Sheet Name Pattern

Wildcard pattern used when Sheets to export is set to matching sheet names.

Note

This setting is available in both the PDM task and SOLIDWORKS add-in.

Selection Rules

• For a one-sheet drawing, PDMPublisher ignores the pattern and exports the only sheet.
• For a drawing with two or more sheets, PDMPublisher exports the matching sheets.
• If the evaluated pattern matches no sheets, PDMPublisher falls back to exporting all sheets.

Warning

A spelling error, missing property value, or unexpected configuration name can cause the pattern to match nothing. In version 2026.08.09 and later, that result exports every drawing sheet and writes a fallback message to the log.

Use * to match any text and ? to match one character.

Examples:

• * matches every sheet.
• Sheet* matches Sheet1, Sheet2, and Sheet-Main.
• REV? matches REV1 or REVA.
• DXF* matches sheets whose names start with DXF.

Match the Configuration Name

Use (ConfigurationName) when a drawing sheet is named after the configuration being exported. PDMPublisher evaluates the placeholder before matching the sheet name.

For example, if the selected configuration is Machined:

Sheet name pattern	Evaluated pattern	Matches	Does not match
(ConfigurationName)	Machined	Machined	Default, Machined-DXF
(ConfigurationName)*	Machined*	Machined, Machined-DXF	Default
*(ConfigurationName)*	*Machined*	Machined, DXF-Machined, Machined-REV-A	Default

As another example, suppose a drawing contains sheets named Default, Machined, and Welded. When the selected configuration is Welded and the pattern is (ConfigurationName), only the Welded sheet is exported.

If the selected configuration is Painted and none of those sheets is named Painted, all three sheets are exported because the evaluated pattern has no matches.

This setting is used by Sheets to Export when that option is set to Sheets matching name.