Publish sheet set to PDF

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The Sheet Set Manager in Civil 3D allows you to organize, manage,

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and plot sheets to arrange your project information efficiently and effectively.

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Once you have created a sheet set, you can easily publish the sheet set to PDF.

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Begin with your sheet set created and the Sheet Set Manager open in Civil 3D.

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Right-click the sheet set to view the sharing and publishing options,

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which include eTransmit and the option to be used in this example, publish to PDF.

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Before selecting this option, the application needs to know where the CAD standards are stored.

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With the sheet set selected, in the Sheet Set Properties, expand the Support file location drop-down and click Browse.

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Navigate to the folder with the CAD standards, and then select the checkbox next to Support Files.

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Click Select.

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The application searches the folders for applicable files and indexes them.

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In the Sheet Set Manager, a message indicates the indexing was successful.

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Close the message and Save your drawing.

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Now you are ready to plot the sheets.

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Right-click the sheet set and select Publish to PDF.

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In the Publish Settings dialog, expand the Output format to plot the set as either a Single multi-page PDF file, as in this example,

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or a Separate PDF for each page.

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Change the name of the PDF, if needed, and set the location.

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By default, the PDF will be saved to the sheet set folder, but you can click the folder icon to change the location.

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You can also choose to version files with duplicate names,

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but since this is the first time publishing the sheet set, this option is not needed.

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Click Publish.

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Note that when you publish sheets in the cloud, all of the processing happens in the cloud,

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so it does not require bandwidth on your local machine.

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Once complete, you see a message in the Sheet Set Manager indicating that publishing succeeded, and the PDF was uploaded.

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Now, when you view your project in Autodesk Docs and open the Sheet Set folder, you see the published PDF.

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Click the PDF to open it, and in this case, you can see the Details, General Notes, and Cover Sheet all included in the single PDF.