Multiple sheets PDF file

Usually, exporting or printing your drawing in full or partially to or as a PDF file is enough in your daily work/process. But like everything, every rule has an exception, and on occasion you might have the need to include in a single document several parts of a design in a single file. Question: How to do this?

Let’s take for example, a large project and that you need to share different areas distant between them. You might even need to add a note to each one of them as well.  If you print it in a single sheet say in A4, to add them all, it would have to be in a scale factor so big, that the information in the drawing would be too small, useless.

The example

In this example, we have the ground floor plan of a house, and we need to send an A4 size PDF file containing the entire floor on one page, and then each room on an individual sheet.

The workflow

First, you will be already using different Sheets, with each one set to the different area of interest (and different output scales, if necessary for example). Ideally, you will have already a Print Configuration file created for an output size A4

Note: For information on Print Configuration files, please refer to the Blog Post "About Print Configurations" ( https://swym.3ds.com/#post:16682 ) or the DraftSight Help files

Note2: The Printing Configuration file MUST be associated with the DraftSight inbuilt PDF Printer. (see image below)

Having created the number of sheets you need,

1 - Click in the Sheet1. Mouse right-click on the Sheet1, Select the option Print Configuration Manager.

2 - Select the Print Configuration file you created for A4 (in this case, I will select Printconfigtest01, as it’s my A4 template)

3 - Click Assign to the desired Sheet or check the box Select all.

(Note: If you click in the Print Configuration column, you can edit the file assigned individually from the drop down as shown below)

4 - Click OK, and close the window

5 - Go to the following Sheets, and adjust the views in the viewports to the areas desired (if not done by now).

Once you’re finished, Click Print.

6 - In the Print configuration options, Select “Use print configuration” pointing to the file you selected.

7 - Click the Select Sheets button, and in the following dialog, the check box “Create a single PDF document with one sheet per page”.

Click OK, and then OK in the Print dialog.

Below, you can find the file result of this workflow