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               <p class="para_td"> <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('plotting/procss_plot_job_ov.html');return(false);">Overview</a></p>
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      </table><br><p class="para_topic">Processing the plot job is straight forward if your source is a single sheet, or the current display.   </p>
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               <p class="para_td">If you want to send the plot job to a printer</p>
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               <p class="para_td">Select the Plot button on the file -&rarr; Plot dialog.  </p>
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               <p class="para_td">If you want to send the plot job to a CGM file for later processing</p>
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               <p class="para_td">Select the Save CGM File option on the File -&rarr; Plot dialog.  </p>
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               <p class="para_td">If you want to add the plot job to an existing plot layout</p>
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               <p class="para_td">Select the Add to Plot Layout button on the File -&rarr; Plot dialog.</p>
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      </table><br><p class="para_topic">If your source is multiple drawings, then the options are more complicated:</p>
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               <p class="para_td">If you want to send the plot jobs to a printer</p>
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               <p class="para_td">The Plot button brings up the Plot Drawing Sheets dialog.  This gives you the option of sending all the jobs to a single printer using a specified profile with no further input, or you can ask to plot the drawings one at a time, so that you must interact with the NX Print program for each drawing.</p>
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               <p class="para_td">If you want to send the plot jobs to CGM files</p>
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               <p class="para_td">The Save CGM File button brings up the Save CGM File dialog.  This gives you the option of: </p>
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                     <p class="para_item">Saving the files one at a time.  Saving files one at a time means that for each drawing, a file selection box appears allowing you to change the automatically generated file names or to save the files one at a time.</p>
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               <p class="para_td">If you want to send the plot jobs to a plot layout</p>
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               <p class="para_td">The Add to Plot Layout button brings up the Plot Layout dialog once for each drawing selected.  Selecting OK on the plot layout dialog adds the drawing, and proceed to the next drawing, until all the drawings have been added.</p>
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