Print Profile Editor
Create print profiles to manage batch printing in your ATR CustomTools environment. Print profiles can be scoped to drawing sheets with specific sheet names, or you can define a print profile that is scoped to all drawings without any specific sheet name rules.
See the guide video on YouTube: Define a print profile
| Name | Type the desired name of the new batch printing profile. |
| Sheets which name contains | Defines the conditions used to determine how to choose the drawing sheets on batch operation with this file conversion rule. You can add more advanced rules to choose the desired sheets by name using boolean operators. |
| ...and is referenced by model configuration |
Additional option related to the Sheets which name contains box to make the sheets selected also by the referenced model configuration. For example, if you have Sales* typed in the Sheets which name contains box and you have the and is referenced by model configuration option selected, the drawing sheets are selected if the sheet name and the referenced model configuration of the sheet match the conditions. |
| Select last active sheet if condition(s) not met | Use this option to ensure that the batch operation has at least one drawing sheet selected. When this option is selected, the last active drawing sheet is processed even if no sheet meets the defined conditions. |
| AND & | All specified criteria must match exactly on a sheet name. |
| OR | | Sheet gets selected if the sheet's name matches one of the specified criteria. |
| NOT ! | Ignore sheets whose name matches the criteria defined in the Sheets which name contains box. |
Please refer to the table under the Using the Boolean Operators sub-topic for more information about using booleans in the Sheets which name contains box.
ATR CustomTools print profiles can filter the sheets to print. Filtering can be done by sheet names using boolean operators that are considered pre-defined functions. Pre-defined functions are color coded in the Sheets which name contains box so you can recognize the parts of the format string easier. The following colors are used to identify the blobs:
| Pre-defined function | |
| Invalid item |
The following examples show how the boolean operators can be used to determine sheet selection rules based on sheet names.
| Boolean (symbol) | Syntax | Keywords in Sheet Names | Name Rule in Printing Profile | Description | Sheet Names to be Selected (Examples) |
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| AND (&) | <Keyword 1>&<Keyword 2>... |
Sheets which name contain the following words:
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Layout&Sheet |
Keywords Layout and Sheet are looked for in sheet names included in drawings referenced by
the models in a structure the Print/Convert is executed against.
Sheets whose name has both keywords in the order defined in the selection rule are included in the batch print operation. |
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| OR (|) | <Keyword 1>|<Keyword 2>... |
Sheets which name contain at least one of the following words:
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Layout*|*Sheet* |
Keywords Layout and Sheet are looked for in sheet names included in drawings referenced by
the models in the structure opened in the ATR CustomTools Print/Convert feature. In this example,
wildcards are included in the keywords. Wildcards are considered as any set of characters in the sheet
name.
Sheets whose name starts with Layout or contains Sheet anywhere are included in the batch print operation. |
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| NOT (!) | !<Keyword 1>&!<Keyword 2>... |
Sheets whose name does not contain the following words:
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!*DXF*&!*DWG* | Keywords DXF and DWG are looked for in sheet names included in drawings referenced by the models in the structure opened in the ATR CustomTools Print/Convert feature. If a drawing's sheet name contains a word looked for, it is excluded from the batch print operation. All other sheets except those matching the selection rule are selected and processed by the batch print operation. |
All other sheets are selected, but the ones named similar to the following list are excluded:
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