Link templates together

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Hello and welcome to Using the Sheet Set Manager in Civil 3D.

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My name is Sam Lucido, Civil Designer, CAD Manager, @ CADproTips.

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In this lesson, we are going to connect and save your project templates.

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The templates we created in the previous section will now be saved to a default location where you can use those each and every time on your projects.

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We are now at the connect and save your project templates in our workflow.

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We will now flip over to Civil 3D and complete this course.

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We are now going to connect the templates and then save our project templates.

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We have started Civil 3D.

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We're going to open our sheet set in our Project 3 folder.

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Templates, Project 001.

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And you'll see. Well, we're going to click on "C100" and open up our template file.

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So, the first thing we're going to do is we're going to enter the attribute values corresponding to the sheet set values.

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Type AT at the command prompt, and we're going to highlight client name 1, right click,

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insert field, current sheet set custom, client name 1 and select "OK".

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Select OK, and you can see the value changed.

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We're going to complete this for client name 2 and client name 3.

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We have entered the client name.

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Now we're going to enter the project name.

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Attribute editor, drag that insert field, current sheet set custom, project address, line 1, select "OK".

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And you can see that changed.

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We will now enter the values for project name 2 and project name 3.

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Our project name has been entered and our client name has been entered,

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so now we're going to enter the project number, the date, the drawing scale, and the sheet title.

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Attribute editor, project numbers first, drag insert field, select current sheet project number, select "OK".

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Date, insert field, project milestone, select "OK".

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Drawing scale, remember this is custom, insert field, current sheet set custom, drawing scale, and you'll see the shown will come up.

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And lastly is the sheet name, insert field, this is the current sheet title.

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C100, select "OK", select "OK".

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And you can see all of this data has now been populated by the fields.

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If I right click to test this out and change one of the values to my sheet set, you will see, if I regenerate, that value will change.

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We're now at the point where these two files have built a relationship, shared common data, now they need to separate from each other.

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Right click your sheet, remove sheet.

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We need to remove this from the sheet set, then we are going to save this as a DWT file.

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First, we'll save it as a drawing file.

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And now we'll do a file, save as drawing template.

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Civil is going to take us out to the folder where we actually need to save that file, and save it as Project 001.dwt.

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We now have to copy the DST file, which if you right click your file tab,

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you open your file location, you can see we need to copy this to our template folder.

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So, we're going to right click, and we're going to select "Copy",

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and then we're going to actually right click on the command area and choose "Options".

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We need to copy that file over to template settings, sheet set template location.

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I'm going to spread this out.

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Touch that, and you need to copy this path, open windows explore, and copy that file into that location.

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Both templates have been copied and save.

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We are now in the Civil 3D environment to start our new project.

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Application menu, new, sheet set, example sheet set, Project 001, that's our project.

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Let's just call it Test for right now.

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We'll save it into the project folder and finish.

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Now what we need to do is file, new, drawing template, Project 001, select "Open", and you can see there is our field data.

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And the only thing we need to do now is save our drawing into the folder where our DST file is located, and we'll call this C200.

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I'm going to right click, and I'm going to import layout as sheet, import checked.

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You'll see our drawing goes right up in here.

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I'm going to rename and renumber.

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And just to illustrate that it actually worked, watch the C100 change, ID regen to C200.

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This is the beginning of setting up your templates for sheet sets.

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There are many other applications, including plan production tools, that you can use the same concept for using the sheet set manager in Civil 3D.