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Pick a paper, any paperDefining the paper is a simple process. Follow these steps:. Click the desired layout tab. Click the Layout tab of the Ribbon menu.
The Layout tab appears on the Ribbon only when AutoCAD is in layout mode. In the Layout panel, click Page Setup. The PAGESETUP command starts, and displays the Page Setup Manager dialog box. Click New. The New Page Setup dialog box appears. Type a suitable name and click OK. Next up is the Page Setup dialog box.
This dialog box looks remarkably like the Plot dialog box. Specify the printer you want to use, its paper size, and so on, but leave the Plot Area drop-down list set at Layout.Many of the names in the Printer/Plotter Name list should look familiar because they’re the Windows printers ( system printers, in AutoCAD lingo). Names with the.pc3 extension represent nonsystem printer drivers.Click OK.The Page Setup dialog box closes, and the New Page Setup dialog box returns. Click Close to apply your new setup to the current layout.You can repeat the page setup as often as you like within one drawing. You thus can have multiple layouts or multiple page setups or both in one drawing.
Each layout can have a different page setup, and you can use the PAGESETUP command at any time to switch a given layout to a different setup. View that portNow that you have the paper set up properly, it’s time to move on to the viewport setup. By default, AutoCAD starts a new drawing with a single viewport in Layout1 and in Layout2, and each viewport is on layer 0 (zero). A single viewport in a single layout is often appropriate for most drawings. You can add more layouts to the drawing, and each layout can have many viewports.A viewport is an actual drawing object.
As such, you can move, copy, grip-edit, print, and delete it, and change its properties. You can even use it as the boundary for cross-hatching. The default settings are probably not optimal for your needs, so you should follow these steps:. Set the layer. A viewport boundary is a drawing object and so it will print, which you usually don’t want. Using the Layer Properties Manager, create a new layer, perhaps called VPORTS, and turn off plotting for this new layer.
You may also want to change the layer color or line type or both so you can easily identify viewports in drawings. Move the viewport object to your new VPORTS layer. Click the viewport object, and then click on your VPORTS layer name in the drop-down list below Layers in the Layers panel of the Home tab. The viewport object remains visible, but now it won’t plot.
Set the viewport scale. You might notice that the first time you click the Layout 1 tab, everything you draw in model space just happened to exactly fit within the viewport? To make this happen, AutoCAD automatically adjusted the viewport scale factor. The problem is that it almost never turns out to be a standard scale that anyone would use. More logical scale would be 0.1, or 1:10. No problem:Click the viewport boundary.Click the viewport scale button, near the right end of the status bar.Select a suitable scale from the list of standard scales that appears. The list shows every drawing scale registered in the scales list, including metric scales, even if you’re working in a drawing using English units and vice versa.Most of the time, way too many scales are shown in the list you see in the Viewport Scale button and in the Plot dialog box.
AutoCAD has a handy-dandy Edit Drawing Scales dialog box that lets you remove imperial scales if you never work with feet and inches, and vice versa if you never work in metric. To run through the scales, choose Scale List from the Annotation Scaling panel on the Annotate tab, or type SCALELISTEDIT and press Enter to open the Edit Drawing Scales dialog box.
If (okay — when) you make a mistake, click the Add button in the Edit Drawing Scales dialog box to add a lost scale factor, or click the Reset button to restore all default scales. Lock the viewport scale. When a viewport is selected, a padlock icon appears to the left of the viewport scale button. The icon is a toggle that turns viewport scale locking on or off.Always lock the viewport scale immediately after setting it.Practice playing with the paper space and model space layouts in AutoCAD’s sample drawing. The individual drawings in the sheet sets all use paper space layouts along with model space.
For example, from AutoCAD’s Start screen, click Explore Sample Drawings. When the file dialog box opens, click Sheet Sets, and then click Civil, and then click Site Grading Plan. Click Yes in the alert box that appears to see a drawing that has four paper space layouts based on four views of the common model space drawing.
In Texas, we have a few sites that offer the TxDOT dgn files for the centerlines of the roads, per county.I downloaded all the counties that we work in, imported them into seperate files and attached them to a master file, which I then use with the Map commands to query in the roads around our project site. The roads have object data assigned to them, so I can then Annotate them with the Map commands.Sometimes a surveyor doesn't use a coordinate system, them I have to resort to Google Earth, but only for finding the site, which I then import the google data so that I can query around that area with the Map commands. I researched this more, there seems to be some discrepancies in the Google Permissions.See this page firstnote the FAQs ' ' and 'Those answers lead me to believe, like Michael stated, Earth Pro is required to use the imagery. However, there is no mention of using Earth Pro exclusively in the Geo Permissions. Click on the Geo Permissions link in the first question, and scroll down to the 'Print' section there is a subsection titled 'Basis for contractors' or environmental consultants' reports:' I believe civil engineers would fall under this category.It seems as if the Geo Permissions state, if you site the image as described you can use them.What do you guys think?I want to be legit, and have no problem purchasing Earth Pro, but it seems unclear whether or not we are required to do so simply for vicinity and aerial images.
If you're 'Map' savvy, you can access the US 2009 Census information for free from the geocommunities GIS Data Depot (GeoComm.com) and use the display manager to label street names at varying scales. I would use this second to any DOT-based information - the DOT's usually give more information on functional class (local/county/state) versus the census lines. From the Census data, look for 'all edges' and then you want to get the data with 'roadflg=Y' so you don't get the streams/rivers/railroads, and such. Then you just have to label the road features based on the field 'FULLNAME'You can also bring in free Digital Orthophotos from the national seamless map server, 1m resolution (typically) directly into C3D.I'd be happy to show anyone interested - toddhATctcivilDOTcom. Since no one mentioned it, don't forget that with C3D we can use WMS (Web Mapping Services). This allows you to connect to a service that has pre-made base maps and display them in your drawing. There are thousands of such servers out there.
ESRI hosts several and you can connect to the National Map as well. Google Earth and Google Maps may have services now but I don't know if they impose restrictions on thier use.The downside is the graphics are not embedded in your drawing so if you lose connection to the service the maps will not load. Still you could use a capture utility to create an image and insert that. Once you find a service that you like you will always have ready access to vicinity maps.
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