jboot@morgoth.UUCP (Jim F. Roberts) (03/17/89)
Hi all.
This is a "have you ever heard of a..." type question
involving HPGL plotter instruction files.
1) Has anyone ever heard of a software package that can take an
HPGL instruction file and plot it on a PC compatible screen
display?
2) Does anyone know of a package that can take this same HPGL
file and convert it into a (Whoever)CAD drawing? (We'd prefer
AutoCAD, but we're flexible). I realize this is backwards from
what most people want to do, but we really do have an application
for it.
For those who are interested, we have a home built program
on our Ultrix uVAX that takes an output from a U.S.G.S.
groundwater program, calculates contour information, and
generates a stream of HPGL instructions as its output. Standard
procedure so far has been to pipe this HPGL stream to a 7475A
plotter, but it would be nice to be able to redirect the output
to a file, download it to a PC with a ?GA display adaptor and
1) Get an onscreen preview without having to wait ages for the
plotter and/or,
2) Be able to overlay this contour info onto a CAD drawing of the
area.
I know that there are a number of AutoCAD add-ons that can
do all of the above, but the cost + retraining time is too steep.
Likewise, retooling the contouring program so that it spits out
AutoCAD compatable output isn't too attractive either since the
author is no longer with us (Dave, are you out there somewhere?).
Please reply by email; if there's interest, I'll post a
summary. Thanks for your help!
Jim Roberts
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