After you have organized
drawings into a sheet set, you can publish, transmit, and archive
the sheet set as a package.
- Publish a sheet set: Use
the Publish feature to output the sheet set to a plotter in either
normal or reverse order. For more information, see Publish a Sheet Set.
You can create single and multiple-sheet DWF or DWFx files from
a sheet set or portion of a sheet set.
For information on DWF
files, see Plot DWF Files.
For information on DWFx
files, see Plot DWFx Files.
- Set
options for properties to include in a published DWF or DWFx file: You
can decide what types of information to reveal in your published DWF
or DWFx files. The types of metadata that you can include are sheet and
sheet set properties, block properties and attributes, dynamic block properties
and attributes, and properties contained in custom objects. Metadata
is only included when you publish to DWF or DWFx; it is not available
when plotting to DWF or DWFx.
- Transmit
a sheet set: Package and send a sheet set or a portion
of a sheet set over the Internet. For more information, see Package a Set of Files for Internet Transmission.
- Archive a sheet set: Package
a sheet set or portion of a sheet set for storage. This is very
similar to packaging a transmittal set, except that you specify a
folder for the archive and you do not transmit the package. For
more information, see the ARCHIVE command.
Use Page Setups
Page
setups provide the settings that are used for publishing and plotting. When
you create a sheet set, you specify a drawing template (DWT) file
that contains one or more page setups for all new sheets. This DWT
file is called the sheet creation template.
Another
DWT file, called the page setup overrides file, contains
page setups that can be specified to override the page setups in
each sheet. You specify the page setup overrides file in the Sheet
Set Properties dialog box.
When you publish a sheet set, you can use the
page setups defined in each drawing file, you can use the page setup
overrides for all drawing files, or you can publish to a DWF or
DWFx file. For more information about page setups, see Use Named Page Setups with Sheet Sets.
NoteWith page setup overrides,
you can use the PUBLISHCOLLATE system variable to control whether
plotting a sheet set can be interrupted by other plot jobs or not.
Save a Selection of Sheets
You can select part of a sheet set for publishing
and transmitting. On the Sheet List tab, you can select individual
sheets using standard Microsoft® Windows® selection
methods—press CTRL or SHIFT when you click items. You can
specify all the sheets in a sheet subset by clicking the subset
node.
You
will likely need to perform operations on the same group of sheets
in a sheet set repeatedly. To speed up selecting the sheets and
to ensure that the same sheets are selected each time, you can use
the Sheet Set Manager to reselect groups of sheets by name. These
named groups of sheets are called sheet selections.
You can create and manage sheet selections by using the Sheet Selections
button at the top of the Sheet List tab.
To save a sheet selection
To restore a sheet selection
To rename or delete a sheet selection
- Click View tab
Palettes
panel Sheet
Set Manager. 
- In the Sheet Set Manager, open a sheet
set.
- On the Sheet List tab, near the upper-right
corner, click the Sheet Selections button. Click Manage.
- In the Sheet Selections dialog box, select
the name of a sheet selection and do one of the following:
- Click Rename to rename the sheet selection.
Enter the new name for the sheet selection.
- Click Delete to remove the sheet selection
name from the list. Click Yes to confirm that you want to remove
this sheet selection name.
- Click OK.
To modify an existing sheet selection
NoteYou cannot modify
a sheet selection directly. Instead, you activate a sheet selection
and modify it, delete the name of the sheet selection, and then
create a new sheet selection in its place.
- Click View tab Palettes
panel Sheet
Set Manager.
- In the Sheet Set Manager, open a sheet
set.
- On the Sheet List tab, near the upper-right
corner, click the Sheet Selections button. Select the name of the
sheet selection to modify.
- Use the CTRL key to add and remove items
from the sheet selection.
- On the Sheet List Manager, near the upper-right
corner, click the Sheet Selections button. Click Manage.
- Click Delete to remove the sheet selection
name from the list. Click Yes to confirm that you want to remove
this sheet selection name.
- Click OK to close the Sheet Selections
dialog box.
- On the Sheet List Manager, near the upper-right
corner, click the Sheet Selections button. Click Create.
- In the New Sheet Selection dialog box,
enter the name of the sheet selection. Click OK.
To publish a DWF or DWFx file including
layer, block, sheet set, and sheet information
- Click View tab Palettes
panel Sheet
Set Manager.
- In the Sheet Set Manager, Sheet List
tab, select the sheet set to publish in a DWF or DWFx file.
- Click the Publish button. Click Sheet
Set Publish Options.
- In the Sheet Set Publish Options dialog
box, under DWF Data Options, depending on what you want to include
in the published DWF or DWFx file, click any of the following to
change the option to “Include.”
- Layer information
- Sheet set information (attributes you
can choose to include are description and custom properties)
- Sheet information (attributes you can
choose to include are sheet title, sheet number, description, sheet
set, subset, and sheet custom properties)
- Block information
NoteSome sheet properties
are always published in the DWF or DWFx file (no matter what setting
you make in the Sheet Set Publish Options dialog box). These are:
sheet name, sheet size, author, creator, creation time, and modification
time.
- Click OK.
To publish a DWF or DWFx file using a
block template file to include block properties and attributes
CommandsARCHIVE
Packages
the current sheet set files for archive.
NEWSHEETSET
Creates
a new sheet set data file that manages drawing layouts, file paths, and
project data.
OPENSHEETSET
Opens
a selected sheet set.
SHEETSET
Opens
the Sheet Set Manager.
SHEETSETHIDE
Closes
the Sheet Set Manager.
System VariablesPUBLISHCOLLATE
Controls whether plotting
a sheet set, multi-sheet plot file, or plot spool file can be interrupted
by other plot jobs.
SSFOUND
Displays the sheet set
path and file name if a search for a sheet set is successful.
SSLOCATE
Controls whether the
sheet set associated with a drawing is located and opened when the
drawing is opened.
SSMAUTOOPEN
Controls the display
behavior of the Sheet Set Manager when a drawing associated with
a sheet is opened.
SSMSHEETSTATUS
Controls how the status
data in a sheet set is refreshed.
SSMSTATE
Indicates whether the
Sheet Set Manager window is open or closed.
