In this article, we will talk about correct work in Sheets in AutoCAD. I will cover topics such as:

– how to make or create a sheet

- how to set the sheet format in AutoCAD

– how to set sheet options

- how to arrange the frame and the inscription on the sheet

– how to set the scale of a view in a sheet – how to plot a sheet in AutoCAD

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Always (I conjure stubborn “cynics” :)) you need to perform ALL drawings in AutoCAD on a scale of 1: 1, while in , texts and shading must be annotative.

Only then can we very easy to scale any of our drawings and views - just with the help of Sheets:

at the beginning ( see the picture below) in our any Sheet by default there is one Viewport - this is a rectangular “window” through which we can work with the same “Model” space in which all drawings were originally created in 1:1 scale.

Also in the beginning, being in an empty Sheet in AutoCAD we don't understand at all what format is it, size. And on it, alas, there are no frames, no table of the main inscription:

Therefore, we need to adjust the parameters of the Sheet under yourself. This is done in the following way.

We go to Sheet Options Manager. To do this, right-click on the tab of the desired Sheet, then select the “Sheet Settings Manager” item in the pop-up context menu.

In the pop-up window, select the sheet with the desired name in the left list, and click the “Edit” button on the right. See picture:

1. The plotter on which our sheet will be printed in the future. By the way, you can also choose a virtual plotter “DWG To PDF”, which will save our sheets into PDF images. A very good option for sending drawings to the customer in in electronic format. Well, it’s also good for us if, for example, we don’t have a plotter at home 🙂
2. Sheet format. There are usually in this list formats with the prefix “WITHOUT FIELDS”. I recommend using these.
3. What are we going to print. We leave “Sheet” here, because we will need to print our entire white sheet.
4. Select at the bottom right if needed. sheet orientation if the preview (in the middle of the window) shows the wrong orientation.
5. Press the OK button at the bottom of the window to save the changes.

Now let's talk about how to ask .

It is done like this.

1. Insert the frame and stamp first. This can be done very quickly using the SPDS module for AutoCAD.
2. We have about our viewport, selecting and moving it outside its frame
3. To set the scale of the drawing in the Viewport - activate it by double-clicking the left mouse button inside it
4. Set the scale by opening the list of scales (see the picture below)

By the way! After we have chosen the view scale, before we fix the viewport, we often need to move our drawing so that it is centered. To do this, simply by pressing and holding the mouse wheel, we move inside the view without zooming in and out. Nothing complicated 🙂

I also want to note that you can insert any number of Viewports into the AutoCAD Sheet, arrange them as you like and resize them by adjusting them with their bounding boxes.

After arranging the frame, the title block table, the views, setting the scales for the views, centering them, we can print the whole thing. More about this in a separate lesson 🙂

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Currently on the screen in the drafting area you see the layout of the layout of the printed sheet, which is represented by a white rectangle on a gray background. The drawing itself is in the center of the layout. As seen in fig. 13.5, it is bounded by the previously created rectangle, which should indicate the border of the printed sheet (so far this border and the layout border do not match, but we will fix this shortly). Around this rectangle there is another rectangle that marks the border of the so-called viewport.

The viewport is created automatically by AutoCAD when you create a layout. There can be multiple viewports on a layout sheet, but there is always at least one viewport. We can say that the viewport is something like a “window” on the layout sheet, with the help of which you can see “through” this sheet the drawing or its fragment located “below”.

Also pay attention to the sheet tabs, which are located in the lower left part of the drawing area. The current sheet is Sheet1. Click the Model and Sheet1 tabs to see what the differences are between the contents of the model sheet and the layout sheet, and then return to Sheet1 again.

As you remember, we placed all the design elements of the drawing directly on the model sheet. This, as noted above, is not the most convenient way to design drawings. Therefore, our task now is to remove the corresponding objects from the model sheet and place them on the layout sheet. It is clear that in this case you will have to constantly switch from one sheet to another. You already know the first way - it consists in clicking on the tab of the sheet you need.

However, AutoCAD provides another method for the user to make changes to the model without leaving the layout sheet. Pay attention to the icon in the form of a triangle, which is located in the lower left corner of the drawing area. It means that you are in the layout sheet content editing mode, in which all created objects will be placed on this sheet, and not on the model sheet. This mode is called paper space mode. You can also find out that it is enabled by looking at the status bar indicator buttons. The paper space mode is enabled when the indicator button SHEET is in the pressed state.

1. Move the crosshair pointer around the drawing area to make sure you can move it anywhere on the layout sheet.

2. Click on the indicator button SHEET. The button will remain pressed, but its name will change from SHEET on the MODEL. This means that you have switched to working in model space. Unlike jumping directly to the model sheet by clicking on the tab Model, when switching to the mode MODEL you are still on the layout sheet. However, in this mode, you are working with a model sheet that is "seeing through" the layout sheet viewport.

3. Try moving the pointer over the drawing area again. As you can easily see, now the pointer takes the form of a crosshair only when it enters the area of ​​the viewport on which the drawing is displayed (Fig. 13.6), and outside this area the pointer takes the form of a regular arrow. Also, when the pointer changes to a crosshair, its lines continue only to the extents of the viewport. In other words, when editing a layout in the MODEL you can only create and modify objects that are placed inside the viewport.

Rice. 13.6 Layout Sheet1 in mode MODEL

Advice. Switching to the model sheet using the Model tab when preparing a drawing for printing makes sense only if you are faced with the need to make significant changes to the drawing. In this case, the layout is not displayed, allowing you to use the entire drawing area to modify the drawing. In other cases, it is best, without leaving the layout sheet, to switch to the MODEL by clicking on the indicator button SHEET in the status bar.

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