Publishing system

[mike m oz]

A constant in all projects is issuing drawings in various forms to consultants, builders etc. and keeping a record of those issues. Currently in Vectorworks this tedious repetitive process is mostly manual.

What Vectorworks needs is a publishing system where:

• The user can choose to print to paper or print to PDF or issue 2D DWGs or any combination of these three.
  
• A record of what has been issued and how is kept and a document transmittal note is printed showing this.

In other words an automated system that handles this routine task that is performed many times during a project.

[GWS]

That is a great suggestion. I currently have an excel file that I use to try and keep track of this stuff, but of course it needs manually updating which takes more time than I would like and is prone to human error.

[VincentCuclair]

ie. as there is in ArchiCAD

[AndiACD]

Another one that get's my Vote.

[Christiaan]

This would be great. Another one we shouldn't need to ask for but that's where we are.

A couple examples of issue sheets here too:

http://needleandmortar.com/wiki/Drawing_register

[shorter]

And not just a drawing issue sheet, but a cad data issue sheet...if one is issuing just DWG modelspace data.

see http://aecuk.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/aecukdrawingmanagementhandbook-v2-4.pdf

Often wished for some sort of publishing function, or something like 'collect for output' in InDesign.

Being able to export DWGs of design layers or design layer viewports is good, but we often wish to export many files, and not the design layers from which they are composed, i.e. a batch DWG export.

If we had some sort of publishing system like Mike suggests then we might make more of the batch printing function. If batch printing or batch dwg export were linked to an automated document transmittal sheet, this would be fantastic.