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Sheet Setup

Holds the sheet layout settings in one place - the paper size, how many sheets per row, the scale rounding, margins and the text style. Wire the SHD output into C-value Section Check, C-value Map and Seat Map so every sheet component lays out the same way from a single setup. Leave SHD unwired and each of them uses the defaults this component starts with. Where the sheets start is not part of it - each sheet component keeps its own Origin, so their sheets do not land on top of each other.

1Plan & setup

2Section

32D layout

43D solids

5Analysis

free Util 6 in · 1 out

Fig. 1 — PortsReads left, writes right

Sheet Size Mode ▾ SizeText · itemSheet format, landscape

Sheet Columns ColumnsInteger · itemHow many sheets per row before the layout wraps

Scale Step Scale StInteger · itemDenominators round up to a multiple of this

Margin Number · itemMargin inside each sheet, in paper millimeters

Gap Number · itemGap between sheets, in paper millimeters

Dimension Style Dim StylObject · itemA Rhino dimension style for the sheet texts

Sheet Data SHDObject · itemThe sheet setup as one object

Colored ports carry the chain from one component to the next. The rest are values you set once. Inputs marked ▾ take a Value List: wire one in and it fills with the choices.

Inputs

Sheet Size Mode▾ SizeSheet format, landscape (default A3)
Sheet ColumnsColumnsHow many sheets per row before the layout wraps (default 4)
Scale StepScale StDenominators round up to a multiple of this. Set it to the scale you want - 800 gives 1:800 if it fits (default 100)
MarginMarginMargin inside each sheet, in paper millimeters (default 10)
GapGapGap between sheets, in paper millimeters (default 10)
Dimension StyleDim StylA Rhino dimension style for the sheet texts. Leave unwired for the default

Outputs

Sheet DataSHDThe sheet setup as one object. Wire into the SHD input of any sheet component

What it does

One Sheet Setup can feed C-value Map, C-value Section Check and Seat Map, but each of them works out its own scale: the most detailed one its drawing fits at on the sheet, rounded up to a multiple of Scale Step. Enter the scale you want as Scale Step - 800 for 1:800 - and a sheet uses exactly that whenever its drawing fits, otherwise the next multiple up. So the three sheets share a scale only when every drawing fits at Scale Step. For a different scale on each, give each component its own Sheet Setup. A scale more detailed than the drawing fits at cannot be forced: choose a larger sheet size instead.

Component
Ribbon: Util
Tier: free
Ports: 6 in · 1 out
Version: 1.0.11
Checked: 2026-10-08