Structures plan plotting

With the Structures sheet layouts and viewports to be plotted open in Civil 3D.

1. Open the plot dialog using any of the options below.
   1. Right-click the sheet layout tab > Plot
   2. Ribbon > Output tab > Plot panel > Plot
   3. Quick Access Toolbar > Plot
   4. C3D Menu > Print
   5. PLOT
   6. PRINT
2. Use the plot dialog page setup settings shown below. Importantly, make sure the following options are set for structures plans:
   1. Printer/plotter name: WisDOT PDF.pc3 if plotting to PDF, physical printer otherwise.
   2. Paper size: WisDOT (17 x 11 Inches)

   3. Plot style table (pen assignments): wisdot_standard.ctb

      

3. OK
4. If plotting to PDF, choose the location to save the file.

1. Open the Publish Dialog using any of the options below
   • Ribbon > Output tab > Plot panel > Publish
   • C3D Menu > Publish
   • PUBLISH
2. If a sheet list has been saved for this publish job, use the sheet list click Load Sheet List... to load it.
3. Otherwise:
   1. Select any existing unwanted sheets from the sheet list and click Remove Sheets or press Del. (Optionally, uncheck Automatically load all open drawings to skip this step in the future.)
   2. Click Add Sheets.
      1. Navigate to the drawings you want to plot and select them.
      2. Make sure Include is set to Layout

      3. Make sure Prefix sheet title with file name is correctly set according to your file names and sheet layout names. This will set how pages are titled in the PDF file.

         
         

      4. Select
   3. Repeat until all sheets are added to the publish dialog.
   4. Reorder sheets as needed.

4. Click Publish Options... to set the default location for publishing files. (This only needs to be done once)

   
   

   1. OK

5. Make sure the Publish dialog settings are set as shown below:

   
   

6. Optionally, Save Sheet List... to save this publish job to republish later.
7. Publish
8. Choose the location to save the published file.

If you need to plot a large number of sheets, multiple plan sets at a time, or if you frequently need to replot drawings, look into using the Publish Collections Manager . This tool drastically decreases the time needed to plot drawings.

WisDOT only: This process is for Bureau of Structures staff only.

1. Open WiBS Computer Resources and click on the Plans Initials Stamper link from the Utilities panel.

   
   

Tip: Right-click the link in computer resources to create a desktop shortcut to this tool.

2. Check Add Design Checker Initials and input the plans checker initials.

3. Use the Add Watermark dropdown to choose the watermark

   
   

4. Add PDF files to stamp. If multiple files are added, they will be combined into a single PDF. Use either of the options below to add files:
   1. Click Add Files and navigate to and select the files to add. Click Open.
   2. Drag and drop the files from File Explorer
5. Stamp

6. If multiple files are stamped, the tool will ask if you want to delete the original files or not.

   
   

7. Once the initials have been added to the plans, they should look as shown in blue below.