Vice President of Autodesk Labs, Brian Mathews, taught an Autodesk University 2006 class entitled "Building Custom DWF-based GIS Applications for Mobile Field Force Workers." In his class, Brian shared some tips related to the AutoCAD Sheet Set Manager.
The Sheet Set Manager (SSM) was added to AutoCAD 2005 and allows you to organize and work with an entire project worth of DWG files. While the SSM has many productivity benefits, of particular interest is one-click publishing to DWF. Some professionals find the SSM doesn’t fit their workflow or data architecture, but for those who have a workflow compatible with the SSM it provides many productivity benefits:
The SSM has publishing settings that are similar to those used by the PUBLISH command, but with extra choices. These can be found in the SSM Sheet Set Publish Options… dialog box:
The SSM includes an option to convert its sheet list into a PUBLISH action where you can use the PUBLISH command to more precisely control which Page Setup settings are used for each sheet. There is a bug with the Sheet Set Manager when you try and use Page Setup overrides: you’ll get several single-page DWF’s rather than a multi-page DWF when you ask for a multi-page DWF. The solution is to convert the SSM DST project to a PUBLISH DSD job.
While PUBLISH job definitions are stored in ASCII DSD files (and are thus scriptable), the Sheet Set Manager project is stored in an un-scriptable binary DST file.
Thanks Brian.
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I was in sheet set up manager and got a message to update a new version to 7.0. When it tried to update it finished with the message something like "could not update bad script file".
Now it will not open at all. Typing in ssm does not work. Anybody have any ideas? Where is this file stored and what is its name?
Thanks
Posted by: roger lehutsky | January 22, 2007 at 09:01 PM
The "7.0" makes me think you are updating to version 7.0 of the Autodesk DWF Viewer. The first step would be to uninstall the Autdoesk DWF Viewer and reinstall. That is much less traumatic then uninstalling/re-installing AutoCAD. The DWF Viewer can be downloaded and installed from http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/mform?id=8315020&siteID=123112. On the surface, there should be no relationship between the viewer and the sheet set manager. I am only basing this on how you have described the problem.
Posted by: Scott Sheppard | January 23, 2007 at 08:40 AM
Hello,
when I am working with Sheet Manager,
When I give the comand "Update Frame Layer" I got this message,
Unable to locate style in database: Metric: Profile Chainage | Frame Top -
Align. Sta. Tick Mark
how can I solve this problem,
thank you,
Hikmet Dasci
Survey Eng.
Posted by: Hikmet | June 20, 2007 at 05:17 AM