Setting up and managing sheets

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Sheets are a vital way of

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communicating design data between different disciplines.

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In this module,

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you understand how sheets are created and how

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to organize the project browser in larger projects.

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You also work with sheet duplication tools to expedite the creation of new sheets.

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The objective domains covered are 4.1 a understand browser organization

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and 4.1 F set up. A sheet

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sheets are a critical part of your design and inform the contractor what to build.

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They also form the contractual documents

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and outline the legal obligation between the employer and the contractor.

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The sheets in rivet are families which can be

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created in various sizes with customized graphics and information.

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Larger projects will require organization and management

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of sheets to maintain quality and efficiency.

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Rev it has sheet collections and browser organization which can be

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utilized to organize views and sheets into logical groups and folders.

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Go ahead and open up the model 032, setting up and managing sheets.

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The project opens in the 3d view.

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Our first task is to create a new sheet

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and then place a material take off onto that sheet

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to do this. We'll select the view tab

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and in the sheet composition panel, we'll select sheet

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in the new sheet dialogue box.

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Currently, we have two sheets loaded into our active project.

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The one we're going to use here is B 11 by 17.

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We'll go ahead and select, OK.

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Looking at the information on the sheet,

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we can clearly see here that the view is unnamed

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and the sheet number is set to S 016

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in the properties pallet.

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We can see that we have a sheet name parameter and currently here it's unnamed.

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Let's enter in material. Take off,

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taking our cursor back into the sheet view.

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We can then see material takeoff has been attributed correctly to the sheet.

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We'll now place the material take off schedule onto the sheet

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to help us find this in the project browser.

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You'll notice here that we have a search bar

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in the search bar. We'll enter the term material as I type in the word material.

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You can see that the project browser is then filtered and searched on this term

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looking under the schedules and quantities node I can now

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clearly see that we have our material take off.

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We'll then drag and drop this on to the sheet

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and we'll left click to position this where we want it.

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We then cleared a search from the project browser

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looking back into the project browser.

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If we study our structural plans,

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we can see here that the project browser displays a blue

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square indicating that the model view is placed onto a sheet.

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Looking at the sheets below,

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we can easily identify that the sheets with views have a plus indicator

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which is indicating that we can then collapse or expand these nodes.

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So for example, if I expand the north and south

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ation here, I can then see the two model views placed onto the sheet,

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looking at the sheet S 012,

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I can clearly see that there are no model views placed onto this sheet.

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So let's double click it to open the sheet up and

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we'll now place our second floor model view onto this sheet.

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So we'll scroll back to the top of the project browser

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and under the structural plans,

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we can clearly see here that we have a corresponding model view.

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We'll notice that the icon isn't currently blue,

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which is indicating that this isn't placed on the sheet

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to place this, we'll drag and drop the second floor plan on to the sheet

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and we'll left click to position this where we want.

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We can also now see that we have the full floor

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plan which again is not currently placed onto a sheet.

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Now,

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this will have a very similar title block and configuration to our 02 2nd floor plan.

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So rather than going through the process of creating a new sheet and then

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manually trying to place the view in the same place on the drawing sheet,

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we can simply duplicate the sheet.

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So scrolling back down to the project browser here,

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we can see our new sheet that we've just created 012,

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we'll write mouse click over this

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and in the context menu, we'll go to duplicate sheet.

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We can then see that we have some options here.

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So we can either just duplicate an empty sheet,

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we can duplicate the sheets with some detailing so that

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will copy things like text and annotations and so on

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or we can duplicate with model views.

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Now, of course,

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when we duplicate with model views rev it would also need to duplicate

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that model view because you can't have one view on multiple sheets.

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So here we'll just go ahead and say duplicates

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looking into the project browser again,

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we can now see that we have a copy of our S 012 sheet.

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So of course, the drawing number has been appended and of course,

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the sheet name is the same.

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Let's now amend these.

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So back into the properties pant, we'll change the sheet number to S 013

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and the sheet name will become 04 4th floor G A.

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Moving back into the sheet view here,

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we can now see that the sheet information has updated.

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Now, of course,

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the problem here is we've still got the second

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floor plan placed out on the fourth floor sheet.

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So we'll select the Viewport and then looking up onto the modify viewport tab.

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You can see here that we can control the justification of the viewport

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and also the model view.

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So of course, here we can simply swap this for the 044 floor plan

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as we do this. We'll notice that the positioning is identical to the second floor.

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We can also use guide grids to help us understand positioning on drawing sheets

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to do this on the view tab in the sheet composition panel, we can select guide grid

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in the assigned guide grid dialogue. We can give this a name.

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So I'm just going to leave this as guide grid one and select, OK.

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You'll then notice that the guide grid is placed on to the sheet.

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If we move to the edge of the guide grid and select it,

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we can see that we can change the guide spacing.

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Currently, it's set to one inch.

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We'll go ahead and change this to six inches

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and now we could use the guide grid to position

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other views such as schedules and legends and so on

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to ensure that we get the same positioning on all the sheets.

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We can go to another sheet. For example, this sheet here s 012.

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We can go back to the guide grids to

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and again place out the same guide grid.

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It's also worth noting that guide grids do not print

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next. We'll create a sheet collection for the steel work contractor

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to do this in the project browser. We'll write mouse over the sheets node.

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And from the context menu, we'll choose new chic collection.

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The new collection has been created and it's currently named Collection one.

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We'll go into the properties pallet and we'll change

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the name from collection one to steel work contractor

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to help us find the views that we want to actually put into this new collection.

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Again, we'll go to the project browser search bar and we'll type in the term steel.

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This would of course fielder and search the project

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browser for anything that contains the word steel.

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But also I can see I've got a number of sheets containing that same term.

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So I'm now going to hold down a control key and select S 005.

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We'd also select S 0 14 and 0 15.

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Once again, looking into the property's paddocks,

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we could see that the sheet collection is currently set to none.

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However, we can now choose the steelwork contractor sheet collection

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and we can now see that those drawings have

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been added to our newly created sheet collection.

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Once again, we'll go ahead and clear the filter.

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Another way of organizing a project browser is to use browser organization.

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We'll do this for sheet types.

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So I'm going to select the sheet's node

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right mouse. And here we'll select browser organization

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in the browser organization dialog under sheets tab,

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we'll create a new browser organization

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for the name. We'll enter sheet type.

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We can then go ahead and select OK.

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In the browser organization properties,

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we'll begin by selecting grouping and sorting.

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And here we can set up various rules to help us group and sort the sheets.

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We'll begin by selecting sheet type

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and then we'd organize them by sheet number.

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Well, then select, OK.

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And we'll ensure that the sheet type. Browser organization is active

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and then we'll select. OK.

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So we can now see that our browser

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organization has been applied to our drawing sheets.

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We can see the sheet's note and underneath the sheet's note,

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we can now see our sheet collection as well as these custom folders.

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Let's open up the plans folder

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and perhaps we'll select one of the sheets here.

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So I'm going to open up S 001 and select the sheets

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looking into the properties pallet.

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We can see here that we have a parameter titled sheet type

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and you can see here it has a value entered for plans.

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This is how we can organize our sheets.

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Now, looking back into the project browser, I can clearly see here.

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There's a folder with three question marks.

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If I expand this and we have a look at what's inside here.

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We can see that we've got our two new sheets that we've just created.

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So sheet number 12 and 13 and also our material take off.

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Let's begin by selecting our second floor ga

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plan and looking back into the properties paddocks under sheet type parameter.

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We can see that there's currently no value here.

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Of course, we'll then go ahead and select plans and you'll see.

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Now that's moved out of the question mark folder into the plans folder.

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We'll do a similar thing for sheet number 13.

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So we'll select our sheet again in the properties paddock. We'll select planes

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and finally, here,

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we can see that we've got one more sheet under the question marks folder,

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which is our material take off.

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We'll create a new folder for this.

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So going back into our properties pants for the sheet type

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in here, we'll now create a new folder called Material takeoffs

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back into the project browser.

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We've got a new folder with that sheet entered inside.

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So sheet collections and browser organization are vital

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when trying to manage complex large projects.