Learn how to adapt your architectural plans to accommodate client changes using AutoCAD. This article provides step-by-step guidance on making modifications to a house design, including the addition of a covered porch with a brick veneer.
Key Insights
- The article provides a detailed walkthrough of how to create a covered porch in your design using six by six wood members and a brick veneer. The process involves drawing a rectangle to represent the member, offsetting for the veneer, and adjusting the properties to reflect the veneer layer.
- It further illustrates how to use the hatch command to indicate different areas and materials, such as the inside of the porch and the wall pochet. The use of the ANSI 31 line type scale factor and match properties functions are demonstrated.
- Finally, the article explains how to adjust the positioning of the columns and add dimensions to reflect changes in the overall building size. The lesson emphasizes the importance of reflecting all changes in the final drawings, including new additions and their dimensions.
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I would now like to begin working on our roof plan, but guess what's just happened? The client has just called and said they would like to make a change and they would like to have a covered porch in the back area of the house. The covered porch will be using six by six wood members to hold up the roof and it will be covered with a brick veneer.
So I'm going to work in this area and I'm going to begin by making a wall, my current layer, and I'm going to start off by drawing a rectangle from an arbitrary point to a point at six comma six. So this will be my member and then I'm also going to offset for the veneer and so I'm going to find out what's the distance from the end of this corner to the end of the veneer and I can see that it's a four inch veneer so I will offset by four inches this wood member control s to save. Now this is on the wall layer this wants to be on the veneer layer so I'm going to go match properties type ma enter for match properties here's my source and here's my destination enter control s to save.
What I'd also like to do is to hatch inside of this area so I'm going to go to the hatch command and I'm going to use the ANSI 31 for right now ANSI 31 pick points and I will pick inside this region and close the hatch creation editor. Now you'll notice if we zoom in that it's a very tight ANSI 31 and that's because the line type scale factor for the hatch was a factor of one. So I'm going to make this pattern here become this pattern over here so once again match property ma enter for source my destination will be over here control s to save.
I also need to put my wall pochet in the middle of this so I will go back to hatch I will choose this area close the hatch editor see there's the scale factor of one from before close the hatch editor ma for match properties I will choose the solid here and my destination will be right there control s to save. Now we want to position the columns in a smart area so I'm going to begin by saying move the geometry from the end of here and go to the end of there so now the column with the veneer is lined up with the outside face of the wall. Now if you remember those entities are the previous selection set so I'm going to say move I'm going to type in a p enter for previous enter to say I'm done choose an arbitrary base point put ortho on and drag my hand to the right.
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I'm now going to move it so that the right face of the column will be perpendicular to this dimension line here so I'm going to say move these entities enter to say I'm from the end of the wall perpendicular to the dimension line and then I'm going to copy the previous selection set from the end perpendicular to this dimension line so hit escape so what we have now is we have the columns that we will be using to support our covered porch but I think something else I'd like to do is to indicate the edge of the porch so I'm going to draw a line from the end of the veneer end of the veneer end to end to end down here but it's on the wrong layer so I will do ma for match properties I will use my finished floor layer here and I will choose this enter control s to save what I can also do now is go back into my a 2.1 sheet so I will go control o to open I will open my vdci a 201 drawing and I will now see that I have the columns there now you can see that I don't have the veneer on I'm going to go back in and I will turn on my xref a wall masonry I'll turn that layer on so we can see that's happening but something's missing number one I need to show in this drawing the fact that I've had a change to the drawing and I need to put some dimensions in so I'm going to go back to my model file and I'm going to start off with some dimensions first so we're seeing here that we have the appropriate dimensions for the edge of the column I'm going to add a linear dimension annotate linear dimension I look at my dimension style I'm going to make my dimension style being my tick 48 but I'm going to do a linear dimension but I'm going to choose a continued dimension now if you look at the prompt it says select continued dimension so I'm going to choose this string right here the second one in and I will be continuing to the end of the veneer right there escape but what's also happening is I'm not showing the overall dimension because I've now extended the overall dimensions of the building so I'm going to choose this outermost dimension I will choose on the grip and I will grip it and move it up to their escape zoom extents CTRL S to save so we've now reflected the fact that we have the two new columns and we've included some new dimensions to expand that so if you would please get this done and then we'll come back in and start working on our revision clouds
