Chapter 22: Keeping a Project Organized with Sheet Sets

Overview

It's rare to have a drawing project fit on one sheet. Most CAD projects require multiple sheets, sometimes numbering in the hundreds. With multiple sheets in a project, you often spend a fair amount of time checking cross-references between the drawings and making sure that sheet titles and other information are correct.

Even the smallest project requires some coordination of cross-references between drawings in a set and checking for consistency across sheets. For example, a floor plan of a house will have call- out symbols that will direct you to a sheet with building elevations , construction details, or door and window schedules. As a CAD user , you eventually spend a lot of time just making sure that you have your set of drawings in the proper order and labeled correctly. Checking a set of drawings for continuity and correctness is a time-consuming job, and errors can easily creep in.

 ACAD only      To help make your sheet coordination efforts easier, AutoCAD 2005 offers the Sheet Set Manager. (If you are an LT user, you may be interested in the information presented here, but the Sheet Set Manager is not available in AutoCAD 2005 LT.)