Survey Fish Posted December 3, 2008 Share Posted December 3, 2008 Does anyone have any tips or advice to effectively 'cut up' a site plan for a final asbuilt (electrical on a industrial site) onto 11x17 layout? My current solution is to divide the drawing up in model space & create match lines to fit my viewport to & overlay a grid on each drawing; this looks all right but is very time consuming. Thanks in advanced to anyone with suggestions!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EMS_0525 Posted December 3, 2008 Share Posted December 3, 2008 Just do everything in the same place in model space, make sure they are on seperate layers, then just make multiple viewports and turn off what you dont want in certain VP's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rustysilo Posted December 3, 2008 Share Posted December 3, 2008 My first question would be how do you go about dividing the drawing up in model space & create match lines to fit my viewport to & overlay a grid on each drawing? Viewports should be all you need to separate the sheets. If you have areas that need to be cut out of the viewport (ie - you need wacky shaped viewports) just draw a closed polyline around the area you want and use viewport clip to shape the viewport based on said polyline. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Survey Fish Posted December 3, 2008 Author Share Posted December 3, 2008 I suppose that I could have phrased that differently. What I have done is from my 11x17 layout I have zoomed into an area to the point that I can clearly read my point labels etc...& drawn a rectangle in model space to that size, and divide the site up from there. Then within each "block" I overlay a grid so that the Northing/Easting's are displayed along the limits of each drawing. I hope that helps my initial explanation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EMS_0525 Posted December 3, 2008 Share Posted December 3, 2008 Why would you zoom in so much? drawing a grid probably would make most sense, what scale is your vp? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Survey Fish Posted December 3, 2008 Author Share Posted December 3, 2008 I have decided to use C size which the scale is @ 0.1868. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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