Sheet Sets, the frustration begins :-p

[robert.1.hall72202]

I am trying to get a grip on the entire sheet set process.
When I create a new sheet set, the wizard is not finding the
layout tabs that are in my drawings. Anyone else run across this??
I have renamed the layouts and I was thinking that would be the reason.
I am stuck.........please help.

[Maverick91]

I am trying to get a grip on the entire sheet set process.
When I create a new sheet set, the wizard is not finding the
layout tabs that are in my drawings. Anyone else run across this??
I have renamed the layouts and I was thinking that would be the reason.
I am stuck.........please help.

Are you seeing the drawing(s) you want to include in the set? Can you expand the list beneath each drawing?

[robert.1.hall72202]

No, I do not see any of the drawings.......just shows the top folder, no drawings, and no layouts. Very mysterious.

[Maverick91]

No, I do not see any of the drawings.......just shows the top folder, no drawings, and no layouts. Very mysterious.

Silly question: you are picking a sub-directory with the wizard that has dwgs in it, right?

[robert.1.hall72202]

Of course there are drawings in the folder (double checked), only detail I am leaving out is that I created a sheetset, deleted the sheetset from existence, and now I am unable to recreate the set.

[robert.1.hall72202]

I figured this out......If the layout tabs do not stay labeled Layout1, Layout2, etc.
They will not be found.......so sheetsets will not work will all drawings, bummer.
If you ever renamed layouts, then you will shoot yourself in the foot by having
to change them back to defaults.

[RobertB]

I figured this out......If the layout tabs do not stay labeled Layout1, Layout2, etc.
They will not be found.......so sheetsets will not work will all drawings, bummer.
If you ever renamed layouts, then you will shoot yourself in the foot by having
to change them back to defaults.
I don't think that is the root of the problem. You can import layouts into a sheet set regardless of the layout's name, normally.
I think you had trouble due to the "restart" you did on the sheet set.

[robert.1.hall72202]

I also noticed that it isn't easy to just add an additional layout to the sheetset.
When I added the sheet, AutoCad created an additional copy of the dwg file with the
new layout tab.....seems the only way the program can account for the additional layout.
Looks like it would be better to just delete the sheetset and remake, otherwise if the additional layout is edited, the edits will not show up when the sheet set is published
(AutoCad refers to the dummy Cad file that was created). Utter madness I tell ya!

[Glenn Pope]

Sounds like you were creating a new sheet instead of adding one. You can create a sheet using another drawing as a template. The SSM will create a copy in the folder directed in the SSM. There is another option to add a sheet called Import Layout as Sheet. This will create a link between the SSM and the drawing.