topic Re: Page Setups and Publish in AutoCAD Forum

Page Setups and Publish

daniel.klingspor — Fri, 16 Jul 2021 17:34:48 GMT

Using Plant3D but this is more a base AutoCAD question so I posted here.

When using the publish command, the dialog box comes up with my selected sheets but the page setup defaults to "<Default: None> and I have to go through and change each sheet to the correct page setup. I have my dwg templates configured with a custom page setup, and that setup is set current in the page setup manager. There is only this one page setup in the templates. If you "plot" from the DWG it uses the page setup as it should.

Going through and changing the page setups manually when publishing is kinda a PITA. What am I doing wrong to not have the publish command default to my dwg template's page setup?

Re: Page Setups and Publish

Valentin_CAD — Fri, 16 Jul 2021 18:02:17 GMT

Have You Tried: Create and Import Page Setups

Consider the Video: Making the most of Layouts and Page Setups

Re: Page Setups and Publish

daniel.klingspor — Fri, 16 Jul 2021 18:04:54 GMT

@Valentin_CAD

That is already done. I have the page setup created and named. It is set current in the page setup manager and is the only setup in the manager.

If I plot from an individual DWG file the plot dialog defaults to my page setup as intended and everything works fine.

When publishing, the page setup still works fine but I have to go and select it manually for each sheet which is annoying.

Re: Page Setups and Publish

pendean — Fri, 16 Jul 2021 18:07:53 GMT

PUBLISH requires you to do a bit more upfront than just tap a button and hope what you want will automatically populate the dialog: if I may ask, are you new to AutoCAD's PUBLISH command/setup? I don't think P3D is different from plain AutoCAD where you are posting.

Do you use SSM at all?

Re: Page Setups and Publish

daniel.klingspor — Fri, 16 Jul 2021 18:24:00 GMT

@pendean

That's exactly what I am asking. Why does the publish dialog box default to the "Default None" page setup? And how do you make it default to my page setup that is in the template?

Screenshots attached for reference. As you can see the plot dialog correctly defaults to my page setup (named 36X24PDF), in the page setup manager there is only that one setup.

When running publish it defaults the "Default None" and I have to go and manually select my page setup from the drop down.

Suggestions?

Re: Page Setups and Publish

daniel.klingspor — Fri, 16 Jul 2021 18:34:15 GMT

@pendean

@Valentin_CAD

Ok perhaps there is a difference when using P3D versus regular AutoCAD.

I don't know if you've used P3D or not but there is a "Project Manager", you can do various functions related to P3D and you can also select dwgs, right click and select publish. Doing it this way gets me the result I have in the screen shot, where the page setup defaults to "Default None".

BUT, if you have a dwg open and run the PUBLISH command (from the command line) it defaults to my page setup as intended.

Mystery solved I guess, just a bug in P3D. /shrug

Re: Page Setups and Publish

mpete1310 — Sat, 05 Feb 2022 00:07:35 GMT

If you select all of your sheets (hold shift) when you change page setup it will change all selected.

Re: Page Setups and Publish

demus72 — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 20:11:27 GMT

At my employer, we use the Sheet Set Manager and I've noticed this issue as well. I specified the desired Page Setup for every layout in all drawings in my plan set. When I select Publish from my Sheet Set, the Page Setup column comes up as <Default: None>. However, if I type Publish on the command line, the Page Setup column is now populated with the Page Setup I specified and saved in each drawing.

I've taught my coworkers that as long as our preferred Page Setup is saved in the cover or title sheet, they can select all sheets in the Publish window and use the pop down menu from the cover or title sheet to specify the page setup for all sheets to be published.

It would be nice if the Publish dialog box displayed the specified Page Setups when publishing the Sheet Set.

Re: Page Setups and Publish

RobDraw — Tue, 26 Jul 2022 09:53:14 GMT

Did you name and save that page set-up?