Chapter 10 - Set Up Sheet Set Manager

Sheet Set Manager is a method to build a professional drawing management system in AutoCAD, starting from AutoCAD 2005. Creating a Sheet Set Manager for a project or a project is the same as ours. Create "Table of Contents" for such a book. The Sheet Set Manager is a way to organize and arrange Layout drawings of construction, a project that makes managing, printing and exporting drawing drawings scientific, easy and fast.

Step 1: Set up Sheet Set

We proceed to Set up a new Sheet Set as follows:

- Press Ctrl 4 (or SSM command) to open the Sheet Set Manager dialog box

- Choose “ New Sheet Set”

- Click “ An example sheet set ”/ Next

- Select the 2nd line “ Architectural Metric Sheet Set”/ Next

- Name the Sheet Set. We named after the work is working

For example: Karol's house drawing

- Set where to save Sheet Set. We should save it together with the directory containing the drawings of that project.

- Then click “ Next ”

- Click Finish .

=> The Sheet Set management dialog appears

The dialog box has 3 tabs:

+ Sheet List: List all Layout drawings (Layout drawings only). This is also the tab that we work most when "Print drawings with Sheet Set"

+ Sheet Views: Lists the Sheet Set that has been created in the current drawing, and allows us to create or insert other Sheet sets.

+ Model Views: add directory tree only external file.

Step 2: Rearrange Sheet Set

Sheet Set allows us to manage an overall system of many drawings in construction or a project. -           Architectural -           Structural -           Electrical -           Mechanical -           Plumbing -           Fire protection - ... Assuming we only care about managing Architectural, Structural and Electrical drawings, we only retain those 3 subsets.

- Delete unnecessary Subset by right-clicking on it / click “ Remove Subset ”

We get the Subset directory tree:

Step 3: Import The Layout Drawings Into Their Respective Subsets

- Right-click on Subset “Architectural” / Import Layout  as Sheet

- Click Browse for Drawings

- Find the path to the current file, containing the architectural drawings that we want to import.

- Choose Import Checked and as a result, all architectural drawings of the current file are imported into Architectural Subset

- Do the same: Import Layout for Structural drawings, Electrical in other files into the remaining Subset. We will get a Sheet Set Manager management system for this entire construction

* Sheet Set Utilities:

- Sheet Set allows inserting Layout from various drawing files into common management in Sheet set file

- We can insert Layout drawings from many different drawing files into 1 Subset without having to open that drawing. However, a Layout can only be inserted into a Subset in that Sheet Set.

- Want to open any Layout drawing in Subset, double click on that Sheet Layout to open it immediately.

Step 4: Rename And Renumber

The purpose of this step is to:

- Reset the title for the drawing, so we do not have to enter the drawing name in the Title Block anymore.

Sheet title: is the name of the drawing (DRAWING)

Sheet title: Enter the name of the drawing

Then click Next .

Do the same with the other Architectural Layout.

Type the command REGEN to update.