Streamline Snapshots

This very well may already be a feature and please let me know if there is a faster process to what I am doing.

When I receive a construction package, I insert a 200 in. x 200 in. blank page (that's the largest size). I take snapshots of all the drawings and use the match lines on each drawing to ultimately make one large drawing.

After this I set viewpoints for each drawing to make sure each drawing still has its own respective scale. This takes a lot of time due to construction packages usually being well over 20 pages.

The feature I am searching for would streamline this process. Is there a feature that does something like this?

1. Insert a blank page (200 in x 200 in)

2. Divide the page equally for 11x 17 drawings.

- once it divides the pages each section turns blue (kind of like viewpoints)

3. Select one of the divided areas and insert a drawing.

4. Continue the process to build out an overall connected drawing. With each divided up area with its own scale.

Like I mentioned I am doing this with Snapshot and viewpoints, but it seems like there could be a faster way to do this.

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Vince French

I'm not sure I follow exactly what you are trying to do as initially it sounds as if you are trying to create one large floor plan or site layout. But then, later on, it sounds like you are trying to place several individual drawings on one master drawing.
If it is the later, then consider creating a template drawing to the size that you want and already divided up into the smaller sections.
Then if you are copying the entire smaller drawings, you can use CTRL + ALT + C to copy the whole thing. This can then be pasted into place on the master drawing.
Hope that makes sense.
However, if you're trying to achieve something else, can you provide some more details or an example.

Jes Stafford

Have you tried to use the Document/Stitching command?

Doug McLean

Where is this one hiding?

Doug McLean

You should be able to set up a template for yourself that would at least have your first two steps done for you.

After you've created your new PDF, you'll need to do this File> New PDF From Template > Save as Template.
Then when you Insert your blank page, you'll have to navigate to your template file.

At least you'll have the size and the divisions predetermined for yourself.

Give it a shot and tell us how it turned out.

Jes Stafford

About midway down in the Document menu.

David Cutler

If you use layers @Doug McLean's template suggestion can also be used to establish standard layers that you use throughout your document set @j_mcmanus23.

Doug McLean

Are you on the Beta? I'm not seeing anything that says Stitching

Vince French

Watch out though - if you use parent and child layers then these are lost when you use a template.

David Cutler

Good to know @Vince French! I think that this could be avoided by opening the "template" file from your directory and then saving it to a new file name for your project - instead of starting with creating a new file from a template. Does this sound correct? I have a "Standard Items" takeoff coversheet that I keep pinned to my File Access tree. When I start a new takeoff I open that file, copy the page and then paste it into my takeoff file. Works like a charm!

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