Page Setups and Layouts

[Moshe-A]

Guys Hi,

i was wondering about AutoCAD behavior regarding Page Setups and Layouts. have a template with 10 Layouts and each Layout has it's page setup set. now when opening page setup dialog, AutoCAD creates it's own page setup for each Layout with a prefix and suffix '*' character as it's name and set his page setup as current.

it there a way to change this?

Thanks in advance

Moshe

[cadffm]

No,
each layout have one (unnamed) pagesetup.

If the layout pagesetup happens to match an existing named page setup, then Acad recognizes this. Changing the named page setup via PagesetupDialog will cause the query to be applied to all other layouts with the appropriate page setup.

As for just about everything else you need a program extension to be able to work cleverly with Autocad.

[Moshe-A]

CADffm,

thank you, 

now i see it, looks like i was missing some (created the page setup but forgot to make it current)

but still i do not understand the temporary page setup? a change to the temp page setup, autocad does not alert you and disconnect the link between current layout and my page setup.

Moshe

[cadffm · Accepted solution]

Each initialized layout has the information about plotter, sheet format, plotstyle table.... a set of informations, in short - the (unnamed)pagesetup of this layout.

Regardless, it is possible to save all these settings as a named pagesetup.

So you can easily use such a set of settings by one click.
I will compare it with a dim style.
It is helpfull to save a lot of time (you dont need set 100 dim* variables by hand every time),
You can import this set of variables, because it's saved with a named (dimstyle/name).

Set dimstyle current, acad set 100 dim* variables for you, nothing more.

Set named pagesetup current, acad will apply these informations to the layout-pagesetup.




There is no (real) connection between named page setup and the page setup of a layout.

However, there is internally a program which checks whether the page setup of a layout matches a named page setup.

If a user changes a named page setup (command pagesetup), Autocad asks if the changes should also be applied to other page layouts of other layouts if their settings match the old named page setup.

[Moshe-A]

that's true but if you make changes to the temp page setup autocad does not ask you if you want to deploy these changes to your real page setup and because autocad does not make your page setup current it is easy for the user to fall here. he might think he is changing his page setup but this is not true.

[cadffm]

It works since 2000 and And hardly an inexperienced user ever creates named page facilities.
These users only knows the plotdialog.