I have a large A0 assembly drawing, but my customer would like to see this in multiple A4 sheets. What is the best way to accomplish splitting this drawing up?
Thanks
I have a large A0 assembly drawing, but my customer would like to see this in multiple A4 sheets. What is the best way to accomplish splitting this drawing up?
Thanks
I would personally create multiple tabs in the same drawing (Bottom left of the Drawing window). You can then copy and paste the views quite easily onto multiple Sheets while keeping the original A0 as the first tab. If there were a way to link the views so that any update made in the original drawing would update the views in the other tabs then I'd do that but I don't know if that's possibile.
Hello,
If you're keeping the A0 in the file when the A4's are created, the total sheet count property will be off.
[EDIT: OP posted that the A0 will be a "legend" so the sheet count may be correct.]
To remedy this, create a custom property in the drawing that is the total sheet count minus one.
Replace the total sheet count property with this custom one in the A4 drawing tabs (you may need a new sheet format for this.).
In the A0 tab, hard code the total sheet count as a literal 1.
Add a copy of the view in the A0 and crop it to an A4.
Repeat this until the A0 is chopped to your liking.
Then add drawings tabs as Mr. Dougal suggests, but move each cropped view to its respective drawing tab (drag it in the tree).
Go to each tab and place the view where you would like it.
If the A0 remains, be sure to deselect it when printing or Save As PDF the A4s.
Kevin
Most printer has a "Poster" setting.
Frederick Law wrote:
Most printer has a "Poster" setting.
I believe that your client is making you do extra work because they don't know how to use a printer's advanced settings as shown by FLaw. SMH
I'd do same as he shows, using Adobe Acrobat Pro, printing a PDF to multiple poster'ed PDFs. Adobe Reader likely can do the same.
That said, I once had a client that required ALL documents in TIFF format. Clients always have nonsensical requirements.
Copying and pasting views is the way I would go, as Mark suggested.
If your views are large, then you may need to scale them down, which may mean that you need to rethink your dimensioning scheme for that view.
Also, you may also need more detail/section views because you will be sacrificing readability (assuming you are scaling views down so that they fit on A4 sheet size).
I appreciate the help everyone, but maybe I should have given a little more info. The drawing I am working with has a large A0 layout drawing of the pipework running through out the factory. In about 30 A4 tabs, I have individual drawings of each of the pipework sections. The large A0 drawings is used as a "key" for where the individual spools are located. My customer is wanting me to make the key more readable by splitting into multiple pages. I think the poster print setting may work, but does anyone have any other suggestions. Also, these are sent to them in pdf form.
Jason Chalfant wrote:
I appreciate the help everyone, but maybe I should have given a little more info. The drawing I am working with has a large A0 layout drawing of the pipework running through out the factory. In about 30 A4 tabs, I have individual drawings of each of the pipework sections. The large A0 drawings is used as a "key" for where the individual spools are located. My customer is wanting me to make the key more readable by splitting into multiple pages. I think the poster print setting may work, but does anyone have any other suggestions. Also, these are sent to them in pdf form.
Hello,
You can create detail views using a rectangular profile [& no leader].
Set each detail view to the same scale as the A0 drawing.
Select Annotations>Location Label and select the detail view.
Move the detail view to its A4 drawing tab and the location label will update automatically.
Kevin
I like this idea from Kevin. It gives each sheet a reference to the A0 sheet and if you want to make a part in the drawing views stand out then you could Change the component line Fonts by Right clicking them in the feature tree. That may just be more extra work though.
Using the detail view idea is the route I went. It worked pretty good. Thanks for all the help
Jason Chalfant wrote:
Using the detail view idea is the route I went. It worked pretty good. Thanks for all the help
Don't forget to mark the answer correct so when others look for assistance with the same issues they can see that your question was resolved..
Hello,
You can create detail views using a rectangular profile [& no leader].
Set each detail view to the same scale as the A0 drawing.
Select Annotations>Location Label and select the detail view.
Move the detail view to its A4 drawing tab and the location label will update automatically.
Kevin