To Create a Sheet

When you create a sheet, you can add views for general plans, schedules, details, sections, and elevations. You can publish or plot a group of sheets as a sheet set.

1. On the Quick Access Toolbar, click Project Navigator .
2. On Project Navigator, click the Sheets tab.
3. Navigate to the subdirectory where you want to add the sheet.

   You can create subdirectories by right-clicking a directory, and then clicking New Subset.

4. Right-click the subdirectory, and click New Sheet.
5. In the New Sheet dialog box, specify a number and sheet title, and click OK.

   The new sheet is created, but not opened.

6. Open the new sheet by double-clicking it.
7. On Project Navigator, click the Views tab.
8. In the Views directory, navigate to the view drawing that you want to place on the sheet.
   Attention: If you want to place a schedule on a sheet, you must first add a viewport to the sheet. Click View tab Viewports panel Named and specify a viewport window on the sheet.
9. Drag the view drawing onto the sheet.

   If you want to change the size of the view on the sheet, right-click and select a new scale.

   

   Note: If you are placing a detail, section, or elevation view, only the specific view is added to the sheet. The referenced plan view geometry is not displayed.
10. Specify the insertion point for the view.
11. To turn off grid marks in the viewport, double-click inside the viewport window.
12. Deselect Grid in the application status bar, then double-click outside the viewport window.

You can place more than one view on a sheet. You can also use a view on more than one sheet.

The default sheet templates in the software include a layout grid to aid in locating views on a sheet. This grid is not included in plots or DWF™ output.

To move the viewport on the sheet, select the viewport boundary and use the basic modify tools in the context menu. You can adjust the viewport size to change the viewable portion of the view drawing. You can also activate the model space view by double-clicking inside the viewport. After you activate the model space view, you can move or zoom the view drawing within the viewport. Double-click outside the viewport to deactivate the model space view and return to paper space. In paper space, you cannot modify the drawing within the viewport.

If you are placing detail, section, or elevation views on a sheet, the mark number and sheet number resolve on both the source view drawing and model space view drawing. If you change the drawing name or directory location for either view drawing, however, the mark and sheet number link will break. You may need to recreate the mark to automatically resolve the number links.