Publish

[angiegauthier]

Hi everyone

I have a drawing with 3 layouts, named ELEVATION, PLAN, and SECTION.

I want to write a Lisp routine that will publish these three sheets in a single PDF file. Can anyone help me please?

Publish and -Publish both pull up dialog boxes, so I'm not sure this will work as (command "-publish"....)

Seems like this should be an easy thing to do. Could anyone tell me what I'm missing?

Thanks

Angie

[john.uhden]

Use Sheet Set Manager, though I strongly recommend your publishing to a DWF file. DWFs are about 1/3 the size of a PDF, have more versatility, are more reliable, and can be printed to a PDF (if you really want) with freeware such at CutePDF. The software to view (etc.) DWfs is free from Autodesk.

[angiegauthier]

Are you able to point me in the right direction? How do I use sheet set manager with Lisp? I've been playing around with no success.

I'll check into switching to Dwf, but right now I need a pdf.

[john.uhden]

You won't need any AutoLisp to use Sheet Set Manager. I don't have a tutorial for you, but just study the help.

[dbroad · Accepted solution]

I can't see any benefit in implementing a lisp program to do what can be done in 3 to 4 clicks.  Here is a starting point for your research though.

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/search-result/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2016/ENU/AutoCAD-ActiveX/files...

I use the layouttabs.  Hopefully the layout tabs are in order. If so, then click on the left tab to plot.  Then shift select the rightmost tab to plot.  Then right click and choose publish selected. For it to work, all three tabs should have the same pagesetup and should be set to plot to PDF.

[angiegauthier]

Thank you dbroad! I never knew you could do that with the layout tabs. That makes it way easier.

As far as the number of clicks...for my group, if I write a routine that does something in 3 clicks, the next day, they ask if I can cut it down to 1. lol

Thanks for the help everyone!

Angie

[dbroad]

I'm glad that helped you.  That is one reason I always turn on the layout tabs.  You can also CTRL select tabs that are not next to one another and just publish those. They are worth every pixel of screen space that I lose.