Discover how to manage your floor plan keynotes effectively, from initial set up to referencing, in order to streamline your architectural design process. This article provides a step-by-step guide on adjusting keynote lengths, aligning texts, and editing entries for a professional and organized floor plan.
Key Insights
- The article demonstrates how to alter the length of keynotes in your floor plan by using the 'Stretch' function and adjusting the base point.
- When editing entries, it's important to ensure the keynote texts align with the corresponding labels, for clarity and coherence.
- The process of referencing, or 'XRef', is highlighted as a crucial step for keeping the floor plan up to date and maintaining its accuracy in relation to other elements of the architectural design.
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We have completed the keynotes for our roof plan and our elevation. What I'd like to do now is to work on the floor plan keynotes. So I'm going to go back over to my elevation keynotes file and go File, Save As.
Well, first I'm going to go Save, just to make sure, and then File, Save As, Keynotes, Floor Plan. And overwrite the file. Now, let's do this.
Let's open, let's go Control-O, and let's open our VDCI A201 drawing. And what you'll notice on this drawing and also on the handout is that the keynotes here occupy the entire length of this spot on the right, whereas the ones we had before only occupy half of the distance. So I'm going back to my keynotes file, and I'm going to begin by changing the length.
Now, again, the base point is 0,0, and if I were to draw a line from 0,0, it would go to this point right here. This needs to be stretched down to make it twice as long. I'm going to go to the Home tab, and I will choose Stretch, do my crossing, pick Enter.
I'm going to stretch it from the end of the top to the end at the bottom, zoom extents, Control-S to save. I'm now going to zoom in here, double-click, select Elevation, and type Floor Plan, Floor Plan Keynotes, and I will close the text editor. We now want to change the text just like we have in the other drawings, and so the easiest way would be to double-click, to select, and to start typing.
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Your first typing would be Entry Closet with 12-inch Deep Shelf and Full-Length Pole. You would then hit ENTER, Enter, and then type in Forced Air Furnace, and so on and so forth. Again, you do not hit an Enter after the word Length.
We're going to let the bounding box determine where the breaks are between the entries. Now, just like on our elevations, I have already pre-typed, so I'm going to go Control-V and bring it into the interface, and I will close the text editor. Now, I have some moves to do, so I'm going to say Move Crossing, and I select over the borders.
I will say from here, Ortho On, make the 3 line up with the space, perfect there, Move Crossing, put the bottom of the 5 lining up with the bottom of the S in space, Move Crossing, Enter. Let the bottom of the 6 line up with the Broom, Pantry is fine, Move Crossing. Let the bottom of the 8 line up with the bottom of the L, Move 10, bottom of the 10, bottom of the G in Gas, and I will then erase out the 11, the 12, Enter, Control-S, Zoom Extends.
Everything looks fine, I make sure that I have my keynotes lined up appropriately with the text, everything looks good, Control-S to save. I now want to XRef this into my 2.1 sheet file, I'm going to go to my 2.1 sheet file, I'm on Layer 0, and I'm going to go to the Insert tab, Reference Attach, and I'm going to reference attach my floor plan keynotes, specify insertion point on screen, and go to the end here in the top right, Control-S to save. Now, when I'm looking at my drawing, I right now am seeing some information that is associated with my roof plan.
So, I'm seeing some of the Annotative 96 information turned on in this drawing, so I'm going to go back to the Home tab, go to Layers, I will take my Annotative 96 layers, and I will turn them off, so Anno Dims 96, Anno Sims 96, turning them off, and while I'm here, I'm also going to go turn off my roof plan information, and then close this, Control-S to save, and now my A2.1 file looks exactly as it should. Zoom Extents, Zoom Real Time, Control-S to save, and I also want to go to put my key plans in my enlarged drawing, so I will go File, Open, and I will go into my 202 drawing, and once again, I'm on Layer 0, go to the Insert tab, Reference Attach, I'm going to reference attach in my keynotes for the floor plan, specify insertion point on screen at the end of the top right, and once again, I can tell that I have my roof plan information showing, you can see part of the roof right here, so once again, Home tab, go to Layers, I'm going to make sure my Annotative 96 layers are turned off in this drawing, and I will also slide down and take my roof, hold down Shift, go to here, turn that off also in that drawing, Control-S to save, and so now I have my A2.1 sheet file completed, Control-S to save, and I can type in the word Close to close that drawing, I can Control-S to save the A2.1, we are going to come back and add a bit more information, in particular some keynotes and some building section symbols onto this drawing, so save that, close that, I've completed the floor plan, I can close those keynotes, update my XRef for my elevation keynotes, Control-S to save there, and so before we begin our building elevation, I would like to go back into the model and add information into the model reflecting the location of the building sections on the quarter inch plan.
