Sheet Set A sheet set is a group of drawings, or files, related to a project. Recently, Sheet Set management has been added to Autodesk software. This management allows the user to organize drawings in the form of sheets, package them together, and send them to clients and colleagues. Herein is a tutorial on creating a sheet set for a set of drawings found on the shared drive. Open the Sheet Set Manager Close any sheet sets that may be open If no drawing is open, start a new drawing based on the default template. (A drawing must be open to create a sheet set.) File—New Sheet Set

The sheet set wizard appears. Select An Example Sheet Set press Next In the Sheet Set Example dialog box, select the Manufacturing Imperial Sheet Set, press Next

In the Sheet Set Details box, type the name “Motor Assembly”, add a description if desired, and store the sheet set data file in your folder. Click on the Sheet Set Properties button. Set the Resource drawing location to your folder Make sure the Sheet storage location is your folder (\work) or the alpha shared folder. New files created for sheets will be saved there. In the Custom Properties area, assign a job name “MotorAssm” any job number and your initials as the owner OK and close the sheet set properties dialog. Press Next

The confirm page shows a preview of the subsets for sheets in the new sheet set and other details. Review the information and press Finish Leave the sheet set open.

Creating Sheets in a Sheet Set Right Click on the subset Top Level Assemblies and select New Sheet. Type in the number 1 and the sheet title Motor. The file name will automatically be created using the number and title. Press OK

Right click on the subset Part Sheets and select New Sheet. Type in the number 2 and the sheet title Arm. Press Ok

Create seven additional new sheets in Part Sheets numbered and titled as follows: 3 Base, 4 Washer, 5 Handle, 6 Stop, 7 Pivot_Lower, 8 Pivot_Upper **Double click on each new sheet in the sheet set manager to open the file, then save each of the sheet files. Title block information has been added including the part name, date,

and created by. The sheets do not have any views displayed yet.

Adding Views on the Sheets Identify the sheet. From the Sheet List tab of the sheet set manager, double click to open the Motor sheet. Select the Resource Drawings tab from the sheet set manager. Double click on the folder path that is listed to view the drawing files. Expand the Motor Assembly 2 drawing file to see the views contained in that drawing. Drag the view onto the sheet (Right Click now to set a scale for the view) then drop the view onto the sheet. Resource Drawings: Locate the drawing Expand, then drag and drop the view onto the sheet.

Repeat the process for all 8 parts associated with this MotorAssm. Open each sheet in the Sheet List, Expand each drawing in the Resource Drawing list, and drag and drop the required views onto the sheet. The view names from each drawing will be used in the View List. For this reason, it is better to have view names that identify the drawing file from which they came. Views can be renamed using the Named Views command. When the drawing is saved, Sheet Sets will need to be updated. When completed, the view list should look something like the example. Double clicking each view name will display the selected view. Save and close all sheets. Use (Window-Close all). The sheet set will be saved to the location identified in Sheet Set Properties. The default is My Documents\Autocad Sheet Sets. After all the Sheets have been closed, the Sheet Set can be closed by Right Clicking on the Sheet Set name and selecting Close Sheet Set.

Packaging the Sheet Set (eTransmit) The sheet set, templates, plot files, and all part drawing files can be collected, compressed (into a zip file) and readied to email or publish to the web. Start a new drawing. Open the MotorAssm Sheet Set. Double click on one of the sheets to open it. (At least one sheet must be open to eTransmit) Right Click on the name and select eTransmit. The following dialogs will appear showing the files collected, the Tree view of files and other information associated with the sheet set. Select Transmittal Setups , Then press New , and name this transmittal as shown, but replaced with your initials. Press the Continue button.

The Modify Transmittal Setup appears. Change the settings as shown in the dialog. Especially, place all files in one folder, and include sheet set data and files. Press the OK Button

All selected files are collected and compressed. A zip file is created. The option to change the name is displayed. The resultant Zip file is shown: This file can be attached to an email, or uploaded to a web page for others to review, markup and ultimately return.

The following dialogs are showing the files collected, the Tree view of files and other information associated with the sheet set. This information is presented when starting the eTransmit. Files can be added or removed as needed. The transmittal report can be saved as a text file as well as displayed before creating the Transmittal. Transmittal Report: Created by AutoCAD eTransmit Thursday, March 31, 2005 Drawing Sheet Set: This is a transmittal based on drawing sheets from the sheet set: MotorAssm. Subset: Top Level Assemblies Sheets: 1 Motor Subset: Part Sheets Sheets: 2 Arm 3 Base 4 Washer 5 Handle 6 Stop

7 Pivot_Lower 8 Pivot_Upper Notes: Motor Assembly Package with all parts and views. Files: Root Drawings: 1 Motor.dwg 2 Arm.dwg 3 Base.dwg 4 Washer.dwg 5 Handle.dwg 7 Stop.dwg 8 Pivot_Lower.dwg 9 Pivot_Upper.dwg Sheet Set Data File: MotorAssm.dst Sheet Template Files: SheetSets\Manufacturing Imperial.dwt AutoCAD Drawing (External) References: motor\motor_assembly2.dwg motor\arm.dwg motor\base.dwg motor\washer.dwg motor\handle.dwg motor\stop.dwg motor\pivot_lower.dwg motor\pivot_upper.dwg AutoCAD Font Map References: acad.fmp AutoCAD Plotter Configuration File References: PlotCfgs\DWF6 ePlot.pc3 The following files were excluded from the transmittal: Fonts\simplex.shx Fonts\txt.shx Fonts\romans.shx Fonts\ltypeshp.shx Conversion: Any drawing files from AutoCAD R12/LT97/LT98 or earlier will be converted to AutoCAD 2004/LT 2004 format in order to remove xref and image paths. Notes for distribution: .DWG external reference files: External reference (xref) paths may be present. Make sure these paths work or that the root drawing is using the correct references. eTransmit does not include files required by xrefs unless they are also required by the root drawing. In particular, plot style tables and overlay xrefs that are not used by the root drawing are omitted

.PC3 printer configuration files: Please copy these files to the AutoCAD Printer Configuration Search Path directory. The AutoCAD variable FONTALT was set to: C:\Documents and Settings \George Walsh\Application Data\Autodesk\AutoCAD 2005\R16.1\enu\support\simplex.shx Please make sure that the FONTALT variable is set to this file or an equivalent before opening any drawings. All text styles with missing fonts are automatically set to this font.