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Anonymous
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Multiple drawing sheets in a single drawing

Perhaps I am using the incorrect terminology and this is why I am not finding the answers I am looking for, please help with the right name/term for what I need.

I am working with 25 individual drawings for a particular "machine".  My engineering manager would like these to be in a single drawing file instead of having to open 25 different drawings or zip the collection to send to someone.  This would be similar to an Inventor "assembly" with 25 different sheets to show all of the different details and dimensions and a BOM on the first sheet.

I thought this was possible with one of the AutoCAD 2D products.  These particular drawings are for an electrical panel so we do have the "regular" AutoCAD, AutoCAD Electrical as well as the Mechanical product if this is more of a product specific capability. 

imadHabash
en respuesta a: Anonymous

Hi,

>> ... would like these to be in a single drawing file instead of having to open 25 different drawings ...

You can get it by preparing multi viewports in layout and put them in one sheet ( of course depending on your drawing size and the scale ) . The idea is to put your drawing in model space with all informations needed then insert your title sheet in the layout then start make your viewport arrangements . 

 

 

Imad Habash

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maratovich
en respuesta a: Anonymous

Are your original drawings in Model or Layouts?

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tboehler
en respuesta a: Anonymous

You can make 25 layout tabs with a title block and viewport in each one - all in a single CAD file.  If you have external reference files you'll need to INSERT all of those.  Not the best practice if you have large files.

Anonymous
en respuesta a: maratovich

All of these drawings (including the titleblock) were done in Model space.  This can be revised to remove the TB from each "drawing".   These are from past "designers" that created a long time ago and users just copy, paste and rename over and over.

No on ever utilized the Layout tabs

maratovich
en respuesta a: Anonymous

Use this - AutoImportCAD 
You can automatically merge many DWG drawings into one.
You can set the desired position of the inserted drawings.

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3wood
en respuesta a: Anonymous

I think the best way is to set up a Sheet Set and use Sheet Set Manager to organize these files. Not need insert them into one big file.

You can use Sheet Set, Subset etc to "assemble" these drawings. You can also easily publish them or etransmit all of them into one single Zip file.

Anonymous
en respuesta a: tboehler

The manager had me change to a different project but I will try these suggestions when I get back to it.  Thank you for your help.