Explore the process of inserting drawing titles in architectural plans, with emphasis on ensuring accuracy in labeling, title naming, and scale setting. The article details how to avoid errors in data placement on construction documents, using an Enlarged Jack and Jill Bathroom Plan as an example.
Key Insights
- The article highlights the importance of correctly placing drawing titles in architectural plans, emphasizing the role of the Insert Blocks dialog in this process.
- It underscores the need for accuracy in labeling, naming, and scaling of drawings, warning against any form of data misplacement that could lead to errors in construction documents.
- The article advises against copying drawing titles across different locations due to variations in data elements, suggesting that blank data is more preferable to incorrect data in construction documentation.
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Now let's bring in our drawing titles. We'll still be using the insert blocks dialog for this as these drawing titles have attributes. So let's go up to the insert button and find our drawing title 2. This drawing title 2 means that it's half the width of our full drawing area.
So I'll hit open and you can see that we were set to an insertion point on screen, uniform scale of 1 with no other options. So I'm going to pick this endpoint and this drawing is drawing 3. So this drawing is in the top left of the drawing, which we might think is drawing 1, but in this case we have to think about where the drawings are going to be stapled. They're stapled on the left side of the screen.
And so when you're flipping through a set it's often easiest to put the lower numbers like 1 and 2 on the right side of the page and then moving right to left, top to bottom, we number our drawing. So this is 1,2, 3, and 4. So in this case the drawing label is going to be 3. The drawing name, you can check your handout for this, is going to be Enlarged Jack and Jill Bathroom Plan. Enlarged Jack and Jill Bathroom Plan.
And the drawing scale is not what you see here by default. The drawing scale, as we see on our handout and we saw in our viewport, is 1 inch equals 1 foot 0 inches. So remove that slash and the 4. Okay, that's it okay.
And we can see that it came in as Enlarged Jack and Jill Bathroom Plan with that drawing number of 3. Zoom Extents, CTRL S to save. Now in this case we could do a couple of things. I can select this drawing title and copy it around to the other three locations just like I did for the viewport.
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But in this case we don't want to do that. All three of these data elements are different from one of the other drawings. Obviously they're all going to have different labels and titles.
And our drawing number one has a different scale. If I copy around this data as it's populated we might have a situation where we accidentally forget to change one of the numbers, one of the titles, or the scale. If that happens we will have incorrect data on our construction documents and we want to do everything to avoid that.
It's always better to have blank data than it is to have incorrect data. So I'm going to go back out and we can see that we can simply click our VDCI DWG title dash 2 and place another copy. So let's go here to this endpoint.
There's now an endpoint because of the drawing title we placed previously. This is drawing label one and drawing name is enlarged kitchen laundry plan. Enlarged kitchen laundry plan.
And in this case the scale is one half inch equals one foot. I'll hit okay. Pan down and let's place two more.
I'll start on the left for drawing four. So this is drawing label four. This is enlarged guest bathroom plan.
Again the anticipated drawing scale is not correct. This needs to be one inch equals one foot. I'll hit okay.
And one more time let's click our drawing title. Place it here. This is going to be drawing label two and this is going to be enlarged fireplace plan.
Drawing scale is going to be one. Let's hit okay. Zoom extents control s to save.
Our sheet. We can see that we're still missing our dimensions. These dimensions are all the quarter inch scale dimensions that are going to be used on the floor plan.
Not on these detail views. We need to go back into our CAD 301 plan model drawing and add those dimensions in at the different scale. We also need our keynotes in our kitchen laundry room drawing and our keynotes legend.
We will come back and do keynotes at a later time. For now what I want us to look at is exactly where all of these no plots ended up. And if the no plots which were used to generate our viewports are in the right place.
Let's zoom in here to the top of drawing one. The enlarged kitchen laundry plan. And we can see that there is a little bit of the wall.
This might be a little different in your drawing. But in mine I have the little bit of the wall at the top of the drawing. I don't want that viewed in the drawing.
I could grab my viewport and change the size. And so we wouldn't see that little bit of wall anymore. But now my no plot and my viewport are no longer the same size.
And I want the geometry in my floor plan to be the same as the geometry in my drawing. In order for this to happen we actually need to move the no plot in our CAD 301 plan model. As we look around the drawings we might see similar situations.
In this case we're cutting off the edge of the brick here. And there's a lot of space above for what we can see is the quarter inch dimensions but not as much space below the tile. I want to move this down and maybe slightly to the right to see all of that geometry.
This one looks okay except for I'm only catching a little bit of this door. Maybe shifting it to the right would be nice. And again this one looks pretty good.
I'm seeing a good amount of the tub. I'm catching the edge of that wall in my viewport. And both doors seem to be pretty well centered.
