Multi-View Sheets

Lay out one or more drawing sheets, each holding cropped plan views — viewports — at their own scale, then export the set on your title block.

Before you start

Open a plan in Drawing Measure and calibrate it first. Viewports crop and scale the calibrated plan, so Add Viewport stays disabled until a calibration is set.

Build a sheet

1. On the sheet tabs along the bottom, click + to add a sheet. Each sheet is one page in your set.
2. Click Add Viewport, then drag a rectangle over the part of the plan you want to show. That framed region becomes a cropped view on the sheet.
3. Drag the viewport to reposition it, or drag its edges to resize the frame.

Tune a viewport

Select a viewport to reveal its controls:

• Title — a label printed under the view (leave blank to use the plan name).
• Scale — the list on the sheet bar, the row of controls above the sheet, that sets the view's real scale. A drawing scale says how much of the room fits on a length of paper: at 1/4" = 1'-0", a quarter inch of paper shows one foot of the room. The caption is the text printed under the frame: the view's title, with its scale on the line below. The SHEET panel, one of the palettes in the dock on the right of the screen, shows the same scale in its Scale row while you are inside the view (double-click into it, as the callout below explains), and also when every view on the sheet has the same scale. Scrolling inside an unlocked view zooms it, which changes its scale, and the caption under the frame and the SHEET panel follow. A scale that is not on the list reads as a ratio such as 1:64, which means one inch of paper shows 64 inches of the room, and the list then shows Custom 1:64. Picking a scale from the list zooms the view to that scale inside the same frame, which keeps its place and size on the sheet. The list also works while the view is locked.
• Layers — toggle Electrical, Underlay, Grayscale, object Labels, Annotations, and Plan Underlay per view. A new viewport starts with the plan's own Floor/Ceiling Underlay setting, and Plan Underlay lets you flip it for just that view.
• Add Elevation — drop a wall elevation alongside the plan view.
• Lock — freeze the view so an accidental drag can't shift it.

Rack elevation frames

A rack frame puts one of the project's racks on a sheet, drawn true to scale. It can sit beside your plan views and wall elevations, or on a sheet of its own.

Add a rack

1. Open the sheet and click Add Rack on the sheet bar. A list of the project's racks opens, showing each rack's name, room and rack units (RU). A project with no racks shows a link to the Rack Builder instead.
2. Click a rack. Its front elevation lands on the sheet at 1"=1'-0", to the right of the frames already there. On an empty sheet, or when there is no room left before the title block, it lands 1" in from the top and left edges.

The front view shows the RU numbers, each device's face and label, shelves, blanks, vents, PDUs and drawers as hatched bands, and your margin callouts in a 2" column beside the rack. Under the frame, the caption names the room and the rack, for example Boardroom - BCR-R1 Rack Elevation. The scale prints on the line below it.

A rack with no height yet (0 RU) can't be added. The status bar asks you to set its height in the Rack Builder first.

Rack controls

Click a rack frame to select it. Its controls appear on the sheet bar:

• Title — the caption under the frame. Type your own, or clear the box to go back to the automatic caption. The automatic caption follows renames of the rack and its room.
• Scale — the drawing scale. Changing it resizes the frame to fit the rack at the new scale.
• Front and Side — which face of the rack to draw. The side view is as wide as the rack is deep. It shows no margin callouts, and its caption ends in — Side.
• Refit — resizes the frame to the rack's current size. The next section explains when you need it.
• Open in Rack Builder — opens the Rack Builder for this project. Pick the rack there to edit it.
• Delete Rack — removes the frame from the sheet. The rack itself stays in the project. Pressing Delete does the same.

Scale, Front, Side and Refit are greyed out when the rack is missing, has no rack units, or has a saved layout that can't be read.

Drag a rack frame to move it. It snaps to the edges of other frames and to the sheet margins. Hold Alt (Option on a Mac) while dragging to place it freely. A rack frame has no resize handles, because its size comes from the rack and the scale. Double-clicking it does not open it for editing.

Kept in sync with the Rack Builder

A rack frame always draws the rack as it is now. Changes made in the Rack Builder, even in another browser tab, appear the next time you open the sheet's tab. Export Sheet and Export All also read the latest layout.

The frame keeps the size it was given. If the rack grows, for example with more rack units or a new callout, the drawing is cut off at the frame's edge. Select the frame and Refit is highlighted whenever the frame no longer matches the rack. Click it to resize the frame. The frame keeps its position.

Racks in the PDF

Export Sheet and Export All print each rack frame where it sits on the sheet. The drawing matches the screen, and the caption prints on one line: title, then scale. A sheet that holds only rack frames exports too. A missing rack prints the same grey placeholder with a red border.

A published drawing set prints the same racks on its Sheet pages.

Export

Use the Multi-View Sheet export to render every sheet to PDF, each laid out on your active title block — the standard AVstackr block, or the custom title block the project uses.