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Plot Management

This section describes GRIP statements for plotting. With these statements, you can plot a drawing sheet or the current display on a specified printer. You can also arrange multiple drawing sheets or display images on the plot layout, and can then plot this plot layout.

NX 3 introduces a new plotting system, so GRIP plotting statements are redefined to utilize the many features of the new system. Beginning with NX 3, statements PLOT, PLTSAV, PLTSUB, and PLTDEL have new parameters and new behaviors. Also, statement PLTUPD and plotting-related parameters of statement DRAWV are now obsolete and have no effect.

If you have legacy GRIP plotting programs written for releases before NX 3, you can modify them to use the redefined statements with their new parameters. If you do not modify or recompile your legacy GRIP plotting programs, you can continue to use them with the new plotting system, provided you create a mapping file that maps legacy statement parameters to values that are meaningful in the new system. Note that only limited features of the new plotting system are available with this mapping technique. To fully exploit the capabilities of the new system, you must modify GRIP plotting programs to use the updated statement parameters.

You can find instructions for using the mapping technique in a sample mapping file provided with NX. The sample file is ${UGII_BASE_DIR}/nxplot/sample_plotter_mapping.txt.