Print or publish drawings using sheet sets

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Sheet sets are a great way to organize and access

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all the drawings you create to document a project.

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But sheet sets can do much more than that.

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Suppose you were in the middle of working on a drawing for a new project.

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When you received a request to plot a copy

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of the drawings to a completely different project.

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If you had not used sheet sets to organize and manage that earlier project,

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you would likely have to stop what you were doing.

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Navigate to the folder containing the drawings for that earlier project.

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Open each drawing, select the proper layouts and then plot each drawing

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as you do this other members of the project team who tried to open drawings from that

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earlier project might discover that they cannot work on

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those drawings because since you have opened them,

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the drawing files are locked.

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But by using sheet sets,

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you can significantly reduce the amount of time you spend plotting your drawings.

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Even if you are unfamiliar with the project,

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you can quickly print the entire sheet set

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without having to open and view each drawing file.

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And your coworkers can continue editing the drawings while you use

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the sheet set manager to send the entire set of sheets

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to the default plot device.

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Assuming each sheet has been saved with the proper page set up.

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For example, suppose you are working on the floor plan for a new office building.

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When your boss asks you to print a new set of drawings for the townhouse project

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open, the sheet set manager. If it is not already open

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in the sheet set manager, click open,

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navigate to the sheet set dash 05 folder,

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select the townhouse dot DS T file

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and click open.

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Even though you have not actually opened any of the drawings,

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you can plot the entire sheet set

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a

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subset

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individual sheets

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or any sheets. You select

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for example to print all of the sheets in the sheet set,

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right? Click the sheet set title

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and choose publish,

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published to plotter.

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The program quickly prints all of the sheets

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in the entire sheet set to the device specified

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in the page set up for each sheet.

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Suppose you only wanted to print the sheets in a particular subset,

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right? Click the architectural subset and choose publish, publish to plotter.

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This time, the program prints just those four sheets.

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You can also print just the individual sheets. You select,

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you can use the shift and control keys to specify a range or specific sheets.

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For example,

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suppose you only needed to print the two architectural floor plan sheets,

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press control and select those two sheets

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then right click and choose, publish, publish to plotter.

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This time only the sheets you selected are printed.