Shows the AutoCAD user interface during rendering for monitoring or troubleshooting. If cleared, AutoCAD runs invisibly in the background.

A semicolon-delimited (;) list of source file extensions to be rendered by this module.

To modify the list:

1. Click Change. The Input File Extensions dialog box appears.
2. Select the file extensions that you want to be rendered.
3. Click Close. The list is refreshed to show your selections.

Select a rendition type:

Default– Renders drawings with AutoCAD plotter configuration files using the options that are set in the Layout Range and Plotter groups.

AutoLISP command – Shows options with which you can configure an AutoLISP function that you have created for plotting. Select or type options using the descriptions in the table AutoLISP command options.

Which layout to render. Type the layout tab number in Layout. To use a layout tab number that is saved in a document property, select the property name from the From property list. If this option is not configured correctly, the active layout will be used. Available only when Rendition type is set to Default.

To render drawings with a plotter configuration:

1. Select the desired output format from Output file format. The plotter configuration files that output to the selected format appear in the list.
2. Select a plotter configuration file from the list to use for rendering.
3. Click Plot Options. The Plot Options dialog box appears.
4. Click options or type values using the descriptions in the following table.

Available only when Rendition type is set to Default.

Note    For successful rendering, the selected plotter configuration file must be fully configured and operational before it is selected for use with the Publisher.

Click Select media to show the Media Names dialog box and then select a media name from AutoCAD to be used as the default.

If selected, generates an error if the selected plot style cannot be applied. Otherwise, if an incompatible value is used then the plot style is taken from the layout. If the plot style from the layout is not present on the Publisher computer, then no plot style is used.

Select an option from the list to specify the area to render. The available options correspond to those saved in the drawing.

Select a scale at which to render the output. Only available if Fit to page is cleared.

Scales the selected plot area to fit the selected media.

Select an option from the list to specify the orientation of the selected plot area within the selected media. The global orientation of the media is configured as described in Configuring the rendering options.

Type the name of an AutoLISP function to run. The function must be declared with two parameters. The first parameter will be set to the output file name during rendering. The second parameter can be used to pass the value of the document property that is selected for the Property name option below to the function. The function can then implement logic that controls the output, for example, the sheet size.

Note    The function cannot invoke the EXPORT command.

The function should run an AutoCAD command with at least the input responses necessary to produce the desired output file. Providing additional input responses is optional. The EXPORT command may not be used.

Tip    The easiest way to determine the necessary input responses is to run the command manually and to record the responses that you type. Then transfer those responses to the function definition.

Following is an example of such an AutoLISP function definition that implements the second parameter to retrieve the page size from the property specified by the Property name option. Depending on the value, a different corresponding printer page definition is used. The function then plots the drawing differently if the current tab shows model space or a paper space layout:

(defun PDFPlot (outfile prop)
  (setq pc3 "DWG To PDF.pc3")
  ;Set the paper size
  (setq psize
    (cond
      ((= prop "A4") "ISO expand A4 (210.00 x 297.00 MM)")
      ((= prop "A3") "ISO expand A3 (297.00 x 420.00 MM)")
      ((= prop "A2") "ISO expand A2 (420.00 x 594.00 MM)")
      ((= prop "A1") "ISO expand A1 (594.00 x 841.00 MM)")
      ((= prop "A0") "ISO expand A0 (841.00 x 1189.00 MM)")
      (T "ISO expand A3 (297.00 x 420.00 MM)")
    )
  )
  (setq orientation "L")
  ;Run the plot command
  (if (= (getvar "ctab") "Model")
     (command "-PLOT" "Y" "Model" pc3  psize "M" orientation "N"
       "E" "FIT" "C" "Y" "Monochrome.ctb" "Y" "A" outfile "N" "Y")
     (command "-PLOT" "Y" (getvar "ctab") pc3  psize "M" orientation
       "N" "Layout" "1:1" "0.00,0.00" "Y" "Monochrome.ctb" "Y" "N"
       "N" "N" outfile "N" "Y")
  )
)

Type the extension of the output file to be created. It should be the extension that is normally generated by the plotter that is specified in the plotter configuration file that is used by the function. By default, the name the output file will be the name of the drawing being plotted.