Discover the methodical process of constructing architectural digital models, focusing on the construction of wall structures. Learn the intricacies of using lines, offsets, fillets, and trim commands to build and clean up your model, paying attention to dimensions and the direction of your lines.
Key Insights
- The building process begins with drawing lines and offsetting them by specific measurements, such as six inches, to create the structure of the walls.
- Cleaning up the model involves the use of fillets to round off corners, the trim command to remove excess lines, and frequent saving to prevent data loss.
- The orientation of the model's faces are critical to its construction, requiring careful attention to whether lines are drawn to the left or right side of the existing structures.
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Let's continue building our walls. So I'm going to draw a line from the end of here, straight over, and I'm going to offset that by six inches, and I'm going to begin focusing my eyes on the foyer area. I'm going to draw a line from the end of here, straight up, and extend to here, this line.
And again, I typed EX for extend. I'm going to offset by two foot five, this line to the right, this line to the right, and now do some cleanup. So fillet and fillet, trim, trim, and I'm going to take these lines here, pull them over, take this line here, pull it over.
I'm going to trim and clean up this intersection. I'm going to erase out this line and save the file. I'm going to do some more offsetting.
So I'm going to offset by three foot two, and again, I'm paying attention to which side of the lines my faces are going. Move these guys straight up, trim in through here, that, trim there, clean that up, and save the file. I'm going to offset by five feet.
Again, this line is going to be going to the left face, and offset by six, and do some filleting. Control S to save. I'm going to extend up to here, these lines, and offset by four foot seven, the outside face, and come down by six inches, and save the file, and do some cleanup.
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So I'm just going to trim and do some cleanup in through here, and if I'd like, I can just fillet this guy, offset by three inches, and by two foot six for my door, move these lines over to there, erase this line, trim in through here, and save the file. Trim in through here, zoom extends, save the file. So again, I'm cleaning up as I go.
Now, in order to start developing this area down through here, I really need to build it from down here, because the dimensions that I'm provided are from this top geometry. So I'm going to offset by five foot seven and a half, outside face, by my six inches, and then I'm going to extend down to here, these lines, and while I'm here, extend to here, this. I'm just going to confirm some dimensions.
I'm going to say do the distance. I can either do a dimension or the distance. Do the distance from the end of here to over here, five foot seven and a half, escape, save the file, TR space bar, and clean this up.
Trim in through here, clean this up. Control S, save the file. I'm going to begin working on this bedroom now.
So I'm going to offset by ten foot four, read the dimensions, make sure I'm offsetting the proper sides. So that's the ten foot four, the six inches to go down. I can see that it's time that I can clean up this.
So trim, clean this up, trim, clean this up, and trim and clean this area up. Control S to save. I see that I have a two foot three offset for my closet area, so I'm going to first offset down by three foot six, which is the vertical dimension from the upper face to the upper face, and by six inches down, and offset by two foot three.
Again, reading carefully, trim crossing. Oh, I'm going to also offset in here by six inches for here, fillet and fillet, trim crossing. Clean this area up, offset by three, by two foot six for the door, and move crossing over to the right.
Trim, pick, pick, and pick. Control S and save the file.
