Specifies drawing sheets that you can assemble, reorder, and publish as a multi-sheet drawing set.
PUBLISH (Command)
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You can publish the drawing set to a PDF file or send it to the printer named in the page setup for hardcopy output.
The following options are displayed.
Defines how to layouts should be published. You can publish to either a PDF file (an electronic drawing set) or to the printer specified in the page setup (a paper drawing set).
Indicates that the layouts should be published to a PDF file.
Indicates that the output device given for each layout's page setup will be used.
Displays a preview of the selected layout in the Sheet list. Click the Next and Previous buttons to preview another layout in the Sheet list.
Contains the list of drawing sheets to be included for publishing. Click the page setup column to change the sheet’s settings. Use the shortcut menu to add sheets or make other changes to the list.
Combines the drawing name and the layout name with a dash (-). Drawing sheet names must be unique within a single PDF file.
Displays the named page setup for the sheet. You can change the page setup by clicking the page setup name and selecting another page setup from the list. Only Model page setups can be applied to Model sheets, and only named layout page setups can be applied to named layout sheets.
Displays the status of the sheet when it is loaded to the list of sheets.
Adds and removes layouts from the Sheet list.
Displays the Select Drawings dialog box (a standard file selection dialog box), in which you can select drawings to add to the list of sheets. The layout names from those files are extracted, and one sheet is added to the list for each Model and named layout in the drawing. You can use the Add Content list to specify to extract the Model layout only, named layouts only, or both.
The initial sheet names are constructed from the base drawing name and the layout name or the word Model separated by a dash (-).
Deletes the selected sheets from the list.
Adds the Model layout and all named layouts from the current drawing.
Adds the Model layout and all named layouts from the drawings that are currently open.
The following options are available when you right-click a sheet:
Moves the selected sheets to the top of the list.
Moves the selected sheets up one position in the list.
Moves the selected sheets down one position in the list.
Moves the selected sheets to the bottom of the list.
Displays the following information about the selected sheet: status, source drawing, drawing location, layout name, plot device, plot size, plot scale, and page setup details.
The following options are specific to publishing to a printer.
Specifies the number of copies to publish.
Places a plot stamp on a specified corner of each drawing and logs it to a file. Click Configure Plot Stamp to display the Plot Stamp Settings dialog box, and specify the content and look of the plot stamp.
The following options are specific to publishing to a PDF file.
Places a plot stamp on a specified corner of each drawing and logs it to a file. The plot stamp data is specified in the Plot Stamp Dialog Box.
Displays the Plot Stamp dialog box, in which you can specify the information, such as drawing name and plot scale, that you want applied to the plot stamp
Starts the publishing operation.
To display information about the published sheets, including any errors or warnings, click the Plotting Details Report message balloon to displays the Print Details dialog box. This information is also saved to the Plot and Publish log file.