Excluding multiple sheets from count & printing within a drawing environment

[bryantsonnier]

Excluding multiple sheets from count & printing within a drawing environment.

It would be good to be able include/exclude multiple sheets from a count or printing in a drawing environment. We make valves and changing a machine drawing from 2" NPT to CL 600 RF flange take a lot of clicks and mouse movement.  First you have to either double click or select and activate the sheet. Then right click and select edit. Then select both count and print options and hit "ok".  And do this for all the sheets that are changing. 

It is INTUITIVE to select multiple sheets and make this change only once.  It is odd and i got burned like this when i first started using inventor because you can select multiple sheets and you can also select edit sheet with multiple sheets selected so you would assume it would apply to all but it doesn't.  Then you have to let out a sigh because you thought the system you were using was awesome and it wasn't.  So you go through each one and make the changes and you print what you need, then you go to the next version to make changes and go through each one again and at the end you forget a change you needed to make on the first one so you have to go back and go through each one all over. Ever time. Both selecting and unselecting. 

• count
• drawing
• exclude
• Excluding
• printing

I'm "@"ing all those that voted for the last version of this request because it got archived and we all need to revote if we want this features.

@Anonymous, @niksasa , @valapont , @Anonymous , @Cadmanto , @j.peterszetapdm , @Anonymous , @mrattray 

Also here is a link to original request. 

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-ideas/excluding-multiple-sheets-from-count-amp-printing-within-a/idc-p/10042155#M41268

[bryantsonnier]

It would be good to be able include/exclude multiple sheets from a count or printing in a drawing environment. We make valves and changing a machine drawing from 2" NPT to CL 600 RF flange take a lot of clicks and mouse movement.  First you have to either double click or select and activate the sheet. Then right click and select edit. Then select both count and print options and hit "ok".  And do this for all the sheets that are changing. 

It is INTUITIVE to select multiple sheets and make this change only once.  It is odd and i got burned like this when i first started using inventor because you can select multiple sheets and you can also select edit sheet with multiple sheets selected so you would assume it would apply to all but it doesn't.  Then you have to let out a sigh because you thought the system you were using was awesome and it wasn't.  So you go through each one and make the changes and you print what you need, then you go to the next version to make changes and go through each one again and at the end you forget a change you needed to make on the first one so you have to go back and go through each one all over. Ever time. Both selecting and unselecting. 

[Chancellor.Kurre]

I found myself in the same boat as you so I wrote a little iLogic program turned addin that would help out. Once you run it you can go through and click as many sheets as you want and it will exclude or include (whichever is opposite of what it is currently) from both count and printing, when you're done just hit escape to exit. I'll see if I can find it and clean it up to make it available

[bryantsonnier]

Wow, that would be excellent! Thank you. Wish the devs could make that function built in.

[hrobinson97JT9]

Wish there was a solution for this as well.