Streamline Snapshots

j_mcmanus23

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.

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.