Printing the Autocad drawing by Labview

My application should found the Autocad drawing and send it to one of the network printers/plotters. Is it possible to send the Autocad drawing to printer/plotter by Labview application?

Not really an answer, but some ideas:
If by an Autocad drawing you mean an Autocad DWG file than the general answer will be negative (in any case the solution will not be easy). DWG is not a "printable" (directly) file, it contains many objects/views, etc. From the formal point of view, this is proprietary Autodesk file format with documentation unavailable for users (I'm not sure that trying to decode it will be a good solution as this at least will take awfull amount of your programming time).
If you run on Windows platform and autocad is installed on the same computer than there is a little hope that it is possible to do using automation approach (DDE, ActiveX). LabView have those abilities, the only question rests - I don't know if Autodesk supplies such kind
of services as working with autocad drawing trough DDE/Activex. To make it clear, it's better to contact AutoDesk specialists now.

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if (addtlRow > (count - 1))
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<OutputFormat>EMF</OutputFormat>
<PageWidth>8.5in</PageWidth>
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<MarginTop>0.25in</MarginTop>
<MarginLeft>0.25in</MarginLeft>
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