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Is there a way when importing plan sheets that you can join sheet sets by match lines?

Sure - are these for site plans or highways plans - either way is possible

For road plans it helps if you have the road alignment and label the alignment first. Then when you hqve imported the sheets you can select the Georeference image / sheet command. In that you select the sheet you want to georeferencre and then you  can apply a clipping boundary to remove eg profile data or title block info from the sheet you are placing. Then you have the ability to use pairs of points to georeference the image using a minimum of two point pairs. Each point pair includes a pixel location in the image and then a physical location in the cad drawing/ graphics area. For the physical location you need to have a real location to snap to or a coordinate value to enter - on road projects i nearly always use the station location marked by the crossing of an alignment label line eg a station of 100+00 where the line crosses the alignment- use the intersection snap option to pick it accurately. 

 These are always marked on road plans.

For site projects you will use some specific location in a cad file if you have one like a building corner or curb return or manheole center or borehole location etc that you can see in the image and in the cad. If you don't have any cad you will need to create some data that provides scale and orientation at least and ideally also true location - these could be drawing grids or a building or boundary line that has distance and orientation that you can use. Once you have placed the first sheet then the second and subsequent sheets are easier as you can pick the physical location from the earlier referenced sheet.

The PUG training class materials from last year have a session on 2D Takeoff where I show how to do this in detail

Here is a link to that class - look at exercise 

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I myself, for road plans with alignments.  I import a CSV file with my stations as the Point ID no. (see image below).  As for the site projects I am sure there is something similar to the way I do my CSV file.  I am learning that Excel is a powerful tool. Adding a series of station point id is much simpler in the form of Fill Series, especially for a long alignment.  Enjoy

Type in your first Point ID>  select the whole column> Home> Fill> Series> choose column, linear, your step value( increments of station) , and stop value ( your last station you want the series to stop at).> the column is now filled with the station increments up to where you stopped your value> now just copy column over the column to the right for the stationing.