Chapter 17

Plan Production

So you've toiled for days, weeks, or maybe months creating your design in the AutoCAD® Civil 3D® program, and now it's time to share it with the world — or at least your corner of it. Even in this digital age, paper plan sets still play an important role. You generate these plans in Civil 3D using the Plan Production feature. This chapter takes you through the steps necessary to create a set of sheets, from initial setup, to framing and generating sheets, to data management and plotting.

In this chapter, you will learn to:

  • Create view frames
  • Edit view frames
  • Generate sheets and review Sheet Set Manager
  • Create section views

Preparing for Plan Sets

Before you start generating all sorts of wonderful plan sets, you must ...

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