Steps

Help by Command

Notes

1.

Open a project with a site plan and/or corridor cross-sections that you want to print.

Open Project

2.

Create a top-level collection to contain sheet sets and all of their sheets.

Create Plan Set

The plan set, which is a container for one or more sheet sets, appears in the Project Explorer. You can also save a plan set as a template.

3.

If you need to plot Plan View sheets with a grid, first define a grid style for the sheet borders. If you just need to plot cross-section sheets, skip to step 8.

Grid Style Manager

In the Grid Style Manager, specify gridline intervals, as well as the grid's type, color, line style, and line weight. Then specify the grid labels' text style, offset, and color, and optionally align the labels to the orientation of the sheet. For the grid's tick marks, you can set the major and minor tick length, color, line style, and line weight.

4.

With a grid style defined, you can now create dynaview boundaries to build sheets from.

Create Boundary Set

After you specify the size of the dynaviews you want to plot, pick an origin (lower left corner) forthe first boundary in the array. Enter the number of columns and rows you specify in the array will be drawn to the right and below the origin. Make adjustments to the settings until you have the array you need.

5.

Create a second-level collection (beneath the plan set) to contain elements that you want to appear on every sheet in a common set of sheets.

Create Sheet Set

This command opens automatically after you create a plan set. To first build sheets for the Plan View Grid, Select Plan Grid as the type.

In the Boundary set list, select the boundary set you just created. In the Grid settings list, select the grid style you created. The sheet set appears beneath the plan set in the Project Explorer.

6.

Build sheets from the Plan View grid.

Select the sheet set in the Project Explorer and Build Sheets.

One sheet is built for each dynaview boundary in the grid. These sheets appear under the sheet set in the Project Explorer.

7.

Review your sheets.

Select a sheet and open a New Sheet View.

8.

To plot cross-section sheets, create another sheet set.

Create Sheet Set

Select Cross-section as the type. The sheet set appears beneath the plan set in the Project Explorer.

4.

Use the Sheet Set Editor (opens automatically) to specify the sheets' axes, grids, text and line styles, labels, and more, as well as which surfaces, subgrades, and strata are displayed.

Edit the sheet set layout, as needed.

The sheets appear beneath the sheet set in the Project Explorer.

5.

Generate multiple sheets for a cross-section sheet set. You can add unique elements to any sheet (objects that you want to appear only on that specific sheet).

Build Sheets

Select your sheet set in the Project Explorer before running this command.

6.

Select a level (plan set, sheet set, or sheet) in the Project Explorer, and open a Sheet View so you can see the cross-sections represented in paper space.

New Sheet View

7.

Import a CAD file (.dxf, .dwg) with a border, title block, or other drawing elements, or import a Project Link file (.vcl) with those elements plus sheet layout settings. Alternately, create drawing elements directly in the Sheet View.

Import

Create Rectangle

Create Text

Create Polyline

If the title block was created in sheet view, it will import into sheet view; if it was created in model space, copy it to any sheet view as needed.

Copy to Sheet

8.

In the Sheet View, review each level to check, add, and edit the objects that are drawn.

New Sheet View

9.

If needed, create another second-level drawing (sheet set) to contain unique sheets, such as a title sheet and/or sheet showing objects from the Plan View.

Create Sheet Set (Custom)

The sheet names you enter appear in the Project Explorer under the custom sheet set you created.

To add another single unique sheet later, select the custom sheet set in the explorer, and create a custom sheet.

Create Custom Sheet

10.

Edit the custom sheet.

11.

Create a frame around a portion of your model in the Plan View to have that area display in a dynaview on a sheet. Pick the frame and specify the dynaview's location in paper space (Sheet View).

Create Rectangle

Create Circle

Create Plotbox

Create Dynaview

Dynaviews can be used to include Plan View objects on sheets in custom sheet sets. The dynaview's frame can be any closed shape, such as a rectangle, circle, or plotbox.

Note: Surfaces cannot be displayed through dynaviews at this time.

12.

Print/plot one or more sheets from the plan set.

Print Plan Set