Creating a Sheet model for printing as a drawing, typically involves working with the following components:

• Design model(s) — where the design geometry is created
• Saved views — Used to set up views required for the drawing.
• Border attachment — Contains the border graphics and title block for plotted output.
• Drawing model — where the annotations, dimensions, callouts, and other embellishments are added to the saved view.
• Sheet model — The electronic drawing sheet.

There is no hard and fast rule about how to create Sheet models, or how to display your drawing information from your design or drawing models. Commonly, either of two methods are used, one that scales the border to enclose the design, or the other that scales the design to fit the border.

With both methods, for 3D work in particular, it is a good idea to have separate design models and sheet models. This lets you keep the purely drawing information, such as text and dimensioning, separate from the design information. Doing this reduces the likelihood of conflicts where others, for example, wish to reference the same design model for use in a drawing of a different scale.

Creating Sheet models automates the creation of drawing sheets for the printing of your designs. This process is similar to how the manual draftsperson works. Where it differs, however, is that instead of redrawing the model's geometry for each view, like the manual system requires, you simply attach views of the design model as references.

In other words, you attach as references views of your design geometry for each plan, elevation, section, and so on. The power of this system is that any changes made to the design model then is reflected immediately in each affected view in the drawings. The electronic version of the manual drawing sheet consists of:

• Sheet model— The electronic drawing sheet.
• Attached models/views — References of the design geometry and drawing models.