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Setting Up Drawing Templates for Plan Production

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Set up your drawing template so that each viewport is assigned the correct viewport type.

Tutorial: Configuring Viewports

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.

Note

The templates that are preconfigured with viewport types are located in: \Template\Plan Production.

  • For Windows 7 operating systems, the Template\Plan Production folder is located in: \Users\<user name>\AppData\Local\Autodesk\AutoCAD Civil 3D2013\enu.
  • For XP operating systems, the Template\Plan Production folder is located in: \Documents and Settings\<user name>\Local Settings\Application Data\Autodesk\AutoCAD Civil 3D2013\enu.

You can also use your own custom templates or existing AutoCAD Civil 3D templates. 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.

To prepare drawing templates for using the plan production tools

  1. Open a new drawing or template.
  2. 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).

    For information about ... See this Help topic
    General AutoCAD Civil 3D object styles Object Styles
    General AutoCAD Civil 3D label styles Defining Label Settings
    Plan production tool object styles and labels Editing Plan Production Tool Settings
  3. Adjust the size and scale, or other viewport settings.
  4. Select the viewport that you want to display plan, profile, or section data, right-click, and then click Properties. The Properties palette is displayed.
  5. Scroll down to the Viewport section at the bottom of the Properties palette. Set the Viewport Type to Plan, Profile, or Section.
  6. Optionally, for Plan viewports, you may want to insert a north arrow block in the desired location in the layout.
  7. It is recommended that you lock the viewport(s).
  8. Save the drawing as a template (.dwt).

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