Automating Plan and Profile Sheet creation
Once we’ve gone ahead and created all plan-only Layouts and Sheets to be included in our construction drawing set, we can take the next step in automating the generation of our Plan and Profile Sheets. To automate the creation of these types of sheets, we’ll want to take a slightly different approach.
To get started, let’s go ahead and open up our Utility Model.dwg
file located in Practical Autodesk Civil 3D 2023\
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\Model
. The reason we’re starting with this Utility Model.dwg
file instead of creating a new file to begin our Plan and Profile sheet creation is due to the fact that Civil 3D’s Plan Production Tools require a file that contains all anticipated modeled geometry that we’d like to include in our Plan and Profile sheets to be present in the current drawing.
Additionally, the automatic sheet creation process in using the Plan Production tools will automatically create a new drawing...