The plan production templates that are located in the Template folder have viewports that are already configured to the appropriate viewport type: plan, profile, or section. These templates are located in \Users\<user name>\AppData\Local\Autodesk\C3D <version>\enu\Template\Plan Production.
If you choose to use templates other than the ones located in the Plan Production folder, an important prerequisite is that you first set the viewport types for plan view, profile view, or section view. While you are using the Create View Frames wizard, or the Create Multiple Views command, if you select a template that does not have appropriately defined viewports, AutoCAD Civil 3D detects this and displays a message indicating that layouts containing the necessary viewports for the sheet type were not found.
Tutorial: Configuring Viewports
- Open a new drawing or template.
- Select the default settings for the template.
For example, you may want to set the default object styles and label styles for all objects, and in particular for the plan production objects that are used for plan/profile sheets (view frame groups, view frames, and match lines).
- Adjust the size and scale, or other viewport settings.
- Select the viewport that you want to display plan, profile, or section data, right-click, and then click Properties. The Properties palette is displayed.
- Scroll down to the Viewport section at the bottom of the Properties palette. Set the Viewport Type to Plan, Profile, or Section.
- Optionally, for Plan viewports, you may want to insert a north arrow block in the desired location in the layout.
- It is recommended that you lock the viewport(s).
- Save the drawing as a template (.dwt).