How to import a PAGE SETUP into multiple DWGs

[Basam.Yousif]

Use Autodesk's DWG TrueView program (which -I believe- is a free download)

https://www.autodesk.com/products/dwg-trueview/overview

[ennujozlagam]

https://help.autodesk.com/view/ACDLT/2024/ENU/?guid=GUID-AD77C304-90AC-43E2-8380-434FFEF7C4D7

[cadffm]

Hi, 

if you like to share such tips without reason, look at this format too.

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autodesk-community-tips-autocad/tkb-p/autocad-tips-tricks

Just one point: Avoid to show changes of standard predefined setups, create your own.

And: If AutoCAD is available, it is onboard, command: DWGCONVERT

[Simon_Weel]

The screenshots are about 'DWG Convert' (which is called eTransmit in AutoCAD) - not Pagesetup? So is your question about Pagesetup or DWG Convert?

[cadffm]

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@Simon_Weel  schrieb:

The screenshots are about 'DWG Convert' (which is called eTransmit in AutoCAD)

No, the command equal to is DWGCONV, etransmit doesn't have the same possibilities,

and another point: DWG Trueview is for free, for AutoCAD internal commands you need AutoCAD (and a license)

- not Pagesetup? So is your question about Pagesetup or DWG Convert?

It wasn,t a question, it is a tip for people who don't know this option.

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[Michiel.Valcke]

Not sure if it's possible in trueview, but with batch plot (publish) you can set the pagesetup from your first chosen sheet and then apply it to all the other sheets in the list even if they do not have that pagesetup in their document.

[cadffm]

In publish command you can do this for the plot only, it doesn't change your layout pagesetups in your DWG.

in DWGconvert (in TrueView) you can change pagesetups in your DWGs files for (all) layouts.

[Basam.Yousif · Accepted solution]

This is a How-to post, not a request for help. Thank you for all your feedback.

[dany_rochefort]

@Basam.Yousif  I've wrote a lisp command that does this in 1 second. 

[dany_rochefort]

FYI: Writing a How-to-Post and accepting your own post as the Answer is a bad look. 

[WeTanks]

@dany_rochefort 

Could you please share your LISP file?

[dunnkurt_a_ipi]

HOW

[Michiel.Valcke]

@dunnkurt_a_ipi 

start the publish command

Add all the layouts that you wish to print (can be from different dwg's)

Move the layout with the desired print setup (it has to be a named setup) to the top of the list

select (highlight) all the layouts in the list (use shift+select)

In the page setup dropdown menu of the top item, select your named setup

All other layouts will apply the same setup during the publish (as was mentioned by cadffm, this will NOT add the setup to the file/layout)

To create a named page setup
type the command PAGESETUP in a layout,
Choose the option 'New'

Give it a name and determine all settings (like which plotter to use/papersize/ etc...)

When done you will see the named setup in the setup list in the Page Setup Manager

To link the named setup with the active layout, use the 'Set Current' button.

[cadffm]

You can use pagesetups from all files, not from one selected only.

How: Select all your layouts in your list, RIGHTclick..

[cadffm]

But this is for publishing only, it will not import any pagesetup to any DWG file.