Win better work from your plan and profile sheets

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PRESENTER: The quality of your plan, profile, and section

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sheets are more important than a business card

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when it comes to winning more work.

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Learn how to make your plan and profile sheets communicate

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the professional image you want and in a fraction of the time.

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So in Civil 3D, we're familiar with the Civil 3D

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Plan and Production tools.

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I take this in basically a four step process.

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So what we're going to do is we're

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going to look at configuring the viewports, how

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those viewports have to be configured to work for plan,

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for profile, and for plan and profile.

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We're then going to create some view

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frames as a first step in the planned production process.

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And then we're going to create the plan and profile

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sheets from those view frames that we have created.

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And you can also create section sheets

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if you cut your sample lines.

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Cut your cross sections, you can create your section sheets.

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This session, we're going to focus

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on just configuring the viewports, the view frames,

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and plan and profile sheets.

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So let's jump on over to Civil 3D

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and create and plan and profile sheets.

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So the first thing we're going to look at

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is our template files.

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I'm going to go to Open.

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Let's change this to DWT and let's look at the plan

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and production tools.

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So here, we have different templates.

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We have Plan and Profile, Plan only, Plan and Plan,

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Profile only, and Profile Over Profile,

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as well as Section for both imperial and metric.

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Let's take a look at the Plan and Profile

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just to see how it's set up.

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So I'm going to open that.

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And it's very simple.

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You probably all have your title blocks already set up.

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You have your viewports in there.

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The only thing you need to do is if you select your viewport

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here and look at the properties, all

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we need to do is assign it a viewport type.

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Is that undefined?

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Is it a plan?

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Is it a profile?

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Or is it a section?

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And you can see here along the bottom,

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we have our different scales.

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So we have 20 scale,

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You can make these, love my 17, 24 by 36,

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whichever size you want.

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And really the only important thing here to look for is

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is that set up for a profile and is this set up for a plan?

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It's very simple.

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So let's jump on over to our file

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and create the view frames.

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So we want to do this for this main road,

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so we can select that road here.

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That's the road we want to create

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the view frames and the plan and profile sheets for.

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I'm going to go to the output tab,

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and you can see here on the far left on the Plan and Production

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panel, we have create view frames.

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I'm going to go ahead and select that.

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Here, we can choose the alignment.

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I'm just going to choose that from the list.

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Station range, we can do automatic so beginning to end.

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Or we can specify a certain portion of it.

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I'm going to leave it on automatic and select Next.

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Here, we have a few different options.

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We can do our plan and profile, our plan only, and our profile

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only.

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I'm going to go ahead here--

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right now, we have the 40 scale set.

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I'm going to change that to 20 scale.

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So I'm going to choose the little ellipses here,

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and we can map that to our template.

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So right now, it's looking for that Civil 3D Plan and Profile

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template.

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I'm going to use arch D 20 scale and hit OK.

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Here, View Frame Placement, we have along the alignment,

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rotate north, and then set the view frame

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before the start of the alignment.

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I'm going to choose Along The Alignment,

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rotate north makes everything north up.

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Doesn't look good.

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We'll choose along alignment and it'll set that first view frame

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And I'm going to select Next.

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View frame group, it's going to create a new view frame group.

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We're going to just leave that Default. Same styles,

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label styles.

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Label location, I'm going to do that top center.

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That's going to label our view frame number itself.

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I'm going to select Next.

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Most of this should default how you

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want to based on your template.

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Here, we got snap station value down to the nearest.

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I'm going to say 25 and allow additional distance for overlap

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here.

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I'm going to leave that unchecked.

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And then we also have Match Line.

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So we have our match line labels and our match line styles here.

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So far left, far right.

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Going to leave the default and select Next.

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Profile views, which profile view style

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do you want to choose and what band style

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do you want to choose?

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Leave those.

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Once you're happy with your settings,

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go ahead select Create View Frames.

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And you can see there on the screen,

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we have 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 different sheets that this is going

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to create plan and profile for.

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And so we can look at these view frames.

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If we wanted to adjust these, they do have grips,

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they do have rotation.

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So if I wanted to rotate that a little bit, maybe it

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didn't get exactly what I wanted,

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I can rotate that prior to creating the sheets.

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And I can also slide that and snap that along the alignment,

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again, prior to creating the sheet.

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We have our match lines here.

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You see we can adjust our match lines as necessary.

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So very simple step.

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First step was create the view frames.

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Next, what we're going to do is we're

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going to choose Create Sheets.

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So again, up here on the Plan and Production panel,

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I'm going to select Create Sheets.

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And the first portion of this wizard

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is going to be the view frame layout, so we're going

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to have our view frame group.

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The range we can select all of them or just a few of them.

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We're going to leave it on all.

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Layout creation, this is where we want to look at this.

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We want number of layouts per new drawing.

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So if this is set to 1, we're going

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to have 1 new DWG per sheet.

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So we're going to end up with 5 separate DWG files.

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We have the option to do all the layouts

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in a new drawing or the option to do all the layouts

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in our current drawing.

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So you can choose which one you want to do.

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In our case, we're going to do all the layouts

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in the current drawing.

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We're going to use this last option here.

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I'm going to select like that.

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I'm going to hit Next, sheet set.

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This is going to automatically create a new sheet set

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or we can add it to an existing one.

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I'm going to just leave that on new sheet set.

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I'm going to to select Next.

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Profile views, it's just going to say

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what profile style or existing profile of view

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do you want to use.

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We're just going to leave that one there

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that we have in the sheet.

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And then how do we want to align our views?

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We want to align it at the start, at the center,

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at the end.

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I'm going to align at the start.

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At this point, we're going to create sheets,

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and it's going to give us five new layout tabs,

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and it's going to have our plan and profile

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sheets already created.

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It's going to ask us where we want our profile view origin.

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So I'm going to set it here to the side of the main profile.

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It's going to create those.

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It's going to create the new views

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and it's going to create the sheets.

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If I come down here to sheet 1, you

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can see I now have my plan and profile sheet created.

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Got it on my title block and if I go to sheet 2, 3, 4.

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So you can see how easy it is to first start with your template

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and make sure your template's set up correctly.

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We had our alignment.

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We created view frame groups and within just a few buttons,

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we have plan and profile sheets created.