After drawings have been updated, you may want to republish a drawing set for viewing or plotting. You can easily republish a sheet set (DST file) or a collection of drawing sheets that you saved as a DSD (Drawing Set Descriptions) file. You can also load and republish BP3 (Batch Plot) files.
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. Find If you have a drawing open, all the layouts in your drawing are shown in the sheet list in the Publish dialog box. Right-click in the sheet list. Click Remove All to delete the layouts from the list of drawing sheets.
- In the Publish dialog box, click the Load Sheet List button.
- In the Load List of Sheets dialog box, select the location of the DSD file or the BP3 file. Click Load.
The drawing sheets in the saved drawing set are displayed in the sheet list in the Publish dialog box.
- In the Publish to group, do one of the following:
- To publish to a DWF file —click DWF format, and select DWF File.
- To publish to a DWFx file — click DWF format, and select DWFx File.
- To publish to a PDF file — click PDF format, and select PDF File.
- To publish to a plotter or printer — click Plotter Named in Page Setup.
- Click Publish.
If you have background publishing enabled, the animated plotter icon on the right side of the status bar indicates that the publish job is in progress.
- If you have background publishing enabled, you can view information about the processed publish job. Right-click the plotter icon on the right side of the status bar. Click View Plot and Publish Details. The information in the Plot and Publish Details dialog box is also saved to the plot and publish log file.