How to publish multipage DWG to pdf?

[Anonymous]

My customers provide me DWG files for manufacturing. Each DWG file contains approx. 50 sheets with one sheet per component. Sheet is usually A4 size.

My question is how to publish such a DWG to pdf automatically. Manual publishing to pdf leads to exhausting work with select tool. 

How can I automate this publishing?

Any ideas?

[imadHabash]

Hi and Welcome to AutoDesk Forum,

you have to use PUBLISH command line then prepare your settings as needed and add your layouts and you have to look at  Multi-sheet file (hoover your mouse over it and read the tooltip)  see attached image.

[Anonymous]

Hi AutoCADspec and Imad 

Thanks for sharing this option but what we need is this: 

We have a AutoCAD with multiple drawings 40-80 pages framed (windowed) in a AutoCAD drawing see Attached screenshot of the CAD file.

Does anyone know if it is possible to print into one PDF file (full automation) from this AutoCAD without to go thou single windowing (in the print menu) of each drawing one by one ?

Attached screenshot of the CAD file 

With lot of THX in forward for reply.

[Anonymous]

Hi pavolharustiak

If you were to break these individual sheets into individual .dwg files then the above method would work once you create a page setup for how you want to print it.

When working completely in model space it is not really recommended to my knowledge to have every sheet in one model space unless you are using paperspace for your individual drawings - which would also allow you to use the publish command as you would have multiple layouts.

Thanks,

Jason

[Anonymous]

Hello, and thank You for reply,
but method described above requires determination of print area or page template (which, if Im not misteken, need to be determined for each file)
plus in file could be/ is combination of A3 and A4 drawings
We are looking for solution of this problem which can be used by user without knowledge of CAD software (secretary, etc.) .

[Anonymous]

So long as you do not require your prints to be to scale then using the publish command will work in this situation. Save your A3 pages as Project#_A3_drawing# and A$ as Project#_A4_drawing# and have two page setups - one for A3 and another for A4. Then so long as each page has its own .dwg and then it becomes very simple and more of a printing exercise then an autocad specific thing. Also, if you were to preload the correct plot style while working on the drawing then autocad is not required and trueview could print everything. We do this.

[Anonymous]

Jason thank you for reply, I'm not sure if I understud correctly what You mean.
You are right, I don't need my prints to scale just on correct size of paper. 🙂
And here comes part I´m not sure about. You are sugesting to create template with predetermined printing area and other settings for each required size of paper and then load it as a page set up in publish option ? (as seen in attached picture).

[Anonymous]

Yes sir, that is exactly it. I would recommend creating two drawings with just the borders in them. A3 and A4 size as your templates for future projects. Set up all your layers, text styles, dimension styles etc. Save them on the network or locally to each computer which has autocad. Then use the PAGESETUP command, new, then create the setup you want and give it a name - A3_NoScale or something like that (or a name you will remember that means something to you) and save the templates again. Then when you are wanting to use the publish command in the future all your page setups will be in the dropdown for you to use. For this project it would be as simple as using the import option in the page setup dropdown that you have highlighted and importing the correct pagesetup from the templates files you created in the previous step.

[Llam.Tech]

If you want, I can separate that file and create you a pdf for just a buck per drawing. I think, that is the cheapest in the market right now? hahahaha