Publishing large sets of drawings

When publishing large sets of drawings, updating the title block and filling out revisions can take a considerable amount of time.

Often this process is slowed by a layout refreshing all views when it is opened, and for elevations and sections this can be slow.

A simple technique to use time more wisely:

• Go to layout view
• Open Publisher and create a publisher set of all layouts as PDFs
• Publish this to a folder on your PC which you can delete later. 
• Do something else while the set is  published (or schedule during a break).
• Then go through layouts updating titleblock, revisions etc. 

This method means you don't wait for content to update as you open each layout.

Note: of course you must not leave layouts and open a view, or ArchiCAD will think you have changed something in the model and begin refreshing the layouts again…