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Chapter 8 Plotting Drawings
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Overview of Plotting Drawings
Sheet Manager commands are used to create paper space sheets for
plotting that are based on alignments, profiles, and cross sections
model space in your drawing.
Sheet Manager creates three types of plotted sheets:
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Profile Sheets: Profile sheets are defined with a single viewport
definition. Based on the scale and the size of the viewport, a series
of sheets are generated for the alignment’s profile.
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Plan and Profile Sheets: Plan and Profile sheets are defined with
two viewport definitions, one for plan and one for profile. Based on
the scale and the size of the viewport, a series of sheets are
generated for the alignment and profile. The layout is determined
by the length of profile that can be displayed per sheet. The plan
view is then aligned to coincide with the profile view.
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Cross Sections Sheets: Cross section sheets are defined with a
single viewport definition. However, unlike plan and profile sheets,
this viewport definition is duplicated many times per sheet based
on the number of cross sections that can fit within the sheet style’s
section frame for the desired scale.
To create plotted sheets for an alignment, you first create a drawing
with the plan, plan and profile, or cross section elements in model
space. You then select a sheet style to use as a template to generate the
sheet series. You can use the sample templates that are included with
Sheet Manager as they are, or you can modify them to meet your
standards. You can also create new sheet styles from scratch.
Sheet styles are comprised of viewports, frames, and label styles. Label
styles, such as profile stationing, are defined in a library of styles and
then positioned on the sheets using label frames.
Once you select the sheet style, you generate a series of sheets for the
alignment. If it is a plan and profile sheet, rectangles that represent
the viewport definitions are plotted in model space so that you can
see how the sheets will be laid out before the actual sheets are
generated. You can adjust these layouts prior to generating the sheets.
You can also modify the profile layouts using the available commands
prior to generating sheets.
Once the sheets have been generated, you can use the available
commands to fine tune the sheets and you can add additional
information. Each sheet is saved to an external file. Finally, you plot
the sheets either one at a time, or an entire sheet series using the
batch plotting command.