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Chapter 7 Creating and Plotting Sheets Using Sheet Manager
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Working with Frames
Frames control where the labels and grids appear on the final generated sheets.
Frames are also used instead of viewports to control the placement of cross
sections on section sheets.
Some frames, such as label frames, require additional information from you if
they are going to label anything. This additonal information is created when
you attach label and grid styles to the frames. Some frames do not require you
to attach label and grid styles to them. For example, some of the frames on a
section sheet style control the placement of the sections; attaching label styles is
optional.
In this users guide, frames are referred to by their type and category. You must
assign a type and category to a frame when you create it.
The following illustration shows the area in the Create/Edit Frame dialog box
where you set the frame type and category:
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The frame type can be plan, profile, or section based on what type of design
data the frame is associated with. For more information, see Rules for
Setting the Frame Type in this chapter.
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The frame category defines what the frame contains: a label, a view of the
design elements, a table (section sheets only), or a cross section (section
sheets only). For more information, see Rules for Setting the Frame Category
for Plan and Profile Sheets and Rules for Setting the Frame Category for
Section Sheets in this chapter.
For example, to label something on a profile sheet, you would create a
profile/label frame.
This is a plan/profile sheet style. Each white rectangle is a
frame.
Two of the frames (the largest two) surround viewports.
These types of frames are called view frames. The top
view frame is the profile/view frame because it surrounds
the profile viewport. The lower frame is the plan/view
frame because it surrounds the plan viewport.
The other frames in this drawing include the smaller,
vertical frames on either side of the top viewport and the
two horizontal frames between the two viewports. These
smaller frames would be used for labeling the design
elements. The frame category is set to label for these
frames.