Discover the process of creating sheets for your cartoon set using the insert data row option, an effective method which provides a placeholder for creating new sheets. Learn how to sequence, rename, and modify your sheets, as well as the advantages of using placeholder sheets that don't pollute the model.
Key Insights
- The 'insert data row' option is an effective tool to create a row that acts as a placeholder for new sheets, working sequentially based on the last sheet created.
- Placeholder sheets provide the advantage of not polluting the model as they don't create actual sheets until required, making them ideal for inserting consultant sheets into your model.
- Using the 'appears in sheet list' option allows you to manage visibility of the sheets in your project browser, enabling you to keep track and manage the ones required for your submission.
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Let's go ahead and get started on creating some of the sheets for our cartoon set. As you can see, we have our sheet index here. So what I'm going to do is I'm just going to go ahead and right click on it and then click edit schedule so we can modify our sheet index.
First, we will use the insert data row option and what that'll do is it'll give us a row that's not necessarily a sheet, but it's almost like a placeholder that we could use to create any of our new sheets. We're going to go about this a couple of different methods and so you can see some options and decide which one you like best, but we're going to go ahead and start with insert data row and as you can see it will create sheet A503 and that is because A502 was probably the last sheet that was created so it's always going to work in sequence and in this case we want to go ahead and change it to A601 and we'll go ahead and name this one so that it is enlarge plans slash interior elevations and I'll just do an insert data row again which will give us the next sheet in the sequence and that's going to be our sheet for enlarge building elevations. If I were to do this again the next one that we will get is going to follow the sequence but we want to go ahead and change that for our wall sections and I'll go ahead and renumber it to A701 and then I can make another one and it'll be A702 and then I can go ahead and rename it to wall sections as well.
And so if we were to pop over to our project browser I want you to notice that the sheets that we created here are not showing up and that's because like I said before all we did was create the placeholder sheets. If I wanted to create an actual sheet from the placeholders what we can do is again in the project browser I can scroll up to where it says sheets I could right click on it and then it'll give me the option to create sheet from there and in the dialog box you can see we have our options for the title block so we'll pick the correct title block and then what I could do is I can either create one of the sheets that we have or using the shift key I can create all of them. So what's great about this is if you had a list of sheets that you got from like a project manager or project architect that you were going to go through and add you can go ahead and do that using the placeholder or if you were just trying to get together all the different sheets you needed the cartoon set you can go ahead and you can add those sheets and what's great is like as them being placeholder sheets they're not going to go ahead and pollute the model so you can have them as a placeholder but they're not necessarily creating sheets right away.
And so this works really well for inserting consultant sheets into your model and those would be sheets that you don't necessarily want to be like live sheets in the model but you do need to include them in the sheet index. Now that we have the sheets selected that we want to create I'm going to go ahead and hit ok and then it'll create all the sheets that we talked about. We've got A601, A602, A701, and A702 that have all been created and just because that's the method that we did this time doesn't mean that's the one you always have to use.
So whichever you prefer I suggest you stick with that one. And like we've done before you can always go back to the project browser and right click to create a sheet or another method we've used in the past is you can go to the view tab and create sheet this way which is what we used in previous courses and we can go ahead and do that again. Again just making sure you're picking that correct title block something you always want to double triple or quadruple check because if you don't pick the correct one you're going to have to start over essentially or get very lucky.
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So what we'll do is we'll go ahead and hit ok with the right title block selected and this sheet's going to be A901 and we'll go ahead and call that one 3D views and this is essentially the same thing as typing it into the schedule like we did before but we're just typing it into the fields and into the title block. So go ahead and do the same thing and create another sheet and it'll be called 3D views as well and what's awesome is it's automatically going to create itself as A902 because that's the one that's next in the sequence. Now we're going to go ahead and pop back over to our sheet list on sheet,000 and you can see that all the sheets that we have created and one of the things that we'll want to keep an eye on is that there may be sheets that we created that may or may not necessarily be part of our midterm and so to manage that we can go ahead and keep track of the ones that need to be visible or the ones that don't need to be and so if you select a sheet in the project browser like I've done here you can see that there's an option for appears in sheet list and if you were to uncheck it will remove it from the list and if you check it again it'll pop back in.
So in this case I want to go ahead and pick A601 and A602 and I can remove those so if I select one uncheck the option for appears in sheet list it'll go away and I can do the same thing for 602 and that'll get us set up so that we have the correct sheets showing for our midterm submission and so now that I've done that A601 and A602 are no longer visible.
