AutoCAD electrical multi-layout printing

[rfoxA5QU8]

Why does electrical project plot only support one/(first) layout printing. How does one fix this, printing mutli-viewports with there own layout, that are zoomed into different terminal block sections of a panel layout for enhanced detail.

[pendean]

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@rfoxA5QU8 wrote:

Why does electrical project plot only support one/(first) layout printing....

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Which command are you using? Nothing is called "print" for example, so please be more detailed.

For example:

PLOT command is a single "page" output, and with layouts it only outputs the one layout you are in.

PUBLISH command does more if you need to output many LAYOUTs.

[rfoxA5QU8]

This is using the project plot button in the AutoCAD electrical project tree window(right side, top of window) to send the whole project to PDF.

[arshdeepsingh404]

Hello @rfoxA5QU8 

I would suggest using the BatchPlot option (command name _PUBLISH) for creating the PDF.

Under Sheet Name, you can select all the layouts that you wish to plot.

You will have to make sure when you click on the small green plus (Add Drawings button), The include option is set to Model & Layout.

[pendean]

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@rfoxA5QU8 wrote:

This is using the project plot button in the AutoCAD electrical project tree window(right side, top of window) to send the whole project to PDF.

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Do you mean this

That creates single separate PDFs for each, in this sample above, all from modelspace, not layouts.

[rfoxA5QU8]

Yes, the version we run on the last window is two check boxes, model , first layout. This is where I was kind of locked into. Looks like I can only setup my own batch plot script, manual pars each file in the 500+ files in the packages we output to have the layouts selection added to show up in the correct order in the PDF file.