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Drawing sheet creation along a highway corridor

imran.hamblinNZK78 — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 22:20:49 GMT

Hi all

Is there a way I can automate a set of 2D plans along a highway corridor, using our company drawing template. I would like the viewports to be 1:200 @ A1, landscape and pointing north. I have attached an example of what I am trying to achieve.

I am currently using Civil 3D 2024 but can also get access to Map3D

Re: Drawing sheet creation along a highway corridor

Joe-Bouza — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 15:27:12 GMT

This is the Plan Production tools.

define your template and point PP tools to it

Re: Drawing sheet creation along a highway corridor

autolispwizard — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 14:31:05 GMT

I’ve had to do this a lot for corridor section sheets, so here’s the manual approach we used to use:

Set up a “master” viewport snapped to your desired baseline / section station.
Use that VP to dial in scale, twist, and position until the section looks right.
Copy that viewport across the layout and then adjust the view center for each one (zoom center, pan, or DVIEW) so each section lines up with its station.
When the alignment or corridor changes, repeat the pan/zoom step on each viewport.

It works, but it gets painful once you have a lot of sheets or revisions.

Because of that, I ended up writing a small Civil 3D/AutoCAD automation called SectionSync LITE. It lets you:

Pick a polyline path (e.g. along your alignment or section “chain”).
Sync your paper-space viewports so they follow that path, keeping scale and twist consistent.
Re-sync after design changes instead of re-panning everything manually.

There’s a 5-run / 7-day trial built in, so you can see if it fits your workflow without committing.

More info + a short demo clip here:
👉 SectionSync LITE – Viewport Sync Tool (AutoCAD/Civil 3D)

Not saying this is the only way, but if you’re doing this often on real projects it can save a bunch of sheet cleanup time.

Re: Drawing sheet creation along a highway corridor

Joe-Bouza — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 15:50:13 GMT

The Plan Production tool is what you want to explore. the default template can be changed to use yours.

and as y7ours I mean set it up as you would like with you TB Vport size and scale. Note you can have more than one layout in your PP template to have different scales, different vport configuration; plan, pland over profile, plan over plan, cross sections...