Create Sheets and Place Viewports

When creating sheets in projects, here at Symetri we recommend using Naviate Accelerates' feature "Sheet Manager & Publish", Read more here.

For the users who don't have Naviate Accelerate, here is a step-by-step guide on how to place viewports in the same position on the sheets. The Naviate Bimfire template will be used to showcase on how.

1. Make sure that the correct titleblock is loaded in the project, here the default sketch titleblock will be used.
   

2. In the project there is a sheet that can be used to start with by default.

    

   1. But if there is none in the project, right-click on Sheets in the project browser and create a new sheet.
      
   2. Choose Fire_SketchA1 in the list.
      
   3. The sheet will be sorted under "???", move it to i.e. 02 Sketches by adding a value on NV Browser Group parameter.
      

3. Change the sheet number and name by right-clicking on the sheet in the project browser.

   

4. Open the sheet, and drag-and-drop a view to the sheet. In this case, the scale could be changed to a larger scale. Edit the scale in the view template after placed on the sheet to maximize the viewport.
   
5. On the default sheet in the template, there are two schedules placed already, one for symbol legend and one to show the door requirements in the view.
   
6. Once placed on the sheet, the ability to place all other views in the same location on the sheet, right-click on the sheet and duplicate with views.
   
7. Choose one of the top two choices, but if room tags are already placed use Duplicate with Detailing. The views will change from the centre, and if there are tags outside the crop region the centre will not be the same.
   
8. What will happen is that the view (Level 1) will be copied and the sheet as well.
   
   Copy the sheet with the view as many times as needed and rename them.
   
9. Go to the next levels sheet and select the copied viewport. In the drop-down in the ribbon, change from the copied view to the next one, in this case Level 2.
   
10. The blue-filled box to the left of the view for the copied view will become gray, and the viewport which was changed will become blue indicating that the view is placed on a sheet.
11. Delete all the copied views which now are grey, double check to make sure the correct views are deleted.