a few devices and these are present on all com puter By means of the name of the workstation the restriction is exe cuted Reasonably on UNIX platforms since on these plat forms the printer queues must be available By means of the user name the restriction is set The procedure is identical as for a registered workstation Unknown host user Now we must consider also the case when a user is logged in which is not performed in the list The same one 1s also valid for a workstation Command Allow access to all defined devices Deny access for M PLOT Description If a user or a workstation is unknown all devices are released That is a good possibility to make all printers to you available as an administrator All users or workstations must be known All unknown names are refused M PLOT cannot be started Setting up of device filters Selection according to registered host user Independently of the set of the criterions the procedure is always the same one You can change at any time the criterion The settings are saved in the file mplot set even if you deactivate the restri
140. rites the picture with no compression into the output file The file size becomes also correspond ingly bigger through that This TIFF files should be able to read from all external applications e Packbits can be applied onto all color templates The compression is not so good at color pictures large monochrome areas can be packed very well e CCITT fax G3 G4 can be applied only onto mono chrome pictures Extremely good compression e CCITT RLE also only monochrome pictures The compression occurs with the run length operations 77 M PLOT Chapter 5 78 Smoothing of the color palette JPEG JPEG allows that the picture can be smoothed The colors are for this purpose opti mized in the picture The appearance is more blurred the borders on the other hand no more so notched Command Area Description Color palette Q 100 This command is only at JPEG activated A value of zero does not change the color palette How larger the value is the more blurred smoother the picture be comes As default 20 is set Coding operation JPEG JPEG can use different options for the coding of the picture information The image output is however unchanged from that Command Description Coding opera As default the control box Progressive is activated noes e Optimize If this control box is activated M PRINT itself de cides which compression method is applied e Progressive If the co
141. rmation ccccccscccceccecceccececcscesceccecencecs M PLOT Table of contents 7 The use of color filters 106 Calor the dialog Dox Color filters risiet rnn AE 107 From MADMIN ensien e a iR 107 FoM PLO Eor M PREV coaren arena a ae ce eee eee 107 Properties Oi Ue main yie W ecien anode eat oedtnesartonsch and eaeieeae eee eee 108 Create chance or delete entry im list nccavic since inerta e r enina 109 Properties of he color MIG cies aea teeta a ealaatetcea T 111 Notebook Color table eisdinn anene eip as a aaie Enisa 111 Notebook GIO ASSO MING IN esren e n R EY 113 Farbe eS bau ormai HoR qaeeOmnpenemetnnne We Rn mnt ae CORN nenine ee RCE Css 114 The use of style filters 116 Callof the dialoe box Style filters 20 cescaarantavasnannsdntncataaxaneeessaes oieaneoonesanteeeees 117 Fon MADMIN einn AAE 117 From MER DOT Or M PREV sched st ceeds coe ala Oa E E best 117 Properties of the MaN VIEW sas cteccsces ie she ianea a iaa cana wiees Gata ai 118 Create change or delete entry in NSt 2ccccncrddaei condita Aes 119 Properiesor these Gls Ree en a ti er ee 121 Border dimen 1 OMS sso e E R 122 External setina EEO EE OA E bone 124 PGT setini siaa e ae 126 F rtherini ormallon srren naaa E E 128 Table of contents Setting up of device filters Call of the dialog box Device filters ccc ceeeeeeeeeeeeees From MADMIN sitisinicccsscin linn csasa dnentaalabtials accansuahonenghdseys From M PLOT or M PRE
142. ro command Menu Option Command Execute Program e Asan icon under your icon list To construct your own icon please consult the docu mentation of Drafting Detailing and or Master Drafting for more information s If you use M PLOT a lot we recommend that you put the M PLOT macro directly un der an icon The user has a faster and more easily access to M PLOT You find the Drafting macro at following place Platform Macro including path Windows NT 2000 MQUEST INSTL mplot prg mplot draft prg UNIX MQUEST INSTL mplot prg mplot draft prg You may copy the macro also to another place At an update you must guarantee that you update the macro manually 46 M PLOT and external applications Tile format for M FLOT Bes 4 amp licens SDRC Picture File CGM binary Illustration 3 1 File format selection eet re pa Macro menu After the exporting of the macro some questions are to be answered before M PLOT can be started The menu is built up in a high powered way According to selection other queries are set up Selection of the file format Indicate first the desired file format Since also CGM can be created again and this for mat shows certain advantages it is up to you which format you would like to work with for Please think of it that CGM needs a license If you do not have any license the demo text appears also on a PostScript printer Command Description SDRC Picture File Th
143. rrent I DEAS version is considered M PLOT is compatible with the newest I DEAS version 8 43 M PLOT Chapter 3 Prerequisite 44 So that M PLOT can be started from Drafting or I DEAS the SDRC and the M QUEST environment must be synchronized on each other Is that not the case the mac ros cannot be started During the installation of M PLOT you were asked for the SDRC installation directory Did you ignore this query you cannot use M PLOT in Drafting or I DEAS You can subsequently update the settings Declare SDRC environment in M QUEST Login yourself as I DEAS administrator at your system As a rule the account ideasadm is used The procedure is identical for all platforms however the file names and the entries can deviate from each other Example of UNIX platforms File MQUEST INSTL cmd unix mquest varbs Edit the installation file The variable MQUEST INSTL corresponds in this case to the M QUEST installation path Change the installation directory from SDRC and indicate the path and name of the used I DEAS parameter file if z SDRC_INSTL then SDRC_INSTL sdrc ideas8 export SDRC_INSTL fi if z IDEAS PARAM then IDEAS PARAM mquest team ms8 master Config ideas param8 export IDEAS PARAM fi M PLOT and external applications Example of Windows NT 2000 File MQUEST_INSTL cmd win mquest_varbs cmd Edit the installation file The variable MQUEST INSTL corresponds in this case t
144. s are the allocation of the colors Every entry has its own settings Notebook Color table This color table is not the same one as under chapter 6 described This takes all colors that are supposed to be available for the evaluation of the colors If another menu choice is selected the same color table 1s displayed There is only a single color table for all color assignments We could have integrated these directly into the main window but you would have to switch then always back and forth between the windows If you remove a color from the table which stands in a relation the relation is removed Consider it well if you remove colors Color filter Sample fel Es Color table Calor assignment Define all available colors for assignment Color name Color value ao Remove 000000 Sort oooort OOffff a 004900 000 169 000 dark_green OOaa0O 000 170 000 x Default Color name ldark_green Apply New Calor value lo0a800 Mix color Cancel Illustration 7 2 Color filter Notebook Color table 111 M PLOT Chapter 7 112 If you want to generate new output colors that are not available as input color then in sert these also into the color table The RGB color value is entered as hexadecimal value in the format RRGGBB When you are not familiar with this notation M PLOT can help you Press the button Mix color and you can simply mix the color Mixing color ojx RGE color
145. sadeoueies 189 SADE POS Oean A AAN 189 Create anew style filter for FEM accrete EA 190 Modity proper E Sevaer a a e aie 191 Save Tew siyle TEE ceson en epee een eee eee eee 192 How can I access these style filters wcececvicconadacevstenscdonnens senstevnesommbedarsteuncdoeenaues 193 xiii M PLOT Table of contents Example A rri sl aonseeeseeeew eased ae 194 What you learn tin iDS Example namaste e a e A nee A LATE 194 SNDE POSOD neea E T nate iacaatoladasatoaneatoiaee 194 Organize device MISE sacisis iat aictaienceteies ea aa aa 195 Shift tiltes COM and SDRE 5 3 5 2 ce deesiae i N 196 Deleting of the submenu Raster Image Formats cc cssssesseeeeeeeeeees 196 Deleting of the submenu Printer Formats cccccsssssssseeseseseseeeeeeeeeees 197 Add ACW SUDIMEHUS so deetsainieeatentciauierdasvisanndaetsanduadahsiaviastedudepedsetsnsd eesaet 198 Install color plotter for design department ccccccccccceceeeeseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeess 199 Check default values of the device filter cccceeessessssstceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeens 206 Replace or update device drivers from library ccccsseeeseeeeeeeeeeeeeseeeees 206 Replace or update device drivers manually ccccssssssssseeseeseeseesseseeeens 207 Save modified device TILCLS ruren e EA 208 Install color printer for design departMent cc ccccccccccccceeceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees 208 Install laser printer for operations and design
146. sition can be created Y Check the assignment of the line weight Y Check the output This topic is not very simple If the output is not right yet that does not mean that M PLOT works wrong Much rather it was forgotten to store the settings the color value was not created in the list the color was not assigned to a line weight and a lot of things more It facilitates the debugging when you realize exactly where you must execute the modi fication If that is not very clear to you yet please consult the example again 179 M PLOT Appendix B Example 2 180 What you learn in this example If you test this example you understand the idea of a color filter you can create an indi vidual color filter and assign the existing colors to another color Starting position The cooling drill holes are supposed to be emphasized on the drawing clearly We want to print the drawing on a color printer Only the cooling drill holes are supposed to ap pear for this purpose in blue color The rest is supposed to be in the black The line weights does not change What can the customer do for us The customer can generate the cooling drill holes in specific colors These should not appear in any other components How do we want to proceed We have a modern ink jet plotter and this device is able to mix every arbitrary color We know the colors that the cooling drill holes are used for Further more we decide that only the
147. station New device This button turns on a new window for the selection of a new output filter from the device library The existing index 1s used If this is not unambiguous an additional identification is added New submenu Construct a new submenu The text 1s accepted from the lan guage entries The hierarchy becomes first active if an entry 1s shiftd about the menu choice from above Add separator Generate a separator line in the menu This divides the menu in optically areas 134 Setting up of device filters Choose a new output filter With this button you create a new output filter in M PRINT Two different ways are available to you for this purpose You retrieve an output filter directly from the library or from the operating system When you retrieved a filter directly from our home page first case provides a technique to integrate the drive into M PRINT During the installation all known filters are copied into a specific subdirectory That makes it possible for you to install new filters fast and simply Currently new filters are developed and directly released on our home page You can save then the filter locally and install the filter in M PRINT Choose anew device filter _ oO x Device filter From device library double click for selection J brother J calcomp J canon 24 epson D Epson Postscript Card PS 1 D Epson EPL 7500 PS 1 D Epson LP 3000 PS 1 D EPSON Stylus 1500 ES
148. stored in the file mplot set see chapter 9 Picture colors This command turns on a new window with all available col ors of the input format The corresponding color values are listed These can be used for a weight filter or a color filter Enhance thumbnails Is this control box activated the pictograms are optimized in the display application for raster data This command is only acting if raster data are available in the input format Menu Help Command Version Description The current M PREV version is shown to you 38 Preview pictures with M PREV Commands in the icon bar The icons are fix arranged According to the input format these are activated or remain deactivated M PREV shows the image file with the aid of the graphics functions of the operating system In order to support all graphics systems the output is displayed through the software Show individual images With these commands you can consider the individual picture sequences The icons are always enabled also then when the image file consists only of one single image Icon Available Description 4 always Switches onto the first picture al always The preceding picture shows gt always Show the next picture gt t always Switches onto the last picture Printing image file M PREV can send M PRINT the image file directly If you have several individual im ages in the display application also
149. t OO dj Color plotter Ol cl Color printer Separator O fem FEM documentation separator j1 Laser printer OU corel Illustration B 33 Example 4 Install CGM filter for CorelDRAW 217 M PLOT Appendix B 218 As from the preceding examples we know that this new entry points onto the current CGM filter A modification would change both entries Therefore we must create first a copy of the filter This filter must be joined then with our new entry V Create a copy of the CGM filter custom mp 1ot2k1 model cgm def and rename this in corel def Y Turn on the device properties of our new entry and load the new filter with the but ton Y Y Close the window with the button OK We cannot do more interactively We may process the filter manually in a standard text editor Y Open the new filter file to corel def for editing If you see only a long line the line feed is not displayed then correctly Open the file in Word or with Wordpad Adapt the CorelDRAW filter We want to modify the filter so that the user cannot do any wrong settings We want e Only a section for the CGM generation e Only colored output e Only the printing resolution of 300 dpi Examples Following sections must be modified Feature parameter ly See tomato a aaa Cee E in See eae eee ee A eee E EEE feature imagesize imagepage imagescale imagewidth ima
150. t literatures exist on this subject Also the Internet offers information s on this topic Simply try out the filters and you see immediately how the filter affects the out put Command Description Pixel replication By increasing the new pixels are duplicated and removed when the image is decreased The computing is very fast the output in particular at decreasing very unpleasant All others Simply try it out If the colors must be dithered before the output file can be created you will not see the smoothness like on a pure color image 75 M PLOT Chapter 5 76 Color correction In particular color devices need a correction of the colors As a rule this devices cannot display all available colors M PRINT offers you simple possibilities to change the pic ture A correction affects also the pictogram You see directly what the individual con trollers cause Command Area Description Gamma Q 1 10 Is the value less than 1 0 all brighter pixels are darkened If the value is larger than 1 0 it is exactly the reversed way The calculation occurs with a mathematical curve With this command the picture can be brightened or dark ened decently Hue 0 100 If the value is changed the color value can be changed This command can be used also to dyeing the complete picture A value of zero lets the hue value unchanged Saturation Q 100 Determine how highly the degree of saturation of the color
151. t page from Windows NT 2000 This could look as follows Editor 5 x Print command or output text sdrcNTlp d wsmm pr2 r t PIC FILE PLT FILE Test page Current variables PIC_FILE Picture file name Cancel Illustration B 25 Example 4 Enter print command V Press the button Test page If the message occurs that the command could be exe cuted successfully then the syntax of the print command 1s correct That doesn t mean that the connection to the output filter works If the test page is not printed the error is not in M PLOT Please check the connection and whether the output device is turned on 204 Examples Y Press the button OK The content of the window is transmitted into the command line Device filter Color plotter Modifications on current device File np designiet 750c 36 rtl def m E External settings Mo Style filter melot sty Scale to sheet size C Weight filter mplotiwat SO standard l C Color filter mplot map Wo assignment l Print commands necessary for printer All UNIX platforms a lo Line Print i Ei Fo Windows NT 2o00c sdreNTip d wsmrpr2 r t PIC_FILE PLT_FILE IE SDRC Print Utility v M Remove plot file after plot command is executed Cancel Illustration B 26 Example 4 Set print command for color plotters You can do still more settings For example the connection can be ind
152. t to the output format No paper rotation occurs This is task of the device filter The paper direction is chosen always in a way that the short edge is below Command Orientation Automatic Description The orientation rotates the picture around 0 or 90 degree The sym bol indicates immediately to you how the command is to understand Consider for this purpose also the icon The orientation of the input format is displayed in the icon The optimal orientation is determined with respect to the chosen size of paper Color output Operate the color output of the output filter A conversion between the input and output format occurs automatically Command Output to Description According to the output filter different color modes can be selected If a specific output filter does not have a menu item Color these devices cannot display any colors The pictogram indicates exactly how the colors are computed If the picture does not change when between monochrome and gray is switched no dithering is done then The output filter can execute this step itself 73 M PLOT Chapter 5 Dither image When the output filter cannot mix any colors this must occur with a dithering All pri mary colors are used in this case and each of them is dithered Dithering means a color value between 0 255 is taken and is converted into a bit value of 0 1 So that the pic ture receives gray levels the neighbor color
153. table is like the color table During the standard installation of M PLOT the basic palette is set on ISO That means that the line types are not correct for ANSI Therefore the line table is activated in the list entry ANSI standard The Stan dard palette is ignored and only these values are accepted Weight filter ANSI standard Eel x Color table Line table Calor Line M Create a new line style table Define line style properties sye Pem T Remove in dot 0 020 0 039 dashdot 0 236 0 039 0 078 0 039 center 0 236 0 039 0 078 0 039 phantom 0 236 0 039 0 078 0 039 0 078 0 039in Default Style dash Pattern Cay 0 079 Inch Apply Cancel Illustration 6 7 Weight filter Notebook Line table If you deactivate the control box Define a new line style table the global defaults are then automatically valid from the standard palette If this palette is also empty and or not set all line allocations are then deleted The same 1s also valid for the removing of a line type from the list All relationships to this line type are deleted That guarantees that M PLOT does not do any undefined allocations 101 M PLOT Chapter 6 102 Notebook Colors This notebook determines which color is assigned onto which line width Every color can appear only once and has accordingly also only one line width If a color is avail able in the list this is removed from the color selection That
154. tandard installation M PLOT was configured during the installation in a way that all your settings are stored automatically into the custom directory That gives you the sa fety that at a re installation or at an update your settings are not lost 154 M PLOT installation The directory structure of M PLOT If you install M PLOT the directory mp ot is created This contains all files which are necessary for the execution Also all until then known device drivers are installed The files which are changed by you are in the custom directory stored This directory is only created if M PLOT was not installed before y mquest2001 mquest2k1 win ini mquest2kl_ unix ini 7 cmd win A M PLOT LNK mplot cmd mplot ico M PREV LNK mprev cmd mprev ico mplotbatch cmd 7 cmd unix O mplot mprev A mplotbatch 7 custom custom2k1 win ini custom2k1_unix ini 7 mplot2kl 7 analysis custom set D custome gif 7 model pdf def tiff def mplot set mplot sty mplot wgt mplot map rN D All settings for M PLOT are initialized at this place M PLOT as a stand alone application M PLOT Preview M PLOT Batch M PLOT as a stand alone application M PLOT Preview M PLOT Batch During first installation the most important settings are created Files for the ad
155. the at tributes with those of your drawing must agree If that 1s not the case the drawing will be printed at the next call possibly wrong since the user did not recognize that this drawing does not come from your company We know that no modifications at the line weights are executed with a color filter Nev ertheless how we get this information now into this drawing Resolution We link the colors of our input format in a way that this agrees with those of our colors So that also the line weights are correct we must create also a correct weight filter Then we convert the drawing into a new drawing with the aid of both filters V Create a weight filter with the name of the customer and configure these so that the line weights are set correctly A output onto the printer must occur then correctly Y Create a new color filter with the name of the customer Route the input colors in a way so that these agree with those of your work environment M PRINT reads the input color and assigns the corresponding line weight to the ele ment by means of the weight filter Then the input color is routed so that this agrees with our environment At the end everything is written into a new output file With the next call it is a drawing as if we had created these Brilliant or not The same one works too 1f the input file has already the correct line weights Then the generation of the weight filter is dropped Examples Example 3 W
156. the library Y Y Change the index to clj and the name to Color printer Press then the button Apply The printer is brought now below our submenu Design department You can shift the sequence with the arrow keys Y Press now the button Properties and set the communication with the corre sponding printing queue on your workstation Examples Install laser printer for operations and design department The setting up is identical as in the two previous examples We want to show a simple trick at this place The printer stands presumably in the operations department but we want to create this device twice in the list This printer 1s supposed to be our default printer and stands accordingly also at the first level of the device menu V Select the submenu Operations department and install the printer HP LaserJet 5SiMX direct below the submenu Use the index 1j and the name Laser printer Y Press now the button Properties and set the communication with the corre sponding printing queue on your workstation Our device list looks now as follows E menu Translator Ocom CGM file Osdre SDRE file separator Opd POF file Oeps EPS file LI tiff TIFF file Opng PNG file Mipeg JPEG file A menu Operations department A menu Design department OO dj Color plotter Oel Color printer separator We want to arrange now this printer also according to the
157. the same level as the submenu however below Illustration B 20 Example 4 Reordered device list Examples Install color plotter for design department We arranged the architecture Our printer is now still missing This section shows all single steps which are necessary in order to arrange a printer in M PLOT Read through this section carefully In the following examples not every point is explained anymore Device filters ojx Definition Ccimquest200 1icustomimplot2k Timplot set All defined device filters Remove Index Description in M PLOT menu A menu Translator Ocgm CGM file Copy Olsdre SDRC file Separator LJ pat PDF file Oeps EPS file C tiff TIFF file O png PNG file Wljpeg JPEG file menu Operations department ee Re M M M M M l H M Properties Default index Sart arder a F Restrictions Unigue index menu Apply Mew device M English Design department T French PO New submenu lM German Entwicklungsabteilung Add separator T taian fo l Spanish L Cancel Illustration B 21 Example 4 Install color plotter for design dep Y Select the line Design department If you have another architecture that does not do anything in this case Select the line where the output filter 1s supposed to appear below 199 M PLOT Appendix B Y Press the button New device The
158. these are sent As default the current picture is set Restriction At this time no detail area can be sent yet Whichever detail area you just have zoomed in M PREV always the complete image area is transferred Icon Available Description S always Starts M PRINT see chapter 5 for more information s 39 M PLOT Chapter 2 Zoom The zoom can be changed in M PREV For this purpose different icons for the selection are available to you Icon Available Description gt always Moves the picture if the left mouse button is moved in the graphics area Corresponds to the moving of the scroll bars Eg vectors Activates the zoom mode The zoom can be created by a rec tangle with the left mouse button Then the graphics area is updated e vectors Decreases the zoom by a certain factor The command can also be simulated when you press the right mouse button shortly and release the right mouse button again Resize If you have changed the zoom you can set the image file with the following icons to a specific size rapidly and simply Icon Available Description ID vectors Show the drawing in the initial size vectors Fit the drawing into the graphics area vectors Fit the drawing onto the width of the graphics area A zoom or resize function works only for pure vector graphics Contains the input for mat also raster data the zoom or resize function 1s disabled It would take too much time and memor
159. tion AIX and IBM are registered trade marks of International Busi ness Corporation Solaris and SUN are registered trade marks of Sun Microsystems In corporation Windows and Windows NT Windows 2000 Windows 95 and Windows 98 are registered trade marks of Microsoft Corporation Intel is a registered trade mark of Intel Corporation CorelDRAW and Corel are registered trade marks of Corel Corpo ration M PLOT user manual Document number 003 2001 02 e Table of contents Table of contents Introduction xix What you should know before you read this DOOK ccccccccccccceceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees XX What this manual anc udes seat aa ocd aad tee O N XXi Further ini ormaUo Merenn E A xxii CONVENON renn EA ee xxii Working with M PLOT 23 Sar nd Exitol M PEO Ferres a A O 24 Start omte Consola oaetas aeaneheuee ee teai tau edaueReuldie te saue 24 Example Or UNIX Platforms srie ann A ENARA 25 Example of Windows NT 2000 cccccccccccccccccesceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeseeeeeeeeseeeeeeeeaes 25 Sarras ashor oU ai EG 25 Cee E E EO L EEE EO Re EET E EO A EE EE 25 Properties Of the man Windowsiin r T E eee 26 Commands Anne action Dairies a a ace ole are ae 27 Menu Ele rnan O 2 Meni Se NNAS arta ete Moe Se CR eS 21 Menu Help saarennon A E 28 M PLOT Table of contents vi Browse the operating system CNVIFONMENL cceesesseessssseesssssssssssssssseseseeeeeeees 28 AER D E EI E A E VETE SENTE RA T E VETE ESE RA T E TETT
160. tion 6 2 Weight filters Palette notebook Color table It is up to you how many colors you define It is not necessary that you remove all not needed colors at this place You will see that during the allocation you be able to select explicitly colors This menu determines only how many colors stand for the menu selection The use of weight filters Example In older I DEAS versions the color Golden orange was defined as follows Application RGB real value RGB decimal Drafting 1 00000 0 66000 0 00000 255 168 0 I DEAS 1 00000 0 66666 0 00000 255 170 0 The misalignment through the round off is for M PLOT decisive Would only consid ered the color value for I DEAS the color would never be evaluated in Drafting There fore you can determine the color itself Also the color name is not equate to the color name of SDRC The RGB color value is entered as hexadecimal value in the format RRGGBB When you don t know this notation M PLOT can help you Press the button Mix color and you can simply mix the color Mixing color ojx FGE color value Re i ry Geen b i ___ i ry Bue 3 m Fre defined colors _ M E E Color value hex vaule f olor C Grayscale Enter 000000 COo Cancel Illustration 6 3 Weight filters Palette color selection Please think of it that these colors corresponds with the ones in the image file As a rule y
161. tion is directly dependent on the sheet and graphics orientation PAPER FEED DIRECTION gt UPPER LEFT UPPER CENTER UPPER RIGHT efs Lt Lt Lo L L 3 i i i i i i i ss a oe Laie as LE SS Se SS hermes pares S el Deea ee emcee carer aera SS SS Erea ererll e ER pereza LOWER LEFT LOWER RIGHT SS ey SSS Se uraa ae ee ee Illustration 8 4 Style filter Picture origins 123 M PLOT Chapter 8 124 External settings In this section you can link the different external defaults onto the current style filter That makes it for you possible that with a selecti
162. tput filter only as a whole when another color template was selected Today very often efficient color printings devices are available in the office What does speak against it therefore not to print out a drawing also in color It suits on the hand that a color like yellow is not ideal very much It would be better if this color could be converted into an other darker color Or specific important infor mation should only be printed colored and the rest of the drawing in black With a color filter this request can be corresponded Importantly is to be understood that the line weight as described in chapter 6 is determined first After this is done the color is linked That makes it possible not to maintain the tables twice and it is also more logical Comment In the old M PLOT version 6 this cycle of operations could also be simulated with a trick However the line weight was determined first on the assigned color 106 The use of color filters Call of the dialog box Color filters The dialog box Color filters can be called from different applications Either you call the program M ADMIN M PLOT or M PRINT From M ADMIN Start M ADMIN on the console or through a double click onto the shortcut Choose then the button Adapt M PLOT to your environment A new window opens Choose now the button Color filters From M PLOT or M PREV Start the application on the console or through a double click onto the shortcut C
163. ture technique correctly For the output onto a PostScript printer PS level 3 1s urgently required 79 M PLOT Chapter 5 80 Simplify This command makes it possible that additional settings on the output filter can be set which are for the output of interest The defaults are in the output filter under fea ture declared Command Format Description Simplify PDF e Add thumbnails is the control box active a pictogram is created for every picture If raster data are available in the picture these are optimized e Optimize image the PDF function is activated so that the output in the preview program is better The display takes through that more time CGM These settings can change if another profile is selected If you are not sure whether the preview program understands these options you should all activate then e Text is the control box deactivated the text is written as such into the file Otherwise the text is broken up in single lines e Symbol is the control box active a symbol Marker is broken up e Crosshatch is the control box active a crosshatch pat tern is broken up in single lines e Linetype is the control box active the line type center line etc becomes broken up in single lines Print pictures with M PRINT Profiles CGM A profile combines features from the output filter In particular CGM requires this command to be compatible with other vie
164. valde Red S ry Green 1337 i i ___ ry Bue ii __ ry Pre defined colors ee ee __ __ i Color value hex vaule f olor C Grayscale Enter O0a800 Cancel Illustration 7 3 Color filter Color selection Remark All colors defined in the color table appear for the allocation see next notebook From this basis also specific output colors must be stored in the palette Otherwise you cannot access these colors If you must delete a color from the palette the relation in the selected entry is updated like this During the exit of the main dialog window all entries are checked automati cally and brought onto the newest state The use of color filters Notebook Color assignment In this notebook you can determine the assignment How many colors you want to evaluate dependents only from the number of colors defined in the color table Color filter Sample lel Es Color table Calor assignment Assign input color to a new output color input color assign to Output coor Remove Sorn Input color Apply New Output color green Cancel Illustration 7 4 Color filter Notebook Color assignment The procedure is as follows Choose first the original color input color and then the output color Press then the button New and the line appears in the window You will nate that an input color can be evalu
165. vided that the standard device filter did not link any own color filter See more information s for this purpose in the next example M PRINT D Users Markidrawing pff Output device Mame PDF file Properties Output Direct Modify File drawingpdf Mew file Remove Output file More info s Copies Number of prints 1 l Sorted pi pi pi Frint range C All pictures 3 Current picture 1 C Range From 1 To 14 r Allon the same page Style information on output format Style filter cala te choat cira p Previews FEM printout Scale to user border 7 ae Scale to sheet size Help o Et Illustration B 18 Example 3 Selection of the new style filter in M PRINT When you select the style filter and press then the button Preview these settings are set exactly in the preview The additional information s like help texts logo etc are not displayed since these are copied directly into the output file 193 M PLOT Appendix B Example 4 What you learn in this example If you test this example you can arrange new device filters you understand the inter face to the print program you can replace an existing device filter and a lot of things more Starting position We have various output filters Some of them are the same but stands at different loca tions We will arrange a PDF archive and we create for the FEM department the link
166. vided with absolute path Environment vari able can be used also These must be set and valid during the start 62 Print pictures with M PRINT Example of UNIX platforms mprint HOME ideas 8 501000 pff mprint b true dir HOME ideas ext pff mprintf mprintf dir data pff ext pff Example of Windows NT 2000 gt mprint HOMEPATH ideas 8 501000 pff gt mprint b true dir HOMEPATH ideas ext pff gt mprintf gt mprintf dir D data pff Special notes The scripts mprint and mprintf distinguish only in the option b This is integrated al ready in the file mprintf 63 M PLOT Chapter 5 Properties of the main window 64 If M PRINT is called the main window appears This is divided as follows e Output device All settings which affect the output format directly are combined e Print range If several individual images are in the input file these can be printed in different kind and manner e Copies The sorting and the number of copies can be changed e Style information on output format The style filter determines how the input format is supposed to appear on the output filter A preview supports you in the fine ness M PRINT D Users Markidrawing pff Output device Mame HP Color LaserJet 4500 Properties Output Direct sdreNTip d wsminopr Modify drawing ps New file Remove M Output file Mare info s Copies Number of pri
167. w The filter was copied now automatically into the directory model from the library Therefore the inquiry mask also appears during the deleting of the filter from the ar chitecture 200 Examples Y Deactivate the control boxes French Ttalian and Spanish We want to use only the languages of German and English Y Rename the language entries German and English with our description for the printer Color plotter If you start M PLOT in another language as German or English the printer is not displayed in M PRINT since the name is empty Y Y Rename the indicator in dj Y Press the button Apply The window should have following content now Device filters OO x Definition Ccimaquest200 1 customimplot2k Timplot set All defined device filters Remove Index _ Description in M PLOT menu A menu Translator Ocgm CGM file Copy Olsdre SDRC file Separator LJ pat PDF file Oeps EPS file LJ tiff TIFF file O png PNG file Mjpeq JPEG file menu Operations department A menu Design department were oe e Properties Default index Sart arder a vi Restrictions Unique index id Apply New device M English Color plotter 00 l French L Mew submenu M German Farbplotte Add separator T taian fo l Spanish PO Cancel Illustration B 23 Example 4 Integrated color plotter into device list 201
168. we SOFTWARE AG M PLOT 2001 user manual 4 product manual M PLOT 2001 user manual Document number 003 2001 02 e 19 September 2001 AUTHOR Written and illustrated by Markus Meinl PDF document created with Adobe Distiller 1996 2001 M QUEST Software Corporation All rights reserved The information in this book is published without regard for a possible patent protec tion Product names are used without guarantee of the free usability During the compil ing of texts and illustrations was proceeded with greatest care In spite of that mistakes cannot be excluded completely M QUEST and the author cannot take over either legal responsibility or any liability for erroneous information and their results All rights reserve also the one of the photomechanical fabrication and the retention in electronic media The industrial use of the software is only permissible if this right validly was acquired SDRC I DEAS I DEAS Master Series Drafting Drafting Detailing and Master Draft ing are registered trade marks of Structural Dynamics Research Corporation HP HP UX HP GL HP GL 2 RTL and PCL are registered trade marks of Hewlett Packard Company PostScript PS EPS PDF Acrobat Reader and Distiller are registered trade marks of Adobe Systems Incorporation ESC P2 and EPSON are registered trade marks of SEICO and EPSON Corporation sgi and IRIX are registered trade marks of Silicon Graphics Incorpora
169. when the text is not contiguous within the context A button becomes characterized with New entry Working with M PLOT 1 Working with M PLOT M PLOT is a stand alone application for viewing and printing of image files and Draft ing drawings directly on operating system level All input formats can be sent to a printer queue and all of them can be converted at the same time Restriction Input formats of Drafting can only be converted when the program draftbatch is in stalled and a valid Drafting license 1s present If you are working with I DEAS 8 or higher the Drafting drawings are ignored 23 M PLOT Chapter 1 Start and Exit of M PLOT M PLOT can be started in different kind and manner For which kind you decide de pends on the type of use and the available operating system In this manual we go out that the search path is set up to the start directory of the M QUEST installation To find out more for this purpose please contact the user manual M ADMIN 2001 Start on the console In order to start M PLOT on the console use following syntax mplot option option file file An option begins always with a minus sign Option Description h Lists all available options M PLOT 1s not started x Switches the user language The placeholder x 1s to replace with one of the following numbers 0 English 1 French 2 German and 3 Italian rf Removes all input files which were decl
170. window with Cancel A cancel of the window sets all settings to the state before the call was done This button makes it possible to copy the complete selected entry All options are also copied The index 1s automatically increased You can change the index at any time with the but ton Apply 93 M PLOT Chapter 6 94 Command Description Default index An entry in the list must be declared as default so that M PLOT can select a filter automatically The default is selected with a hook Through a double click onto the line within the list the selected line is set again as default Sort order With the two arrow keys you can determine the sequence in the selection The M PLOT user sees exactly this sequence Properties This button turns on a new window with all properties of the selected entry The entries in this window are explained then more exactly Palette This button turns on a new window At this place the standard palette can be created for all entries This is helpful that for every entry in the list the same color map does not have to be created repeatedly All entries and commands are explained then more specific The use of weight filters Define standard pallet for weight filters M PLOT distinguishes two kinds of palettes A color palette and a line palette What is a palette A palette is used to comparing information from the image file with the de faults If an e
171. window with all available library filters ap pears Y Search for the printer manufacturer hp in the list and do a double click onto the line The folder hp opens and you see all HP devices with the device designation Y Look for the entry HP DesignJet 750C 36 HP RTL Choose a new device filter ojx Device filter From device library ea click for selection OHF Designle D HP DesignJet ie 34 DHF DesignJet F500 24 i P GL 2 i D HP DesignJet 750C 24 i vi H PS 2 HP RTL LICENSE HP GL 2 PS 2 DHF DesignJet 7500 36 C Rz Benea pae oa O HF DesignJet 755CM ii HP SEE DHF DesignJet 7590M 36 P5 2 DHF DesignJet 759CM 36 HP RTL LICENSE DHF DesignJet 500 24 AHP GL 2 DO HP DesignJet 600 24 PS 2 C Load filter from disk Selected HP DesignJet 750C 36 HP RTL LICENSE Cancel Illustration B 22 Example 4 Select plotter from device library Our plotter with a 36 roll occurs in three variants The plotter can be selected in M PLOT with HL GL 2 PostScript and HP RTL The secondary code LICENSE in dicates that this filter requires a license The filter is fully functional also without li cense It appears besides the text DEMO on the output On the other hand it 1s also understandable that this filter can more as the pure HP GL 2 driver Y Execute a double click onto this line The window closes and the description is transmitted into our main windo
172. wing programs The command set of CGM is very powerful So that you do not have to have all settings in mind you can summarize these into a profile If the CGM output filter is activated already common profiles are arranged Command Description Profiles e ANSI 1 0 supports the full CGM 1 0 standard Polygons rectan gles circles arcs are written so forth as commands The preview program must be able to interpret these commands SDRC I DEAS creates a CGM file which is fully compatible with I DEAS Functions which are not supported in I DEAS are reduced to line functions Pictures are converted explicitly into the integer format SDRC Drafting is identical as for DEAS The dimensions are adapted in a way that Drafting can correctly display the drawing SDRC Master Drafting identical as for SDRC Drafting The CGM file is optimized for the new CGM interpreter CorelDRAW the CGM file is optimized especially for Corel DRAW The picture formatting is adapted in a way that raster data can be displayed also in this application 81 M PLOT Chapter 5 82 File type CGM CGM supports different kinds of file types But not all CGM interpreters can read all file types It is decisive that the correct type is applied Command Description File type The default can change if another profile is selected e Binary format is the default The CGM file is created in binary format Pictures and
173. y to process the scaling This is a issue for a common M PLOT version 40 Preview pictures with M PREV Call from M PLOT M PREV can be started also directly from M PLOT A double click reaches for this purpose onto a file and the display application is started In M PLOT it is also possible to open several display application simultaneously in order to compare files with each other Mentioned as already at the beginning all screen operations are generated through the software Image files are loaded completely into main memory and are decompressed That requires a considerable memory requirement according to screen size and input format When it should not be possible to load the whole file please quit other running applica tions An optimized memory management is considered in a coming version of M PREV 41 M PLOT Chapter 2 42 M PLOT and external applications 3 M PLOT and external applications M PLOT can be started directly from Drafting and I DEAS The image file is created automatically and M PRINT then started The image file can be converted into the cho sen output format If M PLOT is terminated the image file is deleted automatically and removed from the TDM in I DEAS The communication is executed with the aid of macros The macros are developed in a way that you can integrate your own adaptations Only a copy of the macros must be created for this purpose All macros are designed that the cu

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