Explore the process of adding windows and doors to your AutoCAD design by projecting them onto your elevations. The article breaks down every step, from initiating the line command to accurately positioning and copying windows and doors into place.
Key Insights
- The article details how to use the line command, enabling the user to accurately project windows and doors onto their elevations in AutoCAD.
- Efficiency tools like the copy command and the rotate command are explained in detail, demonstrating how to quickly and accurately reproduce and position design elements.
- The article also emphasizes the importance of precision, such as using exact intersections and measurements, to ensure that windows and doors align perfectly with the floor plan.
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Now let's add our windows and door. The first step is to project our windows up onto our elevations. We'll start with the line command, and on this back wall, we'll pick the left window.
We'll click the left side of the left window and go straight up, and we'll end at our ceiling line. Click. Now to be quick, we'll copy this line across.
We'll do C-O, enter, and we'll click right where we started the line one time, and then click the right side of the window, and then we'll work on the left window, both sides of that window, and hit Escape. Now we've got a window on the right here. We'll go to line command again.
We'll click one side of the window, zoom in to grab it exactly, and then go right to the top of the ceiling and hit Escape, and line again. We'll project right from that corner to the ceiling line. There we go.
Now let's project our door. We'll start the line command, and we'll start with the left side. Click to the ceiling line, and click the right jam to the ceiling.
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Perfect. Now we need to open up our residential blocks AutoCAD file again, and we're looking for the top right. There's a category called window.
We'll select our window underscore Alev. Copy it. Control C. Go back to our project.
Control V to paste, and there it is. We'll set it off to the side for now. We'll select it, go to properties, and on properties, we want to change the layer, and we'll drop that down, and we're going to look for A-glaze for glazing, and then window, A-glaze wind.
That should be fine. Now we'll select it, and M for move. I want to click on the top left corner of the window.
Click, and then go right to this intersection where we project it up from that window. Project it up right where that intersects. I will click.
Now we'll see that window is basically underground right now, and we want to lift it up into place. Well, the top of the window is at seven feet, so I'll select the window, and M for move. Click one time, and go straight up, seven feet, enter.
There it is, looks good. Let's copy it across, C-O to copy, from the left side there to the left side there. Now we have both windows, and we can delete these extra lines.
Delete. Now let's go ahead and bring a window over to this elevation. We'll select one, C-O to copy, copy it off to the side, click, and escape.
Now select it, R-O to rotate. I'm gonna click the top left corner one time. With ortho on, I will drag my cursor straight down and click again.
That rotates it perfectly. Now select it, M for move, and repeat the process. Click in the top left corner of the window.
Now look for this projection line from the window right at that intersection. Click, and there it is, underground. Gonna move it in place.
I'll select it, M for move, click, and I'll type in seven feet, enter. Awesome, we can see out of our elevations now, they have windows. Now we'll add in a door back to our blocks, and we're looking for door.
The door category has this doorelev, 34 × 80. We'll select it, C-O to copy. Right here in our elevations, we'll do C-O-V to paste, select it, and in its layer and properties, we're gonna change that.
We'll go to a doorelev for elevated or elevation door. Click there, and we'll rotate the door, R-O to rotate. Click, move my cursor straight up, click again, and move it into place, M for move.
This is a little bit easier than the window. All we have to do is click on the bottom left corner of the door and move it to the intersection right here of this projected line. Click, and there it is.
We are confident it lines up exactly with our floor plan. Now we can take and delete those projection lines, zoom out, and we are great to go with our door and windows.
