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Dale_Rosema
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Dale_Rosema23-Emerald III
23-Emerald III
August 18, 2022
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PDF's: Saving Multi-tabbed drawings as individual sheets/pages

  • August 18, 2022
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Since our old system (pre-pdf's) was set up that each tab on a DRW was set up as a separate DWG. It has been decided that each tab needs to be a separate PDF. Any thoughts on how to separate this out? Either during the export process or after the fact?

 

We do not have a large amount of multi-tab(sheet) drawings, so separating them after export could work too, but during the export process would be even better.

Best answer by Dale_Rosema

Pro-Work Around:

 

I save the drawings as .dwg's (which is only single tab per page) and then save the .dwg's to .pdf's.

Not pretty, but a solution for now.

 

Thanks,

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StephenW23-Emerald III
23-Emerald III
August 18, 2022

After the fact, most PDF editors will break out sheets as PDFs. I use Bluebeam but I think most do the same.

You might be able to make a mapkey that would do it directly from Creo!!! Just don't expect to be able to add text in from of the filename!

 

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    23-Emerald IV
    TomU23-Emerald IV
    23-Emerald IV
    August 18, 2022

    SmartAssembly can do this easily, but it's not free.  I wonder if something like CREOSON could automate it (for free).

    Dale_Rosema
    23-Emerald III
    Dale_Rosema23-Emerald IIIAuthor
    23-Emerald III
    August 18, 2022

    Currently I am opening the multi page pdf and printing to a pdf 1 page at a time.

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    MartinHanak24-Ruby III
    24-Ruby III
    August 19, 2022

    Hi,

    You can create AutoIt script.

    Usage:

    1. open drawing
    2. activate 1st sheet
    3. run AutoIt script
    4. AutoIt script displays window which enables you to set prefix of PDF filename (-OR- stop script execution)
    5. set prefix and press OK
    6. AutoIt script generates savePDF trail file -AND- makes Creo to replay savePDF trail file
    7. AutoIt script  pauses and displays window which enables you to set prefix of PDF filename (-OR- stop script execution)
    8. activate 2nd sheet
    9. repeat steps 5 (AutoIt repeats steps 6-7)
    10. and so on ...

     

      Dale_Rosema
      23-Emerald III
      Dale_Rosema23-Emerald IIIAuthorAnswer
      23-Emerald III
      November 22, 2022

      Pro-Work Around:

       

      I save the drawings as .dwg's (which is only single tab per page) and then save the .dwg's to .pdf's.

      Not pretty, but a solution for now.

       

      Thanks,

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