Publish drawings using Page Setups

[kadar_drafting]

how does one publish drawings using imprted page setup option and how is the page setup file created?

[jbayne]

The way I handle this is when you have your list of drawings in the publish dialog box then I highlight all of them and then go to the column of page setups on the top of the list and click there and go to import. I make sure that it is looking for the dwt that we use as the standard and import the page setup from there.
You must have the page setups already created in your dwt. If I am plotting something that is not a standard then I open one of the sheets to be published create the page setup. then when importing i navigate to that dwg and import the previous setup.
We are using ADT 2007.

Jim

[robert.1.hall72202]

How could I utilize pagesetups in the drawing template?
Would I have to have titleblocks already setup in the initial drawing?

I currently create the pagesetups for every file. I am not using the dwt.

[jbayne]

You do not need the title blocks in the dwt to use page setups. The page setup just tells the printer the parameters of what to plot. All of the sheets that you have in the list already have the titleblocks in them.
I dont know if i am using it correctly or not. But the rule here is do not publish multisheets without using the publish dialog box. Then import the page setup from dwt for all files in the list so that we are sure we are using the latest and the same page setup for each sheet.
Hope this makes some sort of sense.

[Ed Jobe]

How could I utilize pagesetups in the drawing template?
Would I have to have titleblocks already setup in the initial drawing?

I currently create the pagesetups for every file. I am not using the dwt.

Create the page setups in the dwt, not the dwg. When you need to update a dwg, import them from the dwt instead of recreating them each time. You can do this individually or as a sheet set as already discussed.

[kadar_drafting]

ok so i should open a new drawing, create named page setups for each scenario that i plot and save it as a dwt file in the location of my choosing? it is from this file i can import the page setups, correct?

[jbayne]

Yes, that should cover it. Let us know if it works.
Jim

[robert.1.hall72202]

I am not sure this would work for me.
I am guessing I would have to go into each pagesetup and
redo the window for the drawing I wish to publish.

[Ed Jobe]

I am not sure this would work for me.
I am guessing I would have to go into each pagesetup and
redo the window for the drawing I wish to publish.

What do you mean by that?

[jpaulsen]

They way to get around that is have all your title blocks inserted at 0,0 in paperspace at a scale of 1. This way you only need separate page setups based on paper size and output device.

We have one template with page setups and another with all our title blocks. We import a layout from the title block template and page setups from the page setup template. It was a lot of work (5 paper sizes times about 30 output devices) but it was well worth it. I have resolved over 90% of employee's plotting problems just by importing a standard page setup.