Printing all layouts at once to a single PDF using a Button (AutoCAD 2015)
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Hi, in AutoCAD we currently do our multiple sheet drawings as seperate files, which we PDF for our engineering department afterwards. This requires us to perform a secondary operation where we merge the PDF files into one. We also always used to do our drawing in model space (none of this paperspace mularky). Also, when we printed, we customised a button so it was a one hit print, using model space and extents etc in the macro command line.
We are now in the process of starting to use layouts, and having multiple sheets drawings as one file, with a layout per sheet. What we want to do now is replicate our button, so it will print all the layouts at once, and as a secondary function, print them into one PDF file (as Inventor can do). However, its not obvious 1) whether its possible or 2) if it is, what the command line parameters would be. If we could only do the layouts all at once into seperate PDF's we merge later as mentioned above, that would be a start, but we are hoping to do it as Inventor does. Any thoughts please?