Sheets, layouts and title blocks

Sheets are drawn from the model: move a wall and every sheet that shows it follows. A Design project has no sheets until Make walls.

Open the set

Press ⌘3 for the Sheets tab. It lists the set drawn for the model on view, with the model revision it shows:

• a cover sheet (G-001), a site plan (AS-101) and a floor plan per storey (A-101 and up);
• more sheets as the model calls for them: door, window and room finish schedules, sections and interior elevations, electrical and plumbing plans.

The set is drawn as a job whenever the model changed; the old list stays until the new one is ready.

1. Click a sheet to open it in place of the view. Drag to pan, scroll or pinch to zoom.
2. Hover an element to highlight it; click to select it, as in the model.
3. Click Back to model or press Esc to return.

Elements the conversation's latest turn changed are drawn in the change colour on the sheet too.

Clip

Fill in the title block

1. Choose Project Info… (⌘I) or click Project info… in the Sheets tab.
2. Fill in the firm's name, address, phone and license, the owner, folio, project number, phase, drawn by and checked by.
3. Click Save.

A blank field prints as a labelled blank. The project info is an edit you can undo.

Issue the set

1. On the base model, choose Issue Sheets… (⌥⌘P) or click Issue….
2. Type an Issue label, for example "Permit set", and confirm.

Every sheet's revision rows start from that issue, dated that day. Issuing is off on a conversation's copy of the model; the Sheets tab says so.

Publish PDFs

1. Choose Publish… (⇧⌘E). Every sheet is ticked.
2. Untick the sheets that should not go.
3. Pick Separate files (one PDF per sheet, named by sheet number, such as A-101.pdf) or One combined PDF (SET.pdf, a page and a bookmark per sheet).
4. Click Publish… and pick a folder.

Each page is the sheet's own size (36 × 24 in for the default set). Nothing is written until every sheet has converted, so Cancel, or a failure while converting, leaves the folder as it was. A failure while the PDFs are being moved into the folder can leave some of them written, so check the folder before you publish again.

Limit. The PDFs are not checked against PDF/A, and DWF is not written.

Choose the pens

The Pens picker in the Sheets tab sets the pen table for the preview and the PDFs: black at permit weights (the default), the same weights in colour, or screened backgrounds (what lies beyond the cut at 50% grey). The choice is kept with the model.

On an open sheet, Print weights shows every stroke at the width it prints at; otherwise the preview thickens hairlines so a whole sheet stays readable.

Redline a sheet

1. Open a sheet and press ⇧R (Redline).
2. Drag a freehand mark around what should change. It closes into a revision cloud and asks for a note in Redline note.
3. Choose:
   • Send: the note becomes a message to the agent, naming the sheet, the point in feet and inches, and the elements the cloud touches. The cloud stays on the sheet as a comment assigned to the agent.
   • Comment: keep it as a comment without sending it.
   • Keep: keep it as a revision cloud on the sheet, which prints.
   • Cancel: drop it.

A redline never edits the model by itself: only the agent's turn does, on its own copy.

Annotate a sheet

On an open sheet, the Annotate bar has Text, Dimension, Leader, Keynote and Symbols:

• Text and Leader: click to place (a leader's tip, then its text), type, press Return.
• Dimension: click two points, then where the line goes. A click near a wall corner snaps to it and follows the wall when it moves.
• Keynote: pick a key from the model's keynote list, then click the tip and where the key goes.
• Symbols (⇧M): north arrows, tags, section and elevation marks, plumbing and electrical symbols, and your own blocks. Pick one, R turns it 90°, click to place it. Save as block saves a picked symbol or note as a block of your own.
• Dimension wall (⇧H) dimensions the selected wall's ends and openings in one chain.

Annotations are edits: they undo, print in the PDFs, and the agent can make them too. Click one to pick it, drag to move it, ⌫ to delete it.

Limit. Aligned, angular and radial dimensions have no tool yet, and snapping covers walls only.

Check the set

Click Check set (⇧Q). The Sheets tab lists findings by sheet: an untagged door, an undimensioned opening, a lost reference, small or overlapping text. Click one to open its sheet and select what it is about. Findings are facts about the drawings, not a code compliance check.

Build a schedule

1. Open Schedules in the Sheets tab and click New schedule….
2. Pick a Category (doors, windows, rooms, walls, slabs or columns).
3. Add fields with Add a field, relabel them, drag them to reorder, tick the ones to total. Add filters, pick Sort by and Group by.
4. The Preview shows the rows the sheet will print; click a row to select what it counts.
5. Click Save schedule. The schedules sheet prints it.

A saved schedule has Edit schedule…, Export CSV… and Delete schedule.

Make your own sheets

The first change you make to the set turns it into sheets of your own.

• New Sheet… (⌥⌘N): the Number, Title, Size (ARCH D, ARCH E1, ARCH E, ANSI B, ISO A1, ISO A3) and Title block. A new sheet is empty.
• A sheet's menu in the list has Rename… and Delete sheet (a set keeps at least one sheet).
• Layout Viewports (⇧V) on an open sheet: drag a box, pick its View (a storey's plan or ceiling plan, the site, the roof, an elevation, a schedule or notes) and Scale (or Fit), and click Add viewport. Drag a viewport to move it, a corner to resize it; Remove viewport deletes it. A scale too large for the box is refused with the largest that fits.

Use your own title block

1. In Project info…, click Import template… and pick an SVG drawn for one sheet size.
2. Its text can hold fields such as {project.owner} and {sheet.number}; rectangles marked as the drawing area (and optionally the revisions and seal areas) are where the views go.
3. Save. It goes on every sheet of its size; sheets of other sizes keep theirs.

Make a City of Miami permit package

Permit Package… (⇧⌘P) prepares a submission for the City of Miami's ePlan, from the latest issue of the base model.

1. It opens with an automated pre-flight, "Not a plan review": each sheet's size and orientation, a blank stamp area, one page per PDF, file names, the cover's index and code basis; then every zoning rule that does not pass; then what only a person can check (seal and signature, the permit application, product approvals, survey, energy calculations).
2. Tick Include the IFC4 model if you want it.
3. Click Export… and pick a folder. Studio writes a folder with the drawings, the model if asked, and the checklist as JSON and PDF.

Limit. The package follows the City of Miami's ePlan rules only. Zoning and code results in it are provisional.