DRAWING COMPOSITION

DRAWING COMPOSITION Drawing Composition is a process of creating a drawing sheet (border, title block etc.) and attaching views of your model as reference files.
PROCEDURE

  1. Open your model file (*.dgn) and prepare Saved Views to attach to the sheet file. Create section views or Visible Edge Design Files as appropriate.
  2. Open Drawing Composition dialog box. File Drawing Composition
  3. Create a sheet File with the box that opens or open existing one. Enter a sheet name and seed with seedah.sht or seedav.sht (8.5 x 11 horizotal or vertical). This sheet file will become the active file replacing the design file. Modify this sheet file to suit your needs. File Drawing Composition File New Sheet ...
  4. Open a model file to attach to the sheet file. File Drawing Composition File Open Model (select from list)
  5. Set scale of each model file attachment to sheet file scale as needed. Start by setting the sheet file working units to be the same as the model file. Scale (Sheet:Model)
  6. Attach model file view (Saved, Standard, Folded etc.), section or Visible Edge Design File. File Drawing Composition Tools Attach
  7. repeat 5 and 6 for each attached view.
  8. Plot to file. Note: Save sheet files in same directory as your model files. You may want to put all dimensions, text etc. on the sheet file instead of in you model file.

© Drew Browning 1999