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John.Pryal1-Visitor
1-Visitor
Jan 15, 2015 10:23 AM UTC
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Multi sheet drawings

Hi all, when you create a new sheet in a multi-sheet drawing, the newly created sheet comes in the same size with the same drawing format as sheet 1, what if you require a smaller or larger sheet than sheet 1. At the moment, i have to edit the sheet setup, change the paper size, select new format, delete old tables. Is there a config option or some other way of altering this behaviour, so you can choose the required paper size & drawing format.

John


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dcox-21-Visitor
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Jan 15, 2015 12:03 PM UTC

John,

I can’t see any settings that would control this. I would suggest the best way to do what you are wanting would be with a mapkey to insert a new sheet and open the sheet setup dialogue. Better yet, you could create a series of mapkeys, each one inserting a sheet of different size/format.

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John.Pryal1-VisitorAuthor
1-Visitor
Jan 15, 2015 1:03 PM UTC

Thanks for the reply David. Creating a mapkey had crossed my mind too, but this is not an issue that crops up too often for me, usually my sheet sizes are the same. I don't know if it would be worth the effort for something I might use once a blue moon, I'd probably forget the key (sequence) that runs the mapkey if I were not using it regularly.

John

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dcox-21-Visitor
1-Visitor
Jan 15, 2015 2:15 PM UTC

Haha, I'm with you there, more than once I've gone to create a mapkey, only to realise I'd previously created it and forgotten about it...

With any luck someone will know of a config option to do what you want, but as I say, I don't know of any.

Dave

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BenLoosli23-Emerald III
23-Emerald III
Jan 15, 2015 2:40 PM UTC

ASME Y14.1-2012 says "All sheets of a multiple-sheet drawing should be the same size."

If it is something that you do enough of to justify the time, create a new format with the sheet 2 of the other size. Create them to cover all bases.

Other than that, there is no config option to do what you want, so that leaves a mapkey to do the sheet changes.

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John.Pryal1-VisitorAuthor
1-Visitor
Jan 15, 2015 2:49 PM UTC

Rules are made to be broken, hee hee.

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TomD.inPDX17-Peridot
17-Peridot
Jan 15, 2015 6:12 PM UTC

ISO doesn't seem to care about sheet size differences within the same drawing, but the issue is still valid under ASME when your continuation sheet formats remove all the redundant fields. As far back as I remember, I used simplified formats for continuation sheets that only had the drawing size, drawing number, and rev in the titleblock. Everything else was covered on sht1, including the revision block.

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