Hello all,
I know task schedular allows the automatic export of pdf files from drawings, but has anyone created a macro in order to export all pdfs in a directory (and subdirectories), append the files with the part title (which appears in the description box of the drawing), and then place the pdf in a different folder but still retain the original sub-directory layout? It would be most useful if everytime I saved the drawing it also saved a copy of the pdf using this methodology.
This way others on the network could browse the directory for parts and see the part description as well.
Unfortunately I don't know how to write macros, but perhaps someone has written one that already does this or similar? If the same script could also check the parts for sheet metal and export the dxf to the same location that would be great.
Hey Peter,
There might be some stuff out there butI have a couple of questions for clarity:
1) For the subdirectories, are you looking for all sub-directories to be re-created or just sub-directories that have drawings that were converted?
2) Are these new folders inside your vault or outside your vault?
3) Why don't you want the PDFs in the same folder as their drawings?
4) When you talk about appending the "part title" to the name of the PDF, are you referring to the FileName of the part or some property of the part like description? If a property, does that property exist in the drawing or only in the part?
5) What if a drawing has multiple part files on either the same sheet or multiple sheets. Which part title would you want to choose?
Thanks,
John