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Moving a drawing sheet
nick_coppins
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I have a bunch of part drawings created as individual drawings.
Is there any way to move these into a multi-sheet drawing?
Is there any way to move these into a multi-sheet drawing?
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brucebartlett
Member, OS Professional, Mentor, User Group Leader Posts: 2,140 PRO
Drawings as s Single Sheet or Multiple sheets might seem trivial but is a big question I have asked myself and on different Onshape projects, at the moment you can't change your mind 1/2 way down the track so is important to get it right up front. I have chosen both ways on depending on the project. It is, however, an issue at the moment that singles can't be merged to a multiple page drawing or vice-versa down the track you want to change the setup. @MichaelThiesmeyer I'll vote for that IR.
Why is this an issue?
For me, a multiple page drawing becomes more compact in the Onshape doc (minor thing but 100 tabs are hard to handle) and is easy to print/export, I really like structuring my drawings this way, I can have 100 pages in the drawing, RMB on the tab to export and I have them all in 1 PDF in a few seconds. However, I normally do single sheet drawings based on the part number because if you want to add links to specific drawings from elsewhere that seems to make more sense.
@PeteYodisI am really looking forward to more ways to copy, move and edit my drawings, the more time I can save the better. I also too, regularly want to move an already detailed view to a new sheet.
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We do not yet have this capability in drawings and I do not see an improvement request for it. If you would like to see it please create an improvement request to the right ->
Thank you,
Mike
Why is this an issue?
For me, a multiple page drawing becomes more compact in the Onshape doc (minor thing but 100 tabs are hard to handle) and is easy to print/export, I really like structuring my drawings this way, I can have 100 pages in the drawing, RMB on the tab to export and I have them all in 1 PDF in a few seconds. However, I normally do single sheet drawings based on the part number because if you want to add links to specific drawings from elsewhere that seems to make more sense.
@PeteYodisI am really looking forward to more ways to copy, move and edit my drawings, the more time I can save the better. I also too, regularly want to move an already detailed view to a new sheet.
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Furthermore we do have improvements in store for duplicating a drawing, duplicating a drawing and it's references, and also improvements surrounding replace reference in a drawing.
I am confronted to this exact issue where I created a bunch of individual drawings but I now need to merge them into one drawing with multiple sheets. Is there any new tip or way to achieve that without re-making all the drawings? If not, please add me to the feature request as well !
Thanks a lot.
So I would be another add to the improvement request count..
@pete_yodis Have they considered this improvement request or begun a fix? Much appreciated!
Axel Kollmenter
I have found that I can copy and paste the contents of a sheet into a new sheet in another drawing, and usually there are only a few things that need to be tweaked. So, it doesn't seem like there is any huge technical issue preventing this from being able to be done, or at least it is not obvious from the front end. It would be nice to at least have some information shared about the status of this as a possibility for the future.