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Status Future consideration
Categories Collaboration
Created by Guest
Created on Jan 27, 2021

Please add ability to make unPrintable models

In our project drawing sets, we have groups of drawings that go together and we have started to incorporate these grouped drawings into one dgn file with all of the individual drawings ending up on the default or similar model. By putting them all into one model, we can edit all of the sheets more quickly and accurately than before when we had to jump between files or even between different models within the same file. For plotting, each titleblocked section in the default model is referenced to another model in the same dgn file so each sheet will plot correctly. When we plot the file with print organizer, we simply drag the file into the file selection box and it is expanded into the expected number of sheets plus one sheet for the default model (with all of the sheets shown but not usable) Also note that not all of our drawings are done this way, we have drawings that go back decades, that are drawn as one model per file. In the print organizer settings we have it set to print all models for this reason. With our all in one drawings we have to delete the default model from the list before plotting. We want Bentley to add a feature to be able to turn off plotting for a model on a file by file basis similar to how levels can be made un printable.

  • Guest
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    Sep 27, 2023

    First, I agree and voted! In our case, we may make a copy of a sheet model in a file to test out potential changes, and would be great to mark the old sheet as non-plotting. Though we could do the same as below...

    For the OP's situation, I would change the model that has all of the sheets to a DRAWING or DESIGN model type, as we have our Print Organizer set to 'prefer sheet models' so the drawing model is not added to the pset. This won't affect scaling, etc.