From the course: AutoCAD 2016 Essential Training
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Publishing multiple sheets
From the course: AutoCAD 2016 Essential Training
Publishing multiple sheets
- In this video we'll explore the publish command. This is good for outputting a whole series of drawings all in one go. To find a series of drawings, let's look at one of the sample files that ships with AutoCAD. Open up your C drive, go to program files, Autodesk, AutoCAD 2015, sample, sheet sets, and in there you have three different sheet sets. Let's go to manufacturing. In here you'll find a bunch of drawing files and you'll also have a drawing template file, a DWF file, and this DST file. The DST file is what I'm interested in because it has all of the information about the sheet set. So double click that. You may or may not be prompted to choose that you want to open that with AutoCAD. For me it just opened right up and it opened up the sheet set manager here and it has a hierarchical listing of different drawing files. I'm going to right click on the word parts and select publish and I'm going to go to the publish dialog box. Alternatively I could just type in the publish…
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