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Batch Plot Problem ..."One or more drawings have unsaved changes"

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Batch Plot Problem ..."One or more drawings have unsaved changes"

Anonymous
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Although not new to Autocad, I am new to batch plotting. I have ac 2016 and know the basics of setting up a batch plot. I want to print to pdf a bunch of layouts from different drawings. I am able to add sheets to the list and there is a green check mark beside each one, However, when I hit the button to publish I am getting this popup warning:

 

"One or more drawings have unsaved changes autocad, save the file so a dsd file can be created"

 

Any ideas?

Thanks

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cadffm
Consultant
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Ok scnr

First idea: One or more drawings have unsaved changes, save or/and close the file.

You didn't wrote you checked this..!?
One or more files of your list is open and for your own session (if you have the file open, DBMOD is not 0, what means there are unsaved edits in this file session.)

Acad force to save all changes (or close the files without saving).
I don't know another thing for this message.

Sebastian

pendean
Community Legend
Community Legend
Did you try SAVEALL command before you started PUBLISH command?

Anonymous
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The saveall command helped. Thanks that is a new command for me.

 

However, when I try to batch plot several drawings only the first one will plot. I have three drawings opened and they are automatically being selected and I click on all of them but only the first one plots.

 

I have attached a screen shot

 

Thanks

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cadffm
Consultant
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Are you sure that your PDF have only one page and not three pages?
Your setting is to create one pdf file with one page per layout..

Sebastian

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neaton
Advisor
Advisor

You can print an unsaved file if you don't create a .dsd. file. The .dsd file is created when you choose Yes to save the current list of sheets in the Batch Print/Publish command. Only save the sheet list if you want to plot the same files, with the same layouts exactly the same way more than once.

When the Publish - Save Sheet List dialog opens choose No to not save a .dsd file. If you will never use .dsd files highlight No then check the box Always perform my current choice and hit Enter. You can turn it back on from Options, System tab, Hidden Message Settings.

Save Sheet List.PNG

From your snip you haven't chosen a Page Setup to print from.

None Page Setup.png

Nancy

Anonymous
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Neaton, I want the separate drawing/layouts to be printed to separate pages but I am not sure if I have it set up 

that way.

Cadffm, Thanks for the info on the .dsd files. I only want to print them once so I don't need to save them.

 

Thanks for the help

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neaton
Advisor
Advisor

In the Publish dialog box choose "Publish Options..." and make sure "Multi-sheet file" is selected otherwise you will get individual sheets.

Nancy

Publish Options.png

 


@Anonymous wrote:

Neaton, I want the separate drawing/layouts to be printed to separate pages but I am not sure if I have it set up 

that way.

Cadffm, Thanks for the info on the .dsd files. I only want to print them once so I don't need to save them.

 

Thanks for the help


 

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Anonymous
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The multi sheet file box is checked and has been. 

I looked at the options button early on. 

**** this is frustrating!

Thanks everybody for the help.

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cadffm
Consultant
Consultant
Is it working without the multipage option? You should get three pdf files.

If you have trouble an can not fix the issue:

Try another driver (pdf preset: Deg to pdf.pc3)

Or try to select the layouts without the predefined dsd.

If you need further help: Upload your files as zip, use etransmit. And attach your pdf what created by publish/multipage.

Sebastian

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ArchD
Collaborator
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Do any of the dwg files have a dot in them or any other odd character? If so try to publish in the foreground instead of background publishing.

Archie Dodge
Applications Expert - Infrastructure Solutions Division
IMAGINiT Technologies
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jayhar
Advisor
Advisor

To Create the Page Setups:

1, Right-click the Model tab (lower left) and choose Page Setup Manager...

2, Click New... to create a new Page Setup. Name your first sheet.

3, After you set up the first Page Setup, you can select it to Start With when you create more.

4, Adjust the paper size, PDF plotter, plot style table, etc. to suit your needs.

5, Make sure What to Plot is set to Window.

6, To the right of that, click the Window< button and draw a window around what you want to plot on that sheet.

7, Back in the dialog box, click OK.

8, Repeat the same process for each sheet you want to plot, creating a Page Setup for each one.

 

To Save the Sheet List and Batch Plot:

1, Save your drawing.

2, Click the Application icon (top left) > Print > Batch Plot.

3, Choose Plotter named in page setup.

4, Rename the <DrawingName> Drawing-Model sheet to your first sheet name.

5, Then select the corresponding Page Setup from the Page Setup dropdown list.

6, Right-click the sheet name and choose Copy Selected Sheets.

7, Rename the new sheet and pick the corresponding Page Setup from the dropdown.

8, Repeat until all your sheets are added.

9, Then at the top, click the Save icon to the right of the Sheet List dropdown.

10, Save the DSD file. (You can pick this to select the same sheet list you just created whenever you publish again in the future.)

11, Publish.

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maratovich
Advisor
Advisor

You can do this automatically using additional programs.

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Anonymous
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After last 10th step I selected "Publish to: PDF", Publish options: Multi-sheet file. Then published and finally it's worked!

Thank you for previous steps!

s.borello
Advisor
Advisor

If you right click on one of your open drawing tabs... you can select save all.  Do this first and then you should be good to go.  Screenshot below.

 

 

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kherrman
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None of these suggestions work

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maratovich
Advisor
Advisor

What is your question ? What exactly do you want to do?

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kherrman
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Save a batch plot list.
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maratovich
Advisor
Advisor

@kherrman wrote:
Save a batch plot list.

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kherrman
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Of course, but it doesn't work. I get the stupid unsaved changes warning, which, I don't have any **** unsaved changed. 

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