How do you adjust page numbers on a drawing?

[reactengineer]

Basically I am compiling a drawing of all the parts in a model, but the drawing files were getting too big so i split it into a number of different drawing files, but now the page numbers restart on each seperate file.

Is there a way of easily changing the page number to add on 30 pages?

i.e. the code is 'SHEET $PRP:"SW-Current Sheet" OF $PRP:"SW-Total Sheets"'

and on the first sheet of the second drawing this prints 'SHEET 1 OF 29' but the first drawing file has 30 pages so i want this to actually say 'SHEET 31 of 59'. Is there a way of automating this? I spoke to the Solidworks technical helpline and they just suggested doing it by hand....which is preferable seen as i have about 120 sheets altogether across 5 drawings!!!

 

[TateJ]

I've been down that road & ultimately decided to use the software the way it is coded. I re-organized to avoid making one drawing with a gazillion sheets.
You can do this too... really... you can.

That's also what I would tell you if I were your tech support.

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[CorBlimeyLimey]

Do your part numbers match your drawing numbers ... including the sheet number? If so, use a property in the part to propagate the drawings sheet number field.

For the "SHEET ? OF ??" you could use 5 separate templates with the "??" part of the field manually set accordingly.

 

[ctopher]

Separate parts, separate drawings, no problems.

Chris
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[smcadman]

Ctopher, how do you handle the assemblies and sub-assembly drawings? We put all parts and assembly drawings in 1 drawing file which makes printing easier. Also having "sheet 1 of 30", "sheet 2 of 30" makes it easy to check if you have everything.

If an assembly has 4 sub-assemblies, and those sub-assemblies have sub-assemblies, it seems like it would be a headache to make sure you have printed all parts/assemblies/sub-assemblies. Do you have a front page or something with a check-list to make sure the complete drawing-packet is included?

We (at work) have discussed the pros and cons of moving to 1 part per drawing. The cons seem to outweight the pros. I think making a revision to 1 single drawing, instead of having to update 3 drawings that have that part is a plus.

SW07 SP2.0

Flores

 

[TateJ]

Are any of these parts useable in other assemblies? I don't think your paradigm will have that level of flexibilty.

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[reactengineer]

CorBlimeyLimey - No the part numbers do not match the drawing numbers unfortunately.

I have an assembly with approximately 20 sub-assemblies and approximately 120 overall parts. This is split into 6 different drawing files, for which the sheet numbers do not currently line up.

We thought about having seperate sheets for each part, but that would mean not having sheet numbers at all, which kind of defies the point.

 

[ctopher]

Everything that has its own part number (parts, assys, subassys) has its own drawing. Each assy & subassy has its own separate part list or BOM.
Exception is tooling, all parts on one drawing and each part has a dash number.

Chris
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[TateJ]

How about adding the "sheet no" to the drawing number... SLDRWNO-SHNO...? Remove the sheet number "block" from your format. Then you could add a SHNO column to your BOMs.

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[CorBlimeyLimey]

reactengineer ... If you make the drawing number to match the part number, and use the single sheet drawing method, then you won't need sheet numbers.

 

[reactengineer]

ahh I didnt think of it like that, that sounds like a good idea. Unfortunately its too late for this model as it has to be delivered quite soon and there isn't time to seperate the sheets into individual drawings, but I will definately present it in the lessons learnt session.

Thanks!

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

FYI ... to speed things up when "converting" from multi to single sheet drawings, you can copy and paste all the views from one sheet of a multi-sheet drawing to the sheet in a single-sheet drawing.