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we tend to split our plotmaker layouts down into different books to allow more than one person to work on them at once, however recently i had cause to create various subsets of drawings in the book: choose 'new subset' from the navigator as shown in the attached picture.
using 3.1 (and i would imagine 3.0 as well - as i said i had not previously tried it) it is possible to define a different numbering system for each subset. simply right-click on your subset folder and choose 'settings'. you can define the automatic numbering here just as you would for the whole book. the two can be different numbering systems should you choose . . .
hope this helps
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