Is there some eawy way to merge multiple files into one ?

Arkadiusz Kowalski
Arkadiusz Kowalski
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I need to send some documentation in one dwg file - the problem is that, I have more then 100 files in dwg (small 1 A4 page)

Any clue how to do that ??

Comments

  • ruben sanchez
    ruben sanchez
    You should be able to use etransmit command
  • Arkadiusz Kowalski
    Arkadiusz Kowalski
    I don't think this will work

    Situation is:
    - I have hvac automation schema splited into >100 dwg files, and there is over 20 documentation like this (2000 pages)
    - need to merge all those into one file (I need to add unique numbers for all documents, can use numbers from 001 to 999 so 2000 is to much :p)

    anyone knows how to solve this ??

  • Jason Bourhill
    Jason Bourhill
    Hi Arkadiusz,

    is there a particular reason that you want to merge to a single drawing like this?
    Do the individual drawing files have data in both Paperspace & Modelspace? and do you need to merge both
    Do the individual drawing files have a single or multiple layouts and do you need all of them?

    If the drawings are modelspace only then you could create a new drawing -> XREF in all the individual drawings required -> Then Bind the XREFs if necessary. You could use INSERT instead of XREF, but this raises the risk of definition clashes. Also the resulting drawing maybe very difficult to work with, depending on the complexity and consistency of the source drawings. If this is what you want, you could do it using a script or some LISP/VBA.

    Regards,

    Jason Bourhill

    CAD Concepts


  • Arkadiusz Kowalski
    Arkadiusz Kowalski
    the reason is that I have limit of documents numbers TM-HVAC-S-XX-L05-(001...999) and I have more then 2000 pages
    - I need to merge only modelspace
    - layouts names are the same in all of the files
    - I need to make schema list with description :P so less is better for me

    I will try to use some script but first need to learn how to make it :)

    thanks anyway 

  • Rakesh Rao
    Rakesh Rao

    Hello Arkadiusz,

    There are many ways to go about doing it, using scripts, Lisp, VBA etc , like what you have already seen in other posts.

    This is a common requirement in CAD management and we have provided this tool in our productivity pack : CADPower

    See: http://www.4d-technologies.com/cadpower/manual/miscellaneous_tools.htm#MULTINS

    Perhaps the most simplest non-programming, no-addon approach would be to write a simple script file which would look like this:

    Insert 0,0,0 1.0 1.0 0.0

    You will have to replace with the full path to each  drawing location, and this would work if there are no attributes in the incoming drawings.

    The above must all go into a file with .SCR extension and load it from within BricsCAD using the SCRIPT command.

    Hope this helps to get going.

    Regards
    Rakesh Rao
    http://www.coordsys.com
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