Plotting w/ Multiple Page setups on 1 tab (2005)

Plotting w/ Multiple Page setups on 1 tab
Is this possible in 2005? Currently using 2000i, will migrate to 2005
shortly. I've heard that you now can assign only 1 page setup to each
tab, as opposed to 2000i's multiple setups and that the "Save shanges to
layout" radio button is gone in the Plot dialogue box??
The reason I ask is that our shop typically puts many sheets in 1 tab
(multiple titleblocks, etc) and plots using views (each titleblock is a
saved view). To change printers, we simply select a different page
setup, and as long as the "save changes" radio button is checked, we can
easily plot many sheets without ever changing tabs. Please tell me this
is still possible??
Thanks.
Mike

 

To me this is an extremelly bad idea that has been kept around since the R14
days and you have to think of the layouts as being a physical sheet of
paper. There should only be 1 titleblock per layout. In the future I think
everything that Autodesk and every third party developer does is going to
work under the assumption that each layout is an individual drawing and I
know this is how the new Sheet Set Manager works in 2005. Plus if you set
it up properly this way you can shift and select multiple layouts and
publish them at once.

Yes I know that some people have productivity gains by drawing everything on
1 sheet but I'm telling you how the management side of things is going to be
in the future and I think anyone who has switched to using mulitple layouts
will never switch back.


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Mr. McManamy;
Thank you for your reply; however, it does nothing to answer my question - is it
possible to plot my legacy drawings as we have in the past (described in
originial post.) We are an exhibit firm, and each exhibit is detailed and
arranged as a "unit" with related sheet numbers, all of which reside in a single
file. Each exhibit's drawings are released to a shop person, who builds it - the
individual shop person does not necessarily have access to the entire drawing
set. This makes it imperative that we "compartmentalize" each individual
exhibit's drawings, and the method I have previously described works well for
this. We will explore your suggestions, of which we were not unaware, primarily
because it seems Acad2005 is almost forcing us to do so, unless you or anyone
else has an answer or workaroud.
Thank you,
Mike

 

Mike,

Yes you can still do it the way that you are doing it but I was trying to
point out how things may be easier for you in the future if you look at
switching now. As Dean pointed out basically nothing has changed from 2000
to 2005 plotting except that they made the dialogs a bit cleaner. The Page
Setup one has changed in 2005 (for the worse I think) but the Plot dialog
still let's you select named Page Setups or named views if you want.


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Rodney McManamy
President
CADzation
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518 South Route 31 Suite 200
McHenry, IL 60050
www.cadzation.com
Providing Industrial Strength
PDF & DWF Solutions to the
Global CAD Marketplace.