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206 | Chapter 15 Creating Plan, Profile, and Cross Section Sheets
Sheet Style A pre-defined template used for generating sheets. A
sheet style determines the location and scale of the
alignment, profile, or cross sections, and also
determines how they are labeled. You set up sheet styles
in paper space at 1:1 scale. A sheet style typically
contains a border, a title block, viewports, frames, and
label styles.
View Definition A rectangular polyline that is placed over the plan or
profile when you lay out a sheet series. A view
definition controls what sections of the alignment and
profile are plotted on each sheet. The dimensions of the
view definition are based on the dimensions of the
associated sheet style viewport.
Viewport Viewports are part of a plan/profile or profile sheet
style. A viewport is a paper space entity that
corresponds to the model space view definition, and is
assigned a category that determines whether it is a plan
or profile viewport.
Setting Up a Plan/Profile Sheet Style
When you want to customize the appearance of generated sheets, you can
modify a default sheet style or create a new sheet style.
The key benefit of a sheet style is its ability to create a wide variety of auto-
matic labels. By spending some time at the beginning of a project to set up a
sheet style, you can quickly generate sheets that contain the annotation that
is crucial to the project. You, or anyone else working on the project, can use
this sheet style template again and again whenever you need updated sheets.
The following process describes the steps for customizing a plan/profile sheet
style. The concepts introduced in this process are described in greater detail
in following sections, and can also be applied to creating profile sheet styles.
To customize an existing plan/profile sheet style
Steps Use to locate
1 Start a new drawing and a new project.
When working with sheet styles, it is best to work in a new
project that contains no data.