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Chapter 7 Creating and Plotting Sheets Using Sheet Manager
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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.
To create a new plan sheet style
1 Choose a method for creating, opening, and editing sheet style drawings.
You can create the sheet style in a separate drawing. For more information, see
Creating a New Plan-Only Sheet In a Separate Drawing in this chapter.
2 Create a new drawing in a new project. If the sheet is a plan sheet at 50 scale,
then you may want to name the drawing something like plan50.dwg. The
project name might be something like Sheet Styles.
3 Switch to paper space.
4 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.
5 Change the sheet style path so it points to this new folder.
6 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.
7 Use the MVIEW or the Create Viewport command to create the sheet viewports.
You must create both a plan viewport and a profile viewport. The profile
viewport must be at least 1 unit in height and should be the same width as the
plan viewport. After generating the sheets, you can delete the profile viewport
to show the plan view only.
8 Set the viewport categories and view scale. For a plan sheet at 50 scale, you
would set the scale of each viewport to 50.
9 Draw the view frames around each viewport.
You must draw both a plan/view and a profile/view frame around the
appropriate viewports. Plan-only sheets require a profile/view frame to exist
around the profile viewport as well as the plan viewport. You can delete the
profile viewport and view frame after the sheets are generated.
10 Draw the frames where you want the labels to appear.
11 Use 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 modify this drawing if you need
to make changes to the sheet.
12 When you have completed the sheet, Sheet Styles ä Save Sheet Style on the
Sheet Manager menu. 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\sheets\Company X\ folder.