Plotstream Overview for Architects

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Easily create plot sets

Focus on design - not plotting

Improve team productivity

Integrated with HP Remote Printing AEC^®

Plot from your desktop without AutoCAD^®

Plot to multiple file types and plotters

Project-centric plot control

Saved agents can be used as project templates

Works with AutoCAD^® or any AutoCAD^® vertical

Testimonials... "I researched several solutions, but only one company had a solution that worked and did not limit how we use Autodesk products. That solution is Plotstream by Triple R Technologies"... Steven S. Register, ASLA CAD Manager The Facility Group Smyrna, Georgia

Whether your workstation has AutoCAD^® loaded or not, you can easily create plots of one drawing or sets of hundreds. Plotstream's wizard-driven interface is intuitive and easy while giving you the amount of control that you want. Since the plot processing is done by the Plotstream server(s), your workstation is free for other activities. Plotstream's monitoring capabilities enables you to view progress and control priorities (with sufficient privileges).

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A Plotstream enabled environment allows you to refocus efforts back on what you do best - design. Your own expert(s) set and control the plotting environment for your corporate standards and project specifications. Your team can then create the plots they want, when they want them.

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Now users can create one or hundreds of plots with ease. Traditionally, each drawing file had to be opened in AutoCAD^®, configured for plotting, submitted to the plotter. Users would then wait on the drawing to be processed on the workstation. Each drawing could take several minutes to configure, submit, and process. This is repeated for each drawing in the set. On a large project this could take hours or days while the user is not drawing or designing anything. Plotstream automates this entire process. The Plotstream server(s) performs all of the processing - not the users' workstations. Users are able to do what they were hired for - designing and drawing.

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Plotstream can detect the installation of HP Remote Printing for AEC^®. No additional drivers or plug-ins are necessary. Simply acquire the HP subscription and plot.

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From a workstation without AutoCAD^®, you can submit AutoCAD^® drawings to a Plotstream server for processing. With all of the technical and project specific parameters already set, virtually anyone in the enterprise can create perfect plots. The Plotstream user interface is simple and intuitive, requiring little or no training. You no longer have to request plots from a CAD specialist and wait for the results. With Plotstream you have the power to plot one drawing or a set of drawings to a plotter - in another office if desired. Extending this "CADless" workstation plotting can greatly empower you and your team.

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Do you need to create DWF, TIFF, EPS, HPGL/2, HPGL, or PDF files of your project drawings? Plotstream makes plotting to file easy. With a copy of Adobe^® Acrobat^® on the Plotstream server, PDF files are quickly and easily generated. DWF, TIFF, EPS, HPGL/2, and HPGL are even easier since no other drivers are necessary. Just select and appropriate plotter configuration file and submit.

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Plotstream's project-centric control empowers you to configure enterprise plotting defaults as well as the project specific overrides for everyone within the scope of the Plotstream server(s). This configuration includes CTB and STB plot styles, PC3 plot device files, XREF paths, font paths, resource files, drawing file locations, and more. Once you configure these parameters, anyone using Plotstream uses those same project settings.

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Plot jobs (agents) can be saved to file and used as templates. By using these agents, Plotstream users do not need to be plotting experts to create perfect plots. Template agents also provide another level of consistency to the project team when it comes to plotting.

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Plotstream is designed to work with all AutoCAD^® DWG files. Though AutoCAD^® is not required on the workstation, AutoCAD^®must be installed on each server. This brings plotting access to the entire enterprise while still delivering the high fidelity plots you are use to getting from AutoCAD. Since the server uses AutoCAD^®to process the plots, custom objects that are found in the verticals (LDT, ADT, ABS, etc.) are resolved correctly.

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