Define and apply label and callout blocks for a project

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Autocad sheet set manager, not only acts as a built in drawing management system,

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but it can also help you keep your project's annotations per your standards.

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It does this by linking label and call out blocks to named views

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to get started.

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We'll need to add these blocks to the sheet set,

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right? Click on the top level sheet set object and select properties.

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The sheet set properties, dialogue will be displayed

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in the sheet set section.

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Click on the field next to label block for views.

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A small navigation icon will appear to the right of the field,

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click it and navigate to the drawing file named

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label block that was supplied in your downloaded dataset.

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Click open

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then click OK. In the select block dialogue to save the block to the sheet set.

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Let's add our call out blocks. Now

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access the navigation box the same way you did for the label block.

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The dialogue is different though as you can add

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multiple call out blocks to your sheet set,

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click on add and navigate to the supply drawing file named call out block up,

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select it then click open to dismiss the file selection dialogue.

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Then click on. OK, to dismiss the select block dialogue,

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repeat the process to add the file named, call out block down.

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You should now see both blocks listed in the dialogue.

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Click OK? To add them to the sheet set

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and click, OK. Again to close the sheet set properties dialogue.