Create view frames

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Now that we've pretty much created all the objects that we can create inside Civil 3D,

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we're going to start talking about planned production inside Civil 3D.

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So, what we're going to do now is we're going to create some view frames to create sheets based on our alignment inside of this drawing.

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In order to create sheets, the first thing you have to do is you have to create view frames.

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So, in order to create view frames, you have to navigate to the Output tab of the ribbon bar and get to the Create View Frames button.

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Select the Create View Frames button and the Create View Frames Alignment window pops up.

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So, inside of here, what you're gonna do is you're going to select the alignment that you want to create view frames based off of.

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So, we're going to go ahead and select Dev-Align.

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We're gonna leave the Station Range as Automatic.

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We're going to hit "Next".

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From here, we're gonna select what kind of sheets we're going to create.

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You have the option of creating plan and profile where you have the profile stacked above or below the plans.

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You have Plan Only where you can have just plan sheets or you can have Profile Only.

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We're going to go ahead and do a Plan Only sheet set.

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I'm going to use the templates that are provided inside a Civil 3D.

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If you have sheet sets that are already created for you, where you work or if you want to create one,

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you can model yours after the plan sets that are inside of Civil 3D.

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But for us, right now, we're gonna go ahead and use a 20-scale ARCH-D plan,

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because we have our annotation scale set to 20, we're gonna set our sheet set size to 20.

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So, I'm going to go ahead and select 20 and select "OK".

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From here, you have the option of how you want your view frames to be placed on the alignment,

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whether you want them to run along the alignment so that the alignment generally runs through the middle of the drawing,

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or you can have it rotate north so that north is up on your drawings.

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For our purposes here, I'm going to have it do Along Alignment,

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and then you have the option for setting the first view frame before the start of alignment by a buffer zone.

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So, if you check this option and you set a buffer zone,

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Civil 3D will take the first view frame and set the beginning of that view frame at least a certain distance before the edge of that view frame.

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I'm not going to check this option and I'm going to go ahead and hit "Next".

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So, now what we have the options for is, what is the name of our view frame group?

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So, I am going to again call this Dev-Align...

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and then have it as view frame group.

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Actually, that's probably overkill because right now what we have is VFG-View Frame Group Alignment Name.

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So, the alignment name for the view frame group, as you can see here, is Dev-Align.

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So, we're gonna go ahead and back out on this Dev-Align and just leave it as VFG View Frame Group Alignment Name-Next Counter.

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Again, we have the option to put a description in what the layer that the view frames are going to be put it on,

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and then what the name of the view frames are going to be.

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So, VF Next Counter, this one, we could put "Dev-Align",

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and then have view frame so that we know that these view frames are associated with our Dev-Align View Frame or our Dev-Align alignment.

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From here, we have our style of what the view frames are going to be.

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These are very basic and generic.

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So, probably one is OK and just around with that one, basic one, because in display, what you're going to see is the view frame border.

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You have one option and you have a layer at a color and line styles and line scales.

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And then when you drop down for your view direction, you only have plan available.

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So, you probably don't need to have more than one view frame style.

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So, go ahead and click "Apply" and "OK".

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The only time you'd maybe need more than one style is if you wanted to specify the difference between,

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if it's a Plan Only, Plan and Profile, or Profile Only.

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So, maybe you might wanna have three styles.

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From here, you have the label style.

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There is a label that's gonna go in the upper left hand corner.

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Well, based on this label style, it's going to go in the upper left hand corner, but it is going to just basically label, as you can--

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You probably can't see right here.

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But if I zoom in real close on the corner, the name of the view frame goes up on the upper left corner.

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So, I am just going to leave it as that and I'm gonna go ahead and hit "Next".

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And now we have the option for match lines.

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And so what match lines are, is they are basically denoting the location of where one sheet matches with the next sheet.

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And so we're gonna go through these options.

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You can choose to create view frames without match lines, but I find it easier to just have the match lines as we're creating the view frames.

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So, I'm gonna go ahead and check Insert Match Lines.

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I'm going to have Snap Gestation Values down to the nearest, 1.

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You can add additional distance for repositioning, which will increase your overlap so it'll decrease your viewport window;

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not necessarily your viewport window, but how much information is shown in one viewport window.

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And you'll end up having more overlap between your sheets.

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And sometimes that's desirable.

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For me, I'm going to leave it as unchecked.

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For your match line, you can set your layer.

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I'm going to leave it to C-ANNO-MTCH.

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Then you have your match lined name.

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So, I'm going to call this one Dev-Match Line.

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And then we will specify style for your match line.

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And if I go to edit my basic match line, what you're going to see here is that you have options for plan,

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and then your lines and your match line mask, and then what your mask pattern is.

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So, I'm not going to modify what these ones have, I'm just gonna click "OK" and leave it as basic.

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And then you have your label styles for the left and right hand side of the match line.

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And so what that does is there's certain labels that are placed to the left of the line,

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and certain labels that are placed to the right of line based on which view frame you're in.

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So, if you go and you look at these and you edit the left ones, what you're going to see is you have the match line text.

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And on the left hand side, it is telling us that it is going to return us information on,

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the match line number, the station, and the previous sheet number.

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And so, then, if I go to the right hand side and I edit it, and I go and I look at this, it's going say it's the match line number.

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The Match line station value and the next sheet number.

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So, this is basically placing labels so that when you look into your view frame, you're going to see on one side, referring back to the previous page.

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And on the previous page, you're going to see a referring to the next page.

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So, I'm going to go ahead and hit "Cancel". I'm not going to change these. I'm going to leave them as is for now.

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And I'm going to create my view frames.

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And so when I select Create View Frames, what you'll notice happen is,

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there are two blue borders that are dropped into my drawing, and they are labeled.

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And if I go to my alignment around where there is the crossing of the two view frames,

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you're going to see this white dash line here, that's my match line.

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And then my match line has, the labels associated with it, Match Line-1 at Station 5+58.00, Previous Sheet Number.

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And we haven't set up the sheet numbers yet, so we're not getting a number set up.

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And then Match Line-1 at Station 5+58.00, Next Sheet Number; having a sheet number there.

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So, now that we've setup our view frames, in the next video, we're gonna go ahead and set up our sheets.