Defining a Sheet

This task will show you how to define the sheet for a new CATDrawing document and, if needed, add more sheets.
Before You Begin, make sure you customized the following:

Grid:
De-activate the Grid icon from the Tools toolbar (bottom right).

1. Click the New icon I_NewP2.gif (233 bytes) from the Standard toolbar or select File -> New... from the menu bar.

2. Select the Drawing workbench, and click OK.

 

3. From the New Drawing dialog box, select the ISO standard, and the A0 ISO format.

4. Select the Landscape orientation. 

5. Select the 1:1 scale, and then click OK.

The sheet size depends on the standard type. For example, if you choose the ISO standard, the sheet will automatically be assigned the A0 format. You can choose another format if you want.
At any time, you can change the standard (which you can update), sheet format, orientation and/or scale. To do this, select File->Page Setup from the menu bar. 

If you select a new standard, the value in the Apply on field becomes All sheets and the new standard is applied to all drawing sheets annotations.

Adding a new sheet

You can add new sheets at any time. These new sheets will be assigned the same standard, format and orientation as the sheet first created and defined using the New Drawing dialog (default setting). Even though you then delete sheet1, the sheets newly created will keep the same name. In other words, even if sheet1 has been deleted, sheet2 will remain named sheet2.

1. Click the New Sheet icon I_DrwSheetP2.gif (220 bytes) from the Drawing toolbar.

 The new sheet automatically appears as follows:

 

If you do not want to have the specification tree displayed, press the PF3 key.
Once you have created more than one sheet, for activating one of the sheets, select this sheet from the dialog window or from the specification tree.

 

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