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Sheets

Lay out plans, sections, views and schedules on titled sheets, draft on them, and export or present the set.

Sheets are the pages of your drawing set. You place drawings on paper at a scale, add your title block and revisions, and export the set as one PDF. Everything on a sheet follows the model.

Open Sheets

Choose File → Sheets…, or press Sheets in the 2D drawings view. Sheets opens over the whole window; press 3D to go back to the model.

If the project has no sheets yet, press Create the first sheet. It starts with the active level's plan. New sheet adds another, numbered on from the last (A-101, A-102…).

Set up a sheet

Select a sheet to see its properties:

Paper: A4 to A0, Letter, Tabloid, ARCH C or ARCH D, in Landscape or Portrait.
Number, Name, Revision and Date.
Status: such as Preliminary, For planning, For tender or For construction.

Place drawings

Press Add drawing and pick from:

Plans: one for each level.
Elevations and sections: the four elevations, the two built-in sections, and any section lines you've placed on the plan.
Saved views: pictures of views you've saved in 3D.
Schedules: door, window, room and other tables.
Text note: general notes, a key or a legend, with a heading, text size and width.

A new drawing goes clear of the others, at the largest scale that fits. Change its scale with the scale menu, including Custom… for any 1:N (1:75). Each drawing gets a numbered caption. Drag a drawing to move it; Remove from sheet takes it off.

Turn off Crop to the building to show the whole site.

Keep a view's style

A saved view saved with Remember the display is drawn with its style, section cut, levels, hidden tags and sun. Or pick a Style for it on the sheet, with Edges, Profiles, Ambient occlusion and Fog. At scale draws it in parallel projection at a true scale, for an axonometric at 1:100. Lines as vectors draws the edges as crisp lines that print sharp. See Styles and scenes.

Fill in the title block

The Title block panel holds the practice, logo, project number and drawn by. Client and location come from the project details. Choose a layout: Corner, Strip or Band. Add a box adds your own fields, such as Checked or Approved.

To reuse it, choose Save as a template…. Manage templates… lets you apply a template, Export as a file to share it, or Use for new projects. Import a template… brings in one a colleague exported.

Record a revision

Press Add a revision, then fill in Revision, Date and What changed. The sheet's revision moves on (P1 to P2, A to B) and the title block shows a revision table.

Draft on a sheet

The toolbar at the bottom of Sheets draws straight on the paper, in millimetres:

Lines, polylines, rectangles, circles and text.
Leaders: click the arrow's tip, any bends, then where the words go.
Revision clouds: click round the change, then double-click or press Enter.
Scrapbook: symbols to place: a north arrow, revision triangle, section and elevation marks, grid bubble, level datum, arrow, and a person, tree and car at 1:100.

Points snap to other marks; Shift keeps a line square or at 15°. With the select tool, drag a mark or its grips. Its panel sets the pen, line type, colour, fill, arrows and text size.

Drafting layers keep marks organised. New marks go on the chosen layer. A hidden layer is left off every sheet and export, and a locked one can't be picked.

Export the set

Export PDF: every sheet in one vector PDF.
This sheet as SVG: the current sheet.
DXF: This sheet as DXF, or All sheets as DXF as a ZIP, in paper millimetres with the drawings on their CAD layers.

Present the sheets

Press Present: the sheets full screen, with a pen. Use the arrow keys or Space to move between sheets, and Esc to finish. Press P for the pen and pick red, blue or black to mark up as you talk. When you finish, Keep on the sheets saves the marks as drafting; Let it go discards them.

For shadow study sheets, see Site and sun.

Still stuck? Contact us, or ask in the app: Help → Contact support.