Guide

Export permit-ready PDF exhibits.

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The drawing you designed becomes the paperwork you submit. Export a scaled PDF set — plan and section views, a title block, and a take-off page — straight from the same model, with no redrawing in a separate CAD tool.

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One model, real paperwork

Because the exhibits come from the same design that produced your take-off and quote, there’s no double work and nothing to keep in sync. Change the dock, and the materials, the quote, and the exhibits all follow.

Video — coming soon

Exporting a PDF exhibit set and filling in the title block.

Walkthrough videoVIDEO PE-00
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What’s on an exhibit

The exhibit builder: a scaled dock plan sheet with dimensions, property lines, a title block, and a scale bar, with the page list and layer controls.
A scaled plan exhibit with a title blockSHOT PE-01

Export a clean, scaled PDF from Project menu → Export. Each exhibit carries:

  • True-to-scale plan drawings of the dock and site
  • Property lines, shoreline, setbacks, and high/low-water references
  • Dimensions and labels carried straight over from your plan
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Title & info blocks

A reviewer expects more than a drawing. Each sheet carries a title block with the project, the applicant, and the engineer information, plus the views and scales a jurisdiction asks for — so the set reads like the submission it is, not a sketch.

Settings → Applicant & engineer: the applicant block (name, address, email, phone) and the engineer block (name, firm, license, phone) plus a PE-seal URL — the fields that fill the exhibit title block.
Applicant & engineer blocksSHOT PE-02
Brand it as yours
With an org workspace, your company branding rides along on every quote and PDF — so what you hand the customer looks like it came from your shop.
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The full set

An export isn’t one page — it’s the set a packet needs: a scaled plan, section views, and a take-off page so the materials travel with the drawings. Anchored to an aerial basemap, the dock shows in real context instead of floating on a blank sheet.

The exhibit builder's aerial-overlay page — the dock on satellite imagery with a north arrow, locator inset, and title block — beside a sidebar of the set's other page thumbnails.
A multi-page set — here, the aerial overlaySHOT PE-03

For the bigger picture on permitting, see permit-ready dock plans.

Key takeaways
  • Exhibits export from the same model as the take-off and quote — nothing to keep in sync.
  • Sheets are true-to-scale with dimensions, property lines, and water references.
  • Title blocks carry project, applicant, and engineer info; org branding rides along.
  • The set includes plan and section views plus a take-off page.

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