Draw Plan View Sheets

Draw Plan View Sheets creates layout tabs with viewports for plotting an existing centerline. These plan view sheets are sized and oriented automatically based on the centerline design.

The first step in Draw Plan View Sheets is to choose the centerline to be plotted. This may be selected from the drawing, or you may select an existing centerline (.CL) file. Once you have selected a centerline, the Sheet Setup dialog box appears, and contains all of the settings for creating the layout tabs and sheets.

Layout Name: Enter a name for the paper space "tabs" to be assigned to each layout for each sheet. The program will automatically divide the centerline plan view sheet layouts, and if the length of the centerline extends beyond a single sheet, then multiple layouts are created, with the layout name ID incremented by 1.

Note:

If either the Start Station in Layout Name or the End Station in Layout Name options are enabled, the Layout Name field will be disabled as the Layouts will get named automatically.

If you enter "ms" to go to model space within a Layout tab, you can pan to alter the plan view position. However, it is best to zoom in/out and edit within the Model tab. The Layout tabs appear at the bottom of the screen, along with the "Model space" tab to go back to standard plan view:

Start/End Stations: These values control the station range to draw.

Start/End Station in Layout Name: These options allow you to include starting and ending station in the Layout Names.

Add Layouts to Current Layout Set: This option allows you to add the layouts created to an existing layout set that was previously generated using the Layout Set Manager. You will need to specify the name of the layout set.

Block Name: This is the drawing name for the sheet to be inserted. The Set button can be used to change the block name. Carlson provides a standard plan and profile border in the form of profile.dwg located in the working folder of %AppData%\Carlson Software\...\Sup\. You may wish to revise profile.dwg to remove the grid, resize the plan viewport, and add your company logo, and re-save it as plan.dwg. Alternatively, you could add your own complete version of a sheet block/border.

Set Sheet Attributes: This button allows you to specify the values used by any attributes associated with the sheet block. These can be entered manually in the Set Sheet Attributes dialog.

You can use the Set button to the right of any field to set that field to a preset value pulled from the drawing information.

Sheet Width: This is the profile width, in inches, on the sheet.

Lower Left Offset X/Y: Indicate the offset value(s) for the insertion point of the sheet in CAD units. This option allows user-defined Block Names to be properly positioned relative to the remainder of entities placed through the Draw Profile command.

Percent of Overlap: Use this to set the amount of centerline shown beyond the match line on each sheet. This can make it easier to piece together sections of the centerline on separate sheets.

Horizontal/Vertical Scale: Set the scales to be used for the new viewport(s).

Plan View Lower Y: This sets the lower position of the paper space window for the plan view. With Lower Y set to 9 (inches above the base of the sheet) and Top Y set to 21, there is a 12 inch vertical window, running the full Sheet Width (typically 30 to 32). This window for the plan view can be expanded or reduced with these settings.

Top Y: This sets the top vertical limit for the plan view window, measured in inches from the bottom of the plan and profile sheet.

Draw Scale Bar in Plan View: Adds a scale bar to the finished sheet. If this option is selected, the scale bar can be placed in any corner of the sheet using the Draw Position drop down.

Draw North Arrow in Plan View: This draws a North Arrow in plan view. Click the North Arrow Settings button to establish the desired North arrow and placement information.

Draw Plan View Borders in Model Space: This draws the borders in Model Space which can be useful or orienting text and other labels to the orientation of the sheet. When this option is selected, use the Layer text box or Set button to choose the layer on which the borders will be drawn.

Label Match Line: When clicked on and multiple sheets are plotted with plan view option on, a match line will plot in the plan view.

When OK is clicked at the base of the dialog box, the layout tabs are created if necessary, and the sheets are drawn.

Pulldown Menu Location: Profiles
Keyboard Command: plansh
Prerequisite: None