topic Re: Exporting multiple dwg with sheet number included in Inventor Forum

Exporting multiple dwg with sheet number included

Kramarcik — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 11:51:48 GMT

I think this should be something easy but i cant find a way to do it. I want a single idw per project and include all the drawings inside this idw. I rename each sheet so that I can orient myself. After drawings are finished I usually save a copy as dwg for autocad which I sent to be manufactured. BUT as I renamed all the sheets, when they are exported as individual dwg files, they are not in order anymore, they are orded alphabeticaly. Inventor keep track of sheet number, can it generate the sheet number in the name of dwg file?

order of sheets in idw

Here is an order of drawing in idw, but when I batch generate individual files this info is lost, I used to manually rename the files to start with sheet number, but this is very time consuming.

Any help?

Re: Exporting multiple dwg with sheet number included

blandb — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 15:10:49 GMT

Here is a rule I found online that I use. You will need to adjust to your liking. But it will combine all sheets of my drawing into a single pdf file. You can choose how and when to run this rule.

Dim doc = ThisDoc.Document
oPDFAddIn = ThisApplication.ApplicationAddIns.ItemById ("{0AC6FD96-2F4D-42CE-8BE0-8AEA580399E4}")
oDocument = ThisApplication.ActiveDocument
oContext = ThisApplication.TransientObjects.CreateTranslationContext
oContext.Type = IOMechanismEnum.kFileBrowseIOMechanism
oOptions = ThisApplication.TransientObjects.CreateNameValueMap
oDataMedium = ThisApplication.TransientObjects.CreateDataMedium

filePath = ThisDoc.Path
oDataMedium.FileName = filePath + "\" + iProperties.Value("Project", "Part Number")+" - REV " + iProperties.Value("Project", "Revision Number")+".pdf"
oOptions.Value("Sheet_Range") = Inventor.PrintRangeEnum.kPrintAllSheets
oOptions.Value("Remove_Line_Weights") = 1
'oOptions.Value("Vector_Resolution") = 4800
oPDFAddIn.SaveCopyAs(oDocument, oContext, oOptions, oDataMedium)

MessageBox.Show("PDF CREATED!", "PDF PRINT")

Re: Exporting multiple dwg with sheet number included

Kramarcik — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 15:12:20 GMT

does not work. Sorry I am very elementrary in ilogic, cannot troubleshoot yet

Re: Exporting multiple dwg with sheet number included

blandb — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 15:16:06 GMT

Did you create a rule in the drawing? Can you post what the problem is?

Re: Exporting multiple dwg with sheet number included

Kramarcik — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 15:29:49 GMT

I ran it one more time, on different idw and it worked, but:

the rule creates a singly .pdf file named "part name" - Rev A

What I want is to create individual .dwg files named like this:

"sheet number on idw" - "sheet name" or "part name".

I guess this can be achieved through ilogic only. Any help is appreciated 🙂

Re: Exporting multiple dwg with sheet number included

A.Acheson — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 15:37:47 GMT

Here is a ilogic rule to sort browser nodes(sheets) . The sorting is done by sorting the list. This will likely sort alphabetically but you will need to read your page number. You should be able to modify the rule to rename and sort. You can have the post moved to the customization forum where you can get some help working through that. I have seen a rule thst renames and sorts but it is eluding me this morning.

Re: Exporting multiple dwg with sheet number included

Kramarcik — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 15:42:45 GMT

I am an ilogic beginner so tough luck for me, but at least i know it can be done 🙂

Re: Exporting multiple dwg with sheet number included

blandb — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 15:53:00 GMT

My apologies, I missed the dwg part. I just did a file export to DWG, and here is what I got:

This is my IDW:

Then in windows explorer it spit out:

It kept the original drawing name, because when prompted for a file name, whatever is typed in the box is what is placed in front of the new sheets as shown above. If I would of placed "-" I would of gotten:

But it is keeping the renamed sheets from the idw.

Re: Exporting multiple dwg with sheet number included

Kramarcik — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 05:32:09 GMT

It does keep the names, but look at the order in your folder

I want to add the sheet number to the dwg (preferably not manually) to keep the same order of drawings as is in the idw.