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- PLOTOUT.DOC
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- This describes the plot file output format. The file is ASCII with letters to
- indicate type of object or action and numbers for position or size. All
- entries are separated by commas. Separate lines are used for each entry except
- that x,y pairs for a line are continued on the same line until it ends. See
- below and the TUTOR demo for examples. You can measure with the cursor to
- verify items below.
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- A Aperture. The following number is the aperture number. The selected
- aperture is moved to the plot position where it stays until changed.
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- C Circle/Arc. Draw an arc. Format is x, y, radius, starting angle,
- ending angle. The starting and ending angle are in radians x 500. The
- arc is to be drawn counter clockwise. The zero angle position is on
- the + x axis.
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- D Draw. Draw a line. The last aperture named is used to draw the line.
- The line is started at the current plotting head position and draws are
- continued to the following x,y pairs.
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- H Home. Move the plotting head to the home position.
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- M Move. Move the plotting head to the following x,y location. Do not
- draw while moving.
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- P Pad. Plot a pad at the following x,y location. The last aperture
- named is used to draw the pad.
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- The data below is the ASCII file generated from the TUTOR demonstration by
- selecting 3PLOT then 3FILE. The plot file is that generated for level 1 only.
- The questions were answered "FILENAME" (we add .PLT to your entered file name),
- 1 for level, 1000 for steps per inch, 0 and 0 for x and y offset. The job was
- edited to delete the bus symbol from the job to reduce its size so the plot
- file below is that for the circuit you see on first loading TUTOR. **** Note:
- In order to create an output plot file, the level must be showing, i.e. there
- must be a color assigned to the level that you have selected for the plot.
- If you create plot files with a setup file that has a color assigned to only
- the level that you are plotting then "what you see is what you get". ****
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- The first entry is A, 12 to indicate that we start out using aperture 12. The
- next entry P, 200 , 200 indicates that we are to draw a pad with aperture 12
- (the last named aperture) at x=200, y=200. A number of pads are similarly
- drawn. Next we shift to aperture 4 and move to x=500, y=900 without drawing.
- We now start drawing at x=500, y=900 a line to x=1200, y=900 and continue on to
- x=1200, y=1000 where the line ends since the following entry is a move. We
- continue with more lines and several aperture changes ending with an arc. The
- arc has its center located at x=1900, y=400 and has a radius of 100
- (thousandths). It starts at 90 degrees (Pi/2 radians*500 = (3.14/2)*500 = 785)
- and ends at 270 degrees. The last entry H indicates that we are done.
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- See the job APERDEF for drawings of the apertures done 8x up. The program
- ROLAND.BAS is included as an example to show how to read this file and drive a
- standard plotter.
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- A, 12
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- P, 200 , 200
- P, 600 , 200
- P, 900 , 200
- P, 1300 , 200
- P, 200 , 1000
- P, 200 , 900
- P, 200 , 800
- P, 200 , 700
- P, 200 , 600
- P, 200 , 500
- P, 200 , 400
- P, 500 , 400
- P, 500 , 500
- P, 500 , 600
- P, 500 , 700
- P, 500 , 800
- P, 500 , 900
- P, 500 , 1000
- P, 1000 , 600
- P, 1000 , 1000
- P, 1200 , 600
- P, 1200 , 1000
- P, 800 , 1000
- P, 800 , 800
- A, 4
- M, 500 , 900
- D, 1200 , 900 , 1200 , 1000
- M, 800 , 1000
- D, 500 , 1000
- A, 6
- M, 200 , 200
- D, 50 , 200 , 50 , 1000 , 200 , 1000
- M, 200 , 200
- D, 200 , 50 , 1450 , 50 , 1450 , 600 , 1200 , 600
- A, 12
- P, 1100 , 400
- A, 8
- P, 900 , 400
- A, 3
- C, 1900 , 400 , 100 , 785 , 2356
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