Sheets

Sheet and sheets by collection

Sheet sets the paper and the units; Sheets by Collection splits one model into several sheets of the same PDF.

Sheet

• Size: A4, A3, A2, A1, A0, Letter, Tabloid, ANSI C, ANSI D; Landscape or portrait.
• Scale: Auto picks the largest standard scale that fits (metric series 1:1, 1:2, 1:5, 1:10…, or imperial scales in inches), or choose a fixed one. If a view does not fit on the sheet at the fixed scale, even alone, that sheet switches to Auto and an info line tells you.
• Units: millimetres, centimetres, metres or inches.
• Secondary Units: dual dimensioning, the second value in brackets, e.g. 254.0 [10.00"].
• Drawing Language: English or French, for every text on the drawing (independent of Blender's interface language).

Sheets by Collection

Tick the box in the panel header, then add sheets. Each sheet has:

1. a Name (printed in the title block);
2. one or more collections to draw;
3. its own scale, chosen automatically to fit its parts (with a fixed scale, every sheet uses it, except a sheet whose views do not fit, which switches to Auto);
4. optionally Own Views: this sheet draws its own views (for example the front view alone, larger) instead of those of the Views panel;
5. a Bill of Materials box: whether this sheet shows the bill of materials.

All sheets end up in one multi-page PDF, plus one SVG per sheet.