Split Schedule into Multiple Layouts

Note: This function is also available for Project Indexes placed on Layouts.

If a Schedule-based Drawing does not fit onto a single Layout - as can easily happen with a long Schedule - use this feature to quickly and easily split up a long Schedule and place it onto multiple Layouts, so that all data on the Schedule can be published.

This feature is available only for Drawings created from Element Schedules and Project Indexes.

1.First, use the Restructure Schedule command to define a new enclosing rectangle for the Schedule, to enable it to fit on the Layout.

See Restructure Schedule to Fit Layout.

2.Check the Split Drawing among Multiple Layouts checkbox, located on the Frame Panel of Drawing Tool Settings. Whenever you place a Drawing based on an Element Schedule onto a Layout, this checkbox becomes available in Drawing Selection Settings. (For Drawings with any other source, the checkbox is grey.)

3.Now ArchiCAD will create as many Layouts as needed to display the entire contents of the Schedule.

In this example, the Window List has been placed on the Layout. The Split Drawing feature has placed the total Window List onto two Layouts. In the Layout Window, Layout is drawn to indicate that it consists of multiple pages:

In the Navigator Layout Book, only one Layout is shown, but it has a “multi-page” icon, different from the single Layout icon, and the total number of Layouts used for this Drawing is displayed after the Drawing Name.

If a Layout Window displays a multi-Layout Drawing, the Window’s title bar shows the range of Layouts which display the Drawing.

In the Layout Book, you can navigate between Layout pages as usual, using the navigation arrows at the bottom of the Layout Window.

However, if you open a Layout Window which contains a multi-Layout Drawing, the navigation button at the bottom of the screen displays a small black arrow. Click this to access additional navigation options among just the Layouts that display the current multi-page Drawing.

“First Page” and “Last Page” here refer to the Layouts of the multi-page Drawing.

Place Additional Drawings Next to Multi-Layout Drawing

It is possible to place several multi-page Drawings (Schedules or Indexes) alongside each other, on the same Layouts. For example, suppose you place a long Schedule onto a Layout; ArchiCAD generates a total of three Layouts to display the entire Schedule. Then you place another long Schedule onto the first of those Layouts. ArchiCAD fills up the three existing Layouts with the second Schedule (alongside the first Schedule), and generates any additional Layouts needed to display the full Schedule.

If you place any other type of Drawing (i.e. which is neither a Schedule nor a Index) onto a Layout that contains a multi-page Drawing, then that Drawing will appear on every one of that set of Layouts. This can be an advantage if the additional Drawing serves as a Title on the Layout.