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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Level
Intermediate
Updated
Mar 6, 2017
Duration
1h 58m
Table of contents
Course Overview
Introduction, Templates, and Title Block
Label and Callout blocks
Making Sheet Files and Views
Exporting and Plotting Sheet Set
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.

About the author
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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Transcript

Hi everyone, my name is Jaiprakash, welcome to my course "AutoCAD essentials creating sheet sets". I am a senior CAD analyst in an engineering design consulting company and I also write CAD related articles for various magazines and online publications.

Sheets set is a collection of layouts from drawing project files which help in organizing and managing drawing layouts.

This course is about creating sheet set from scratch using a set of model space drawings. This course is for users having a little bit of experience with AutoCAD.

Some of the major topics that we will cover include:

  1. Basic structure of sheet set
  2. Creating layout template with title block
  3. Creating Label and callout blocks with fields
  4. Building intelligence with Fields and attributes in the sheet set
  5. Cross referencing views in layouts of the sheet set
  6. Plotting and archiving multiple layouts
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 sheet set from scratch and plot multiple sheets from the sheet set palette.

I hope you will join me on this journey to learn Sheet set with the AutoCAD essentials creating sheet sets course, at Pluralsight.

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