AutoCAD Essentials: Creating Sheet Sets

By Jaiprakash Pandey
AutoCAD sheet sets are a great way of managing layouts of a project in an intelligent way. This course teaches you all the basics of Sheet set including the methods of making callout and label blocks, templates, and layouts from model space drawings. Software required: AutoCAD 2017.
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Course info
Level
Intermediate
Updated
Mar 6, 2017
Duration
1h 58m
Table of contents
Course Overview
Course Overview 1m
Introduction, Templates, and Title Block
Introduction to the Course 4m Understanding a Sheet Set 11m Creating Layout Template 4m Adding Fields to Title Block 4m Updating Template 3m Creating Template Override 4m
Label and Callout blocks
Making Label Blocks 8m Making Callout Block Geometry 4m Adding Attributes to Callout Block 3m Adding Dynamic Features to Callout Block 9m Making North Direction Block 4m
Making Sheet Files and Views
Create simple Sheet Set from Layouts 6m Creating Sheet Template 6m Adding Views to Model Drawings 5m Creating Layout for Elevation 8m Adding Sheets with Sheet Views 3m Adding Callout Blocks 9m Testing the Sheet Set 6m
Exporting and Plotting Sheet Set
Creating Sheet List Table 7m Publishing Sheet Set as PDF 7m eTransmit Sheet Set 4m
Description
Course info
Level
Intermediate
Updated
Mar 6, 2017
Duration
1h 58m
Description

AutoCAD sheet set is one of the best drawing management tools available within AutoCAD software. In this course, AutoCAD essentials creating sheet sets course, you will learn to make a sheet set from scratch using model space drawings and how to create the template for layouts with title blocks and fields. You will also learn to make label and callout blocks for the layouts with dynamic block properties and intelligent attribute information. You will even learn to plot multiple layouts from the sheet set. By the end of this course, you will have a solid understanding of Sheet set and related tools that will help you greatly in managing your project files effortlessly. Software required: AutoCAD 2017.

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Jaiprakash Pandey
About the author

Jaiprakash is CAD Corporate trainer and designer currently working with the engineering design consulting company Ramboll. He is an Autodesk AutoCAD certified professional, Autodesk expert elite and Mechanical Engineer. He has written articles related to AutoCAD for many CAD blogs and websites and he occasionally writes for AUGI world magazine as well.

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Course Overview
My name is Jaiprakash. Welcome to my course, AutoCAD Essentials: Creating Sheet Sets. I'm a senior CAD analyst in an engineering design consulting company and I also write CAD articles for various magazines and online publications. Sheet set is a collection of layouts from drawing project files which help in organizing and managing drawing layouts. This course is about creating sheet sets from scratch using a set of models based drawings. This course is for users having a little bit of experience with AutoCAD. Some of the major topics that we will cover include basic structure of sheet set, creating layout template with title block, creating label and callout blocks with fields, building intelligence with fields and attributes in the sheet set, cross referencing views in layouts of the sheet set and plotting and archiving multiple layouts of the sheet set. By the end of this course, you will have a good understanding of sheet set and its tools. You will also be able to create a sheet set from scratch and plot multiple sheets from the sheet set palate. I hope you'll join on this journey to learn sheet set with the AutoCAD Essentials: Creating Sheet Sets course at Pluralsight.

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