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So we've looked at renaming, removing, adding plot stamps, all to our Publish Dialog Box. So let's go back now to that Publish Dialog Box again. So we're looking at saving our sheet list. Now, let's create a new sheet list. The first thing we do though, let's make all the changes first that we need to make. So I don't want my Model Tab in there so I'm going to remove that. I don't want Annotation Scale; I'm going to remove that. And I don't want General either; I'm going to remove that. So there's the two layouts that I want to plot. Now, we're going to name these appropriately this time so it's a click on the name there, right click, Rename Sheet. Now, I'm actually going to do this in a slightly different way. I'm actually going to put the 001 in there and then I'm going to put a -and then I'm going to put Sheet List because I then know, maybe put it in capitals actually like that so I know it's a sheet list and it's saved. OK? And press Enter. Let's do the same for this one. So right click, Rename Sheet and again, we do the same thing. Remove all the information we don't need, 002 -and then I'll put Sheet List in again. Remember, with your naming terminology, be consistent. You'll notice there you can't miss those two. They're numbered sequentially; 001, 002. They've also got Sheet List and Sheet List in the name. So you can't miss that at all. That's fine. So everything is set up then now. Let's just check our Plot Stamp Settings here first of all, make sure that's all coming out OK. So we've got Layout Name, Date and Time, Login Name and Plot Scale. Let's just check that we've got the right PSS File. MM.pss is there. Click on Advanced. Everything is still set as per what we had last time. It remembers these things; very useful, especially for things like offsets and heights. So I'll OK all of that and OK all of that. So that's all in place. Let's check my Publish Options now as well. Check where we're publishing to. Yeah, that's going to the Publish Folder. Excellent. And we're going to have a single-sheet file or what we could do there, if they're both PDFs or DWFs, you can have a multi-sheet file. Let's just check that. I'll cancel that. Let's have a look. A3 Landscape is a DWF, GA Plan is a PDF. So really when we go to our Publish Options here, we want to have single-sheet files because they're two different file types. I'll include my layer information. I'll include my block information as well. And I'll OK that. So everything is set. Now, I could just go and hit the Publish Button. I'm not going to. I'm going to hit Save here and I'm going to save this as a DSD file; Drawing Set Descriptions File. Now, I don't want to call it 13 Saving Your Sheet Lists. I want to call it Sheet List 001 like that; easy to remember. Click on Save. So that Sheet List 001 and as you can see, look. It's now using that sheet list. So when I hit Publish now, they will go into my Publish Folder. So off they go like so. That's publishing now. I'll close that, don't need that and what I'll do now is go back to that folder. Now, that folder will have those drawings in it. So what I need to do now is look at that folder and make sure that those files are there. So let's go find our Publish Folder now. I'll Alt Tab and there's my folder there like so and you'll notice, look. I've got 001 Sheet List A3 Landscape.dwf, 002 Sheet List GA Plan.pdf. So there's my two files there ready to go. Now, what I need to do there is just quickly check that they've got the plot stamp available on them. So let's double click on the DWF first and that'll open up Design Review. So that'll kick in. That'll take a few seconds and that'll chug along now and open up my DWF file. It does take a few seconds to kick off because it's finding all the information. But if I pan and zoom in there, there's my plot stamp. That's all good on that particular plot. So what I'll do now is I'll just minimize that for the moment and then I'll go to the PDF here, again just double click on it. It'll open up Acrobat Reader and again, if I pan, can you see there? I can't zoom and pan very well on Acrobat Reader. It's a little bit more complex as you can see there but you can just see there's the plot stamp there. So that's worked on the PDF and on the DWF. So that plot stamp now tells me when that plot came out. But more importantly, if I just minimize that and minimize the dialog box there that's showing me where those files are, what's more important is it's remembered that particular set of sheets. So if I go to Batch Plot now and go here and look for a sheet list, do I want to save the current list of sheets? No. There's my Sheet List 001 DSD there. When I load that up it says one or more sheets are currently in the sheet list. What do you want to do? Replace all sheets in the list or append? I'm going to replace all and it also has settings that conflict with the current published dialog box. I'm OK with that. I'm just going to close that and there we are. Sheet List 001 and there's the Sheet List Layouts ready to be plotted again. So the good thing is it's remembering the information that you've set up to publish. If you've got 200 drawings to plot, you don't want to go and change all the settings each time. Set them up as a sheet list, a DSD File. Trust me, it works.