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Chapter 8 Plotting Drawings
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To create a plan/profile sheet series
Steps
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1 From the Sheet Manager menu, choose Settings to
set the Sheet Manager preferences.
For plan/profile sheets, you can specify the layer
names, whether the sheets are generated with fixed
profile stations, and so on.
Overview of Sheet
Manager Settings
2 In model space, from the Alignments menu,
choose Set Current Alignment to select the
current alignment.
Make an Alignment
Current
3 From the Profiles menu, choose Set Current Profile
to select the current profile.
Make a Profile Current
4 From the Sheet Manager menu, choose Plan/Profile
Sheets ➤ Layout Sheet Series to display the Set
Current Sheet Series Name dialog box.
Lay Out a Plan/Profile
Sheet Series
5 Type a name for the new series and then click OK
to display the Edit Sheet Series dialog box.
6 Set up the sheet series options.
These options include the sheet style that you want
to use to generate the sheet series, the starting
sheet number, and the sheet overlap distance.
7 Click OK to place the view definition rectangles
along the alignment.
Each view definition represents one sheet that will
be created.
8 Edit the layout, if necessary from the Sheet
Manager menu, by choosing Plan/Profile
Sheets ➤ Edit Sheet Layout.
You can move, rotate and adjust the datum of the
view definitions that were placed over the
alignment so that each sheet contains the part of
the alignment that you want it to.
Edit a Plan/Profile Sheet
Layout
9 From the Sheet Manager menu, choose Plan/Profile
Sheets ➤ Generate Sheet - Series to generate the
sheet series.
Generate a Series of
Plan/Profile Sheets