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Creating Drawings with Sheet Set Manager
Rather than importing existing sheets, you can also create new sheets using
Sheet Set Manager. You may recall setting the Sheet Storage Location and Sheet
Creation Template properties as you were creating the sheet set for your My Cabin
project. These settings will be used to determine the template from which your
sheets will be created. Consequently, when creating sheets, Sheet Set Manager will
prompt you for only three items: sheet number, sheet name, and drawing filename.
Having too many layouts in a single drawing can dramatically affect drawing
performance, so you should keep the total number in a drawing to a minimum.
(I've said that before—but I've see far too many users ignore that advice, so it's
worth emphasizing.) Sheet Set Manager subscribes to this practice, and only
creates drawings with a single layout. After configuring your viewports, you'll
learn how to copy layouts later in this chapter. Copied layouts can be added to
your sheet set using the same import layout as sheet command used to add the
cover sheet to the sheet set.
For now, you'll use Sheet Set Manager to create three drawing files. Each will
represent a different portion of your overall sheet set. Specifically, you'll create
a drawing for sheets illustrating your floor plan, another for elevations, and yet
another for the site plan. You'll copy the initial layout contained in each of draw-
ings created in this section later in this chapter. After copying these layouts,
you'll import them into your sheet set.
Follow these steps to create drawings for each of the three drawing groups:
1. With any drawing open, right-click on My Cabin at the top of the
Sheet List palette of Sheet Set Manager, and select New Sheet as
shown in Figure 14.41.
FiGuRE 14.41 Creating a new sheet using Sheet Set Manager