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Copying a drawing sheet to another Drawing Document

Copying a drawing sheet to another Drawing Document

Copying a drawing sheet to another Drawing Document

(OP)
Is there a semi-easy way to do this?  API would be nice, but a manual description can be automated later.

Reloading the template seems straightforward enough, as does updating its custom props, but what about the drawing views ?

My employer prefers a single document to hold similar part drawings, but this new assembly Im working on will only be using some of a large number of available parts. Having unused/suppressed parts in the drawing has them appear when
the user exports to PDF/E-Edrawing, as well as the overhead of opening and rebuilding the extra, unused sheets.

RE: Copying a drawing sheet to another Drawing Document

I don't know if I'm reading your problem correctly or not...?... but why don't you just copy and paste your views and notes to a new Drawing document as well as reloading the sheet?

1) Hold the Ctrl key down
2) Select all your views
3) Click Edit\Cut (or copy your choice)
4) Go to the other sheet
5) Pick the drawing sheet (turns the outside of the sheet to your Highlight color (Default is light green))
6) Click Edit\Paste

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Scott Baugh, CSWP to me
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RE: Copying a drawing sheet to another Drawing Document

rocheey (Industrial)
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>> but why don't you just copy and paste your views and notes to a new Drawing document as well as reloading the sheet?


because... errr... well, because I needed a COMPLEX answer that requires thousands of lines of code ?  <grin>


Honestly, while I was aware I could copy views between SHEETS, I wasnt aware it could be done between documents.

Thanx, Scott

RE: Copying a drawing sheet to another Drawing Document

http://webpages.charter.net/mkikstra/SolidWorks.html

There is a great macro on this site to change templates, called "Template Switch".  I have to give props to The Tick for posting this site a while ago.  The Macro is called template switch and is fairly easy to follow the instructions as long as you take the time to do it right.

RE: Copying a drawing sheet to another Drawing Document

Back to the original question.   Does anyone know how to copy or move views from one seperate document to another?  Thanks, Chris

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RE: Copying a drawing sheet to another Drawing Document

CADALL ... Back to the original answer!!

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