Mastering AutoCAD 2005 and AutoCAD LT 2005

Now that you've seen how sheet sets work, you can start to use them on your own projects. Sheet sets work best when you have your project files organized and have some additional files prepared and on hand. Here's a checklist of things to keep in mind when you star to use sheet sets:

• Organize your files so that when you import your project into a sheet set, they will be automatically organized by discipline or sheet number.

• Use only one layout per sheet set drawing file. The Sheet Set Manager only uses one drawing per sheet and one layout per drawing.

• Create a template file containing the title block that you want to user for your project. Make sure to include any sheet set fields that you want to use in the title block attribute definitions. You can also include your callout blocks in the template file for convenience.

• Since all of the sheets in your project will most likely be printed on the same size sheet with the same plot specifications, it helps to create a sheet setup that you can apply to all of your sheets. You can store the sheet setup in any drawing file, then use the sheet set properties option to locate that file to assign the page setup to the entire sheet set.