Putting page number in an entire project

I was asked bt the production department to add page number on
drawings. They don't want to have something like page 1/5 for each
part (I already automated this) but they want an entire project with
pages like from 1 to 500 including parts an assemblies to make sure
they have all drawing.

I don't see how I could automatize the numbering of pages of an entire
project unless I put all 2D drawing in the same cad file. I think i
have to do it manually if I keep one drawing files by 3D files which
is wiser to keep things light and isolated from depending of one huge
file.

Typical projects are prismatic with 50-500 parts. What king of
procedure or tool can I give them to make sure they have all drawing
of a project in a fast way.

Robin
Montreal, Canada

 

What king of procedure or tool can I give them to make sure they have all
drawing of a project in a fast way.

Hey, how about a BOM? All projects should have one anyway.

 

If you create drawings in sets (like I do, & like Robin prob'ly does), you
need a page numbering system.

Robin, I'm having a VB program written to (among other things) manage page
numbering across drawing files. Let me know if you're curious... I'll show
you what it'll do (it's pretty sweet).

Brian

 

If you have a full version of acrobat, you could get the page numbering
automatically, but you would need to manually update, insert, delete the
content.

 

Go to file/Properties on your part
Under custom change a property, I would choose number
enter a number

Now in your template or drawing enter that variable as part of a text.

So now you have to number every part, and the number will show up on your
sheets.

It is difficult to automate it, unless there is some centralising.

G