A technique for printing "closeups" of a LARGE Floor Plan?

[Daniele Guevara]

Explanation:

I'm working on a very large floorplan that requires 200 larger scale details of it's components. For batch PDF export, each "detail" is a 1":20'-0" scale viewport on its own 8.5x11 sheet.

Because the scale of the viewport can vary between 1":20'-0"/40'-0"/10'-0", I've made seperate sheets with the copied viewport at various scales. The viewport/floorplan has no crop. My titleblock frames/masks the print area and it's locked so it can't be moved accidentally. For each detail, I just drag the desired part of the viewport/floorplan into the print area, duplicate this appropriate sheet and re-name it.

Question:

I"m wondering if there is a more efficient way to do this as the whole process involves 3 steps:

1- Choose the appropriate scale sheet/Determine "print area"

2- Duplicate Sheet and Rename

3- Update the Title Block

This takes me less than a minute per sheet but couldn't it be faster? It's a shame that a "saved view" won't save the position of a viewport on a sheet... That would make my life much easier.

Essentially I'm just taking a magnifying glass over my floorplan.

Any ideas? Anyone?