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Setting Up a Plan/Profile Sheet Style | 207

2 Open the sheet style that you want to edit by choosing

Sheet Styles

➤ Load Sheet Style from the Sheet Manager

menu.

In the Load Sheet Style dialog box, select a sheet style

(*.dwg) to open. For plan/profile sheets, you can select

sdskplpr.dwg.

The sheet style is opened in paper space. For this example,

you may want to delete one of the viewports and its

corresponding frames so you can recreate them using the

following steps.

Loading a Sheet Style

3 From the Sheet Manager menu, choose Sheet

Styles

➤ Create Viewport to draw a new viewport.

The viewports on a sheet style control the location and

dimensions of the plan and profile on the generated

sheets, as shown in the following illustration.

Creating a Viewport

4 From the Sheet Manager menu, choose Sheet

Styles

➤ Set Viewport Category to set the viewport

category to either plan or profile. This specifies the

viewport for plan and the viewport for profile.

Use this command to also set the scale of the viewport.

The scale should match the scale of the drawing in which

the plan and profile are drafted.

Choosing a Viewport