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Change multiple sheets into separate drawings?

Change multiple sheets into separate drawings?

Change multiple sheets into separate drawings?

(OP)
I have details on a several sheets in one drawing file. Is there a way to save or export selected sheets so each is in it's own drawing?

Tom

Tom Malinski
Sr Design Engineer
OKay Industries
New Britain CT

RE: Change multiple sheets into separate drawings?

(OP)
I simply did a save as to create the new drawings, then deleted the unwanted sheets from each as required

duh...

Tom Malinski
Sr Design Engineer
OKay Industries
New Britain CT

RE: Change multiple sheets into separate drawings?

I'm with tmalinski. I just did this on a 11 page drawing. Nice thing about this it keeps the links back to the part or assembly.

May I ask why you're breaking up a drawing to separate drawing files? I did it do to poor drawing performance in 2007. I loaded SP 4.0 which is suppose to fix it, but really didn't see any difference.

Best,

Macduff spin
Colin Fitzpatrick
Mechanical Design Engineer
Solidworks 2007 SP 4.0
Dell 390 XP Pro SP 2
nVida Quadro FX 3450/4000



RE: Change multiple sheets into separate drawings?

(OP)
I did it for several reasons.
1) I am testing the methodology of one part only per drawing. Many members on this forum swear by this. Maybe someone else can give some good reasons why. I think it may be better for file organization in PDMWorks and may be less overhead in general.
2) My biggest gripe is multiple sheets in one drawing do not show up in windows explorer. This makes it difficult to find things visually.
3) I am in the process of changing my entire file naming scheme, to simplify it. No descriptive names, just a well thought out coded number system. With a single part in a single drawing, the drawings can inherit the same coded file names.

tom

Tom Malinski
Sr Design Engineer
OKay Industries
New Britain CT

RE: Change multiple sheets into separate drawings?

Tom,
What would you do in case where you have an assembly drawing? Would you break it in separate sheet files as well? I agree with your comment about separate parts and drawings.

Regards,

Macduff spin
Colin Fitzpatrick
Mechanical Design Engineer
Solidworks 2007 SP 4.0
Dell 390 XP Pro SP 2
nVida Quadro FX 3450/4000



RE: Change multiple sheets into separate drawings?

(OP)
same rule applies. one assembly / one drawing. If the assembly contains sub assemblies it would still be just the outer assembly / one drawing

Tom Malinski
Sr Design Engineer
OKay Industries
New Britain CT

RE: Change multiple sheets into separate drawings?

I agree that each drawing should represent one part.  But one-partmodel/assemblymodel-per-drawing rule is only fine for particular systems.  There are instances where it's not practical.  For example, one part is not always represented by an individual SolidWorks model, and may also not be a SolidWorks assembly.  

Matt
CAD Engineer/ECN Analyst
Silicon Valley, CA
sw.fcsuper.com
Co-moderator of Solidworks Yahoo! Group

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