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04.13 Adding Plans to a Plan Set and Duplicating Pages

Last Updated: 2022-06-16 14:59

Adding a Single Plan to an Existing Plan Set

To select a single Plan to add to an existing Plan Set, click the plus sign button to the right of the Plan Set name.

Plan Organizer showing the Add Plan button

In the Open dialog, browse to the location where the Plan is stored.

Windows Open dialog box - browse to file location

Select the file and click Open.

Plan Organizer showing newly added Plan(s) in a Plan Set

Even though this was a single file, it was a multi-page PDF and three new Pages are added.

Adding a Set of Plans to an Existing Plan Set

To add Plans to an existing Plan Set, click the Edit Bid Information button in the bottom right and then click the Edit button in the Plan Set's header to open the Plan Set Editor.

Next, click the Add Folder button to select a folder whose contents you want to add to this Plan Set.

Note

If you have already added any of the image files in the selected folder to this Plan Set, they are added again as new Plans, you must delete them from the Plan Set, before saving the Plan Set, to avoid creating new Pages in the Plan Organizer.

To add a single plan to a Plan Set, copy the image file into a new folder on your computer and then add that new folder to the Plan Set. Remember, every file in the selected folder, and all subfolders, that can be added are added to the Plan Set.

We cover adding additional Plan Sets to a project in Related Articles.

Duplicating Pages

You can duplicate a Page in the Plan Organizer. When you duplicate a Page (or Pages) the program creates a copy of that the original Page(s) and adds it to the bottom of the Page list with adds a suffix "_A" to the Sheet No. (remember, Sheet Numbers must be unique, but Sheet Names do not).

Note
Duplicating a Page does not duplicate the objects on the Page, it creates a new Page with a copy of the Plan only - if you want, you can copy objects from the original Page to the duplicate after saving Plan Organizer changes.

To duplicate a Page or Pages,

Select the Page(s) you want to duplicate (hold down the Shift key for Pages that are next to each other in the list, use Ctrl for those that are not),

Click the Edit Bid Information button and then click the Duplicate button in the toolbar or press Ctrl + D.

After you click the Duplicate button, the new Pages are placed at the bottom of the list in their Discipline group.

the duplicates show at the bottom of their Discipline groups with '_A' added

Notice that each Sheet No. had "_A" added to it to distinguish it from the original sheet. The Set information is adjusted accordingly in any set where the Original exists.

Uploading Duplicate Copies

When you Duplicate a Page, the Plan itself is duplicated but on your machine, first. Copy the Plan(s) associated with the Page(s) you duplicated take a moment or two.

Plan Organizer Processing Plans progress bar

When you save changes to the Plan Organizer, the Plan(s) associated with the new Page(s) must be uploaded to the Cloud server, this can take up to a few minutes, depending on the number of Pages you duplicated.

You can close the Plan Organizer once these are processed. The new Plans upload in the background (if you duplicate only one Page, this entire process happens in just a second or two).

click here to view the previous article Should You Use Higher Resolution/Color Plans or Lower Resolution Greyscale in Takeoff? Deleting Pages (Sheets) Plans, and Plan Sets click here to view the next article



 

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