Justification of Named Boundary when making sheets

RE: Justification of Named Boundary when making sheets

caddcop — Sun, 18 Sep 2022 22:22:40 GMT

This might be slightly off topic, but our 50 scales sheet seeds allow you to select them and change the scale and the lengths and offsets adjust accordingly. I did see it seem to get out of synch once, but starting over reset everything and it all worked great.

But I agree that a center-horizontal justification for the sheet boundary would be a great option.

RE: Justification of Named Boundary when making sheets

MaryB — Fri, 16 Sep 2022 20:30:51 GMT

Is there any way to change the named boundary origin, or the named boundary "seed"/definition origin?

Having to create a named boundary seed for every possible length permutation, and having to segregate sheet creation based on the length of sheet is just a whole lot of extra work. The entire sheet creation process seems so inflexible and invariable...And by the time we come up with all the workarounds and extra routines, is it worth it.

(I'm sure it is, but it's a lot of work, and there's no obvious way to adjust on the fly)

RE: Justification of Named Boundary when making sheets

Shawn Cooke — Fri, 16 Sep 2022 17:36:40 GMT

Due to the Named Boundary tool using Saved Views that apparently only have a bottom left origin, it's hard to say if there's another option available. For areas like this that appear to need additional space, place boundaries into separate groups where the one between them would be in its own group (using a different length size seed). The idea is to add all the named boundaries first, then go back and create the sheet portions later once the areas make sense. Placing them all in one group for sheet creation would prevent their named boundaries from using their designated sheet model seed. EDIT: You only need a separate named boundary group for that alternate seed to prevent someone from running sheets by the wrong seed. As with most ORD data, be as descriptive in these breadcrumbs as possible for others to follow your intent by having the separate group(s) (e.g. Plan 20 Scale - 300 clip length; Plan 20 Scale - 500 clip length).

RE: Justification of Named Boundary when making sheets

Brad Spanberger — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 20:49:12 GMT

I do know that. We just have about 105+ sheets and working through projectwise, so hoping there might be a solution that isn't manual somehow.

RE: Justification of Named Boundary when making sheets

Matt Murphy — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 20:45:27 GMT

I am not sure how to make it automatically justify to the center of the sheet. You may already be aware of this, but you can move the drawing boundary reference in the sheet model to center it manually on the sheet.

RE: Justification of Named Boundary when making sheets

Brad Spanberger — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 17:00:08 GMT

Example:

It centers it vertically but always puts the left side of the named boundary (at the centerline) on the left side of the drawing boundary, which gives me issues on skewed named boundaries like this one.