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Creating a New Sheet Style
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Creating a New Plan/Profile Sheet In a
Separate Drawing
1 Create a new drawing in a new project. If the sheet is a plan and profile sheet at
50 scale, then you may want to name the drawing something like plpr50.dwg.
The project name might be something like Sheet Styles.
2 Switch to paper space.
3 In Windows Explorer, create a unique folder under the c:\Program Files\Land
Desktop R2\data\sheets folder for your new sheet style. You may want to name
the folder after the client you are working for or the project you are working on,
for example, Company X.
4 Change the sheet style path so it points to this new folder.
5 Draw the sheet border using the RECTANGLE command, or insert a pre-defined
border block using the DDINSERT command. It is recommended that you create
the sheet style at a 1:1 scale. For example, if you want a sheet to measure 24 by
36 inches, then make your sheet 24 by 36 units.
6 Use the MVIEW or the Create Viewport command to create the sheet viewports.
7 Set the viewport categories and the view scale. For a plan/profile sheet at 50
scale, you would set the scale of each viewport to 50.
8 Draw the frames where you want the labels to appear.
9 Draw the view frames around each viewport.
10 Use the File ä Save command to save the current sheet drawing. Save the
drawing to the project folder you created when you started this new project. For
example, if you created a Sheet Styles project, then save the drawing to the
c:\Land Projects R2\Sheet Styles folder. You can modify this drawing if you
need to make changes to the sheet.
11 From the Sheet Manager menu, choose Sheet Styles ä Save Sheet Style. This
command creates the *.dwg, *.dbf, and *.sdb files associated with the sheet and
places these files in the c:\Program Files\Land Desktop
R2\data\sheetsCompany X\ folder.
To edit the sheet style, use File ä Open command to open the sheet style *.dwg
file that is located in the c:\Land Projects R2\Sheet Styles\ folder.
When you have finished making your edits, use the File ä Save command to
save the drawing file, and then use the Sheet Styles ä Save Sheet Style
command on the Sheet Manager menu. The Save Sheet Style command updates
the files in the \data\sheets\Company X folder. For more information about
editing a sheet style, see Editing a Sheet Style in this chapter.
WARNING!
If you plan to use a sheet style with another project, then do not define
a sheet style template in the current working drawing. Layers in the
current working drawing are carried over to the next project in which
you apply the sheet style. Once the layers exist in a project, it is difficult
to remove them.
NOTE
Once .sbd and .dbf files are created using AutoCAD Land Development Desktop
Release 2, they cannot be used with an earlier version of the Desktop.