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Adding New Surface Profile to Existing Plan and Profile Sheets

Anonymous — Thu, 03 Aug 2017 18:23:03 GMT

I have a plan and profile set that was cut using plan production tools. The overall profile has been updated with the addition of several more surface profiles. Is there a way to insert the new profiles into the plan sheet profiles without having to open each sheet and data referencing it into the profile. The set is over 100 sheets.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Oscar..

Re: Adding New Surface Profile to Existing Plan and Profile Sheets

pat.lowe — Fri, 04 Aug 2017 20:47:16 GMT

Hi @Anonymous

I know you can import sheets into SSM and renumber and reorder them. This may save you some time.

Re: Adding New Surface Profile to Existing Plan and Profile Sheets

g_k50 — Fri, 04 Aug 2017 22:38:47 GMT

I have never used that Plan Production scheme, mostly I've used a xref to a profile file, or use one profile file, with many layout tabs to create the production plans.

From what I've read it seems that is not a way to reset the profiles after they have been created using the Plan Production scheme.

Did this scheme create many single plan drawings, i.e., one file, one layout? Or one file, many layouts?

Re: Adding New Surface Profile to Existing Plan and Profile Sheets

Anonymous — Fri, 04 Aug 2017 23:06:18 GMT

g_k50

I have the overall profile that is roughly 20 miles long and used the plan and production tools to efficiently cut the sheets.

You can set the layout number per sheet at the time of the sheet creation, for my purpose I have 1 drawing per layout. If I had many layouts per drawing, referencing a new profile would not be as time consuming but as it stands for me... it takes a while to get through 100+ sheets.

I came to the same conclusion of not being able to revise the profile in the sheets after creating them. I was hoping that I might be able to find an app or something that might be able to do it in a batch, so I don't have to open them up and add manually. Just a foolish dream at this point I would imagine.

Thanks

Re: Adding New Surface Profile to Existing Plan and Profile Sheets

Anonymous — Fri, 04 Aug 2017 23:20:50 GMT

pat.lowe

Thanks for the reply. When creating plans using the plan production tools, it creates a SSM file automatically or you can add the new drawings to an existing SSM file.

My issue is that we have to create a profile for existing ground at several offsets and possibly add them to my existing plan and profile sheets. The only way that I know to add it to the sheets is to add this information to the data shortcuts and data reference them into each one of my plan sheets. Very time consuming, not to mention monotonous.

Re: Adding New Surface Profile to Existing Plan and Profile Sheets

Joe-Bouza — Sat, 05 Aug 2017 01:44:51 GMT

That's a lot of sheets, and you are correct. The setup used 1 layout per file would require you to open each sheet.

You can soften the blow with the action recorder. You can open the first one, turn on the action recorder and go through all the steps. Now you can open the rest and press a button.

You can go a step further by using script pro to open all the files then run the macro. id say script the whole process but that could be a frustrating adventure in script writing but may be worth it too

Re: Adding New Surface Profile to Existing Plan and Profile Sheets

Anonymous — Sun, 06 Aug 2017 19:36:25 GMT

Joe-Bouza

Thanks for the suggestions. I've never used action recorder before but I see how it would at the very least eliminate steps even if I'm forced to open every sheet.

I hadn't thought of script files. Nice suggestion, although I was in the midst of trying to create the initial script for running the action command and don't know what the command input would be for playing the action. If you have any suggestions to play the action command as part of a script that would be great.

FYI.. I've never used script pro. I've always gone old school and just started in a blank .txt file and disabling filedia if and when necessary as part of the script.

Thanks,

Oscar..

Re: Adding New Surface Profile to Existing Plan and Profile Sheets

Joe-Bouza — Tue, 08 Aug 2017 22:34:40 GMT

Hello Oscar

once the macro is done the macro name is recognized from the keyboard (SMOKIN!) Just like any other command.

You should be able to create your script using the macro name.

The script pro is free from autodesk and is very useful for this operation. The interface allows you to load a list of file to apply the script to. The script file is pointed to and you are off to the races.

That's all it does, so if you are a script writer and can add all ti file open yada yada youll get the same results.