save sheet drawings as separate files

[NachitoMax]

Hi

my idw is sloooowwwwwwwww. i have 60 sheets and no realise that was a very bad call... Is there a way of saving each sheet as a separate sheet?

Thanks

Nigel

[JDMather]

Unless someone has created some code to do this - I think your best bet is to Save As 60 times (delete sheet each time), then open the files and delete the remaining from each.

[blair]

Not that I know of other than doing the "Save-Copy-As" and then opening the copy and deleting the sheets not required. You do have the option to Export sheets to other formats (DWG) but then you loose the connectivity. You might find that even cutting it in half may get you over the hump. We try to detail each part on it's own or at least break it down to small sub-assemblies. Don't like putting all the eggs into one basket. Should something happen, you loose a lot of time and work to recover unless you have a good and reliable back-up system.

[NachitoMax]

Hi

Thanks for the reply. I will look at coding it myself as a tool. If there is a possibility using the API, then im good to go. There are not however, any UI methods.....


Thanks

Nigel

[mrattray]

I'm working in a drawing with about 85 sheets in it and have no problems. What are your system specs? Are you sure there's not something else wrong?

[NachitoMax]

Hi

Im pretty sure there is nothing wrong. I have 64 bit, 8 gb ram quad core pc with nVidia 2gb dedicated graphics card.

I'll investigate an export sheet option in the API or make a routine to count the sheets, iterate through, create a new sheet & delete the others around the iteration

Thanks


Nigel

[swalton]

Here some of ideas for the manual route:

1. Turn off shading.

2. You can copy-paste single sheets between two open idw files.  This may be less work than saving copies and deleting the extra sheets.  If you turn on Derfer Updates, this will not work (IV 2014).

3. Create your 60 copies with Windows explorer.  Open each file with Defer Updates turned on (options button at the bottom of the file-open window) and delete the unneeded sheets.  This should keep IV from recalculating each drawing until you are done with your changes.

4. Is the price of more RAM (so IV doesn't hit the paging file) less the your hourly billing rate times the number of hours it will take you to code (and test) your solution?  If so, maybe throw more computer at it.

[NachitoMax]

Hi

My time and billing for coding is irrelevant to a degree. If I make it into a .net addin to the AppStore, I would sell for about £2 to recover the time (based on it being popular obviously) lol.

I can code to-

Iterate through sheets (get sheet count)
For each iteration, create new sheet
Copy paste from one to the other
Save, name, close
Delete iterated objects in master.


I'll work on it during my flight over the weekend 🙂

Many Thanks

Nigel

[Anonymous]

Hi nmjshaw150

                 Do you got any solution for the same, I too struck in that same situation.

                  Can you please provide your solution.

                 Thanks in advance.

[NachitoMax]

Hi

I did make a solution. I am making it into an app for the store next month so i will drop a link when its done

Thanks