Getting Productive with Plan Production Tools in Civil 3D

SAM LUCIDO: Oh, what? We're up. We're live.

So welcome, everybody, to Autodesk University. You're about halfway through, I think. I hope everybody is doing good.

This is plan and production, getting productive with plan and production tools in Civil 3D. And there goes that music again. Anyway, my name is Sam Lucido, and I'm a-- a little bit about myself.

I'm a CAD Services Manager and senior civil designer for a company by name of Haley and Aldridge. We're an engineering service provider firm. We have 27 offices in the United States.

So I'm in one little remote office. Not any two of my operators or my designers are in one location. So that's how the CAD manager part of it.

And then my other part of my job as a civil designer, that's where the plan in production comes into play a little bit because we have a lot of big jobs with big roadways and long alignments. I've been using AutoCAD since the 1990s. To date myself, I did work on the board. So I've done that.

And I write for AUGI World. I'm an expert elite member. And I run a website called cadprotips.com, which I sort of dish out tips every month to the CAD community. My one goal has always been if I can teach you one thing and make you think, then I've done my job.

I always feel that if I can show you either a match line style or a section view, something different that you didn't know that you can expand upon, then I've done my job here. So our summary is plan and production tools in Civil 3D. You can automate the process of creating plan and profile sheets very quickly.

Create multiple plan and profile sheets, sections, and layouts, tying it all together in a sheet set ready for publishing. This is not a sheet set class, but I am going to cover the sheet set in the beginning because plan and production is tied directly into that. And again, most importantly, bring back value, knowledge to help you Excel.

I've taught here for seven years, and I always-- I've left that in there since day one because if I can help you succeed, you help your company succeed, you become more proficient. Everything gets more efficient and productive. And that's how that goes.

So our learning objectives-- we're going to understand and use the workflow of plan and production. There's only three buttons. There's three buttons.

But we're going to understand the workflow. We're going to learn to set up the templates for plan and production. It begins with the template.

We're going to create plan, profile, and section sheets using the tools. And then we're going to publish them at the end with the Sheet Set Manager. And don't worry, I'm not going to PowerPoint you. This is the end of my slides.

So the workflow is templates. This is at the beginning. You have to start with the template.

The template is your guide. You need a viewport with either plan, section, or profile on it to make it work. You create view frames. You talk to your project manager.

You figure out what scale you want these at, how many sheets you're going to need. And you create the view frames. Then you create your sheets. So there's this process, this workflow here.

Section sheets are a little different, and we'll get into that because there's a couple of prerequisites that you have to do before you create the section sheets. And then the Sheet Set Manager at the end. So let's get productive.

I'm going to flip over to Civil. And I'll hold questions unless someone has something really pressing. This is 60 minutes, so it'll go quick.

So if you have something, just raise your hand and try to flag me down and we can go through it. So the first thing I want to talk about is the Sheet Set manager because I do want-- instead of me just coming in here and going on the Output tab on the ribbon-- and there's my plan and production tools. If I left click and drag it out, you can see there's three buttons. I've got Create New Frames, Create Sheets, and Create Section Sheets.

If I hit any one of these right now, nothing's going to happen except for actually the Create Section Sheets, which will bring up my blank section sheet pallet. Let me throw this back up on the ribbon. I'm going to close Prospector right now. So we're going to talk about the Sheet Set Manager really quick because during the planning production process, it's going to ask you to create a sheet set.

You don't have to populate the data like this one is. This is my template. So you see, if I come in here and double click it, I've got a lot of fields already populated in there from the Sheet Set Manager.

If I right click and hit Properties, I'm going to pull this over and show you. I've got the templates here, the call out box, the view label box, my project number, my project name, phase, milestone, AU 2018. I've got some sheet custom properties, some sheet set custom properties.

They're tied together to this. These are connected right now. They have to form a relationship.

And then what I do is I take them, and I separate them. So I make one of them the DWT file, the one of them the DST. So when you do a new sheet set, you can select it. And it'll pull this data in.

So that's the sheet set manager. If you want to know more about it, I'm teaching a lab on it tomorrow morning at 8:00 and I have a feeling there might not be so many people there. But anyway, so-- and we'll go-- at the end, I'll show you a populated sheet set that you can actually take a look at and see how those properties actually fall into place.

So the first thing we're going to talk about, as I said, templates. We're not going to fool with these buttons yet. So we're going to open up a drawing file, and we're actually going to create a viewport. That's the first thing I want to do.

I'm going to close out of this one. And you'll see what I need for my template, I just need my title block. For you xref people out there, you can do the same thing too. It's a template.

So what I have here is my populated data. You can see it's still sits in there. But I need a viewport. I need to create a viewport to create these templates. And what we're going to do is actually, on the Layout tab of the ribbon, I'm actually going to use the this viewport tool here so I can create an exact rectangular viewport.

You have to have a rectangular viewport. It will not work. It's sort of like if you guys ever used the map reference grid system, you need a rectangular viewport.

So the first thing I'm actually going to do is set my layer to viewport. And then I'm going to come up here and do rectangular viewport. I'll just do a single viewport because I'm going to do two and hit OK.

And then just in there-- normally, I would make it whatever the distances are for my company. My Properties palette is open. PR at the command prompt or Control-1-- that's what I need to do. What do I need to do to this viewport to make it work for my plan and production tools?

I have to define it. I'm going to call it Plan View, and I'm just going to name this 1. That negative 1 comes from-- it's just an Autodesk thinking that the file came from a previous version of Civil. Then the last thing I need to do in the template-- well, there's two more things.

So I've named the viewport to Plan View. And then I have to give it a scale. So say this is 1 inch equals 10 feet, whatever. I'll give it a scale here. And then I'll rename the Layout tab to something logical like ANSI, D, 10 scale.

One more thing-- a block. You notice if I touch that, it's a block. North arrow standard-- you need a north arrow in there because you're going to pull a plan view from an alignment, and it could be like this. And we want the north arrow would be connected to the viewport, and it'll rotate.

So we want that in there. So what I like to do is reuse the data I already have. So I've got this.

This is exactly what I want for this sheet, this layout. ANSI 10 scale. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to open up one that's complete. And I'll show you how we did that. Civil Imperial plan only-- and you'll get these in the data set.

So you'll name them whatever your-- Company XYZ Plan Only, Company XYZ Plan Over Plan, Plan Over Profile, Profile Only, Profile Over Profile, and Section. Plan Over Plan and Profile Over Profile were added a couple years ago. There must have been some push to do it.

I don't know why. I don't know if I'd ever do a plan over plan. But I pretty much use Plan Only, Plan Over Profile, and Sections.

So I'm going to open the Plan Only and show you what I mean. I'm going to close out of the other drawing. And if I right click down here and do From Template-- I'm sorry, move or copy. I just want to show you.

You can see in here how all the layout tabs are named. That's key. So I did the first one. And then I just right click, move or copy, did a second one, just change the scale-- did a third one, changed the scale, renamed the layout name.

Make it a logical name. There's not-- plan and production is going to read that. If you just have 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, you're not going to-- you need to tell people what it's going to be.

So that's that one. So what I'm going to do is open up my template file again, and I'm going to show you how to do the plan and profile one real quick. Because the viewport-- it's extremely important with the viewports. This plan, the plan over profile, they have to be the same.

So the best way to create them is the contextual layout tab in the ribbon. We're going to go into layouts here again.

We're going to create two horizontal. I'm going to do a viewport spacing. I want a gap between the two of them of about 0.25. Sorry, guys. That light was bugging me a little bit.

So I'm going to select here and here. And what's going to happen is you're going to create two viewports with a gap of 0.25. I'm going to change my layer to Viewport. What I'm going to do here, then, is go over to my Properties palette. I'm going to click it.

I'm going to set my viewport type to Plan, 1, Escape, Profile, 2. Again, north arrow is up in there. Then the next thing you do is make sure the scales are consistent-- so plan over profile 10, 20, 30, 40, whatever you need to do for your project. So let's bring up the completed one and show you how that looks.

And actually, what I did with this one too is I put a scale bar in there just so I knew. But you can see I'm just doing the move or here just so I can show you all the tabs without cycling through them. And you can see I've got there 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 100.

Why don't I have one inch equals 125? Because, you know, you can put as many as you want in there, but I would stick to your standard engineering scales and what you need. If you get an odd project, we've all been there where you can't seem to get it just right with the scale, but the project manager really wants an odd scale like an 80.

Then you go in and make a new one. But you would just simply right click Copy that layout tab right there, move or copy to the end, and then save it to DWT. So when you're all done, all you do is do a Save As. And then you're going to DWT.

And I'm just going to throw this out right here for now-- test. And then you're going to give it a logical description. Don't just leave it blank.

And I know a lot of my users leave-- you'll hear me talk about descriptions because I'm not going to fill them in today because of the time. But it's so important to put descriptions on your Civil 3D styles and what you do, your templates. So the next person, when you're sick or you're out, they know exactly what's going on.

We can save the layers as [INAUDIBLE] to not get any errors and then save your template. And then you're good to go. So that covers the Sheet Set Manager.

I wanted to briefly talk about that because we're going to use it. I kind of left it out, but it's important. If you can link them together, you'll see.

And then the templates-- so that's what you need to do. You need to go out. And actually, I'm going to right click. I'm going to open file location.

I love that command, by the way. When they ever did that, I used to have a LISP routine. So I'm out here and you can see. Those are all the templates I need. I really don't need anymore.

They're just-- a Layout tab is a sheet. That's why it's referred to as a Sheet Set Manager. So all of these contain all these sheets.

And what I did for the plan only, the only thing I did was I've got-- I had all my scales set up for my company. And then I copied the plan only, renamed it the section, went into the template, and just changed the viewport to section.

So Civil knows it's a section. Civil has to know. If you don't define the viewport as plan, profile, or section, it won't do anything. It's going to say, you know, I don't know what to do. You haven't defined your viewport.

All right, I'm going to close out of here. And what we're going to do now is we're going to do three different scenarios. We're going to do a plan only, we're going to do a plan and profile, and then we're going to do some section sheets. And then we're going to cover them all at the end.

So DWG-- so we're going to plan only at 40 scale. So here's my plan view. I'm going to get out of my sheet set here. Simple plan view drawing-- one requirement of any plan and production is the alignment.

You need an alignment to do this. Otherwise, it's not going to work. So the project manager comes up to you and says, Sam, I need these at 1 inch equals 40 feet. Create-- you know, I need sheet setup, just plan view only.

I said, OK, we can do that. We'll do 1 to 40. Now we know that.

And I stress the importance of-- and I keep going back to the Sheet Set Manager, but it's the upfront work that saves you time. And if you go slow to go fast kind of and do that upfront work, the end is so much easier. So what are we going to do?

We have an alignment here. The project manager said we need plan sheets at 1 inch equals 40 feet. Put them a sheet set for me. Give me a printout. Draft for review.

Output tab of the ribbon, create the view frames-- OK, these Wizards are awesome, but you have to be-- don't just blast through them. And you'll hear me say that a couple of times. There's a lot of data in here.

It's going to ask you for an alignment. Now I only have one in here, which is State Street, which is actually the street where I work. So I just named an alignment street and put it on this drawing.

I'm going to leave the station range to automatic. I mean, if I wanted to, I could sample this from 0 to 50. And hit Next.

Sheets-- remember I talked about those little Layout tabs. So watch my Wizard on the right here. If I select Plan-- only you see how it moves?

Plan only, profile only, and it shows you. So we're going to select plan only. Even though this is already selected since I did it before, I'm going to select it again just to show you.

So here's 40 scale. So here's the layout tabs. That's why it's so important that you have to instead of just saying ANSI D My Favorite Cheat or whatever or our standard or something. You won't know what it is.

So we're going to 40 scale. We have the option to rotate along the alignment, which is what I like to do, and to rotate the north there. Or you can do it flat up like that.

And then you also do-- I like to set my first view frame a little bit before my alignment because a lot of times, sometimes, there is activity outside of the beginning of that. And we'll just set it to 20 feet. View frame group in Prospector-- I'm not going to get out of the Wizard now, but I'll show you in Prospector.

Down at the bottom, there's a view frame groups. So just like any of the other things in Civil 3D, you're going to create a view frame group under there called Plan View where all these view frames are going to be listed. We'll just leave it Plan View like it is or plans.

Make it-- and here we go-- description. I'm going to skip it but give it a description. These are the plan views requested by the project manager. Name counters-- what do you want to name these view frame-- they're just names.

You could leave it just like this, but let's look at what it is. So let's just say I really wanted to call it viewframe dash, and then I'm going to insert. I have options here. I can do stations.

I'm just going to insert the next counter, which is a number, which is 1. So my view frames are going to be enabled. I think there was five or six of them-- view frame 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. View frame style-- styles in Civil 3D.

I've got one made called view frame no plot. So basically, it's going to create a frame, which-- and I'm sure I've done this. I've been using Civil for a long time in AutoCAD where we go in.

And I know some of you have done this, and you draw the 1 inch equals 40 box in your title block, and then you copied it to get it right. That's what this actually automates for you. And the alignment, label style-- so this is the label style, the alignment.

And then the location I'm actually going to put in the middle center and create the view frames. See how quick that was? And like I said, let's go into prospectors, and I'll show you where the group shows up. So all of a sudden, I have a plus mark here.

There's plans, view frames. I didn't go over match lines yet, but I'll show you because I left them blank for now. But you see how they're 1, 2, 3, 4, and 4.

This is where the plan becomes very important because this is where you got to go to the project manager and say, OK, is this really what you want? You can move these with these grips.

Move them around and get them the way you want if that's not the way it is. Once you start creating your sheets and going, there's no return back and redo it. You have to just redo the view frames again.

So you see my match line style. We're going to talk about this on the next sheet. So now the only thing we need to do is create some sheets. We've got our alignment, our view frame. We've got our template.

Let's create the sheets. In the Output tab of the ribbon-- remember, we go View Frames, Create Sheets, Create Sheets. The view frame group is Plants.

That's the group we have. We don't have more than one. If you had a bunch of different groups or bunch of different alignments, they'd be listed there.

I do want them all. And I want to put all the layouts-- you know, Autodesk seems to like the fact of saving this to six separate drawings. I don't see the benefit in that because this is one job, one topo, one surface all in the same-- the properties are the same.

So we're going to keep them in the current drawing and then the layout name. So we're going to go to the name template again, remember? And I use the national CAD standards for C for Civil. So we're going to do C-110 and then insert next counter.

So it'll go C-101, 102, 103, 104. Hit OK. North arrow-- that's my north arrow.

Remember the block name. You can have a couple different-- if you have a different north arrow, that's fine. Sheet set-- do we want a new sheet set, or do we want to actually put this in the one we made?

I can simply put it in a blank sheet set. [INAUDIBLE] title box not going to-- you'll just have to edit all the data in your title block old school way. I mean, maybe-- a lot of people still do it that way. So we're going to do it to add it to the existing sheet set that we created under Plan Only and hit Open.

This section here is actually for if you created a new sheet set. It will actually create the files. Create the sheets.

The drawing is going to be saved, and it's going to clone these sheets into your drawing. And the Sheet Set Manager is going to get populated. I'm going to hit OK. And then we're going to watch the Sheet Set Manager come up on the left here.

The Warning tab comes up and gives me a few-- sheets were created, seven drawings, and the layout. See how that worked? I've got a subset.

I've got my plan and profile. So let's check it out. C-101-- that's the beauty of the Sheet Set Manager. This is all populated.

We're going to go over the match line styles too. So how quick was that? We did that in-- that was 10 minutes, not even-- without my intro.

So those are plan sheets. So your plan sheets are created-- like I said, we'll talk about that-- in a sheet set ready to go for plan and production. I typically don't like-- and we'll go over this when we do the plant and profile-- the wipeout as white.

That bugs me because I can't see anything underneath it even though the mask will stay up in the Layout tab. So I'm going to close out of here. And that takes care of the plans.

Now if you were to do a new sheet set, the only thing that's going to be different is you're going to do-- none of this will work. If you did that template in the beginning and you populated your data and connected it, you'll be fine. So I'm going to get out of here, and we're going to do a plan over profile. So this changes things a little bit.

So here we go, same drawing. Alignment, two surfaces, final grade and an existing grade. And the only thing I did-- I made this drawing. It's hard to find drawings to use for presentations and things, so I just made it up.

I created the surface off the existing topography, and I bumped it up. I copied it and raised it two feet to give me a final grade. That's all I did. I

Just wanted something here I could show you the two different lines. So if I touch it, you'll see up here in my-- it's a profile for existing grade. And then the green line, the solid line, would be a profile for the final grade.

So now same process, same process-- we're going to go again. It might seem kind of redundant, but there's a few different things with the plan and the profile one. We're going to go back to the Create the View Frames. State Street is the alignment again.

We're going to leave it automatic. All right, so we got plan and profile. Make sure this is select-- plan on top, profile on bottom, 60 scale. It's exactly what we want.

Along the alignment, we're going to keep it at 10 feet. View frame group again. View frame, next counter for one, no plot, the alignment-- let's do middle center, hit Next.

I want to talk about match lines now. So it's going to insert the match lines. We can snap to the value.

We can allow [INAUDIBLE] for repositioning. And then we have these styles. So basically, I put three of them in there. There's one called the wipeout, which is the 255 color.

255, 255, 255-- I'm a big fan of-- all of my pan tables at work are black and white. Engineering drawings are black and white. I believe they are.

But we do have color every now and then. So we use true colors. So you always get a true color even though whatever pen table you use.

So there is a wipeout. And then let's change it to the shade just so you can see it a little bit. And this is just like a shaded pattern. And then you can have an actual-- you can have an actual one like a hatch. So you can see what's underneath it, like any of the topo beyond the match line.

Label style-- these are just [INAUDIBLE] Civil 3D label styles. So it's just like any other style in Civil 3D. You go in there.

You create it, give it a name, match line on the left of the view, which will have the text masked out, and give it a description. Middle, middle, next-- OK. Profile views-- you notice I created a profile in that drawing.

I created a profile and a profile view. Even though I'm not going to use that giant profile, I wanted to set the style to how I wanted it to look. That's why they're there, and that's what these two are.

The band set-- this is important for the profile. If anybody's done this before, you're going to come up to me and say, Sam, my profile is way over here or way over there or it cuts off at the bottom. There's a lot on the internet and stuff-- on the internet. There's a lot out there on the knowledge network about creating an empty band set. And that's what this does.

If you go into this style, if you sort of create this little distancing to kind of center your profile-- I'm going to hit OK and create the view frames. So I've got 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 view frames. Same as before-- now we need to click create our sheets. I got my view frames over here in my group, plan and profile.

I've got my match lines. And these will be all populated in this drawing. And you can actually change-- just like anything in Civil 3D, we can actually go into the properties and change them individually as well. So once you're in there, once you get it in there, the whole upfront planning part of it is more for the scale purposes. So let's create our sheets.

Plan and profile, view frame range, all layouts in the current drawing-- this is the 200 series. So say I was using the same sheet set. This is my 200 series.

I'm going to go to-- my profiles are all going to be in the 200 series. I'm going to type C-20, starting at number 1, insert the next counter. hit OK. I want the north arrow in there.

Sheet set-- I'm actually going to put this in our sheet set for plan and profile. Hit Open. Again, this is if I did a new one. Profile views-- this is important. I could just accept, that right? And Civil 3D is going to work?

Not all the time, and we all know that. So what I'd like to do is actually check what Civil said to do. So I'm going to go into the Wizard, a Wizard within a Wizard.

So I'm actually going to-- you see how the split is check? I'm going to uncheck that. I'm going to go to the display.

I'm just going to check and see what's going on in here. Do I really want all this stuff? I don't want labels. For this exercise, I don't want that.

I've got EG and FG. Everything looks good there. I do have a sanitary-- a pressure network in there.

I'm going to check it. Data bands-- remember, we talked about those, the bands on the bottom, and the profile hatch. And this is pretty cool.

A lot of people use it. It works. I have a final grade, an existing grade. All I would need to do is define a hatch pattern between the two. And Civil will do it. Regardless of whether your surface changes, it will change with it.

Next-- and here's the plot options. I love these Wizards because you notice when I check these, I can-- the arrow tells me exactly what's going on. I'm just going to keep it in here by rolls and hit Finish. And I'm back out to my regular wizard.

OK, align the profile in plan view at the start, at the center. Again, watch the Wizard. Start, center, end-- I'm going to go with the start. I'm going to create the sheets.

This time, Civil 3D is going to say, Sam, where do you want to put these? You created a bunch of more profiles. We're going to put them somewhere.

I'm going to select right there. It's going to clone them into the drawing, place my views in the drawing, create a sheet set. And then they're right there. So same thing, 200 series.

And see how I told you about the gray for this? I wanted you to see the north arrow. And here's my final grade. You see my profile looks pretty good.

So I created print and profile sheets that quickly. And you'll see my properties and my sheet sets, since I use that one, is all retained within there. Man, you know, the excitement-- that's cool, isn't it?

OK, sections are even cooler. All right, so basically, it looks pretty easy. It really is.

But you have to plan. If you make any-- we can make your template, get approval from your CAD manager, make your template, design it from the title block, and get it set up and then run through these. Run through these.

With the profile one, you're actually going to have to fool around with that band set a little bit sometimes. And one thing I didn't tell you there was set your scale of your model space before you start doing all this. It's in the handout.

That's important. So the 60 scale, make sure you set that to 60 because it'll throw things off if you have it 1 to 1 or 1 to 100 when you start going through this.

All right, so let's create some sections. Same site-- same site, existing grade, final grade-- project manager comes up to you and says, Sam, I want sections cut on this alignment every 100 feet. How can you do that with plan and production?

All right, I'm not going to use the Output tab. I'm going to the Home tab. There's a couple-- like I said, a couple prerequisites for sections. We've got a sample alignment.

We've got to sample the line to understand where that cut will be. So that's the first thing we're going to do, and then we're going to create a multiple view. So I'm going to hit Sample Lines. It says Select an Alignment.

I always like to hit Return because if I have five or six alignments in there, if I just hit Return, I can pick from there instead of trying to weed through the alignment. I'm going to hit OK. And you're going to see-- I'm going to zoom in a little bit so you can see. You're going to see the sample line come up and the Wizard come up. And it's going to say, where do you want to sample these lines at?

And I could simply place them along this alignment if that's what the project manager wanted me to. But I don't. I want to do it by a range of stations.

So I'm going to come over here and hit this button. I'm going to pull this down so you can see it. Create sample lines by station range-- from the alignment start, yep, to the end. Let's make that true. Snap to the alignment-- no, I'm just going to do it every 100 with the swath width, the right and the left swath width, the distance from the offset from the alignment.

Increments, true. Station range, 200, 200-- we're going to leave all that. OK. I'm going to hit OK.

And you'll see my sample lines were created. I'm going to hit Escape to get out of the command. Now what is missing on this, and I left this out on purpose, is there's no definition for them.

I left it out to show you [INAUDIBLE] sample line group. So I'm going to select it. Contextual ribbon is going to come up on there.

And I'm going to go to Edit Sample Line-- or group properties, I'm sorry. So we've got the sample group properties. And I want to edit the group labels.

Because you never know. Someone might want to see the station range or some different things on there. But what we want to see is we've got these. So we can do basic, section mark, section name.

We'll do section name and mark. We're going to add it, apply it, hit OK. And you're going to see over here in Civil that I now have my station and the marker there showing the direction of where it is.

All right, step one, one more prerequisite-- we can't create the sheets yet because we haven't created the sample lined-- the view part. So we're still in the Home tab of the ribbon. We have to create multiple views. Again, State Street-- my sample line group is cross section.

That's what I named it. And then we're going to-- user specified. I could do automatic or user. That's pretty much the same thing. And the section view name-- just like the view group, it's just something that's going to go into Prospector.

Under tool space is where you can look at it. So we're just going to leave that the way it is. The layer defaults to the Civil 3D layer style and then the section.

This is where I actually went in and created-- just like your profile views, I created a section, got it to the way I want-- the style. Went through the properties of the styles, said I wanted this. I want the grid clipped-- you know, clipped to the highest.

I want all these parameters done. And I put it into here. And I can select it. Now you can select different ones too.

Next, production-- so you can do-- this one's a little different because you can do a draft on the sections. You can just throw it in there in a draft, and they're not going to create a sheet set. If you just want to look at them, just test it out, this one will do that. Same thing-- we're going to go to the 30 scale on the sections. Remember to select your template.

We're going to do for production. We want to produce these. The group plot style name-- another Wizard. This one is really cool too because watch when I select this area. The arrow actually shows me exactly what I'm doing.

So you can kind of go through there. I created this one just for these. But when I select it, you can see the arrow highlights it. OK, I don't have my wind pointer thing or I'd circle it for you guys and zoom in. So I'm going to hit Next.

You've got the offset range, 100 to 100 offset from the center. Elevation range, we're going to automatic, just keep it automatic. Display options-- I have a mistake in here.

I did that on purpose. It's always good to go back and check your work. So that's existing grade, final grade, and the storm sewer.

The rest of it looks pretty good. Next is the data bands, offsets only. We're going to leave it at that.

Create section views-- it's going to come out [INAUDIBLE] says, Sam, where do you want to put all these views? Now this is when I got super excited when I did this at work because it's really cool. So I'm going to select here.

And Civil is going to come back and create all of these section views. You need to do the multiple views. Now if you look at this, this area right in here is my title block.

This is the boundary of that ANSI D layout in paper space. This boundary in here is that viewport that you told Civil 3D, it's my sections. That's that viewport. And then you've got all these views inside your drawing.

What's the next step? Well, we got to create the sheets. Now we go back to the Output tab on the ribbon, and we go create section sheets. You see, now, I've got some things populated.

The section view group, if you guys-- I'm going to go back out here just to show you because under Sites, under AU, under Alignments, under this, under State Street-- I know. I know.

Isn't it crazy? This is where it's buried under here, the group name. So it's buried. But it's just a name, so like, something just to be logical to help you with your project while you're planning it out.

So get out of there. And we were at create the section sheets. Pretty much the same as what we did before except we've got our alignment, our one alignment. Our sample line group was the samples we created by the range of stations. And our section review is one.

What do we want to name the layouts? Well, this is-- we'll do something different. We'll just call it S-30. And then we'll do 1, insert the next counter.

Hit OK. I'm going to do another existing sheet. I'm going to keep adding to my new sheet sets because I believe the sheet set is one of-- sheet sets are one of the most productive things that has ever happened with AutoCAD or Civil 3D. I can't tell you how much it's saved my team and what we do.

And I got to stop talking because I'll pick the wrong file. OK, so we're going to add it to that existing sheet set, and we're going to create our sheets. And this is when the project manager, Lisa, over there is waiting for these drawings.

And you hit Create Sheets and hit this. And this is when you're going, oh, please work, please work, please work because you've got a lot going on in there. So watch it spin. It's going to take a little bit of time.

This is a different process than the other two. But I'm fairly confident it's going to come up there in a sheet set and all the views with the S views on the side. So you see that?

So we've got the sheet sets in there. Here's our group. We can rename these things. These are subsets.

So I'm going to go click in these. And I'll tell you, I'm going to be honest with you. When I do production work and stuff like this works, it makes work fun because that is very efficient.

And you can go in and change your-- you see my group style in here? I clipped it at the grid. But I sampled that entire road in, what, 10 minutes, the entire road.

So let's go back and take a look at-- I was going to show you the match line style, but we're going to leave it at that. But let's take a look at how this all ties together in a sheet set.

Any questions now that we're at a good question part? OK, well, you can come up to the mic. Or I'll just repeat it.

AUDIENCE: [INAUDIBLE] loud.

SAM LUCIDO: Oh, you're loud like me?

AUDIENCE: [INAUDIBLE]

SAM LUCIDO: Yep, let's do it. I'm running pretty good on time, so I don't mind going back. Plan and profile, 60 scale. Now we could have-- so here's my first C-201.

Here's my mask in here. I'm actually going to close out of my Sheet Set Manager because I don't have enough space up here. So we're going to go to Match Lines. And we're at station 14. Right click Properties.

The only thing you have to do is create a style. So say we do basic. I'm going to go to Display. I'm going to turn it off, hit OK. It goes away.

It's a style. I took the line off too, but I didn't take the label. But it's just a--

AUDIENCE: [INAUDIBLE]

SAM LUCIDO: Correct. I should've left the line on, right? Like this? A lot of times, what I'll do-- that's a good question. The question was, you know, how do you turn off the-- what if you don't want it shaded or mask behind it?

We don't. I created this one called Hatch. But it was-- I think it was ANSI 31, but the scales got to be changed because it was too small. So we'll change it to 40.

Hit OK. Hit OK. Do Properties.

Make sure they're both on. See, it didn't show up because of the scale. We'll change it to 1.

I'll have to check the scale on that, but there was a hatch one in there. And I'll upload the data set. And you can do that. But basically, we did was we had a hatch pattern of ANSI 31, and we made it a real thin pen weight.

So it kind of showed you that your focus was between the two match lines. But beyond the match lines was that. But you can still see the data underneath it.

AUDIENCE: [INAUDIBLE]

SAM LUCIDO: No.

AUDIENCE: [INAUDIBLE]

SAM LUCIDO: That's a good question, though. I mean, I was actually-- because what I tried to do, when I did the gray one, the original one here, if we go back over here-- I'm going to control-4M to bring up my Sheet Set Manager. I was actually hoping I could send that to the back, you know what I mean, and then have everything kind of come through and have like a light gray.