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Sheets

A sheet is a page to print: several views at their own scales, one title block, one legend, and your texts. Sheets are numbered (S-101, S-102…) and saved with the views: in a .bimble model, or in the views file next to an IFC.

Open and make sheets

Sheets are listed under Layouts in the project browser.

  • Click one to open it in the main view. It is drawn from its own PDF drawing, so what you see is what prints, sharp at any zoom.
  • New sheet (here, or in the Sheets tab) adds an empty A1 sheet.
  • Right-click a sheet: Export PDF…, Delete sheet.

Scroll zooms at the pointer, a right or middle drag pans, F fits the sheet.

With nothing selected, the properties show the sheet's number, name, paper (A4 to A0, portrait or landscape) and the title block's fields (phase, revision, drawn, checked…).

Place views

Drag a plan, ceiling plan or section from Views onto the sheet. It is placed at its scale under the pointer.

  • Click it to select it, then drag it to move it.
  • Its scale is the view's: changing it here changes the view, on every sheet and on screen. Remove from sheet (or Del) takes it off.
  • Double-click it to open the view On paper.

Texts and dimensions

Choose the tool in the Annotate tab:

  • Text: click where the text goes. Inside a placed view, the text belongs to the view (at a point of the model: it shows wherever the view is placed). Elsewhere it belongs to the sheet.
  • Dimension: click two points (they snap to the ends of the drawn lines, else to the lines), then where the dimension line goes. Above or below both points, it measures across; left or right of both, up; between, along the two points. Dimensions belong to the view: they show on every sheet the view is on, on paper plans, and over the view on screen.

Next to the tools, choose the dimension type and text type new ones get (unit, decimals, colour, size: see Standards). Select a text or a dimension to change its type, text or size.

Every change can be undone in a .bimble model.

From the command line

bimble sheets model.bimble                          # number, name, paper, views placed
bimble sheet-new model.bimble --name Plans \
    --place "Plan Level 1:100" --place "Section A:50"   # views side by side, next free number
bimble sheet model.bimble S-101 S-101.pdf            # .pdf, .svg or .png

sheet-new takes --number, --paper (default A1) and --portrait. sheet takes --style, --template, --project and --dpi, like plan.