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Chapter 11Views and reports

11.2 What a report is

A report is a set of pages, and a page is a sheet of paper you arrange content blocks on — a 3D view, a paragraph, the cable schedule, a rack elevation. One of those blocks is a frozen view of the venue, which is what a whole page used to be; now it is one thing a page can hold, at whatever size you drag it to, beside the tables that explain it.

Table 11.1 The seven kinds of block.
BlockWhat it puts on the paper
3D viewA frozen view of the venue — camera, display settings, hidden set and annotations (§11.4)
TextHeadings, paragraphs and lists (§11.6)
Cable scheduleEvery run, its ends, its length to order (§11.7)
Equipment listWhat is in the rig, how many, and where (§11.7)
RackA front elevation of one rack (§11.8)
DiagramThe 2D signal diagram, or one named section of it (§11.8)
Blend arrayOne array’s projectors and the seams between them (§11.8)

The + on a report row adds an empty sheet. Pages made before sheets existed open as sheets carrying one full-bleed 3D view block: the same camera, the same crop, the same PDF. (A page that had lost its camera opens empty instead — there is no honest default for where a drawing was framed from, and guessing one prints a picture of somewhere nobody chose.)

The report inspector
Figure 11.2 The report inspector: paper size and orientation, export resolution, and what goes into the PDF — an optional summary page with the equipment list, and a title block with project name, designer and date.