Publish Command -Remove layout name

[Anonymous]

How can i publish drawing to pdf without layout name? 

Thank you,

Minh Luong

[imadHabash]

Hi,

as seen below ... try to tick Prompt for name option . 

[Anonymous]

Thank you for your help. But My Autocad is LT version, so don't have that option.

[Anonymous]

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@imadHabashwrote:

Hi,

as seen below ... try to tick Prompt for name option . 

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Anyway, your solution only for multi-sheet. For single-sheet can't.

[cadffm]

I ask again very carefully so that we do not get us wrong:

You start publish command, not plot command.

You select only one sheet to publish.

The "Entire Name" Option is disabled now, thats fine.

Are you useing the [PDF] option or are you using the the printer from your pagesetup (which one is it?)

Curios, Standard is only DWGname=PDFname for publishing only one sheet.

Please answer my question and write down your exact Version (command _VERNUM)

Had you migrate your setting from older version?

[Anonymous]

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@cadffmwrote:

I ask again very carefully so that we do not get us wrong:

You start publish command, not plot command. >>Correct

You select only one sheet to publish. --> I select single-sheet file

The "Entire Name" Option is disabled now, thats fine.

Are you useing the [PDF] option or are you using the the printer from your pagesetup (which one is it?) --> I use the printer at my page setup (DWG to PDF).

Curios, Standard is only DWGname=PDFname for publishing only one sheet.

Please answer my question and write down your exact Version (command _VERNUM)

Had you migrate your setting from older version? --> I don't.

 Please check my answer and photo attached. Thank you.

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[Anonymous]

We all know, the standard naming action for any file exporting tool it's to make the new file name as the old file name but with a different extension, This is not how CAD to PDF does it.

Batch plotting CAD to PDF files must at all cost contain the Layout name.

There is even an option to not include your own file name in the new file, but you have got to have the Layout name...

Apparently it's very important that Layout name it's included in the PDF, this is no accident for the looks of it.

So, no there is no way in standard CAD to not include the "Layout" name when you batch plot.

The only option you have it's to rename manually each file either in the "sheet name" window or in the folder of destination after exporting. 

[cadffm]

Makes sense because you can have 20 Layouts in one file.

Or?

The programmer need to choose one simpke rule and the best one (mostly fit) is, use Layoutname or Filename+Layoutname.

Just my 2ct for this fact

[Anonymous]

In my case, I work for a large company with many locations, many buildings, many technicians updating different aspects of the floorplans of these buildings. Each file has different levels of sensitivity and it's reviewed by different personnel, including contractors without a security clearance to view the whole project, thus its better to have many individual files that can be reviewed separately by each contributor.
In this case it would be nice to have an option to not automatically include the layout name in the new PDFs while batch printing. But CAD it's a large program, we may not be using it at its full potential.

[asalcidoRY87H]

Having 20 layouts is just crazy to me.  I've worked in a company where they would use multiple layouts and would name the dwg file some long file name.  The layouts would have the proper company standard name.  

Why not just create a separate file for every layout?  When I would ask the dept lead about it, he never could give me an answer that satisfied me.  I mean, would you accept "That's just how we've always done it." as a satisfying answer? 

[pendean]

@asalcidoRY87H The flexible answer that does not alter a user's corporate requirements is to implement/use SSM then PUBLISH from there: the layouts names can be defined once and for all as they wish for all project users to use.

[CherMcGettigan]

so this forces you to open a multi sheet file .  Ugh!  I've done it both ways and it is not any quicker to have it all in one file.