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SheetAgent for Civil 3D: documentation and video walkthroughs
How each workflow works, in writing and on screen. The written sections cover every workflow in the palette; where a walkthrough video exists it sits on the same line. If you are evaluating rather than using it, the FAQ answers the questions that come up first.
Table of contents
| Section | Title | Format |
|---|---|---|
| Division 00Procurement | ||
| 00 10 00 | Manager PortalFor CAD managers, IT and whoever carries the budget: seats, telemetry, and what the tool is returning against what was paid for it. Not needed to draw sheets. | Text |
| 00 20 00 | Licensing, updates and supportSeats and how to move them, keeping SheetAgent for Civil 3D up to date, and how to get a real answer when something is wrong. | Text |
| Division 01General requirements | ||
| 01 10 00 | Getting startedWhat SheetAgent for Civil 3D does, the order to set it up in, and the words used throughout these pages. Start here before anything else. | TextVideo: SheetAgent: automated sheet set creation for Civil 3D |
| 01 20 00 | Title blocks, north arrows and scale barsBringing your own title block into Civil 3D, setting the page and viewport size from it, and the blocks every sheet inherits from it. | TextVideo: Set up a title block from a file or a drawing template |
| 01 30 00 | CAD standardsImporting your firm's layer standard into SheetAgent for Civil 3D and applying it across a drawing, so every sheet it builds inherits it. | TextVideo: Import company CAD standards |
| Division 02Sheets | ||
| 02 10 00 | Plan sheets: array, path, alignment and free placementThe four ways tiles are placed, how to cover exactly the area you mean to cover, and what to do when the coverage changes. | Text |
| 02 20 00 | Match linesSheetAgent for Civil 3D draws match lines where sheets meet and redraws them when the tiles, the alignment or the numbering change. Placement stays yours. | Text |
| 02 30 00 | Multi VP: plan and profile sheetsCivil 3D sheets carrying more than one viewport: plan and profile, plan and plan, and plan with a duplicate, and how each one gets placed. | TextVideo: Multi VP plan and profile, full walkthrough |
| 02 31 00 | Splitting long and tall profile viewsSplitting a Civil 3D profile view that is too long for one sheet or too tall for its viewport, and keeping the pieces in sync with the design and the plan. | Text |
| 02 40 00 | PDF detail sheetsTurning an existing PDF details package into Civil 3D sheets that live in the same set as everything else, numbered and managed alongside it. | TextVideo: PDF details, full walkthrough |
| 02 50 00 | Key Plans and key mapsCoordinating drawings you already have into one index or cover layout, and coordinating key maps across the whole project. | Text |
| 02 60 00 | Sheet names, numbering and Sheet Set ManagerNaming and numbering a Civil 3D sheet set, renumbering it without breaking the order, and writing the whole thing out to Sheet Set Manager. | Text |
| Division 03Projects | ||
| 03 10 00 | Project Control: projects across several drawingsOne control drawing holds the tiling for a Civil 3D project spanning several drawings, so every discipline shares the same sheet layout. | TextVideo: Build multi-discipline sheet sets on a shared tile gridVideo: Group sheets by project region and add key maps |
| 03 20 00 | One set of sheets for every disciplineHow SheetAgent for Civil 3D builds every discipline's sheets from one tiling, generates the key maps, and keeps them in step when the project changes. | Text |
| 03 30 00 | What updates when the design changesWhat SheetAgent for Civil 3D updates when a tile, an alignment or the template changes, what stays yours, and how to change viewport size or scale after the build. | Text |
| 03 40 00 | Health, drift, and existing drawingsWhat Health checks on a Civil 3D sheet set, what Auto Repair fixes, what needs a decision, and how hand-drafted layouts are adopted and checked the same way. | TextVideo: Adopt existing layouts |
| Appendix ACommentary | ||
| A 10 00 | Field notes: the blogWhy sheet production behaves the way it does in Civil 3D, and what changes when the sheets follow the model. Longer form and opinionated, where the sections above are procedural. | Text |
| Appendix BVideo walkthroughs | ||
| B 10 00 | Schedule of video walkthroughsEvery walkthrough on the Setline channel, what it shows, and the section it belongs to. | Video |
End of table of contents
Video walkthroughs
| Video | What it shows | Section |
|---|---|---|
| SheetAgent: automated sheet set creation for Civil 3D | The overview. What a run produces, start to finish. | 01 10 00 |
| Set up a title block from a file or a drawing template | Bringing your own title block in, from a DWG or a .dwt. | 01 20 00 |
| Import company CAD standards | Putting your firm's layer standard in one Excel file and enforcing it. | 01 30 00 |
| Multi VP plan and profile, full walkthrough | Sheets carrying a plan and a profile viewport together. | 02 30 00 |
| PDF details, full walkthrough | Turning an existing PDF details package into sheets in the same set. | 02 40 00 |
| Adopt existing layouts | Bringing hand-drafted sheets under management without rebuilding them. | 03 40 00 |
| Build multi-discipline sheet sets on a shared tile grid | One control drawing, every discipline inheriting the same tiling. | 03 10 00 |
| Group sheets by project region and add key maps | Regions on a large project, each with its own key map. | 03 10 00 |
All of the videos live on the Setline channel.