Places a plot stamp on a specified corner of each drawing and logs it to a file.
If you enter -plotstamp at the Command prompt, the following prompts are displayed. The settings in the PSS file are displayed as defaults for each prompt.
You can use -PLOTSTAMP as part of a plotting script to modify plot stamp information for a drawing.
The following prompts are displayed.
Enter an option [On/OFF/Fields/User fields/Log file/LOCation/Text properties/UNits]:
Turns on the plot stamp for the current drawing.
Turns off the plot stamp for the current drawing.
Specifies the plot stamp field information you want to apply to the current plot stamp.
Stamp drawing name? [Yes/No] <Yes>:
Stamp layout name? [Yes/No] <Yes>:
Stamp date and time? [Yes/No] <Yes>:
Stamp login name? [Yes/No] <Yes>:
Stamp plot device name? [Yes/No] <Yes>:
Stamp paper size? [Yes/No] <Yes>:
Stamp plot scale? [Yes/No] <Yes>:
Specifies the user-defined fields you want to apply to the current plot stamp.
Enter User field 1 <>: Enter any user-defined field
Enter User field 2 <>: Enter any user-defined field
Specifies writing the current plot stamp information to a log file rather than applying this information to the current plotted drawing. The default log file is plot.log, unless you specify another file path.
Write plot stamp to log file? [Yes/No] <Yes>:
Enter log file path <plot.log>:
Determines the location of the plot stamp on the page based on offset, orientation, and relationship to either the printable area or the border of the paper.
Location selections include and are relative to the printable area or the border of the paper, depending on what you specify at the prompt.
Enter stamp location [TL/TR/BL/BR] <BL>:
Text orientation indicates the rotation angle of the plot stamp in relation to the page.
Enter text orientation [Horizontal/Vertical] <Horizontal>:
Stamp upside-down [Yes/No] <No>:
Specify plot stamp offset <0.1000,0.1000>:
Specifying an offset relative to the paper border calculates the offset values that you specify from the corner of the paper. Specifying an offset relative to the printable area calculates the offset values that you specify from the corner of the printable area.
Specify offset relative to [paper Border/printable Area] <printable Area>:
Determines the font name and text height for the current plot stamp text. You can also specify to place the text on one line or to wrap the text to two lines. The placement and offset values you specify for this plot stamp must accommodate the text wrapping and the text height.
Enter font name <>: Enter a font name
Enter text height <0.1500>: Enter a value
Place plot stamp on single line? [Yes/No] <No >:
Specifies the units used to measure X offset, Y offset, and height. You can define units using inches, millimeters, or pixels.
Enter measurement units [Inches/Millimeters/Pixels] <Inches>: