DWG to PDF

[Anonymous]

Hi All,

So I am working with Autocad 2014 and I have literally 100's of detail drawings I have to plot as a pdf. Also, in each drawing I have to insert a file path field. Now, the thing is I know exactly how to do all of that, but I am wondering if there is a faster process, other than going into each drawing one at a time and inserting the field and plotting the pdf which is a very time consuming task.

thanks in advance!  

[TrevN]

Check out the PUBLISH command.

[Anonymous]

What exactly does the publish command do? Is that just a way to plot seperate drawings all at once?

[pendean]

PUBLISH is designed to print 100s of DWG files with one action, instead of 100s of actions.

For 'inserting" anything in 100s of files though, you will need to be spend some time customizing a solution with Lisp or other prgramming language available in AutoCAD. Can you elaborate in a lot more detail about what this is and where it needs to show up in a plot?

[Anonymous]

Thanks for replying guys, and yes that makes sense. So, what I'm trying to do is make a PDF detail book from over 100 autocad dwg details. Each one has to have there dwg file location path written underneath it. The file path is there so that I can immediatly locate that drawing in whatever folder it is located in when Reference that PDF. So I've figured out how to use Publish, but I still have to insert the dwg file path in each drawing.

thanks!

[Patchy · Accepted solution]

Maybe turn PLOT STAMP on would help you.

[Anonymous]

Thanks, this is exactly what I needed!