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15.
On the Section Views tab, click the ellipsis in the first row of the
Change Band Set column.
16.
Click Import Band Set, and select Section Sheets. Click OK until you
have dismissed all dialog boxes and returned to the drawing.
◀
The bands have been
added to the section
views, but the section
views must now be
rearranged to account
for the additional
space they occupy.
You'll address this in
the next step.
17.
With one of the section views still selected, click Update Group
Layout on the ribbon.
Civil 3D automatically creates a fourth sheet as a result of this
update (see Figure 11.8).
FiGuRE 11.8
A fourth sheet is created to accommodate the extra
area taken up by the section view bands.
18.
Save and close the drawing.
You can view the results of successfully completing this exercise by opening
Applying Section View Bands - Complete.dwg
.
Applying Group Plot Styles
Throughout this chapter, you have been working with several sheets worth of
section views all neatly arranged within predefined sheet borders. You may be
wondering what controls this behavior, and if you guessed that it's some sort of
style, you're correct. The arrangement of multiple section views is accomplished
by a
group plot style
.
A group plot style uses an assortment of settings to configure the layout of
multiple section views. When section view groups are created, there are two
placement options: Production and Draft. When a section view group is created
using the Production placement option, the layout of section views is made to
fit on individual sheets. The size and shape of the individual sheets come from a
template (
.dwt
) file. When the Draft placement option is used, the section views
are laid out as a single group and aren't bound within a given area.
Another function of group plot styles is to overlay a grid on the sections. With
this approach to sheet creation, the section views don't typically have their own
grid but are superimposed on a grid that covers the entire sheet.
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