Defining a Sheet

This task will show you how to define a sheet.

For more information about drafting workbench access, see Entering the Interactive Drafting Workbench.
1. Click the New icon or select File -> New.

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.

 dbnewdrawingNLS.gif (16769 bytes)

You can create your own format:
key in the format name in the Format field,
use the tab key to access to the Width and Height fields and sets their values.
You can add an unlimited number of customized Standard using CATDrwStandard files that you will create and, if needed, modify in the $OS\resources\standard directory. Once created, this Standard will appear in the New Drawing dialog box. For more details on standards, see the Standards Administration section. Care that any user-defined standard is based on one of the four international standards (ANSI, ISO,ASME or JIS) as far as basic parameters are concerned.
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.

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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 type. You can choose another format if you want.
 

To add a new sheet, click the New Sheet icon I_DrwSheetP2.gif (220 bytes). The new sheet automatically appears as follows:

The Insert Elements into a Sheet dialog box appears. For more details, see Managing a Background View in the Generative Drafting User's Guide.

 
Once you have created more than one sheet, to activate one of the sheets, select this sheet from the dialog window.

 

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