PUBLISH — Publish

Batch-plots a sheet list to PDF.

• Command: PUBLISH · Global name: _PUBLISH
• Ribbon: Output › Plot

Plots several sheets to PDF in one go: model space and the layouts of the open drawing and of other drawings, each sheet with its own page setup. The result is a single multi-sheet PDF or one PDF per sheet.

Usage

1. Save the drawing and enter PUBLISH. The Publish dialog opens with the Sheet List: model space and the layouts of the current drawing.
2. Check the sheets you want to plot; ✖ removes a sheet from the list.
3. Use Add Drawings… to add model space and the layouts of other DWG or DXF files.
4. Choose Single multi-sheet PDF or One PDF per sheet and, if you wish, Include layer information and PDF/A.
5. Click Publish and specify the PDF file (or the folder, with one PDF per sheet). Plotting runs in the background with a progress bar; you can keep drawing meanwhile.

Sheet list

• Save Sheet List… saves the list in a LinceCAD .dsl file, with drawing paths relative to the list; Load Sheet List… loads it again to repeat the same publication.
• Each sheet is plotted with the page setup stored in its layout (PAGESETUP): paper, plot area, scale and plot style table.

Notes

• The drawing must be saved before publishing.
• Sheets of other drawings are plotted without their external references.
• AutoCAD .dsl files are not read: the list is LinceCAD's own.

See also

PLOT · PAGESETUP · ETRANSMIT · Layouts and plotting