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Transcript
00:05
All right. Now that we've created our view frames, we can go ahead and create our sheets.
00:10
So, just like when we created our sheets for our cross sections,
00:14
when we create our sheets for our drawing in Civil 3D, Civil 3D is going to ask us to save the drawing once we create sheets.
00:24
I don't want to have these sheets in the drawing moving forward.
00:27
So, I'm gonna save off a separate version of this drawing just for my sheets.
00:33
So, I'm going to go ahead and hit "File", "Save As".
00:36
I'm going to save this as 102-Sheets, and I'm going to click "Save".
00:43
So, from here, what we can do is we're gonna go ahead and navigate up to the Output tab of the ribbon bar.
00:53
We're going to click on Create Sheets and we're going to navigate through the Create Sheets View Frame Group and Layouts window.
01:00
So, we're gonna start a view frame groups, the layouts, we'll go to sheet sets.
01:04
Profile views won't show up because we only created plan view sheet sets.
01:10
But if you had Profile Views and Plan Views, or Profile Views Only,
01:14
this option would become available and you would set the options for how you want your Profile Views to show up in your sheet sets.
01:21
The one important note to make inside of this one is that when you select Profile Views, you have to set your profile view origin.
01:31
And so that is just the origin from where you place your Profile View window.
01:37
So, moving on from here, what we're gonna do in the View Frames group is,
01:41
we are going to specify which view frame we want to use or which view frame group we want to use.
01:45
We only have one. So, we're gonna choose our VFG Dev-Align-1.
01:50
We are going to use all of the view frames that we've created.
01:53
Now we have the option of how we want to leave these sheets out.
01:56
Do we want to create one drawing per sheet, or the option of creating all the layouts in one new drawing,
02:04
or do we want to create all the layouts in the current drawing?
02:07
So, if I didn't want to create a new version of this drawing and that I created here called 102 Sheets,
02:15
I could have selected all layouts in one new drawing.
02:18
It wouldn't have added any sheet sets to the drawing that I was working in.
02:24
But we have this new one that's been created already.
02:26
So, I'm going to go ahead and add all the layouts in the current drawing.
02:31
Probably if you were doing this for work, you would want to not create the extra sheet because you would be disrupting your references.
02:43
And so you would want to go ahead and use the number of layoffs per new drawing or all layoffs in one new drawing.
02:51
Or if you have very small amount of view groups like we have here, you could do all layouts in the current drawing.
02:58
But for our purposes, for these videos, I wanted to create one new drawing, and do it as all layouts in the current drawing.
03:05
So, from here, we're gonna go ahead and choose our layout name.
03:10
I'm going to call it Dev-Sheets.
03:13
And then choose the north arrow block to Align and Layouts.
03:17
There are a couple of north arrow blocks that are in here.
03:20
I'm going to go ahead and go with North.
03:23
And I'm going to go ahead and click "Next".
03:25
So, then, from here, we have our sheet set options.
03:29
We have a new sheet set or add to existing sheet set.
03:32
We don't have any sheet sets, so we're going to go ahead and go as a new sheet set.
03:38
We'll just call it Dev-Align-1.
03:41
And then the sheet sets storage location, you can set yours to where you want to have it saved to.
03:47
I have mine selected as where I'm saving my data sets to.
03:52
So, from here, you don't have any of the other options.
03:55
So, we would go ahead and click Create Sheets.
03:58
I'm going to go jump back to view frames groups and I'm going to select all layouts in one new drawing so that the data references link shows backup.
04:06
I'm going to go look at data references down.
04:08
So, when we create a new sheet to create these sheet sets in, if you want to take some of the information with you to that new drawing,
04:18
Civil 3D you will create data references and we're going to talk about these later.
04:22
But Civil 3D will create the data references for you and bring those data references into your new drawing.
04:28
So, inside of this Data References window, you can select all of the options,
04:33
all the items that you want to have data references brought over into Civil 3D for you, based on what we had selected in our view frame groups.
04:41
Civil 3D already selects some of the options that we want to have transported over.
04:46
But if there were additional pieces of information you wanted to bring over,
04:50
then you could select those options and have them also brought over as data references.
04:55
So, I'm going to go ahead and jump back into View Frame Group and Layouts,
04:58
and I'm going to go ahead and choose All Layouts in Current Drawing, and then I'm going to go ahead and click Create Sheets.
05:04
So, Civil 3D is gonna ask me to complete this process by saving the drawing.
05:08
I'm going to click "OK".
05:10
Civil 3D is going to save the drawing and it is going to produce my two sheets.
05:14
So, I am getting a action warning that says "Two layouts were created in the current drawing".
05:20
And I'm going to click check.
05:22
And down here, I will see that I have a Dev Sheet setup for my first view frame here and I have a Dev Sheet setup for my second view frame here,
05:33
with the borders that we had selected, and it gave us new sheet numbers.
05:38
So, now if we go look in here, we should have sheet numbers showing up into our labels because we've now set up the sheets.
05:47
So, Previous Sheet Number-1, Next Sheet Number-2.
Video transcript
00:05
All right. Now that we've created our view frames, we can go ahead and create our sheets.
00:10
So, just like when we created our sheets for our cross sections,
00:14
when we create our sheets for our drawing in Civil 3D, Civil 3D is going to ask us to save the drawing once we create sheets.
00:24
I don't want to have these sheets in the drawing moving forward.
00:27
So, I'm gonna save off a separate version of this drawing just for my sheets.
00:33
So, I'm going to go ahead and hit "File", "Save As".
00:36
I'm going to save this as 102-Sheets, and I'm going to click "Save".
00:43
So, from here, what we can do is we're gonna go ahead and navigate up to the Output tab of the ribbon bar.
00:53
We're going to click on Create Sheets and we're going to navigate through the Create Sheets View Frame Group and Layouts window.
01:00
So, we're gonna start a view frame groups, the layouts, we'll go to sheet sets.
01:04
Profile views won't show up because we only created plan view sheet sets.
01:10
But if you had Profile Views and Plan Views, or Profile Views Only,
01:14
this option would become available and you would set the options for how you want your Profile Views to show up in your sheet sets.
01:21
The one important note to make inside of this one is that when you select Profile Views, you have to set your profile view origin.
01:31
And so that is just the origin from where you place your Profile View window.
01:37
So, moving on from here, what we're gonna do in the View Frames group is,
01:41
we are going to specify which view frame we want to use or which view frame group we want to use.
01:45
We only have one. So, we're gonna choose our VFG Dev-Align-1.
01:50
We are going to use all of the view frames that we've created.
01:53
Now we have the option of how we want to leave these sheets out.
01:56
Do we want to create one drawing per sheet, or the option of creating all the layouts in one new drawing,
02:04
or do we want to create all the layouts in the current drawing?
02:07
So, if I didn't want to create a new version of this drawing and that I created here called 102 Sheets,
02:15
I could have selected all layouts in one new drawing.
02:18
It wouldn't have added any sheet sets to the drawing that I was working in.
02:24
But we have this new one that's been created already.
02:26
So, I'm going to go ahead and add all the layouts in the current drawing.
02:31
Probably if you were doing this for work, you would want to not create the extra sheet because you would be disrupting your references.
02:43
And so you would want to go ahead and use the number of layoffs per new drawing or all layoffs in one new drawing.
02:51
Or if you have very small amount of view groups like we have here, you could do all layouts in the current drawing.
02:58
But for our purposes, for these videos, I wanted to create one new drawing, and do it as all layouts in the current drawing.
03:05
So, from here, we're gonna go ahead and choose our layout name.
03:10
I'm going to call it Dev-Sheets.
03:13
And then choose the north arrow block to Align and Layouts.
03:17
There are a couple of north arrow blocks that are in here.
03:20
I'm going to go ahead and go with North.
03:23
And I'm going to go ahead and click "Next".
03:25
So, then, from here, we have our sheet set options.
03:29
We have a new sheet set or add to existing sheet set.
03:32
We don't have any sheet sets, so we're going to go ahead and go as a new sheet set.
03:38
We'll just call it Dev-Align-1.
03:41
And then the sheet sets storage location, you can set yours to where you want to have it saved to.
03:47
I have mine selected as where I'm saving my data sets to.
03:52
So, from here, you don't have any of the other options.
03:55
So, we would go ahead and click Create Sheets.
03:58
I'm going to go jump back to view frames groups and I'm going to select all layouts in one new drawing so that the data references link shows backup.
04:06
I'm going to go look at data references down.
04:08
So, when we create a new sheet to create these sheet sets in, if you want to take some of the information with you to that new drawing,
04:18
Civil 3D you will create data references and we're going to talk about these later.
04:22
But Civil 3D will create the data references for you and bring those data references into your new drawing.
04:28
So, inside of this Data References window, you can select all of the options,
04:33
all the items that you want to have data references brought over into Civil 3D for you, based on what we had selected in our view frame groups.
04:41
Civil 3D already selects some of the options that we want to have transported over.
04:46
But if there were additional pieces of information you wanted to bring over,
04:50
then you could select those options and have them also brought over as data references.
04:55
So, I'm going to go ahead and jump back into View Frame Group and Layouts,
04:58
and I'm going to go ahead and choose All Layouts in Current Drawing, and then I'm going to go ahead and click Create Sheets.
05:04
So, Civil 3D is gonna ask me to complete this process by saving the drawing.
05:08
I'm going to click "OK".
05:10
Civil 3D is going to save the drawing and it is going to produce my two sheets.
05:14
So, I am getting a action warning that says "Two layouts were created in the current drawing".
05:20
And I'm going to click check.
05:22
And down here, I will see that I have a Dev Sheet setup for my first view frame here and I have a Dev Sheet setup for my second view frame here,
05:33
with the borders that we had selected, and it gave us new sheet numbers.
05:38
So, now if we go look in here, we should have sheet numbers showing up into our labels because we've now set up the sheets.
05:47
So, Previous Sheet Number-1, Next Sheet Number-2.
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