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Exercise 11.7: Apply Group Plot Styles
In this exercise, you'll experiment with applying different group plot styles to
change the arrangement of the section views.
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If you haven't already
done so, download
and install the files for
Chapter 11 according to
the instructions in the
Introduction.
1.
Open the drawing named
Applying Group Plot Styles.dwg
located
in the
Chapter 11
class data folder.
2.
Click one of the section views displayed on the three sheets, and then
click View Group Properties on the ribbon.
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3.
On the Section Views tab, click the first row in the Group Plot Style col-
umn (see Figure 11.9). Select Left To Right - Top Down, and click OK.
The Section View
Group Properties
dialog box opens.
4.
Click OK to dismiss the Section View Group Properties dialog box.
5.
Click one of the section views, and click View Group Properties again.
This time, do the following:
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Notice that the section
views shift toward the
top left of the sheet
and that they are
arranged with the
stations increasing
from left to right.
a.
Click the top row in the Group Plot Style column, and select
Bottom Up - Left To Right With Grid.
b.
Click the top row in the Style column, and select Design 1V -
No Grid.
c.
Click the ellipsis in the Change Band Set column.
d.
Select the Section Data band listed in the Section View Group
Bands dialog box, and then click the red X to remove it. Click OK.
With this configura-
tion, the section views
are superimposed on
a grid provided by the
sheets. Because the
grid is already there,
the section view styles
don't show the individ-
ual grids. These styles
also have their own
offset labels across the
bottom, so the section
view bands have been
removed.
e.
Click OK to close the Section View Group Properties dialog box.
Click here
FiGuRE 11.9
Where to click to change the group plot
style for the section view group
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6.
Zoom in, and study the newly configured sheets.
7.
Click one of the section views, and then click Update Group Layout
on the ribbon.
With the newly applied section view styles and group plot style, the
section views now all fit on two sheets (see Figure 11.10).
