Place a View of a Drawing on a Sheet

Place a View of a Drawing on a Sheet
Once you've created your sheets, you use the Sheet Set Manager to place a view of a drawing on a sheet. To
place a view of a drawing on a sheet, you no longer need to manually attach an external reference (xref),
create a viewport, zoom to the correct view, and scale within the viewport. The Sheet Set Manager
automates these steps.
Note: Before you begin the tutorial, if you have not already done so, copy the Tutorials
folder from the Destination Desktop CD-Rom to My Documents.
Open a Sheet
You use the Sheet Set Manager to open a sheet in a sheet set.
1. If you have not already done so, copy the Tutorials folder from CD-ROM to My
Documents.
2. In AutoCAD, if the Sheet Set Manager is not already open, on the Standard
toolbar, click Sheet Set Manager.
3. In the Sheet Set Manager, click the arrow next to the Open box, and then click Open.
4. In the Open Sheet Set dialog box, browse to the My Documents\Tutorials\PlaceView
folder, select XYZ Project.dst, and then click Open.
The XYZ Project sheet set is displayed in the Sheet Set Manager.
On the Sheet List tab, the XYZ Project sheet set contains two numbered sheets: A1 -
Floor Plans and A2 - Building Elevations. Each sheet refers to the layout tab of a
separate drawing file.
5. In the Sheet Set Manager, on the Sheet List tab, double-click the Floor Plans sheet.
The Floor Plans sheet opens.
The Floor Plans sheet is currently empty except for a title block. You want to add a plan
from the XYZ_Walls.dwg file to the Floor Plans sheet.
Add Resource Drawings
Before you can add a plan to the Floor Plans sheet, the model drawing file (XYZ_Walls.dwg) containing the
plan must be accessible from the Resource Drawings tab of the Sheet Set Manager. You need to add any
drawing files that you want to use.
1. In the Sheet Set Manager, click the Resource Drawings tab.
The Resource Drawings tab currently contains no model drawings.
2. To add model drawings, under Location, double-click Add New Location.
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3. In the Browse for Folder dialog box, browse to the My
Documents\Tutorials\PlaceView\Models folder, and then click Open.
All the drawings in the Models folder (XYZ_Walls.dwg and XYZ_Elevations.dwg) are
now displayed in the Resource Drawings tab.