I'm wandering what the best way is to send a fully scaled (1:1) dxf drawing to a cad plotter using python. Has anyone here ever done this?
For those who want to know why: 
I've written a program for my employer that automates the drawing of detailed 
schematics, apparently so our engineering dept can spend more time doing nothing. The issue now is that they would like to completely eliminate acad since it's only used to plot the finished drawing. 
Mind you these drawings are used for non-trivial things like checking the dimensions of critical components used in commercial jetliners.
In case anyone else runs into this problem (pretty unlikely) I though I'd post briefly what I did in the end:
1.) Wrote a short script to capture the dxf as a BMP (basicaly just a screen grab that appends the scale to the drawing) 
2.)  Wrote a print dialog with PyQt4 that's a clone of Autocads plot window except that it has to pull the scaling info from the BMP.
My python skills are awfull so there's likely better solutions but this worked.
Cad plotters and Python