topic Re: Check if drawings placed on layouts in Documentation

Check if drawings placed on layouts

Anonymous — Thu, 25 May 2023 22:03:58 GMT

Is there a quick way to see if drawings are saved in your VIEW MAP are placed on layouts?

I am working on a Teamwork file where people have made duplicate views of the same drawings by mistake, made temporary drawings etc. I plan to do a project clean up and am worried I might delete drawings that are already on sheets.

Re: Check if drawings placed on layouts

Barry Kelly — Thu, 06 Jul 2017 01:53:59 GMT

The Drawing Manager will tell you which views have been placed on layouts.
You can right click on a view and choose "open source view" - it will highlight in the view map.

But is won't list the views not used which seems to be what you want.

However you can open source view of each in the drawing manager and add a suffix to the name ('X' or whatever you want) - just edit name in the properties of the view map.
When done look through the view map and any views that do not have an 'X' at the end of their name should be safe (?) to delete as they have not been placed on a layout.
Then go through and remove all the 'X' from the view names.

A bit long winded but it should work and I think is better than just visually looking for view names that have not been used.

Barry.

Re: Check if drawings placed on layouts

Anonymous — Thu, 06 Jul 2017 14:16:59 GMT

Thanks Barry.

That might do the trick! It sounds a little time consuming but it would be a precise way of figuring out which drawings are duplicates.

Re: Check if drawings placed on layouts

Johann_P — Tue, 25 May 2021 12:54:18 GMT

Just dusting off an old thread....

I'm currently in the same process of cleaning up drawings.

Is this still the best way to find redundant drawings in the view map?

Re: Check if drawings placed on layouts

DGSketcher — Tue, 25 May 2021 13:58:21 GMT

Much as I dislike the long list of files I mainly use cloned folders in my View Map. If you have the same arrangement you can't remove individual files from a cloned folder, delete one & you delete them all. Hopefully you then have a limited number of individual files which you could highlight as Barry has suggested. I don't think anything has changed since the OP to assist in this process, probably because GS see cloning as the preferred method of managing views.

Re: Check if drawings placed on layouts

Rafael Sangareau — Fri, 01 Apr 2022 16:44:13 GMT

I found a neat workround and explained it in this thread.

https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Design-forum/File-clean-up-Finding-unplaced-views/m-p/334407#M158264