Publisher

If the WWW Publishing add-on feature is available to you, you can publish documents created during the design work in a folder or on a printer in different file formats. If the DesignStream Interface add-on feature is available to you, you can publish documents to DesignStream as well.

Open the Publisher dialog box in one of the following ways:

• Select File > Other Print Functions > Publisher.
• If you are checking in a project to DesignStream, select the check box Interactively in the Check-In to DesignStream dialog box.

Select the documents to be published in the Publisher dialog box.

• Create a New Document Set
• Add a New File to a Document Set
• Select Document Properties.
• Select Documents to be Published
• Select Publishing Destination
• Define Printer as a Document's Publishing Destination
• Create a PDF Book
• Delete a Document Set, Document, Property, or Publishing Destination
• Save and Publish a Document Set

Create a New Document Set

1. Do either of the following:
   • Click the New button.
   • Select an old document set from the Set name list and click the Copy button. The documents belonging to the set are displayed on the Files list.

   

2. Enter the name of the new set in the text field.

Note

• When you have added files to, or deleted files from, a set, or edited the file properties or the publishing destination, you can save the set by clicking the Save button.
• The sets are listed in alphabetical order. If you wish to sort the sets in another order, open the database d_PUBLICATIONSET for editing. You can open the database from the Windows Explorer using the drag and drop method. Set the order numbers 0, 1, 2 etc. in the field PUBLSETORDER. If more than one set has the same order number, their order is defined alphabetically.
• The DesignStream system uses some of the pre-defined document sets to automatically publish drawings of an optionalized building model.

Add a New File to a Document Set

The Files list shows all documents belonging to the document set. A document set can contain several documents, of which you can select the documents to be published project-specifically.

1. Select a document set from the Set name list.
2. Click the New button below the Files list. The Add File dialog box opens.

   

3. Select File.
   • Select a single file by clicking the Browse button.
   • Select several files at once by using the wildcard character * in the file name. First, select one file with the Browse button, and then edit the file name in the File field. For example, you can select all exterior wall panels by typing PANEL.U*.vxp or se/SE_U*.vxp (depending on the naming conventions and saving location of panel drawing files) in the File field. Each file will be individually published into the selected file format.
4. Select File Type.
   • If the selected file is a Vertex 2D drawing or 3D model, you can select the file type to be an image file (JPEG, PNG, TIFF), a PDF file, a DWG or a DXF file, or a SWF file in addition to the original file format. The program will convert a drawing or a model file into the selected file format. The conversion is affected by properties which you can select in the Properties list.
   • If the selected file is something other than a Vertex 2D drawing or 3D model, you must always select Original file format as the file format.
5. Confirm by clicking OK.

Note

• The same file can be present in a document set as several different documents, all of which have different properties. You can, for example, publish several image files with different resolutions of the same drawing file. When you have added a file for the first time, you can copy it with the Copy button and define new properties for it.

Select Document Properties

1. Select a document from the Files list.

   

2. Edit the file properties. Select a new property by clicking the New button. Select a property from the list and define a value for it.

   Properties of the Document to be Published

Select Documents to be Published

You can select which documents in the set are published. Check or clear the check box of the desired document in the Files list.

By clicking the All / None button you can select all documents or clear all selections in turns.

Select Publishing Destination

The publishing destination can be a folder on the user's disk or on the network, or a DesignStream system. Check or clear the check box of the desired destination. You can create a new destination as follows:

1. Click the New button below the Publishing destination list.

   

2. Select one of the following from the list:
   • Folder - Publish in a folder. Enter the folder path, including the drive symbol in the text field.
   • DS Project - Publish a house model, or a customer project, designed for a certain customer in DesignStream.
   • DS Product - Publish a product in DesignStream. The product can be, for example, a model, a component or a component group.
   • DS House model - Publish a house model in DesignStream.

Note

• The documents are published in the default folder in the DesignStream system, defined in the PDM keyword group.

Define Printer as a Document's Publishing Destination

You can publish individual documents on a printer. Add a new file in the document set for the document being published on a printer.

1. Click the New button below the Files list.
2. Select a file by clicking the button in the dialog box.
3. Select one of the following as the type:
   • Printer - Select the printing settings in the Printing dialog box.

     Print Settings

   • Automatic printer - The program will automatically choose a suitably sized sheet and the printer. Implementing this function requires customer fitting.
4. Confirm by clicking OK.

Note

• You can edit the printer or scale before publishing by selecting the Printer or Scale properties for the document.

Create a PDF Book

You can publish several files as a single PDF file. Define a new PDF book and the files belonging to it as follows:

1. Click the New button below the Files list. The Add File dialog box opens.

   

2. Make the following selections in the dialog box:
   • Type the name of the PDF book in the text field.
   • Select PDF-book from the list as the file type.
   • Confirm by clicking OK.
3. Select the name of the PDF book you just added from the Files list.
4. Click again the New button. The Add File dialog box opens.

   

5. Select a file by clicking the button. The default file type is PDF file.
6. Repeat steps 3 to 5.
7. Select the properties for a PDF book in the same way as for other file types. In addition, you can select following properties for a PDF book:
   • Title - Type a title for the PDF book. The title will be displayed in the PDF file's table of contents.
   • Sheet - The selection list is compounded of the alternatives defined in the system settings. In addition, you can select the alternative OWN. If you select OWN, the sheet is determined according to an application development program as before. The selected sheet only affects the size of the sheet, the selection "landscape" or "portrait" is not significant here.
   • Sheet or. - Select AUTO (default), LANDSCAPE or PORTRAIT from the list.
   • Autorotate - Select 1 (default) or 0 from the list. When you select 1, the drawing will be rotated to fit the sheet, if necessary.
   • Scale - Select Scale from sheet (the drawing will be scaled according to the sheet) or Scale from drawing (the drawing is not scaled according to the sheet) from the list.

Note

• You can add several files at once to the PDF book by using the wildcard character * in the file name. For example, you can add all the exterior wall panels to the PDF book by typing PANEL.U*.vxp or se/SE_U*.vxp (depending on the naming conventions and saving location of panel drawing files) in the text field in the Add File dialog box.

Delete a Document Set, Document, Property, or Publishing Destination

1. Select one of the following:
   • A document set from the Set name list.
   • A document from the Files list.
   • A document property from the Properties list.
   • A destination from the Publishing destination list.
2. Click the Delete button below the list.

Save and Publish a Document Set

1. Click the Save button. All selections you made (documents to be published, their properties, the publishing destination) are saved in the document set.
2. Click the Publish button.

   

3. If you are using the File > Other Print Functions > Publisher function to publish documents, and you select the DesignStream system as the publishing destination, you will be prompted: Update building data to DesignStream? Select either of the following:
   • Yes - The documents will be published and the information on the project data card will be updated to the project's meta data in the DesignStream system.
   • No - The documents will be published but the project data will not be updated.

   When you publish documents while checking in a project to the DesignStream system, the project data is automatically updated.

Document Publishing when Project is Exported into DesignStream