Hi all,
I work with a civil engineering firm, and we have a job in the works that I expect to be about 250 sheets.
It's essentially a large area that will be divided up by a semi-regular grid of sheets, that will have work on each sheet.
Some sheets will have no work in that area and will be eliminated from the set.
We do some work in ArcGIS, and it has wonderful tools for automatically generating a 'map book' of sheets, based on a geometric grid.
I was hoping that I'd have some option of combining SSM and maybe some other tools to accomplish something similar here.
If so, it would save me DAYS of manual drafting, just editing titleblock information like sheet numbers, adjoining sheets, total sheets counts, etc... as well as setting up the actual sheets and views.
Each sheet will have a single viewport, that corresponds to a grid panel in modelspace.
Is SSM and/or any other tool(s) a way of doing this, or am I in for a huge mess of manual edits?
I've read a bunch of introductions and watched several video tutorials about sheet sets, but so far I'm not seeing where it really saves much time.
I even went through the steps of trying to set up a dwt with fields for all the common things I have to put into each sheet, but for some reason it's not displaying that info in the dwg.
Also, it appears that I'd have to create each view manually, by adding it with the SSM "add sheet" command, which would take forever.
Please tell me I'm missing some magical time saving steps here!
-Mike