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Getting Started with Plan/Profile Sheets | 203
Getting Started with Plan/Profile Sheets
The simplest way to get started with sheets is to generate a plan/profile sheet
series based on a default sheet style. To create plan/profile sheets, you lay out
the series, then you generate the sheets, which creates a separate .dwg file for
each sheet. The following illustration shows a representative plan/profile
sheet.
You can load these sheets in AutoCAD Land Desktop and use the standard
AutoCAD plot commands to plot the sheets, or you can set up a batch plot
to plot multiple sheets at a time.
The generated sheets reference the entities in the project from which they are
generated. Therefore, to open the sheets, you must open a drawing associated
with the project from which the sheets were generated, and then use the
Load Sheet commands from the Sheet Manager menu to view the generated
sheets.
Laying Out a Sheet Series
To create plan/profile and profile sheets, you start by laying out the series
in the drawing. When you lay out a sheet series, you determine the
segments of the alignment and profile that are plotted on each sheet by
adjusting rectangles called view definitions.