More than 1 layout book

[rengarch]

In the old Plotmaker you were able to create separate Layout Booklets, such as a set of drawings for filing with P&Z, Building Dept and working drawings. Not all layout books contained the same drawings. Are you able to do this in 10? Are you suppose to use the subsets? How do the autotext references work.

[Link]

Booklets hey?

Subsets are (still) the way to go Rita. What autotexts are you referring to?

The 'Number of Layouts' isn't really usable in this case, because it's based on the entire book, not each subset.

Sheet Indexes are also not so user-friendly as you'll need to create one for every set (or booklet? )

Altenratively you can create separate files for each set.

Cheers,
Link.

[rengarch]

Thanks Links. The autotext I was referring to are the Section lines on the plan. I have created 2 subsets: 1 for working drawings and 1 for filing. Both subsets have the floor plan and sections drawings/ layouts in them. Each subset have different layouts - number of layouts in them. In the WD subset, the sections appear on A5 and in the Filing subset the sections are A4. I need the floor plan sections to refer to the proper layout number.
Is this possible?

[Link]

In the Section Elevation Settings, there is a checkbox under the Marker panel called 'Refer to Drawing'. Check that and then you can browse to the view or drawing you need. Unfortunately, AFAIK you can only refer to one set at a time for your purposes.

This is a new feature GS implemented in 10, but it kind of missed the mark in this scenario. It's more useful when you are going to delete one of the sets. Like if you have one set for 24x36 and one for 30x42 and you're only going to use one of them and delete the other. Actually you can link it to both (by linking to the view) and it will update as soon as one set is deleted.

Hope that didn't confuse you further, but it takes a lot of time to explain it all! The New Features Guide may help there.

Cheers,
Link.

[Link]

I just re-read your post and may have given the wrong information for your situation. The question is do you want the S/E markers to just refer to one set (the A5 set) only, or do you want them to refer to both sets?

If you just want them all to refer to one set only, just use the refer to Drawing to link to the drawing in the A5 subset. Furthermore if the views are the same for both sets, then you only need one view, instead of creating two separate views. Then you can use Refer to Drawing to link to the view. In this case it will automatically link to the drawing that was placed in the subset first. So if you want to link it to the A5 set, create (or now recreate) those views first, then create your A4 set.

It can be a bit confusing, especially since the link doesn't appear to stick to the view, but it will!

Hope that helps.

Cheers,
Link.