Manage Drawing Views

Description

View or edit all drawings in the project.

Access

CAD / Drawing / Manage Drawing Views
CAD / Drawing / Plot / Batch Plot

Requirements

CAD module

Controls

Control	Description
	Do one of the following: Click to add a new drawing based on the default [Blank] template. Click and select the template to use to create the new drawing.
	Edit the properties of the selected drawing.
	Copy the selected drawing and include the copied drawing in the same sheet set.
	Delete the selected drawing.
	Click to publish the selected drawings to the specified printer. Note: If multiple drawings are selected, you will be given the option to merge. When printing to paper this allows for a double sided print, when printing to PDF this allows for multiple pages in the file. To merge, all the drawings must be configured with the same page size and printer. If you choose to merge and the drawings have different orientations, subsequent pages will be rotated to match the orientation of the first drawing that is printed.

List Columns

Control	Description
Open	Do one of the following: Click to hide the drawing. Click to display the drawing in a view.
Name	Type the drawing's name.
Description	Type the drawing's description.
Sheet Set	Type an optional sheet set name.
Sheet Number	Type an alphanumeric value unique to the specified Sheet Set (optional).
Sheet Size	View the size of the drawing sheet.
Sheet Orientation	View the orientation of the drawing sheet.
Drawing Number	Type a unique drawing number.
Print To	View the printer the drawing will be published to.

Merge

When batch plotting or printing multiple drawings at once you may be given the following options:

Option	Description
Merge all drawings.	Merge all selected drawings into one file/print job. Note: Only displays when all drawings use the same printer and page size.
Merge all drawings with the same sheet set.	Merge all selected drawings with the same sheet set into a single print job or file. Note: All selected drawings with the same sheet set must use the same printer and page size to be merged. If a sheet set is unnamed, it may be merged with other drawings whose sheet set is unnamed.
Don't merge any drawings.	Print each drawing to a single page or file.
Let me decide which sheet sets drawings to merge.	Displays a list of sheetsets that are eligible to merge (same paged size and printer). Select the checkbox to merge drawings in the sheet set.
Cancel	Click to cancel printing of all the drawings.

Notes

The Drawing Number must be unique across all drawings.
The Sheet Number must be unique within each Sheet Set, however two different Sheet Sets can share same Sheet Numbers.
The Drawing Number and Sheet Number are initially inherited from the template. If the number from the template is already used the number is incremented until a unique number is found.
The printer is shown in grey if it is offline.
The Drawing Number determines the print order or the order of the drawings when drawings are merged into a single PDF file.
If a Sheet Set name is not validating, check the Sheet Number you have specified is unique for that Sheet Set.
Click the column header to sort the drawings by the selected item. If you sort by Sheet Set name then the Sheet Number is also considered.
Set the layers Plot control to to include the layers objects in the plot.
Ensure the Plot control for the viewports layer is set to to plot the viewport and it's objects.
displays in the drawing view tab if you are editing a drawing.
displays in the drawing view tab if you are editing a drawing template.