Multiple Sheets on 1 Page

[Atchison]

I have a project set up with many A3 size drawing sheets.

Builder has requested that I combine 4 sheets on to 1 A1 sheet for printing, and send him a PDF of the A1

Is there an easy way to do this?

[Benson Shaw]

Several ways. Here is one:

Save each A3 sheet as a pdf.

Create a new blank sheet in A1 size

Drag/Drop (or import) the pdfs onto this new sheet

Save a pdf of the new big sheet.

This might crop some of the sheet borders because of print margins.

If you don't need the A3 sheets (with borders, etc), but just the viewports or other info, create a new blank sheet layer sized as A1 and Copy/Paste all the A3 info onto the new A1 sheet. Save the A1 as PDF.

-B

[IanH]

Do you have Adobe Acrobat Pro or another PDF 'printer'? If so, you can print multiple sheets per page and output to PDF. You may need to combine the PDF's into a single PDF within Acrobat Pro if Vectorworks batch print does not send the output continuously enough for the PDF printer to be able to offer 4 up printing. This will give 4 sets of title blocks etc and you may have problems with maintaining 100% scaling without cropping.

However, once set up, the following thereafter will be fully automated...

How many is 'many'? Too many to create the A1 sheets necessary then copy the viewports from the A3's and paste 4 up on the A1 sheets? You will have one title block for all.

[Atchison]

Thanks,

Drag and drop PDF's onto a new A1 sheet worked very well and quickly.