Single sheet to multi sheet

Currently I have 30+ drawing files. I am looking for a way to combine
them into one Multi Sheet drawing file. Is there an easy way to do
this in Solidworks?

 

Copy & paste draving views is the best you can do. I find selecting them
from the tree is the easiest. I don't remember copy & paste of whole sheets
being implemented in 2008, but I could be wrong (I'm working in 2007).

 

I recall that this is available as a new feature of 2008.

 

2008 will allow you to copy complete sheets and works great. Anything
earlier and you have to do it by views. Like Dale said it is easier to
copy the views using the feature manager and selecting all on the sheet.

 

Unfortunately im running 2007. I've experimented with copying views
and this is causing many problems. Is there an easier way using PDM
works?

 

You do realize, of course, that 30 sheets in a SW drawing will probably
either croak, or make you croak. Every time you rebuild the model, it has
to rebuild all 30 sheets. Not a good idea in my mind.

WT

 

What are your reasons for doing this?

 

Hi

I pdf all my drawings and use the pdf as my released document. I have
Adobe so then I combine all the sheets I require into one pdf file so
I can print a complete job with one mouse click, I would hate to work
any other way.

Steve.

 

This is what I do frequently. Create pdf's of each drawing then open
Acrobat and do "file - create pdf - from multiple files". This allows
you to choose which files you want to add to a doc book.

 

Or select all pdfs and right click...combin files...

 

I'm with ya Wayne...My very first mistake in SWx 96 when I switched from
ACAD2000 was I thought, "wow - this is cool....I can save all the drawings
for an entire project in one drawing file as multiple sheets!" Big mistake
that I never have repeated. When I got to about 15 sheets I was wondering
why I was having performance issues with my Gateway Pentium II. 450mhz
(which was all you needed to run SWx then) At least it was easier to break
a multi sheet dwg into 15 separate sheets using "save as" and deleting the
other sheets than what the OP is trying to do. BTW, another reason not to
do this is why put all your eggs in one basket? If the file gets
corrupted/screwed up you lose all 30 drawings vs. just one....

IYM

 

We scan our prints to tif files (or publish edrawings) for our shop to
use. Multipage prints are dogs even on a fast machine with lots of
memory.

One other way to link all the prints together would be to insert
hyperlinks to those prints on a main print.

Diego

 

Or forget the expensive stuff and create/combine pdf's with free tools
(FreeDist + GhostScript)