To Republish a Drawing set

After drawings have been updated, you may want to republish a drawing set. You can easily republish a collection of drawing sheets if you've saved a description of the drawing set as a DSD (Drawing Set Descriptions) file.

  1. Click Output tabPublish panelPublish. Find
  2. If you have a drawing open, in the Publish Drawing Sheets dialog box, right-click. Click Remove All to delete the layouts from the list of drawing sheets.
  3. In the Publish dialog box, click the Load Sheet List button.
  4. 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 list.

  5. In the Publish To group, click to select the DWF Format. Click DWF File or DWFx File.
  6. Click Publish to start the process.

    The animated plotter icon on the right side of the status bar indicates that the publish job is in progress.

  7. 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.