Managing sheet sets by leveraging subsets

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Unlike importing sheets,

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creating a new subset can only be done from the

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top level sheet set or from an existing subset.

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I want it at the top.

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So I'll keep my mouse over the top level sheet set.

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I'll right click and select new subset.

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The subset properties box will be displayed.

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Let's name this general,

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a brief note here about the value of subsets.

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They're more than just an organizational mechanism.

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As you can see,

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you can specify whether or not you want the

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sheets within it to plot or not during a publish

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I want to. So I'll leave that alone.

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There's also an entry for a sheet creation template.

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So a subset can also have its own template overriding the

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one that may be set in the sheet set itself.

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Let's add one here,

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click on the field and then the little icon to the right.

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Continue to navigate to the DWT file that's

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in the civil drawings folder of your dataset.

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Once it's selected and added click OK. To create the subset.

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Notice that it's at the bottom of the list drag and

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drop it to the top between 00 and the sheet set

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now, I'll just select all four sheets that I want to place into it

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and drag them onto the subset.

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Since I added the template to the subset I can now create a new sheet for my subset.

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Right? Click on the subset

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and select new sheet.

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The new sheet dialogue will display

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it's very similar to the top half of the rename and renumber dialogue.

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Let's make our sheet number 04 and then type in drawing index for the title.

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You'll notice that the sheet set manager again tries to help you

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out by prefixing the number in front of the file name.

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If you don't want this back it out as I'm doing here

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again, everyone's standards are different.

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I'll click OK to exit.

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And now I have created a new drawing file with a layout titled drawing index.