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Chapter 7 Creating and Plotting Sheets Using Sheet Manager
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Naming a Sheet Series
A sheet series is a group of sheets that is associated with a particular alignment
in your project. You can create plan/profile sheet series, profile sheet series, and
section sheet series. You can create plan-only sheet series by modifying a
plan/profile sheet series.
The following steps outline the process of creating a sheet series:
1 Name the new series. When you name a sheet series, a folder for storing the
series sheets is created with that name in c:\Land Projects R2\<project
name>\cd\data. For more information, see Naming a Plan/Profile Sheet Series
in this chapter.
2 Set up a sheet style for the series. The sheet style includes viewports for plan and
profile, and frames for cross sections. It also includes frames and label styles for
labeling the design data. For more information, see Creating a New
Plan/Profile Sheet Style in this chapter.
3 Lay out the sheets to determine what views of the plan and profile is displayed
on each sheet. For more information, see Laying Out a Plan/Profile Sheet
Series in this chapter.
NOTE
You skip the layout step when creating section sheet series.
4 Generate the sheets. The sheets are automatically saved to the series folder. The
sheets are sequentially numbered in the format s001.dwg, s002.dwg, starting
with a specified number. There can be up to 999 sheets in any series. For more
information, see Generating a Series of Plan/Profile Sheets in this chapter.
For plan and profile sheets, the saved sheets for a series are composed of the
paper space components only: the border, title block, viewports and
annotation. The design elements of the project that are in model space are not
saved with the sheets. To work with a saved plan/profile or profile sheet, you
need to be working in a drawing that contains the model space entities. Or, you
can use XREFs to reference model space entities that exist in a drawing that is
within the current project.
For section sheet series, the cross sections themselves are created in paper space,
so you can specify new layers on which different parts of the cross sections are
created. You do not need to have the site drawing available to view or plot the
section sheets.
Naming a Plan/Profile Sheet Series
The first step in creating a new sheet series is to name the new series. When you
name a sheet series, a folder for storing the series sheets is created with that
name in c:\Land Projects R2\<project name>\cd\data.
Use the Set/Define Series command to define a name for a new plan/profile
series. When you name a new series, a folder for storing the sheets is created in
the folder c:\Land Projects R2\<project name>\cd\data.
You can also use this command to select an existing sheet series name for
subsequent sheet functions.