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Chapter 7 Creating and Plotting Sheets Using Sheet Manager
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Plan/Profile Sheets
Step Explanation
1 Design the roadway alignment and
profile.
Plan and profile views must exist in your drawing in order to plot
them with Sheet Manager, or you can use XREFs to reference the
model space entities if they exist in the current project.
2
Set the Sheet Manager Settings. The Settings control the sheet style database path, layers, display of
match lines, and so on.
3 Set the current sheet style, and then
load that sheet style into paper space
to view it.
This step assures that you are using the correct sheet style. A sheet
style is the basis of any sheet series. A sheet style includes a border,
viewports for the plan and profile views, and frames for labels.
4 Name the new sheet series.
For more information, see Naming a
Sheet Series in this chapter.
Sheet Manager creates a folder with this name into which it places
the generated sheets.
5
Switch to model space. Switch to model space to set the profile current. You can set the
alignment current in paper space by selecting it from the list of
alignments. All sheets can be generated while in paper space or in
model space; the routines switch to paper space if warranted.
6
Set the current alignment. You must set the current alignment so the correct plan information
is referenced.
7 Set the current profile. You must set the current profile so the correct profile information is
referenced.
8
Lay out the sheet series. Laying out the series places rectangles over the alignment. Each
rectangle represents one sheet in the series. For more information,
see Sheet Series Layout in this chapter.
9 Adjust the layout, if necessary. If the rectangles do not cover the area of the alignment correctly,
you can move or rotate them with the Edit Sheet Layout
command. You can also use this command to edit the profile
datum elevation of the layout so that the correct part of the profile
appears on each generated sheet.
10
Generate the sheet series. This step creates the sheet annotation and saves the sheets to the
sheet series folder. Only paper space entities are actually created.
The generated sheets always reference the model space entities
from the drawing itself.
11
Plot the sheets. You can set up a batch file to plot the sheets sequentially. For more
information, see Plotting Sheets in this chapter.