About Defining a Sheet: Sheet Browser

This topic explains the concepts that you need to understand to define a sheet either using the sheet styles defined by the administrator or by creating your own sheet styles (to add specific formats).

This page discusses:

See Also
Defining a Sheet
Modifying a Sheet
Managing a Sheet
Sheet Properties

Administration

Standards and sheet styles are defined by the administrator, who can also add unlimited styles in the Standards Editor. Once created, this standard appears in the Drawing / Representation DS dialog box. Note that any customized standard is based on one of the four international standards (ANSI, ISO, ASME, or JIS) as far as basic parameters are concerned. For more information, see Sheet Format Definition and Sheet Styles.
Note:

Make sure you customize the units accordingly from Me > Preferences > Main Preferences > Modeling section, under Knowledge Units, specify the Length to Inch and then click OK.

User-Defined Sheet Formats

  • You can create your own sheet formats, define them locally for a given drawing, through the sheet properties.
  • The global scale is a scaling factor that applies to all views in a given sheet. It does not determine the position of the views (or any other object) contained in the sheet. When the grid is displayed, the position of the view in the sheet is not determined by the grid, it only deals with what is drawn directly in the sheet.
  • The modification of the sheet scale property impacts only the design views.
  • At any time after defining a sheet, you can change the standard (which you can update), sheet style, or orientation. To do this, click Page Layout from the View Layout section of the action bar, to display the Page Layout dialog box.
  • You can also change the standard and the sheet properties in the Properties dialog box. To do this, right-click the sheet, and select Properties.
  • If you select a new standard, the value in the Apply to box becomes All sheets and the new standard is applied to all drawing sheet annotations.

About the Sheet Browser

Use the Sheet Browser to manage the design and detail sheets (create and activate) with a immersive list of buttons. It gives a unified representation in Drafting, and gives easy and quick access to navigate between the sheets. The Sheet Browser is displayed by default for the first time a drawing is created . It is docked at the top and cannot be moved. To hide the browser, select Sheet Browser from the View section of the action bar.

The Sheet Browser is an immersive panel that appears at the top. The browser contains:

  • The list of design sheets: Displays the names of sheets.
  • The list of detail sheets: Displays the names of sheets and also bears a distinguishable icon.
  • Add : Adds a new sheet of the same type as the current sheet. You can also right-click and choose to create a design sheet or a detail sheet.

    The new sheet is created with a default name Sheet.n, where "n" is the number that is incremented each time a sheet is created.

  • Set tab's minimum text width: Lets you customize the width for the sheet name tab. Right-click or the sheet name tab, and select Set tab's minimum text width. In the Width box, enter the required value. By default, the value is 8.
  • You can manage the sheets displayed in the browser. See, Managing a Sheet.
  • You can double-click a sheet name to edit its text.
Only one Sheet Browser is available per tab per app and its display state is saved as per the app. If several tabs are open at the same time, then several individual browsers are displayed for these tabs. Consider the following points:
  • When the Sheet Browser is displayed or hidden while being in a specific app, other tabs running that same app are not updated synchronously. They are updated the next time they are activated.

Naming Uniqueness

The sheet name uniqueness can be verified during creation and edition by selecting the appropriate check box in Me > Preferences.

Select Ensure uniqueness of sheet names check box from Me > Preferences > App Preferences > 3D Modeling > Mechanical Systems > Drafting > Administration section, under Naming Uniqueness