How to create a "master' sheet layer to show all plans?

[taoist]

Is there a way to have a large sheet layer that holds say 16 or 20 sheets for printing?

This would give us a "one" page view of everything to print.

Then I just tell it what number sheet to print.

I hope this makes sense.

taoist

[Dieter @ DWorks]

You can have a sheet layer and set x number of pages on it. You can set this to the page properties of the sheet layer. When printing, print page X like you would do with other documents.

[taoist]

DWorks.

If I understand you correctly,

X = number of Horizontal Sheets

Y = number of Vertical Sheets

This Master or large sheet does not get printed as it's size is to large to print.

So we just print the "page" we want.

taoist

Edited June 29, 2011 by taoist

[atari2600]

Our firm has been printing our projects like this for years. For our typical project, we use a single "25 drawing" sheet layer, which has a single row of 25 sheets all next to eachother. Prior to VW2008, we had a 5 sheet by 5 sheet grid, due to a sheet layer space limitation. We use a single viewport of a design layer with our main title block in it, and then have a small "sheet layer" title block symbol which contains all the unique drawing data in it. This way we only write stuff once.

We can print or pdf a range of drawings, so if it is only a five sheet contract, we print 1 thru 5.

It has significantly reduced the number of layers we have, and allows us to better review our drawings.

Let me know if you need more info on this method. I highly recommend it over the "normal" VW way (at least for our scale of work: residential)

Matt

[Dieter @ DWorks]

I must say that it's not a very good and fine way to do it. I used to use sheet layers this way, but with the new batch export to pdf and several other options, its way easier to create a sheet layer for every fysical page you need. Drawing borders can adjust to the sheet and center themselfs on it, Page margins are clear, ..... I can go on.

The only advantage to using only one sheet layers is that you can view all sheets at once.