AutoCAD Civil 3D

[#1]

I've seen comments from others that they use a 'one sheet per drawing' policy to avoid conflicts of overlapping text in modelspace, to allow more drafters to work on a project and to cut down on file size and corruption.  We have typically had two or three sheets in a drawing, depending on the length of a street.

For this project, when setting it up, I was considering changing our approach towards one sheet per drawing.  Then I thought to myself "Hey, no problem, I can set it up as usual and split them later if I want to."  The idea being that with everything xreffed & dreffed it's no problem to SAVEAS and delete one layout out ot this drawing and delete the other out of the other drawing.  Hey presto I'm at a one sheet per drawing situation.  But there was one thing I didn't think about: the sheet set manager.

So now I was thinking of splitting up a drawing.  I have sheet number, title, description set up.  I have callout blocks on both sheets referencing each other and referencing other drawings, and I have callouts in other drawings referencing these sheets.

What do you think?  Have I snookered myself?

[#2]

sheet manager is pretty flexible when it comes to renaming sheets.   I wouldn't worry about that.   That being said, it's probably just easier when running plan production to set it up as 1 layout per sheet.

[#3]

Not sure if I explained myself the best.

"sheet manager is pretty flexible when it comes to renaming sheets."

That's ok, but I don't need to rename a sheet exactly.  I will need to point the existing data within the sheet set to a different sheet, in a different drawing file.

"it's probably just easier when running plan production to set it up as 1 layout per sheet."

I don't follow.  What's plan production?  What am I running?  What am I setting up?  Do you mean 1 layout per drawing?  Or what am I missing?

Thanks for the help.  I know that I'm not as deep into sheet sets as many others, so I appreciate any advice.  Currently my only idea is to delete the sheet from the set and import the new sheet.  Then I have to reenter all the data and redo the callouts in any drawing that is refferencing the sheet.

[#4 · Accepted solution]

Every sheet has a target dwg and target layout. I think you can edit this in the sheet set property for each sheet. No computer in front of me right now but that's where I'd check first.

[#5]

Hey, that looks promising!

I'll let you know how it goes (if it goes).

Thanks.

[#6]

Thanks Matt, worked like a charm!