Sheet sets Part 2 (AutoCAD 2011)

62 Pheasant Drive DWF

1. In the 62 Pheasant Drive Sheet Set Manager click the Publish icon, followed by a click on Publish to DWF in the menu which appears (Fig. 11.10). The Specify DWF File dialog appears (Fig. 11.11). Enter 62 Pheasant Drive in the File name field followed by a click on the Select button.

The Publish icon in the Sheet Set Manager

Fig. 11.10 The Publish icon in the Sheet Set Manager

The Select DWF File dialog

Fig. 11.11 The Select DWF File dialog

A warning window (Fig. 11.12) appears. Click its Close button. The Publish Job in Progress icon in the bottom right-hand corner of the AutoCAD 2011 window starts fluctuating in shape showing that the DWF file is being processed (Fig. 11.12). When the icon becomes stationary right-click the icon and click View Plotted File. in the right-click menu which appears (Fig. 11.13).


2. The Autodesk Design Review window appears showing the 62 Pheasant Drive.dwf file (Fig. 11.14).

The Publish Job in Progress icon

Fig. 11.12 The Publish Job in Progress icon

The right-click menu of the icon

Fig. 11.13 The right-click menu of the icon

 The Autodesk Design Review showing details of the 62 Pheasant Drive.dwf file

Fig. 11.14 The Autodesk Design Review showing details of the 62 Pheasant Drive.dwf file

3. If required the Design Review file can be sent between people by email as an attachment, opened in a company’s intranet or, indeed, included within an internet web page.

REVISION NOTES

1. To start off a new sheet set, select the Sheet Set Manager icon in the Tools/Palettes panel.

2. Sheet sets can only contain drawings saved in Layout format.

3. Sheet sets can be published as Design Review Format (*.dwf) files which can be sent between offices by email, published on an intranet or published on a web page.

4. Subsets can be included in sheet sets.

5. Changes or amendments made to any drawings in a sheet set are reflected in the sheet set drawings when the sheet set is opened.

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