It appears a format is not remembered on a per drawing basis, but rather on a per component basis. So, if I have multiple drawings per component, and I change the format for only one of the drawings (maybe only one view requires a portrait orientation), I mess up all other drawings and have to reset the format to what has been used for them, should I want to watch or print a drawing again. Now, if I then go back to the drawing on the portrait sheet, I have to adjust it yet again. 

So, my request is: Formats should be remembered individually for each drawing. 

Besrt regards, 

Martin

Hello Martin,

 Formats are applied to a document, so all sheets in the document will have the same format, and switching it will update all sheets in the document.  If you have an assembly of external components (where each component is its own document), then you will see the behavior you are describing.  If all the components were internal, then they would all share one common format as well.

I am adding your name to the existing enhancement request to allow multiple sheet styles (paper size, format) per document, but I do not know when this will be implemented.

Regards,

James Saunders

Hello James, 

this is an important thing for all who frequently create shop drawings. I made about 30 drawings yesterday, and it already made quite some trouble: Some parts required a portrait A4 and some a landscape A4, and then I have an assembly instruction on A0 portrait. Now I need to print them and make PDFs of each one, which is really going slow, first identifying the drawings by trial and error, adjusting the paper, print one, go to next, do it all again ...

 Thinking further, it would help the user busy with shop drawings to have the option to print all drawings as a set in one go, and then, it would absolutely make sense, to save formats with the drawings. It would also help a lot if we could right-click a drawing in the tree and print from the context menu. Drawings would of course have to be named, then, and mousing over the sheets in the structure tree could also helpfully display a thumbnail, maybe.

A "make multisheet PDF file of complete drawing set" option would be a blast!  It would save me about two or so hours today alone. 

 Regards,

 Martin

I totally agree with Martin on this. It would be very convenient if you could use different sheet sizes/drawing formats in one file. We do everything internally as long as we're developing concepts. Making drawings can be a real pain, because now all the part have to be made on the same size. We've got the rule to do it all on A3 now, but that means that a complete assembly must be made on A3, but also a small special screw or washer will be made on A3 now.

And once I've got my set of drawing, I want to save them as PDF to have a copy. That's how I keep my revision history. But when I save to PDF, it saves a 3D file, and not the drawing. And I can't select an option to save 2D somewhere.

So I have to print to PDF instead. Not a big problem, but less quick.

I hope the next release of spaceclaim will support multiple drawing sizes in one file!

Regards,

Tijs