JBullseye74 Posted January 7, 2009 Posted January 7, 2009 Ok so i've thrown myself at Sheet Sets..... having completed a few decent tutorials i think i've grasped the principles. Quite impressed with being able to insert Named views from main Model drawing into New Tabs thus creating your drawings this way. Also i have created a Sheet Set Manager with a job with i had already started - this is 3 No. drawings each containing approx 10 No. Paperspace Tabs. Now am i right in thinking its not very user friendly with drawings which contain multiple tabs? and it caters more for single tab drawings? I have all the tabs listed in the SSM which is good for printing etc but when i manually included another tab into one of the 3 drawings it didn't show up in the SSM! It seams that once its set up you actually create your drawings from within SSM from your Resource drawing & your Named Views onto the Sheet Creation Template. Anybody have any decent knowledge on SSM and can throw any advice my way would be greatly appreciated. Cheers Quote
JBullseye74 Posted January 7, 2009 Author Posted January 7, 2009 http://www.cadtutor.net/forum/showthread.php?t=29449&page=2&highlight=SHEET+SETS This thread helps a little....... Still anyone have any Tips? Quote
chelsea1307 Posted January 12, 2009 Posted January 12, 2009 You are correct in thinking ssm does not like multiple tabbed dwgs. You can work around it. If you right click the sheet set title you can insert a layout as a sheet. after selecting that select the dwg with the new tab and all the tabs from that dwg will show up. the tabs that are already added with say that in the status bar and the ones that arent will have a check by them select add and now you have the new tabs also. Quote
AutoNewbie Posted January 12, 2009 Posted January 12, 2009 Hey JB, I use SSM, but only with a single tab. What I've been doing is using named views and just drop them onto new sheets started from the SSM. This allows me to build the title block once and use it over and over, with live data that can be tailored to each job. Makes edits a breeze.....but one the the best things is the "publish" feature. I'm sure that publish is not just a SSM tool, but I've found that I can build an output setting and store it with the title sheet for the job (for us, the title sheet is the root of each job). Then I can build a print list and let the plotter run through the night and when I get here in the morning the drawings are printed and collated... Quote
chelsea1307 Posted January 12, 2009 Posted January 12, 2009 you can publish using the publish command without using ssm. you can also create pagesetups using page setup manager and save those to use for your publishing. If thats the only reason for using ssm it can be done just as easily using the publish command and you dont have to go through the process of creating a sheet set just for plotting. Quote
AutoNewbie Posted January 12, 2009 Posted January 12, 2009 it was the reusable TB and editable data that is key for me..I was just trying to throw out hints that might help.. :wink: Quote
chelsea1307 Posted January 12, 2009 Posted January 12, 2009 Sheet set manager can make a lot of things easier and can do a lot of things it just surprises me how many people say they use it only for the ability to plot multiple layouts at once, when you can do it without sheet set manager and if thats thier only use do it much faster without it. But you are right the tb and editable data is good Quote
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