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Saving as ".dwg" file

Saving as ".dwg" file

Saving as ".dwg" file

(OP)
When saving a drawing as ".dwg" file, if you choose to save multiple sheets each in own file, a 2-digit serialization scheme is applied as a PREFIX; is there a way to edit that scheme?  I.E. It would fit better into our system if we could do the same exact thing but as a SUFFIX.

Thanks,
Mike

RE: Saving as ".dwg" file

Unless you use a custom macro, I don't believe you can disable that feature.

Save-as macros have been posted before, so try a search previous threads.

Does the Task Scheduler give the same result?

cheers

RE: Saving as ".dwg" file

(OP)
Hadnt even thought of that.  With your suggestion, I tried and it is really really close to what we are doing; it for some reason does differently than when you do it manually and adds "__<#>" (2 underscores and the sheet number) as a SUFFIX instead as PREFIX which starts at "00" for sht 1 (the way it does when doing manually).  Only diff for what we are doing is we use a "0" place keeper for 1-digit sht numbers so that our sht number string in the filename is always 2 digits.  But this is still much better in terms of renaming.  Thanks a lot.  I will look into the macros too, but for now, this is a much better deal.

Mike

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