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Chapter 8 Plotting Drawings
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Sheet Series
There are separate groups of commands for generating series of sheets
for plan and profile, profile, or cross sections sheets. A sheet series is
defined by a selected sheet style and alignment. The sheet series
generates a number of sheet layouts based on the length of profile, or
number of sections that can be plotted on an individual sheet to a
paper space layout.
Each sheet is saved to an external file. These sheets can be loaded into
a paper space layout and plotted. You can make edits to a sheet and
then save the sheet back to the external file.
NOTE
The term layout is used to define the process of creating a series of
sheets in Sheet Manager for a given alignment. It is also used in
AutoCAD to define a named paper space layout.
Sheet Tools
Sheet tools are used to make modifications to sheets after they have
been generated. They are used to adjust the positioning of viewports
for plan or profile, to move entities between model space and paper
space, and to update labels based on changes to label styles or the
plan, profile, and cross section elements.
Plotting
In addition to the standard plotting of individual sheets, there is a
batch plotting command in Sheet Manager to automate the plotting
of multiple sheets. For a selected group of sheets in a series, batch
plotting loads each sheet into paper space then plots it.