Editor's note: This article was adopted from the Bentley TechNote, which contains more information about using InterPlot Organizer. TechNotes provide detailed technical and instructional information about many Bentley products.
InterPlot Organizer is a Windows application delivered with InterPlot Client/InterPlot Professional for plotting MicroStation design files, AutoCAD drawing files, raster files, and Digital Print Room files.
InterPlot Organizer allows you to work on a group of plots as a single plot set. It gives you full control over plot sets and the plots they contain. You can add, delete, and rearrange plots; view and modify the properties of individual or multiple plots; and preview and print all or some of the plots. You can also control how information about the plots in a set is displayed in the main window.
InterPlot Organizer offers you several advantages:
- The interface allows you to work easily with large sets of plots
- At the beginning of a project, you can create a plot set file that corresponds to project drawings
- As the design progresses, you can easily produce new sets of drawings by using the InterPlot Organizer dialog box and the original plot set file
- Using InterPlot Organizer is often faster than plotting with the dialog box because you do not have to wait for MicroStation to load the design file or AutoCAD to load the drawing file before you plot
- InterPlot Organizer allows you to create and edit settings files and to edit configuration files
How to use InterPlot Organizer
To start InterPlot Organizer, do one of the following:
- From Windows Explorer, double-click the name of an existing plot set
- From the Start > Programs > InterPlot Utilities folder, click the InterPlot Organizer command
- To Start InterPlot Organizer from the Command Prompt: Add the bin subdirectory of the product directory to the system path (\Program Files\InterPlot Professional\bin or \Program Files\InterPlot Client\bin). Type the executable filename and one command line argument (optional): (iplotorg.exe ).
If you started InterPlot Organizer without specifying a plot set, a Welcome dialog box appears.
The Welcome dialog box contains shortcuts for the two operations that load information into Organizer:
Creating new plot sets from files you select and opening an existing plot set.
Click the appropriate option from the Welcome to InterPlot Organizer dialog box. Click OK to dismiss the Welcome dialog box and perform the selected operation. Click Cancel to exit the Welcome dialog box without performing any operation.
Delivered with InterPlot Organizer is a tutorial designed to introduce you to InterPlot Organizer's key features. When you have completed this tutorial, you should have a basic understanding of InterPlot Organizer and its features.
Organizer Command Line Interface
InterPlot Client/Professional includes an InterPlot Organizer command line interface that runs from the command prompt. You can use the command line interface to create, modify, preview, print, and archive plot sets, and to export plots from plot sets. Plot sets can be composed of MicroStation, AutoCAD, raster, and Digital Print Room data.
The InterPlot Organizer command line provides the following commands:
Create - Creates plot set files
Modify - Modifies plot set files
Export - Exports plots from a plot set file as PARM files
Preview - Displays plots on the screen before printing
Print - Prints a plot set
Archive - Archives a plot set file without printing
An InterPlot Organizer command line has the following syntax:
iplotorg <-qualifiers> plotset_file
See Also
ProjectWise TechNotes And FAQs
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This Client Server article is republished in its entirety from 2003 for reference purposes.
Original Author: Bentley Technical Support Group