I have a base drawing with many sheets, and many views per sheet.  External programs iterate through the sheets, eliminating views of models (and eventually empty sheets) that aren’t required for the model as it was configured.  I’m then left w/ a drawing that might have a couple components on one sheet, and a couple more on another… with a ton of blank space.

I need to optimize the drawing, moving the existing views into the empty spaces on the semi-empty sheets (and then eliminating the empty sheets). I can cut and paste the views, but then I need to position them.  Problem is… when I cut and paste a view I not only lose the pointer to the view(s), but I also lose the name as Solidworks renames them w/ the next available index… so I have no idea what I just pasted nor how to identify it to re-select it.

Is there a better way to go about this?  Is there anything I can use in the view that will stick (and that I can get to) around when the view is copied and pasted?  I tried comments… but I can only add comments via the api, I can’t see the comments  (unless I’m missing something).

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Eric