Layout tabs

[Kirk Bricker]

I have three buildings that we need as-build drawings for from all our venders. Our mechanical & plumbing subs sent us .dwg files with about 25 tabs with sheets set up in them. The owner wants individual sheet .dwg files sent to them. Is there a way to export each layout tab into a single .dwg file?

I have about 75 tabs total that will need to be separated into their own files.

Any help?

AutoCAD 2008

Kirk

[rkmcswain]

ToolPac (http://www.dotsoft.com/toolpac.htm) includes a tool to do this.

[Tom Beauford]

Free download: http://www.jtbworld.com/lisp/layoutstodwgs.htm

[jpaulsen]

Did those tools work for you?

If not you can always do it the manual way. Open the drawing and perform a saveas 25 times. Then open each file and delete all the layouts but one.

[Opie]

Did those tools work for you?

If not you can always do it the manual way. Open the drawing and perform a saveas 25 times. Then open each file and delete all the layouts but one.
The one Tom linked to works. I use it for our sheet setup.

[Julesagain]

This tool is working great for me (how I wish I'd found it sooner!) except for a couple of things.

I'd like to add a line to change all the layout names to "LAYOUT".
I'd like to retain the page setups, or add them back in. I suspect the "wblock" command is the culprit here, as it is supposed to strip out everything like that. Layer states would be nice to retain also, but that's not as big a deal as the page setups. Does anyone have any clue what the code would look like, and whether it matters where in the LSP it is placed?

I'm not sure whether it is appropriate to post the contents of the LSP file here, as it has a copyright, but it can be found at the link above (http://www.jtbworld.com/lisp/layoutstodwgs.htm).

TIA for any help!