These tutorials will get you started working with the plan production tools, which automate the process of creating construction documents from your designs.
The plan production tools simplify the process for preparing sheets from your design drawings. However, these tutorial exercises do not go into detail about the Sheet Set Manager or plotting or publishing processes. For information about these features, see the AutoCAD Help.
You can use the plan production tools with or without using project management (Autodesk Vault). If you choose to manage your plan production files (sheet set files, sheet files, templates) with Autodesk Vault, you must log in to the appropriate project and have the necessary files checked out for editing. For more information, see the AutoCAD Civil 3D Help topic Using Vault with Plan Production Tools.
The following tutorial exercises do not use the Autodesk Vault (project management) features.
All drawings used in these tutorials are available in the tutorials drawings folder . If you want to save your work from these tutorials, save the drawings to the My Tutorial Data folder so that you do not overwrite the original drawings.
For more information, see the AutoCAD Civil 3D Help topic Plan Production Tools.
Topics in this section
- Tutorial: Preparing a Drawing for Plan and Profile Sheet Layout
This tutorial demonstrates how to set up a drawing before you publish plan and profile sheets.
- Tutorial: Generating Sheets for Plotting
This tutorial demonstrates how to generate plot-ready sheets that display either plan and profile or cross sections.