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Publisher Sets - Archicad Tutorial

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Publisher Sets

- [Instructor] As we begin to prepare our drawings to be published, we'll need to go over to the navigator and go over to the publisher sets. So let's close this photo rendering settings. And here we have the publisher sets. And if we go to the top, these are all the different sets that come with the ArchiCAD template. And we can see that we have 3D renderings, we have a BIMx export, DWG, IFCs, and PDFs. And each of these represents a different type of publisher set for a different audience. So if we go to the PDF set, we have a link to our schematic design documents or our design development documents. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to open up our organizer. So go to show organizer. And this just gives me a little bit better perspective of the publisher sets. So if I wanted to create a new publisher set, I would just click on here and say construction document publisher set. We would create it here. And when I double click in there, there's nothing selected and there's no formats that are associated with it. And there's two ways you can bring over sets from your layout book. You can also bring out drawings from your view map and we can either drag it over. So I just grab the schematic design set and I bring it over. And then when I click on the top, it tells me what kind of output it's going to produce. So I can do a PDF set. I can also, if I go back to the top, so one of the settings that's set for this, it's a save files. I can also print the files. I can plot the files or upload a BIMx hyper model. So if we save the files, we can also define where these drawings are going. And we can either create a real folder structure or we can create a flat folder structure or a single file. And again, you can make some adjustments here if you wanted to print it versus save the files. So I like to create a single file. And this is going to be a PDF. And I can specify the path here. So if I go back here, now I have a set of PDF drawings that represent kind of the schematic design set. So one other way that you could put information in here is by going over to your layout book, and then you can add a shortcut. And the difference between these two is that you can't delete one of the drawings out of here because it'll delete the entire set, 'cause this is a linked set. So anytime you add drawings or sheets to the schematic design set, so for instance, if I were to take this and drag a copy of it by pushing alt or option, you can see it adds it here. But the difference is that if I go to that same location here, it doesn't create that because it's not a shortcut. So you have to be aware of that. So if you did just bring it over and you wanted that drawing in here, you'd have to physically bring it across. So there are a lot of different versions of publisher sets that you can create. So we have a BIMx version. So the BIMx version is going to create a model with sheets in it. And we'll talk about what a BIMx file is later in the course. But just to give you an idea, there's also a rendering capability so that you could produce all of your renderings in one kind of batch publishing set. And so right now these are set to TIFs, but you could change it to a JPEG, or PDF, or whatever you wanted. You can also adjust what the output is. There's a lot of different sets. And then when you go up, you can also publish all of the sets or multiple sets. So if you selected all of 'em, you can go to publish this entire thing, and it will push all of these files to the different locations that you've previously defined. And it'll give you kind of the maximum output capability. So if you needed to print or publish a DWG as well as your PDF set or even 3D models, you could do that all in the push of one button. So that's just a quick overview of publisher sets. And this is where you want to be familiar with so that you're able to get your drawings out to the teams that need 'em. So that should give you a good idea of what a publisher set contains.

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