Is there a way to remvoe the hyphen from in front of the layout tab name when plotting?

[CThurmanSQDQX]

Basically the title.  Is there a way to change the hyphen or remove the hyphen from the automatic naming when plotting drawings?  

We need the drawing number for a client's file system to be just HG-41980-00-CX-DKP-0001_01 not with the hyphen before _01 it needs to be the underscore.   Does anyone know if there is a way to remove that hyphen or change it to a underscore?  Thank you

[paullimapa]

You can always run a batch rename utility like this one in Windows to select all PDFs to rename 

https://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/

[pendean]

You actual DWG file name is what please?
Where does that hyphen exist?
Is _01 the name of your layout tab that you are plotting from? Or is that caused by something else that you observed? It must exist somewhere in the DWG if you want AutoCAD to remove it.

Or as noted by others you'll have to deal with it all after PDF creation if using SSM or PUBLISH command to control your PDF output names is not being used as part of your workflows of course (these last two is how AutoCAD is designed to do what you ask).

TIA

[CThurmanSQDQX]

the actual drawing file name is HG-41980-00-CX-DKP-0001.  the layout tab name is _01 per client request.  But in my screenshot as you can see it puts a hyphen between the 0001 and _01 making the drawing pdf nam eHG-41980-00-CX-DKP-0001-_01 but thank you i will try the batch rename utility. 

[pendean]

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@CThurmanSQDQX wrote:

the actual drawing file name is HG-41980-00-CX-DKP-0001.  the layout tab name is _01 per client request.  But in my screenshot as you can see it puts a hyphen between the 0001 and _01 making the drawing pdf nam eHG-41980-00-CX-DKP-0001-_01 but thank you i will try the batch rename utility. 

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Thanks for sharing the details: AutoCAD is designed to add the hyphen between the file name and the layout name, it is not a user option to remove sadly.

[CThurmanSQDQX]

got ya thank you