## 3.6. Ply Book

A Ply Book is the easiest way to forward the production data to other members of your project (designers, manufacturers and others). It is a good medium to exchange information generated automatically.

A Ply Book is separated in different chapters. In the automatic setup, a chapter is generated for each Modeling Group. Each chapter has its own View. This allows to predefine a View showing the details of this specific section of the model. Therefore the first step is to generate a new View through the button in the toolbar or by right clicking the tree view.

Figure : View Definition

Create the chapters by right clicking the Ply Book and selecting Automatic Setup from the context menu, or define your own chapters.

After the chapter definition, right click the Ply Book and select Generate the Ply Book from the context menu. Ply books can be exported in the .html, .pdf, .odt or .txt formats. The export operation can take several minutes, depending on the format. The image size used in the Ply Book can be defined in the Scene Preferences.

In the Class40 example, a Ply Book with different chapters and different views is already defined.

Figure : Example of a Production Ply Representation

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