Sheet Set Manager - Sheet Views Tab, WHAT IS IT?

[MSchille-1994]

All,

I am fairly savvy at AutoCAD, but what the heck is the Sheet Views Tab on the SSM?  I have Googled it a bit and tried playing with it, even did a search on the forums here, just not a lot of useable user info on it.

So what really is it for?  Does anyone here actually use it?  Any info in layman's terms would be great.

Thank you!

[K_Kubat]

Plan views include named views created in the layout.
This means views that were created with the view manager in the layout (not the model or not in the viewport).
When a drawing is opened in the plan manager, it starts in the layout = last view position of the layout.
If you want to use this, the plan can also be opened explicitly in the layout, for example at the xy section or plan mirror, just as with the model views in the plan manager, the drawing in the model is opened at a saved view.

[CGBenner]

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[Rob_Jensen]

@MSchille-1994 the Sheet Views Tab is where you manage the data associated with viewports that have been created using the sheet Set Manager. The Sheet Set Manager is designed not just to control sheet data but also viewport data. ID view tags and viewport labels. To use this, you need a couple of things preset. You need blocks to represent view tags and viewport labels that have attributes mapped to the sheet data (that same as you would for title block data), and preset named model space views that you want to become views in a page layout.

Once these are in place, the saved model space views will show as drop downs under the drawing names on the Model Views Tab.

(the AV-X301, AV-X302.... in this screen shot)

You can then drag them onto a paper space layout, and it will create a model space view port with that saved view. That view will then appear on the Sheet Views Tab and you will be able to add view labels and edit the data (view name, view number, etc...) by right clicking on the view. You will also be able to add view tags to another sheet. 

The big advantage of all this is that if need to renumber a model space view ports view number/page you can update all of this in one automated environment. The SSM will automatically adjust page numbers of the view tag as you change them in the SSM. 

The system is not bad but fair warning. You need to be consistent about workflow, it doesn't deal well with model space views that are already on the sheet. You also need to save a named model space view in the dwg file prior to being able to add views to a drawing via the SSM. Its biggest drawback, however, is that really big and complex drawing packages with hundreds of viewports can really cause the SSM to slow down and not work effectively. 

[murray-clack · Accepted solution]

I wrote a SSM tutorial tailored for my company. Feel free to have a look

[Jason.Piercey · Accepted solution]

Have you read this document?

https://damassets.autodesk.net/content/dam/autodesk/www/cad-manager-center/articles/Mastering-AutoCA...

[satoshiq]

So AutoCAD is quite good at confusing people. Add bunch of new things, and keep ton of old things at the same time.