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?
Mark Green
Working on Civil 3D in Canada
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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.
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.
Mark Green
Working on Civil 3D in Canada
Hey, that looks promising!
I'll let you know how it goes (if it goes).
Thanks.
Mark Green
Working on Civil 3D in Canada