Drawing Name when printed to PDF

[bjur]

Advance Steel gives a rather long name suffex to each printed drawing.  See attached file.  How can I change this.  It adds the text "-ANSI-A Advance Steel" to the end of every printed drawing.  Is there a way to change this as we need to delete this from each file created.  

[gvm]

hi,

try the publish command and then publish to PDF.

good luck.

[Emanuel.Nestor]

Hello Bjur,

The PDF file name is controlled by the plotter settings / configuration.

I suppose you have used the Autodesk "DWG to PDF" plotter to create the PDF files for detail drawings.

In this case, there is an option to include the layout information into the file name.

Please see in attached picture the option I am discussing.

Please let me know if this solves your issue.

Best regards,
Emy

[bjur]

The button you highlighted turns off layers in the created pdf.  It doesn't have any thing to do with the Layout.

[gvm]

hi,

use publish, much better and works great.

good luck

[Emanuel.Nestor]

Hi Bjur,

You are right, that option is not related to the PDF filename.

So the answer to your question is like this:

The PDF file name is controlled by the plotter settings / configuration.

I suppose you have used the Autodesk "DWG to PDF.pc3" plotter to create the PDF files for detail drawings.

The filename is automatically created from DWG file name and "Model" or "layout_name" appended at the end.

There is no option to change this behavior when using "DWG to PDF.pc3" plotter.

As workaround, you could rename the PDF file(s) after creation to delete the last part of the filename.

You can use multi-rename tools for that.

Best regards,
Emy

[VillHamp]

Hello, an old thread ..., how is it now , with the "Autocad general doc.?

// Vilhelm

[janet_black]

Hi🙂

There are software that helps with renaming files in bulk.

One of which is a free software you can download for windows 10.

Check out "BRU_setup_3.0.0.1" a Bulk Rename Utility application.

Simply google below for additional information. 

"What is BRU setup 3.0.0.1 .exe -Free fixer"

I hope this helps.

Janet 

Graitec CANADA

[ArjunGaba]

@bjur Please typ ctrl+p for plotting options than go to plotter properties than go to port then select plot to file 

see snap below., it will ask you for file name. Please do these settings in your prototype.

[bjur]

This works great for single sheets.  For projects with hundreds of sheets, I was hoping for an automated way to have the file names editable before they printed.  I wrote a small program to change the file names after the fact but if there was a way to get this functionality out of the box, I'd be stoked.

[pendean]

SheetSet Manager (SSM) may be what you want for built-in Automation for that task: explore it in HELP and with online tutorials then adopt it.

[bjur]

Can you use this with advance steel?