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Creating a Section Sheet Series | 213
Creating a Section Sheet Series
When you create a section sheet series, you do not lay out the series as you
do for plan/profile and profile sheets. This is because section sheets are based
on cross sections that are stored in the database rather than drawing entities
that you can view through viewports. A section sheet style, therefore, does
not contain viewports. Instead, you use a section frame to control where the
cross sections are placed on a sheet.
The following illustration shows the frames on a section sheet style.
Key Concepts
■ A section sheet style must have one Section/View frame and one Section/
Section frame. A section sheet style can have any number of label and
table frames.
■ You can use table frames to position labels on section sheets that do not
have design-specific locations, such as volume calculations.
■ The easiest way to generate section sheets is to use a predefined section
sheet style. There are predefined sheet styles in the \data\sheets folder. For
example, you can use the cross section sheet named xs100m.dwg in the
\data\sheets\metric folder.
It is very important to define the section sheet settings when you are gener-
ating section sheets. For example, make sure to configure the horizontal scale
correctly so that the section swath width that you sampled fits on the sheets.