Plot gridded plan sheets for a site and/or cross-section sheets for an alignment-based surface or corridor. Specify text styles, line styles, hatch patterns, and colors for the plotted sheets. In addition, control many parameters for axes, grid lines, nodes, and segment labels.

Following are the basic steps for this workflow. For more detailed instructions, see Print/Plot Sheets.

Note: As an alternative to creating a plan set and sheet sets on your own, you can use the Drafting Templates command to import from a variety of pre-defined drafting templates that include a plan set and one or more sheet sets. Any of the settings from these templates can be edited to meet the needs of your project data. For more information, see Open and Save a Drafting Template.

Steps:

Commands:

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.

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.

Create Plan Set

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.

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.

Grid Style Manager

4.

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

After you specify the size of the dynaviews you want to plot, pick an origin (lower left corner) for the first boundary in the array. 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.

Create Dynaview Boundary Collection

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.

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.

Create Sheet Set

6.

Build sheets from the Plan View grid.

One sheet is built for each dynaview boundary in the grid.

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

7.

Review your sheets. If needed, reopen the Grid Style Manager and modify the grid style.

Select a sheet and open a New Sheet View.

Grid Style Manager

8.

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

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

Note: If you want to plot a cross-section of surfaces and/or linework in a site-based project (no corridor is required), generate quick profile along an existing line or by drawing a line between any two points on your site, much like you can in the Surface Slicer View. After dynamically slicing the site, you can place the quick profile in any graphic or Sheet View. Use the layout settings (such as page size and grid layout) from an existing profile sheet.

Create Sheet Set

Create Quick Profile

9.

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.

10.

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).

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

Build Sheets

11..

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

12..

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.

If the title block was created in paper space, it will import into the Sheet View; if it was created in model space, copy it to the Sheet View as needed.

Copy to Sheet

Import

Create Rectangle

Create Text

Create Polyline

13.

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

New Sheet View

14.

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

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

Create Sheet Set (Custom)

15.

Edit the custom sheet.

16.

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).

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.

Create Rectangle

Create Circle

Create Plotbox

Create Dynaview

17.

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

Print Plan Set