Setting Publishing Options for Drawing Sheet Sets

When you publish a drawing sheet set, each drawing sheet uses the printer specified in its associated PageLayout.

The drawing template (.dwt) specified when you created the drawing sheet set can contain Print Configurations.
Before publishing your drawing sheet sets, you can do the following:
  • Specify PDF publishing options, such as the location for the PDF file.
  • Specify whether to create one or multiple files, include layer information.
  • Specify whether to add print stamps on all sheets from the drawing sheet set.
  • Specify print stamp options, such as information to include in the print and additional text that you can print or log.
  • Specify whether sheets can publish in reverse order (only to a printer).

To add a print stamp on published drawing sheets:

  1. In the Sheet Set Manager, open the drawing sheet set to publish.
  2. To add a print stamp, click Publish and select Add Print Stamp.

    A tick mark against the menu option indicates that DraftSight adds a print stamp.

    To change the print stamp options, click Publish and select Print Stamp Options.
  3. To publish sheets from a drawing sheet set in reverse order, select the drawing sheet set or a subset and do one of the following:
    • Right-click and select Publish > Publish in Reverse Order.
    • Click Publish and select Publish in Reverse Order.

    You can publish the drawings in reverse order only to a printer.

    A tick mark against the menu option indicates that, during publishing, DraftSight publishes the drawing sheets in reverse order.
  4. To include a drawing sheet subset or an individual drawing sheet for publishing:
    1. In the Sheet Set Manager, right-click a drawing sheet subset or a drawing sheet name and select Publish > Include for Printing.
    2. Specify an option:

      • Yes. Lets you include the drawing sheet for printing.

      • No. Lets you exclude the drawing sheet from printing. A printer symbol () indicates the status in the Sheet Set Manager.

      When you publish the drawing sheets from a subset, you can take into account the Include for Publishing option: Right-click a subset and select Publish > Publish Drawing Sheets in Subset > Publish By Drawing Sheet "Include For Publish" Settings.
  5. To set PDF publishing options for a drawing sheet set:
    1. On the Sheet Set Manager, select a drawing sheet set from the list.
    2. Right-click the drawing sheet set or a subset and select Publish > PDF Options.
    3. In the PDF Options dialog box, in Path, specify the folder in which to save the PDF file.
    4. Specify additional PDF publish options.
    5. Click OK.