Create Sheet Set Manager templates

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Welcome to using the Sheet Set Manager in Civil 3D.

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My name is Sam Lucido, civil designer, CAD manager, @CADproTips.com.

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The Sheet Set Manager is one of your most fundamentally productive tools in Civil 3D.

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The ability to organize your sheets, populate data, and navigate through the project quickly and efficiently is the way to go.

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In this section, we are going to be talking about creating the sheet set and drawing templates.

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You need a sheet set template based off of the pre-populated templates from Autodesk and a drawing template, which is your title block.

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Then we will connect the two together to start populating the data for our design project.

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We are now at the create the sheet set and drawing templates in our workflow.

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We will now flip over to Civil 3D and get started.

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We are now in Civil 3D.

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There are several different ways to access the sheet set manager.

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You can simply type SSM at the command prompt to bring up the palette, which is shown right here.

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You can select new sheets set from this area.

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But we are going to actually come the application browser up here, and then hit "New", and then click on "Sheet Set".

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The wizard will take us through the sections of what we need to do.

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We are first going to do an example sheet set.

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Autodesk provides us with some options here that we can start with.

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We'll start with one of these sheet sets.

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We'll just pick civil imperial as an example, and it'll show you some of the details on there.

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We want to call this project 01 and give it a good description.

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My first design project using the Sheet Set Manager.

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Being a Civil 3D user is extremely important to describe what you're doing.

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This is going to be your template.

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So you might even want to include in there, template for civil work.

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And then, the location, where do you want to store this file?

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So we're going to hit the ellipses there, and we're going to go under our start button here and store right there.

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This is the folder where it'll actually be in there.

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And we'll hit "Next", and "Confirm" and hit "Finish".

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Now you can see the sheet set manager brought up your project here.

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If I right click and hit "Properties", you're going to see the properties of the data in there.

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And the actual DST file is located in the folder, where we selected upon doing that.

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Next, we are going to open up our title block leaving our sheet set manager up there and connect the two.

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We are now going to open up our company standard title block.

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Click on the application menu, and do open, and select the NCD template.

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This is just your company standard title block and you can see it has attributed values in here in the title block,

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and most of the time we just populate that data one sheet at a time.

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So, we're going to take this drawing and we're going to save it as a DWG file in our project folder.

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File, Save as just a drawing for now.

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And we're going to save it into the project folder right here and call it project 001.

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So now if I right click and open, you can see that the DST and DWG file are located in the same spot.

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They have a relationship, they need to be connected.

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The next thing we need to do is actually link these together.

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We are now going to link these two together, so they form a relationship.

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There's a couple of ways to do this.

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I can right click here and import layout as sheet, or I can click here and do import layout as sheet.

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So that's the NCD, we're just going to do it that way.

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It's going to come up and say that this is available for import.

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I'm going to import, checked.

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And you see right now, it's just underneath that subset.

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So, we're just going to rename that to 1 and then C100.

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The layout name, we'll name it as C100 as well.

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And we're going to click here because it'll rename the layout there.

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We do not want to prefix that with its title sheet.

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And if we're creating a new sheet, we'll do there, so we'll hit "OK".

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Now, we've got this underneath grading plans, which is probably where it shouldn't be but it is connected.

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Now what we're going to do is rename our subsets.

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We're going to call this one title sheet.

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We'll right click on "Delete this subset" and we'll create one called working.

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And what the working one, we're going to click here and do not include the sheet set.

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So, whatever your project is for your company standard, whatever you think or feel that these should be, you connect those together.

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These now have formed a bond, they have a relationship.

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And how we will show you to do this is we'll right click, and we're going to look at the properties.

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And we're going to change the project number to project 001 just to illustrate the link.

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We're going to come down to our title block.

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And we're going to go towards the project number, I'm going to right click, I'm going to insert field, and I'm going to do the current project number.

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"OK", and "OK".

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And you'll see right there, they have a relationship together.

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In the next module, we will populate the common data and create these folders,

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and create the two separate templates that can be used for our design project.