Learn how to set up a sheet in VDCI, including picking the right title block and changing the sheet number. This tutorial also provides tips on how to manage area plans, adjust view templates, and add a color fill legend to your sheet.
Key Insights
- When creating a new sheet, it's crucial to select the correct title block - for this example, a 30 by 42 VDCI title block was used, and the sheet number was changed to A001.
- Managing area plans on your sheet may require adjusting the scale of the view template to ensure everything fits without compromising clarity - in this case, the scale was reduced from eighth inch to 330 seconds.
- Adding a color fill legend from the annotate tab can provide necessary context for your sheet, demonstrating what different colors represent on your plan.
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Now that we have the plan set up, let's go ahead and create a sheet. We can go from our View tab, create a new sheet, and we always want to make sure we're picking the right title block. So it's going to be this one here, our 30 × 42, the VDCI one, and we'll hit OK.
And then I'll change the sheet number—instead of A903, this is going to be A001—and we'll call it Gross Area Plans. And now I'll jump over to my Area Plans here, and these are set up at eighth inch equals a foot. So it'll be pretty tight to get both of those on here.
So you can see if I just drop in our Level 1, and then the Level 2, there's just not going to be a lot of room. I'd have to really squeeze these things together. So putting them on at this scale, while they do fit, is probably not best practices.
So what I'll do here is go back into our Gross Area view template, and I'll change the scale so that they're a little bit smaller. So instead of eighth inch, I can make them down to 3/32", and that'll reduce them enough so that they can be put on the sheet, and you can still kind of see what's going on there. So I’ve got Level 1 on the top, Level 2 on the bottom, and you'll notice I placed them in the order I wanted them to be.
So Level 2 automatically became the number two view because Level 1 was the number one view. So next thing here, I'm just going to go ahead and sort out my view titles so that it makes sense here, instead of having them just kind of all over the place like they were for a second there, and just cleaning things up with those. And then we'll move it over just a little bit, so we'll put a schedule here at the top.
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The next thing that we're missing here is something that tells us what this color means, and that is our Color Fill Legend. We've done this in the past, and to add that, that's going to be from our Annotate tab, and then we have Color Fill Legend. And so if I place that, say, for my Level 1 plan, I can kind of double dip on it and have it, say, sit here like that, and then I can put my schedule.
