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Overview of Plotting Drawings
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The following is an overview of the key concepts in Sheet Manager:
Sheet Styles
Sheet styles are paper space templates that are used for an alignment.
A sheet style is comprised of viewports, frames, and label styles. They
are stored in an external folder so that they can be accessed from any
drawing. Multiple collections of sheet styles can be created to meet
different plot standards.
Viewports: Viewports are AutoCAD Paper Space Viewports with
additional properties. These properties include view type (plan,
profile, or cross section) and plotted scale.
Frames: Frames are rectangular polylines that are used to position the
automatic labeling that occurs when sheets are generated. There are
four categories of frames:
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The Label frame is used to position labels to the sides, above or
below profiles and cross sections. This is typically information such
as station and elevation along the bottom of a profile, or the grid
elevations on the sides of the profile.
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View frames are used to position labels directly over the view
definition to label information, such as plan view alignment
stationing or profile vertical alignment information.
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Table frames are only for cross section sheets and are used to plot
area and volume information.
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Section labels are only for cross section sheets and are used to
define how cross sections are positioned on the sheet.
Label Styles: Label styles define the different types of annotation
plotted on the sheet frames, such as station or elevation labels. The
four types of label styles are Text, Block, Distance, and Grid. There are
many predefined label styles with Sheet Manager that can be
modified, or new styles that can be created.