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Transcript
00:07
In this video, we're going to take the section views that we just created and create a section views sheet set.
00:13
In order to get to this section views sheet set, what you're going to do is you're going to navigate to the Output tab of your ribbon bar,
00:18
and you're going to go to the Create Section Sheets button here.
00:22
Before we do that, what I wanted to discuss is what we have inside a model space here.
00:28
The two blue lines that we have outside of our section views are basically placeholders for what is going to be created in paper space.
00:37
So the outer blue line is a demarker of what the ultimate page boundary is going to be.
00:42
And then the inner blue line is a marker for what our viewport is going to be.
00:48
So moving on from here, when we create a section view sheet set, Civil 3D is going to ask us to save the drawing before it creates the sheet set.
00:59
I don't want to have a file moving forward that has all of the sheet sets in it working with, as we move on in the class,
01:08
and so what I'm going to go ahead and do is I'm going to save this drawing as a separate file for us to be able to create the sheet sets,
01:15
and then we can come back and work in this file again moving forward without the sheet sets in it.
01:20
So what I'm going to go ahead and do is I'm going to go File, Save As, and I'm going to save this as 086-sheets.
01:33
And now that I have a file that is separate from my working file, I'm going to go ahead and start creating new sheet sets.
01:41
So I'm going to navigate up to Create Section Sheets, I'm going to click on it.
01:45
Inside of the Create Section Sheets window, we have our options again for selecting the alignment that is associated with our sections,
01:53
our sample line group associated with our sections, and our section view group that we just created.
01:60
From there, we have the layout name of the sheets that we're going to create.
02:03
I'm going again call this Dev-Xsec and then leave it as a counter.
02:10
The new sheet set, I'm going to have it be Dev-Xsec Set 1.
02:16
So I'll go ahead and change that.
02:22
You could add it to an existing sheet set if you already had one, we don't.
02:26
So then what I'm going to go ahead and do is I can specify a storage location.
02:30
I'm okay with it going to My Documents folder, so I'm going to go ahead and create sheet sets.
02:36
Now Civil 3D is saying to complete this process your current drawing will be saved, so I'll click "OK".
02:41
And what Civil 3D is going to do is now create those sheet sets for me.
02:44
So down here in the tabs, where I can switch over into paper space, I can navigate to my Dev-Xsec-1,
02:51
and what you'll see in here is the template file that we chose as our border for when we created our section views,
03:00
has now been populated inside of our paper space, and so we can have all of the information based on that template.
03:08
So our general notes, our revisions and issues.
03:12
So if you have a template file that you use for your work, you'll use that and then it will populate your standard border for your work.
03:22
So the thing to note is that you'll see that everything populated inside of this viewport window very nicely.
03:29
The reason why it did it this way is because when we created this section views sheets, we had our annotation scale set to our sheet scale.
03:40
If you have your annotation scale set differently than your sheet scale, what you're going to notice happening is that,
03:46
those blue lines that I said won't show up, will actually show up inside this because these won't be scaled appropriately.
03:52
But because we did scale it or we have our annotation scale set up appropriately, everything is working out fine.
Video transcript
00:07
In this video, we're going to take the section views that we just created and create a section views sheet set.
00:13
In order to get to this section views sheet set, what you're going to do is you're going to navigate to the Output tab of your ribbon bar,
00:18
and you're going to go to the Create Section Sheets button here.
00:22
Before we do that, what I wanted to discuss is what we have inside a model space here.
00:28
The two blue lines that we have outside of our section views are basically placeholders for what is going to be created in paper space.
00:37
So the outer blue line is a demarker of what the ultimate page boundary is going to be.
00:42
And then the inner blue line is a marker for what our viewport is going to be.
00:48
So moving on from here, when we create a section view sheet set, Civil 3D is going to ask us to save the drawing before it creates the sheet set.
00:59
I don't want to have a file moving forward that has all of the sheet sets in it working with, as we move on in the class,
01:08
and so what I'm going to go ahead and do is I'm going to save this drawing as a separate file for us to be able to create the sheet sets,
01:15
and then we can come back and work in this file again moving forward without the sheet sets in it.
01:20
So what I'm going to go ahead and do is I'm going to go File, Save As, and I'm going to save this as 086-sheets.
01:33
And now that I have a file that is separate from my working file, I'm going to go ahead and start creating new sheet sets.
01:41
So I'm going to navigate up to Create Section Sheets, I'm going to click on it.
01:45
Inside of the Create Section Sheets window, we have our options again for selecting the alignment that is associated with our sections,
01:53
our sample line group associated with our sections, and our section view group that we just created.
01:60
From there, we have the layout name of the sheets that we're going to create.
02:03
I'm going again call this Dev-Xsec and then leave it as a counter.
02:10
The new sheet set, I'm going to have it be Dev-Xsec Set 1.
02:16
So I'll go ahead and change that.
02:22
You could add it to an existing sheet set if you already had one, we don't.
02:26
So then what I'm going to go ahead and do is I can specify a storage location.
02:30
I'm okay with it going to My Documents folder, so I'm going to go ahead and create sheet sets.
02:36
Now Civil 3D is saying to complete this process your current drawing will be saved, so I'll click "OK".
02:41
And what Civil 3D is going to do is now create those sheet sets for me.
02:44
So down here in the tabs, where I can switch over into paper space, I can navigate to my Dev-Xsec-1,
02:51
and what you'll see in here is the template file that we chose as our border for when we created our section views,
03:00
has now been populated inside of our paper space, and so we can have all of the information based on that template.
03:08
So our general notes, our revisions and issues.
03:12
So if you have a template file that you use for your work, you'll use that and then it will populate your standard border for your work.
03:22
So the thing to note is that you'll see that everything populated inside of this viewport window very nicely.
03:29
The reason why it did it this way is because when we created this section views sheets, we had our annotation scale set to our sheet scale.
03:40
If you have your annotation scale set differently than your sheet scale, what you're going to notice happening is that,
03:46
those blue lines that I said won't show up, will actually show up inside this because these won't be scaled appropriately.
03:52
But because we did scale it or we have our annotation scale set up appropriately, everything is working out fine.
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