Drawings - Disabling Automatic Sheet Creation

[bwalker145]

Is there a way to completely disable automatic sheet creation when generating a drawing?

When I create a drawing of an assembly, under the "Sheet Creation Structure" option, I can select "First Level" or "All Level", but there's no option to disable. Depending on the number of assemblies / sub-assemblies, this can result in Fusion generating a large number of sheets that I don't need at the start, even with the "First Level" option selected.

Not a big deal to just delete the extra sheets, it's just a minor workflow annoyance that I'd like to change if possible.

[jhackney1972]

If you set your Create Drawing dialog to Manual, you will only create one sheet.  You can then add sheets as needed.

[bwalker145]

Hi John,

I always have it set to manual, and it still creates multiple sheets.

[jhackney1972 · Accepted solution]

You must be using a custom template which is set to create these extra sheets.  As you can see from my screen capture the Sheet Creation section of the dialog box is not present.  If you would attach your Drawing Template, the Forum could take a look.  To export the template, you have to do it from the Web Database, select the template, and export to a F2T file.

[bwalker145 · Accepted solution]

Ahh okay, that pointed me in the right direction, thank you. Here's the root-cause:

My template only has a single sheet listed, but the single "Base View Placeholder" is triggering the automatic sheet generation for multiple assemblies/components. Once the Base View is removed from the sheet (and the assembly/component reference deleted from the browser tree) the "Sheet Creation" dialog box disappears, and it no longer creates multiple sheets.

[jhackney1972]

Great, do not forget to select the "Accept Solution" on my post since it pointed you to your problem solution.