Discover the step-by-step process of adding a brick hearth in front of a fireplace using AutoCAD. This guide provides detailed instructions on how to draw perfect geometry, use layers, and adjust the scale for a more precise design.
Key Insights
- The article provides a hands-on guide on how to add a brick hearth in front of a fireplace using AutoCAD. It includes instructions on how to draw the perfect geometry for the hearth, including specific dimensions and placement.
- It emphasizes the importance of making the AWall masonry layer the current layer when creating brick geometry. This ensures that the design aligns with the rest of the structure.
- The article also demonstrates how to adjust the scale factor for the herringbone pattern to achieve the desired design. It provides the specific steps on how to change the scale factor from 24 to 1 to get the right look for the brick hearth.
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We now want to add the brick hearth in front of the fireplace, up here. We don't need our blocks palette, I'll go ahead and close it.
And I'll zoom in, and I'm looking at my A202 handout PDF, and I suggest you do the same. Let's turn on our AWall masonry layer, and let's make it our current layer. This is a brick geometry, so it can go on the masonry layer, even though it's not technically a wall.
If you check your handout, you can see that the total dimensions for this rectangle are three feet four, by one foot six. Three feet four in the X, and one foot six in the Y. Now, we've gone over many ways to draw geometry perfectly in the right place the first time. We could go rectangle, and the first point could be TRA, enter for tracking, from this point, to the left, six, enter, enter to say I'm done tracking, D, enter, three feet four, enter, one foot six, enter, and click the quadrant.
That is a good workflow. We've done that before, and it places our geometry perfectly the first time, all in one tool. Now, I'm going to delete that geometry, and follow along with me as I do something slightly different.
Let's go rectangle, clicking out in space, D, enter, three feet four, enter, one feet six, enter, and I'll just click the quadrant to place it. Now, we've done a slightly faster piece of the workflow, which is to create the rectangle. Now, we can go move, pick the rectangle, enter, and I'll just go from the end point here, to the end point here.
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Again, that's part of the workflow, but not all of it done, but that was faster and fairly easier. Now, I'll hit ENTER to go back into move, pick my rectangle again, and I'll slide to the left with ortho or polar on, six inches, enter. There we go.
We've gotten back to the same exact, precise geometry, but we did it in three steps instead of one step. This is going to be something that you'll need to figure out as you continue to work in AutoCAD. If you would prefer to do all of your workflow into one detailed tool, or if you want to break it up into smaller, more digestible steps.
If you do smaller, more digestible steps, you still have to have the same attention to detail and precision, but it might be faster and slightly easier to do. Okay, now that we have our rectangle in place, let's add our hatch. I'll go to hatch, and let's see if we can find that herringbone pattern.
I'll hit the drop down, and I'll scroll down, and here it is, H bone, and that stands for herringbone. I'll click the hatch, and our scale is still set to 24. Let's see how that looks when we click in, and like I thought, it was far too large.
Let's try a scale factor of one, and that's exactly what we were looking for. Let's close the hatch creation, zoom extents, and control S to save. All right, there we have it.
We have drawn all of the geometry on our floor plan. In the next few videos, we will be working on our annotation and sheet setup. I'll see you there.
