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Describe the benefit of creating and using a named page setup to print sheet sets.
Type:
Tutorial
Length:
3 min.
Tutorial resources
These downloadable resources will be used to complete this tutorial:
Transcript
00:04
Sheet sets are a great way to organize and access
00:07
all the drawings you create to document a project.
00:11
But sheet sets can do much more than that.
00:13
For example,
00:14
you can use sheet sets to significantly reduce the
00:17
amount of time you spend plotting your drawings.
00:21
Even if you are unfamiliar with the project,
00:23
you can quickly print the entire sheet set
00:26
without having to open and view each drawing.
00:29
When used in conjunction with named page set ups, you have even more options.
00:34
For example,
00:36
you might create one named page set up called final version that plots the layouts
00:41
to a PDF file on ad size sheet at a scale of 1 to 1
00:46
and a second one called handouts that plots the extents to
00:49
a laser printer on letter size sheets scaled to fit.
00:54
While you can create named page setups using traditional methods.
00:58
Sheet sets enable you to really leverage the power of named page setups.
01:04
For example, suppose you need to plot a 50 sheet set of drawings
01:09
and suppose those drawings were saved to plot to
01:11
es size paper on a large roll fed plotter.
01:15
But now you want to print them on letter sized sheets using a laser printer.
01:20
Using traditional methods, you would need to open each drawing,
01:24
select the layout,
01:26
choose the plot command, select the device set, the paper size set, the plot area,
01:33
set the scale and send it to the printer.
01:36
And then you would have to repeat those steps. 49 more times.
01:41
The sheet set manager enables you to use named page setups to
01:45
quickly plot an entire sheet set or any selected sheets within it
01:50
to any page setup configuration.
01:54
When you create a new sheet set,
01:57
the program uses the default template file for the named page setups.
02:01
If you already have a template file for creating new drawings,
02:05
you can use that same template file to store your named page setups
02:11
in the sheet set manager. Click open,
02:15
navigate to the sheet set dash 05 folder and open the DS T file
02:23
in the sheet set manager, right? Click the sheet set title and choose properties
02:30
to open the sheet set properties, dialogue
02:34
under sheet set
02:36
in the page set up, overrides file field.
02:39
Verify that the sheet set already uses the proper template file.
02:45
The template file used in this exercise already contains several page set ups
02:51
if you are using your own custom template
02:53
and that template does not contain page setups.
02:56
A warning dialogue will display
02:59
simply dismiss the warning
03:02
click. OK? To close the sheet set properties, dialogue
Video transcript
00:04
Sheet sets are a great way to organize and access
00:07
all the drawings you create to document a project.
00:11
But sheet sets can do much more than that.
00:13
For example,
00:14
you can use sheet sets to significantly reduce the
00:17
amount of time you spend plotting your drawings.
00:21
Even if you are unfamiliar with the project,
00:23
you can quickly print the entire sheet set
00:26
without having to open and view each drawing.
00:29
When used in conjunction with named page set ups, you have even more options.
00:34
For example,
00:36
you might create one named page set up called final version that plots the layouts
00:41
to a PDF file on ad size sheet at a scale of 1 to 1
00:46
and a second one called handouts that plots the extents to
00:49
a laser printer on letter size sheets scaled to fit.
00:54
While you can create named page setups using traditional methods.
00:58
Sheet sets enable you to really leverage the power of named page setups.
01:04
For example, suppose you need to plot a 50 sheet set of drawings
01:09
and suppose those drawings were saved to plot to
01:11
es size paper on a large roll fed plotter.
01:15
But now you want to print them on letter sized sheets using a laser printer.
01:20
Using traditional methods, you would need to open each drawing,
01:24
select the layout,
01:26
choose the plot command, select the device set, the paper size set, the plot area,
01:33
set the scale and send it to the printer.
01:36
And then you would have to repeat those steps. 49 more times.
01:41
The sheet set manager enables you to use named page setups to
01:45
quickly plot an entire sheet set or any selected sheets within it
01:50
to any page setup configuration.
01:54
When you create a new sheet set,
01:57
the program uses the default template file for the named page setups.
02:01
If you already have a template file for creating new drawings,
02:05
you can use that same template file to store your named page setups
02:11
in the sheet set manager. Click open,
02:15
navigate to the sheet set dash 05 folder and open the DS T file
02:23
in the sheet set manager, right? Click the sheet set title and choose properties
02:30
to open the sheet set properties, dialogue
02:34
under sheet set
02:36
in the page set up, overrides file field.
02:39
Verify that the sheet set already uses the proper template file.
02:45
The template file used in this exercise already contains several page set ups
02:51
if you are using your own custom template
02:53
and that template does not contain page setups.
02:56
A warning dialogue will display
02:59
simply dismiss the warning
03:02
click. OK? To close the sheet set properties, dialogue
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