Irrigation Sheet Setup and Plotting

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• Intro/TOC
  • Setting Up and Working with an Image
  • Scaling the Image to Actual Size
  • Setting Proper Layer and Transparency
  • Determining What to Trace
• Setting Up Your Sheets (Layouts)
  • Understanding Proper Viewport Scale for the Site
  • How to Split a Design into Multiple Sheets
  • Proper Use of LTSCALE (and Sheet Sets)
• Plotting
  • How to Adjust Your Layout and Plot Styles When Something Goes Wrong

0:00 – 5:54: Intro/TOC

What we are not full covering (but where to find help) (4:18):

• AutoCAD & F/X CAD First Steps
  • Basic CAD drafting techniques
• Xref Tips and Tricks, Sheet Setup and Management, Sheet Set Manager and Land F/X
  • Xrefing base files
  • Using Sheet Set Manager
• Irrigation for Beginners, Start to Finish Basics of Irrigation Design, Getting Started with Irrigation F/X
  • How to start a project and setting a Preference Set
  • Adding Equipment
  • Setting your Source and Pipe Data
  • Placing and laying out your design
  • Circuiting
  • Piping and verifying your design
  • Sizing your design
  • Running schedules
• Drawing Setup: Using an Image
  • Working with other image types

5:55 – 24:03: Setting Up and Working with an Image

Scaling the Image to Actual Size (8:55)

F/X Scale by Reference tool (9:16)

Setting Proper Layer and Transparency (11:58)

Load Layers and Save Layers tools (Layer States) (12:57)

Detaching and reattaching an image Xref to put it on a transparency layer (14:24)

Determining What to Trace (17:29)

The importance of using polylines (18:27)

Using our Xhair Angle tool to snap the cursor crosshairs to a specific angle (19:39)

24:04 – 59:50: Setting Up Your Sheets (Layouts)

Using our fxREF tool to Xref files into the plan (24:46)

Understanding Proper Viewport Scale for the Site (26:33)

Setting a User Coordinate System (UCS) (29:41)

Using our Scale tool to set the plot scale for the plan (32:27)

How to Split a Design into Multiple Sheets (33:56)

Running the CHSPACE command to move objects from Paper Space to Model Space (36:49)

Inserting a sheet layout preview block to determine viewport size and allow for toggling between different scales (37:58)

The importance of putting each layout in its own file (45:22)

Proper Use of LTSCALE (and Sheet Sets) (46:12)

Setting the LTSCALE (linetype scale) to 1 and the PLSLTSCALE (Paper Space linetype scale) to 1, and Xrefing in the layouts (46:12)

Using our Restore UCS tool to pull in a UCS already set in an Xref (48:38)

Naming sheets (54:39)

Using our Match Line tool to place a block as a reference for sheet edges (55:27)

59:51 – end: Plotting

How to Adjust Your Layout and Plot Styles When Something Goes Wrong (59:51)

How to set your LTSCALE and PSLTSCALE when you have your sheets in the same drawing rather than in different files (not recommended) (59:51)

Checking and editing the properties of color layers in Xrefs using our XLAYER tool (1:01:30)