U1 Plot Manual
U1 PLOT 10 U1 Plot Conventions used in the manual Two terms are used in the text to point out special circumstances or advantages or even to warn
JOB EDITOR 100 U1 Plot Calcomp - Colors To assign the required grey scale to each individual color, open the “Colors“ tab: The change to the pe
JOB EDITOR U1 Plot 101 Calcomp - Misc • Pen Source: If you activate the „File“ field, you instruct the plotter to use the pen width informatio
JOB EDITOR 102 U1 Plot and not on the next larger format because the pen widths were too large causing the drawing to slightly exceed the A4 form
JOB EDITOR U1 Plot 103 Attention: If you enter a larger value, you will obtain a s m a l l e r drawing: The entry 1 equates to 0.125 %. Exampl
JOB EDITOR 104 U1 Plot • Double Sync • check sum You can either let U1 Plot determine the values or you can enter the necessary settings yourse
PRINT JOB U1 Plot 105 Print job The following chapters explain how you can manually or automatically plot an order. It also explains how jobs c
PRINT JOB 106 U1 Plot your own time. As soon as you are ready, simply set the priority back. Read how to do this in Chapter “Change job character
PRINT JOB U1 Plot 107 • Quit Autoplot mode: If the Autoplot mode was activated, you can deactivate it by clicking on the “Auto” button. The jo
PRINT JOB 108 U1 Plot cases, in which the plotter has had to be switched off due to a malfunction. Error messages As soon as the status „Problem
PRINT JOB U1 Plot 109 reasons could be, that the plotter is just making use of it’s own printer functions (copy function, test plot etc.). • S
U1 Plot 11 Part I - Installation
PRINT JOB 110 U1 Plot See above. • Due to errors the plotter work thread shut down:... See above. • An error occured during set splitting:... D
PRINT JOB U1 Plot 111 printing settings in the job editor don’t match to the settings of the plotter. Maybe you have selected a medium which isn
PRINT JOB 112 U1 Plot The job was canceled, because of a defective file or missing license for a file format.
PRINT JOB U1 Plot 113
U1 Plot 114 Part III - Appendix
OVERVIEW OF THE FILE FORMATS U1 Plot 115 Overview of the file formats In the following chart all file formats are listed. The standard formats
OVERVIEW OF THE FILE FORMATS 116 U1 Plot DODISS, Department of Defense Index of Specifications and Standards MIL-STD-1840B b/w FAX CCITT G4
OVERVIEW OF THE FILE FORMATS U1 Plot 117 The following file formats are optional. You can use the DWG format only, if you have installed an Au
JOBS IN THE SUBDIRECTORIES 118 U1 Plot Jobs in the subdirectories This section briefly describes how U1 Plot identifies and accepts jobs. It is i
JOBS IN THE SUBDIRECTORIES U1 Plot 119 files. The following work steps are carried out when an “SSL job“ is received: 1. An individual subfolde
INSTALLATIONS AND SETTINGS ON THE SERVER-PC 12 U1 Plot Installations and settings on the Server-PC This chapter explains, • What system require
HPGL AND HPGL/2 COMMANDS AND PENS 120 U1 Plot HPGL and HPGL/2 commands and pens In this chapter we have listed all the HPGL and HPGL/2 commands
HPGL AND HPGL/2 COMMANDS AND PENS U1 Plot 121 RR = + WG = + • Line and Fill Attributes Group: AC = + FT = + LA = ~ LT = + PW = + RF = + SM =
HPGL AND HPGL/2 COMMANDS AND PENS 122 U1 Plot • Palette Extension: CR = + NP = + PC = + SV = + TR = + • Dual-Context Extension: No commands are
CALCOMP COMMANDS AND PENS U1 Plot 123 Calcomp commands and pens In this chapter we have listed all the Calcomp commands and their implementati
CALCOMP COMMANDS AND PENS 124 U1 Plot • Symbols Commands: font selection + [not all symbols] symbol string count + plotter symbol scaling + c
CALCOMP COMMANDS AND PENS U1 Plot 125 Pen Pen width in mm Pen width in pixels 4 0.25 4 5 0.32 5 6 0.38 6 7 0.44 7 8 0.51 8 9 0.57 9 1
INDEX 126 U1 Plot Index A Autoplot 105 C Calcomp Commands 122 Pens 123 CFG jobs 118 CGM Format 50 Colors Calcomp 100 HPGL and HPGL/2 91 Co
INDEX U1 Plot 127 Default settings 71 Delete job 71 Distribution 70 drag & drop 80 E-Mail 71 Job Copies 71 Job flag sheet 71 Job le
INDEX 128 U1 Plot Activate 43 Resolution Step sizes/cm 95, 102 Response 55 S Selection Cancel 66 Defaults 65 General 65 Start 65 SSL File
INDEX U1 Plot 129 User Safety 6 W Windows settings SNMP 17 TCP/IP 17
INSTALLATIONS AND SETTINGS ON THE SERVER-PC U1 Plot 13 standard, it is possible that the plotter controller will not be identified. • System
INSTALLATIONS AND SETTINGS ON THE SERVER-PC 14 U1 Plot Proceed as follows to install the driver: 1. Click on the “Next“ button to start the ins
INSTALLATIONS AND SETTINGS ON THE SERVER-PC U1 Plot 15 Select the topmost option “Search for a suitable driver for my device (recommended)“ an
INSTALLATIONS AND SETTINGS ON THE SERVER-PC 16 U1 Plot Click on “Next“ to continue with the installation. 6. You are now informed that the driv
INSTALLATIONS AND SETTINGS ON THE SERVER-PC U1 Plot 17 After you have finished making the adjustments you must reboot the computer. Installing
INSTALLATIONS AND SETTINGS ON THE SERVER-PC 18 U1 Plot To do this, proceed as follows: 1. Click once on the “My computer“ desktop. 2. Open the
INSTALLATIONS AND SETTINGS ON THE SERVER-PC U1 Plot 19 the list box of the next window. This language will also be used later in the installed
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INSTALLATIONS AND SETTINGS ON THE SERVER-PC 20 U1 Plot Follow the instructions given in the window: Close any Windows programs, which are still o
INSTALLATIONS AND SETTINGS ON THE SERVER-PC U1 Plot 21 8. A program folder is now suggested. Enter another folder name or confirm the sugges
INSTALLATIONS AND SETTINGS ON THE SERVER-PC 22 U1 Plot You have the choice to install the standard program version or a demo program version. Th
INSTALLATIONS AND SETTINGS ON THE SERVER-PC U1 Plot 23 11. You can now complete the installation by clicking on “Finish“ in the straight opene
INSTALLATIONS AND SETTINGS ON THE SERVER-PC 24 U1 Plot 3. You can see a small search symbol in the top of the window. Click on this symbol to o
INSTALLATIONS AND SETTINGS ON THE SERVER-PC U1 Plot 25 Installation of U1 WINPRINT The Windows printer driver U1 WINPRINT allows print jobs to
INSTALLATIONS AND SETTINGS ON THE SERVER-PC 26 U1 Plot As a standard spooler folder is set on c:\spool\cfg. If you installed the spool folder of
INSTALLATIONS AND SETTINGS ON THE SERVER-PC U1 Plot 27 Installation Problems PC doesn’t start The Controller-Board is defective. Use another b
INSTALLATIONS AND SETTINGS ON THE SERVER-PC 28 U1 Plot
U1 Plot 29 Part II - U1 Plot
CONTENTS U1 Plot 3 Contents Preface...6 U1 Plot ...
START AND QUIT PROGRAM 30 U1 Plot Start and quit program Although you have to install U1 Plot as a user with administrator rights, only the right
PROGRAM WINDOW U1 Plot 31 Program window
PROGRAM SEQUENCE 32 U1 Plot Program sequence This chapter provides you with an overview of how a drawing is placed in the U1 Plot job list and th
PROGRAM SEQUENCE U1 Plot 33 • Intergraph ...(*.cit; *.tg4) • HP-GL [/2, RTL] ...
PROGRAM SEQUENCE 34 U1 Plot Draftsman/woman: The [technical] Draftsman/woman prepares the drawings for the client, which can later be collated by
PROGRAM SEQUENCE U1 Plot 35 The following file formats can be read by U1 Plot, if a corresponding license has been purchased: • CGM...
PROGRAM SEQUENCE 36 U1 Plot 6. COLLECTION: U1 Plot regularly reads the directories and checks whether there are any new jobs. As soon as a job is
TOOLS U1 Plot 37 Tools This section gives you a brief overview of the program’s tools, which you can activate using the four tool bars as well
TOOLS 38 U1 Plot Add entry at the end of the entry list Insert entry in front of the marked position in the entry list Delete entry from t
TOOLS U1 Plot 39 Switch over to zoom all of drawing Switch over to 1:1 view of drawing Multipage document: Show first page Multipage
CONTENTS 4 U1 Plot Context menu...41 Configuration...
TOOLS 40 U1 Plot You can click this button, if it is blue. After activating the pause is cancelled and the print is continued. U1 Plot signal l
TOOLS U1 Plot 41 Status bar The status bar is located on the lower edge of the monitor and provides you with the following four sets of informa
TOOLS 42 U1 Plot commands using the right-hand mouse button, without having to mode to the menu or toolbar. You open the menu using the right-han
CONFIGURATION U1 Plot 43 Configuration The following chapters describe how you can use the “Configuration“ menu to alter the program settings. R
CONFIGURATION 44 U1 Plot • Ghostscript-Logging: If you activate these options, the Postscript or PDF actions of the program are also logged. Thi
CONFIGURATION U1 Plot 45 Type 3 = user-defined fonts Type 4 = Type 1 fonts with a BuildChar or BuildGlyph procedure and TrueType Fonts under Win
CONFIGURATION 46 U1 Plot Attention: If you want to add fonts from the WINNT directory, you have to notice the following: The WINNT-directory is wr
CONFIGURATION U1 Plot 47 • Delete fonts: To delete a font or an alias, you only need to mark it in the font list and to click once on the “Dele
CONFIGURATION 48 U1 Plot activated. You can now select one of the following standard settings from the “Selection“ list: • Photo (fine dithering,
CONFIGURATION U1 Plot 49 • Transfer function: The default setting is that no transfer function is carried out. In addition, the settings “Inver
CONTENTS U1 Plot 5 Delete entries ...81 Stamp editor ...
CONFIGURATION 50 U1 Plot Later on you can search for your personal settings from the “Selection“ list in the “Default Settings” using this name.
CONFIGURATION U1 Plot 51 The Help function for the individual CGM format settings can be opened using the HELP button. This calls up detailed h
CONFIGURATION 52 U1 Plot • Spool folder: The CFG and SSL subdirectories in which the respective job files can be called up are located in the sp
CONFIGURATION U1 Plot 53 • Spool Timeout: To prevent long waiting times for reading in incomplete job files, you can click on the check box so
CONFIGURATION 54 U1 Plot The “No” option has the following consequences for the print jobs: If you have select expressly a certain roll for your p
CONFIGURATION U1 Plot 55 • Response: During the installation of U1 Plot, the “Response” folder is also set up, which is used to display the cu
CONFIGURATION 56 U1 Plot • Job Flag Sheet: The Job Flag Sheet contains information about the print job and will be printed together with it as la
CONFIGURATION U1 Plot 57 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Date: 16/08/2001 Time: 09:18:33 Job Number: Job
CONFIGURATION 58 U1 Plot ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ An SDF file can also be read into and edited in a spre
CONFIGURATION U1 Plot 59 Notes Free comments on the job order OriginalFileName Original name of the entry file PaperPlottedArea Area of paper
PREFACE 6 U1 Plot Preface This manual contains detailed instructions on the operation and maintenance of this machine. To get maximum versatility
JOB HISTORY 60 U1 Plot Job History All job planned for plotting or that have already been printed are automatically included in the job list: A
JOB HISTORY U1 Plot 61 program run following installation and numbers through to 10,000,000. It then starts to count from 1,000 again. This job
JOB HISTORY 62 U1 Plot OK The job has been printed. (black) Pending The job is ready for printing. (blue) Plotting The job is currently being
JOB HISTORY U1 Plot 63 Change job characteristics Only the following job characteristics can be altered in the job list: • Priority • Job stat
JOB HISTORY 64 U1 Plot Sort list The jobs are normally sorted by job number. However, you can also select another of the seven criteria given in
JOB HISTORY U1 Plot 65 I.e. the jobs, for which there were problems and for which the printout has thus not yet been completed are shown first.
JOB HISTORY 66 U1 Plot The characters are entered one after the other without a space, e.g.: >=1007. • Job name: Here you can either search f
JOB HISTORY U1 Plot 67 Job information A comfortable way obtaining job information quickly is to use the job info window. You can open the info
STATUS DISPLAY 68 U1 Plot Status display The status display is a pure information window, in which you cannot make any entries and changes. It
JOB EDITOR U1 Plot 69 Job editor You can use job editor to alter the settings for jobs and the entries contained within them. You can also delet
U1 Plot U1 Plot 7 U1 Plot This manual describes the program U1 Plot. The client-server architecture of the U1 system allows each user connecte
JOB EDITOR 70 U1 Plot • Job name: This is where the name of the plot job is displayed, which the user has selected. You can enter maximum 40 cha
JOB EDITOR U1 Plot 71 • Job Copies: Here you can enter the number of job copies. • Job flag sheet: Activate the “ON“ field if you want a cover
JOB EDITOR 72 U1 Plot Note: All basic settings only apply for newly added entries except for the number of copies. • Formats: Use this section
JOB EDITOR U1 Plot 73 by the window value. The freely adjustable settings apply both to the orientation as well as the format size and the forma
JOB EDITOR 74 U1 Plot The selection depends on what roll of medium you have fed in the plotter. The “Position“ field is used to set the symbolic
JOB EDITOR U1 Plot 75 If you select the “Auto“ setting, the plotter chooses the media source, which matches the format size of the drawing. Shou
JOB EDITOR 76 U1 Plot • Mirror: In this area you can set whether the drawing is to be mirrored or not during plotting. The individual fields mea
JOB EDITOR U1 Plot 77 If you want to make entries in the “Specific“ tab, read the information given for the “Default Specifics “ tab from Page 7
JOB EDITOR 78 U1 Plot shown. The green check shows, that a pen is used for the current drawing. Add entries A job usually already contains all t
JOB EDITOR U1 Plot 79 • RLC ...(*.rlc) • T6X ...
U1 PLOT 8 U1 Plot Guide to the manual This manual contains all the information that you will need for the correct use of U1 Plot, from a function
JOB EDITOR 80 U1 Plot If the new entry is to be inserted in front of the marked entry, click on: The program opens a file selection window. 3.
JOB EDITOR U1 Plot 81 1. Open Windows Explorer and arrange the two windows of U1 Plot and Explorer so that thy are positioned next to each othe
JOB EDITOR 82 U1 Plot • Mark the entry to be deleted, click on the right-hand mouse button and choose “Delete” using the left-hand mouse button
JOB EDITOR U1 Plot 83 3. You can now either enter your own settings for the stamps, as described in the following chapters or use an existing s
JOB EDITOR 84 U1 Plot another stamp or close the window by clicking on “OK“, all the settings are saved. To delete a stamp, first mark it and th
JOB EDITOR U1 Plot 85 • Rotation: - The standard orientation of the text is always the reader direction. Here you can alter the text rotation
JOB EDITOR 86 U1 Plot • Enable Frame: Activate the “Enable frame“ field if you want a stamp frame to be printed. Three default settings can be s
JOB EDITOR U1 Plot 87 • Stamp type: Before you can begin to enter the settings or change the other fields, you must first select the stamp type
JOB EDITOR 88 U1 Plot - Count: This macro is suitable if you have lots of drawings or entries with the same stamp text and you want to different
JOB EDITOR U1 Plot 89 • Logo: Select a graphic using the “Browse“ button, which is to appear in the stamp as a logo. For example, the firm log
U1 Plot U1 Plot 9 These include the toolbars for Job, Entry and View as well as the status bar. The so-called “signal lights“ is also explained
JOB EDITOR 90 U1 Plot View the changes U1 Plot has an additional function, which allows you to look at the changes to the pen widths and some of
JOB EDITOR U1 Plot 91 • Pen size: Enter the pen widths directly in the first column under “size” using the keyboard. The maximum values that
JOB EDITOR 92 U1 Plot • Grey scale: The grey scale can only be adjusted if you have chosen “grey“ as the color. The changes are also made direct
JOB EDITOR U1 Plot 93 In this window you can change the grey scale, which has been assigned to each color. If you do not want to change each col
JOB EDITOR 94 U1 Plot • Color Source: Is you activate the “File“ field, you instruct the plotter to use the pen color information when plotting,
JOB EDITOR U1 Plot 95 a printout with the next format because the pen widths are too large and the A4 format is slightly exceeded, causing unnec
JOB EDITOR 96 U1 Plot Attention: If you enter a larger value, you will obtain a s m a l l e r drawing: The entry 1 equates to 0.25 %. Example:
JOB EDITOR U1 Plot 97 value pattern. If you select the “loadable pattern” as the grey value pattern, a pattern is loaded. Try and see which patt
JOB EDITOR 98 U1 Plot You can change the pen sizes and the gray values aside from black and white. These settings will be saved as default settin
JOB EDITOR U1 Plot 99 the pen widths as “0“. You can set the grey shade that a color represents on the “Colors“ tab. • Grey: The grey scale ca
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