1. © 2012 Autodesk Dirty Laundry: Cleaning Up Your Sheets with AutoCAD® Sheet Set Manager Tim Douglas Boise Sales Manager at ProSoft

2. © 2012 Autodesk About Me  Sanitary Sewer Plans  Water Plans  Treatment Plants  Site Development My time as a designer: CAD Management  CAD Standards  Training  Technical Support  Lead in-house user groups/communities of practice Since 1991 I have hand drafted, used AutoCAD, LandDesktop, Civil3D; Lead local user groups, been in CAD Mgt. about 4yrs & now Autodesk Partner sales manager/trainer/tech support

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4. © 2012 Autodesk In Class Survey…. How many of you are currently using Sheet Set Manager? How many of you have never heard of Sheet Set Manager? How many of you have tried Sheet Set Manager? How many of you could teach this class?

5. © 2012 Autodesk Class Summary  This class will show you how to keep your sheets clean  Give you the general ins and outs of Sheet Set Manager (SSM)  Show you a tool designed to save you time/money and improve your efficiency & productivity

6. © 2012 Autodesk Learning Objectives At the end of this class, you will be able to:  C: Compile existing drawing into a single sheet set & successfully set up new sheets for new projects  L: Learn how to organize all project sheets and plot with ease  E: Easily edit drawing info using standard and custom fields  N: Never go back to the old way; Successfully have Sheet Set Manager work for you

7. © 2012 Autodesk Class Agenda Define Sheet vs Drawings Create sheet sets from new and existing projects Create new sheets from a company standard template Edit properties associated to fields Create and edit custom fields Plotting from Sheet Set Manager

8. © 2012 Autodesk The uses of Sheet Set Manager  Plan Set drawing organization  Sheet numbering control  Quickly open a particular sheet  Table of contents  Edit properties to make changes to all sheets

9. © 2012 Autodesk The uses of Sheet Set Manager  Make additions to the project  Easily make revisions to your design  Revisions to plan sheets:  Addition/Removal of plan sheets  Reorganization of plan sheets  Sheet Numbers  Maintaining integrity of detail callouts, matchlines, etc.

10. © 2012 Autodesk DefineSheet Set Manager What is the difference from Sheets vs Drawings? What is a Sheet Set (SS) Fields –standard & custom Use Plan Production tools to create multiple sheets to add to the SS

11. © 2012 Autodesk I’m getting bored; Can you show me how to use SSM?

12. © 2012 Autodesk Review  Start out slow; Don’t try too much at once  Start with existing layouts and add new sheets  Explore the listing of standard fields & Create custom fields  Explore the plotting options/Page Setup Overrides  Provide a sound structure for your SS – Get a template!  Keep your SS templates up to date  Share with your staff  Lunch-n-learns – start an in-house user group or Community of Practice

13. © 2012 Autodesk Additional information  Thank you for attending!  Download custom SSM template from the dataset location  My contact info: tdouglas@prosoftnet.comtdouglas@prosoftnet.com  @TimDouglas5150 – Twitter  Tim Douglas - LinkedIn

14. © 2012 Autodesk AC2849 DON’T FORGET TO FILL OUT YOUR SURVEY SEE YOU ALL NEXT YEAR AT AU 2013!!!! The Coveted Speaker Awards Lectures Newbie Award Session Feedback is On-line Use computer in survey station – or personal computer to complete You must be scanned for this class to provide feedback

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