Export PDF to the same folder as the DWG

[Anonymous]

I'm using LT 2019 and required to use Export PDF to output the finished documents.

At the moment, when I Export to PDF, Autocad tries to save the PDF in the folder for previously opened drawings and I have to manually locate the folder with the current drawing. Is there a setting to automatically export the PDF to the same folder as the drawing itself?

Using Publish (or similar methods) is not an option.

[rkmcswain]

I did read the last line, but I don't know if you consider "AutoPublish" to be a "similar method". It does contain an option to print to the current drawing folder. 

[beyoungjr]

Once you export a file type to a destination folder it should stick to that until your next AutoCAD session.  The first export will try to target a default location and typically needs focused where I prefer.  It almost never focuses where the actual drawing file is located so you would have to navigate at least once during that session of running AutoCAD.

Hope that helps,

Blaine

[maratovich]

1. Export to PDF = print/publich to DWG To PDF.pc3

It is the same, not different.

2. Run script :

_Filedia

0

_-Export

_P

_A

C:\Users\Dima\Desktop\NewNameFile.pdf

_Filedia

1

[Anonymous]

That's the way it works now, which I hope to avoid. I'll open a drawing for one project, make changes, then move to the next project, and if I export the PDF it goes into the first project folder, not the current, which I what I want to avoid.

[Anonymous]

It's not an option. Period. My boss has made that very, very clear.

[Anonymous]

Didn't work - PDF went into the same folder as the previous drawing.

[beyoungjr]

I can't recall it ever happening any different than how it does now.  It would be pretty cool if it did so but I haven't seen it over MANY versions/years.

[Anonymous]

I'll try it again on Monday with a fresh startup.

[jreidCDS28]

Good Morning.

When I open Sheet Set for Project 1. 

I set the output PDF file to print inside the same folder as Project 1 CAD files.

Works Great!

But I open Project 2.

I review the output folder for the PDF files and it reads the Project 1 CAD Files folder.

I change it to Project 2 folder. Works great.

Until I go back to Project 1 and now the output folder is Project 2.

How can I have it keep the locations of the individual Sheet Set files that are inside the CAD File Folders?

Thanks!!