Publishing drawings and determining which space the drawing it is in

Hi all

I've got a persisitant problem with the publishing feature in autocad

I know how to set up bulk print of drawings using publish.

However the drawings are a mixed lot (some in paper some in layout)

is there a way to determine the state of the drawing without opening each one

in my case there is thousands of drawings and of course i do not have the manpower to inspect each one

It sounds like your company needs to set a new standard way of doing things... I am not sure of a way to publish, and have AutoCAD detect what you are looking for. On your drawings where everything is in Model space, you should create a view port in paper space and maybe go that route. Take some time, and do it... never mess with the hassle again. I am sorry to not be much help... Maybe someone with some sort of VBA Magic and direct you in another direction.

Have you looked into the Sheet Set Manager? It will build multi-page plot output from one or more drawings at the same time into a save file, A sheet Set. I am not sure how it might handle modelspace views though, and I can't research it at the moment. If it will let you choose both paper and model layouts to plot the problem may be solved.

Dana no that route wont work because you'll get both the model space plot and the layout space plot and that equals lots of wasted drawings one to 10 no problem but you get into the big plotting jobs we do here

we are in the hundreds

my company has great standards we ge into trouble with the standards of outside vendors

Dana no that route wont work because you'll get both the model space plot and the layout space plot and that equals lots of wasted drawings one to 10 no problem but you get into the big plotting jobs we do here

we are in the hundreds

You don't need to keep the auto-generated sheet list items. You can delete/move/copy the individual sheets.

I can't write them but maybe you need to cozy up to a Lisp coder nerd or something.