To Create a Drawing Set for Publishing

You can assemble a collection of drawing sheets to publish all at once to single or multiple DWF, DWFx, or PDF files. You can customize your drawing set for a specific user; and you can add, remove, reorder, copy, and rename sheets in a drawing set as a project evolves.

You can publish directly to an electronic format that can be distributed using E-mail, FTP sites, project web sites, or CD. You can save a drawing set that's been assembled to publish in a Drawing Set Descriptions (DSD) file.

Note: You must remove the drawing sheets that you don't want to become a part of the drawing set. Layouts must be initialized before they can be published. (A layout is initialized if its paper size is defined in the page setup to any size other than 0 x 0.)

1. Open a drawing. Click Output tabPublish panelPublish. Find

   The Publish dialog box is displayed. If the Include Layouts When Adding Sheets option is selected in the shortcut menu, all the layouts in the current drawing are listed in the sheetlist.

2. In the Publish dialog box, you can modify the list of sheets by doing any of the following as needed:
   • Add sheets. To add sheets from other drawings, click the Add Sheets button (or drag drawings from the desktop). In the Select Drawings dialog box, select drawings. Click Select to add them to the list of sheets in the Publish dialog box. All of the layouts in a drawing become individual sheets in the list of drawing sheets. You can remove the individual sheets if you do not want them to become part of the drawing set. A layout must be initialized (its paper size must be defined in the page setup to any size other than 0 x 0) before it can be published.
   Note: To include all layouts when you add sheets to a drawing set, ensure the Include Layouts When Adding Sheets option is selected in the shortcut menu.
   • Include model layouts. If you include an uninitialized (the paper size is not defined in the page setup or is set to 0 x 0) model layout, it will be marked as Uninitialized in the Status column on the sheet list. It can be plotted if you select an override page setup for it in the Publish dialog box from the page setup drop-down list under Page Setups in the sheet list.
   Note: To include the model when you add sheets to a drawing set, ensure the Include Model When Adding Sheets option is selected in the shortcut menu.
   • Remove sheets. To remove sheets from the list, select one or more sheets in the list. Click the Remove Sheets button. To remove all sheets, right-click the selection. Click Remove All.
   • Reorder sheets. To reorder the sheets up or down one position in the list, select a sheet. Click either the Move Sheet Up or Move Sheet Down button. Sheets in the drawing set are viewed or plotted in the order shown in the list.
   • Rename sheets. To rename a sheet, select it in the list and right-click. Click Rename Sheet. Enter the new sheet name.
   • Change page setups. To change the page setup for a layout, select the sheet, and in the Page Setup list select a named page setup from the list; or select one or more sheets and right-click. Click Change Page Setup. In the Page Setup list, select a page setup, or select Import to import page setups from another drawing or template. In the Import Page Setups dialog box, select a drawing with one or more page setups. Click Import. In the Page Setup list, select a named page setup.
   Note: Change the page setup for each layout depending on your desired output. Model space page setups can only be applied to model space sheets; paper space page setups can only be applied to paper space sheets.
   • Copy sheets. To copy one or more drawing sheets, select the sheets in the list and right-click. Click Copy Selected Sheets. The copied drawing sheets are added and highlighted at the end of the sheet list. When a sheet is copied, its name is created by the addition of -Copy(n) at the end of the original sheet name. For example, if you create one copy of a sheet called Plumbing, the copied sheet is called Plumbing-Copy(1). Each time you copy the same sheet, the n is incremented by 1. By creating copies of a sheet, you can have different page setups and other settings for the same sheet.
3. When your list of drawing sheets is assembled and configured the way you want for your drawing set, click the Save List button.
4. In the Save List As dialog box, in the File Name box, enter a name for the list. Click Save.

   The drawing set list is saved as a DSD (Drawing Set Descriptions) file.