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Create and publish a map book

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Create and publish a map book

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- [Instructor] Map Books are used to plot a series of maps that dice your data into sections with a Title block. The Title block usually has the defined viewports where you can put the Overview maps, the Main map, and the Legends. Let's use a map and pre-created drawings template with a Title block in viewports to create that Map Book now. Now in the GUELPH drawing we already have a series of SDFs already pre-authored. Let's go into Map Book. Under Map Books, we'll click New, Map Book. Under Model Space, we'll rename this to Guelph Map Book. For the sheet template, this is where we pick the DWT file that has all our layouts in it. So we'll browse, go to our exercise Map Book Template. It's actually 11x17 Classic.dwt. There's only one layout in that template. It's Ansi B. For the Title block, we're going to choose Title Block. For the Adjacent sheet links, we're going to use a block called Adjacent_Arrows. The Scale Factor will one to 500. Now we'll move to the Titling Scheme. We'll do…

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