Sheets: the plans you issue

A sheet is what you hand to the client, the engineers or the building authority: an A1 with the ground and upper floor at 1:100, a section and a detail beside them, and the title block in the corner. In arcraum each sheet is its own document, with a plan number by ISO 19650, and it shows its views as the models are now.

How to

1. On the project's overview, open Plans, type a title ("Grundrisse") and click Make sheet. It opens beside the models.
2. On the right, choose What (a storey's plan of a model, or a drawing on a cut or a detail) and its Scale, then Place view. The view comes sized to its drawing, at the first free place on the sheet.
3. Drag a view to move it. Drag its corners to crop it: the drawing stays where it is. Hold Alt while dragging to move the drawing inside its frame.
4. Set the sheet's Format (A4 to A0, or an elongated A3 × 3 and the like), Orientation, Drawing type and Content for the title block. Turn on the North arrow and add texts where the sheet needs them.
5. Click PDF in the top bar. The file is named by the plan number. Print it at actual size (100 %).

What to expect

• What you see is the PDF itself, drawn again a moment after each change, so the screen and the paper can't differ. Zoom with Ctrl and the mouse wheel, or −, Fit and + at the bottom right.
• A view follows its model: draw a wall in the editor, and the sheet shows it a few seconds later. That stays so until the sheet is issued, which comes with the plan list.
• Each view's scale sets its line widths and how much of a wall's layers shows, as in the editor at that scale.
• A Bauvorlage keeps a box above the title block for the building authority's stamps. Sheets larger than A4 get fold marks for folding to A4 (DIN 824).
• Every change is a step you can undo (Ctrl+Z), kept in the sheet's history and saved like a model, also offline.
• Until the plan list arrives, the title block says "Not issued" and the index stays empty.