Learn about creating detailed borders through a step-by-step process involving saving files, moving and aligning elements, and adding text. This tutorial guides you through the process of creating 1x1, 1x2, 2x1, and 2x2 details in a drawing file.
Key Insights
- The process begins with saving the current file and then using the 'Save As' feature to select the desired detail border format.
- The tutorial includes instructions on how to reference attach other detail formats, move the 'xref', copy with base point, and insert text at specific nodes to align with the design.
- Once the details are created, the tutorial provides guidance on how you can start numbering the details once they have been placed in the drawing.
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Let's begin our two horizontal, two vertical. So again, I'm just going to say File, Save, and then File, Save As. And I will slide down and choose my detail border, two horizontal, two vertical, and overwrite the file.
What I'm going to do first is I'm going to reference attach in the one horizontal, two vertical. So reference attach the one horizontal, two vertical. Specify on screen and just pop it in over there.
I'm going to move the xref from the end of here over to here. Stretch crossing from the end of the top to the end over there. Escape, Control-S to save.
So I know I have it vertically correct, but I'm going to erase window all of my nodes over there and over here. So I'm going to save the file. Because what I can now do is I can go Control-O to open.
I can go into my one horizontal, two vertical. And I can say Copy with Base Point. So Edit, Copy with Base Point, the end of the interior rectangle, and a window I put around here.
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And now I can close the drawing, discard the changes. I didn't do anything. I can go Control-V and pop them in at the end right there.
Escape, then Copy Window. I can save from the node of any of them perpendicular to the inside line. Hit Escape.
I can type in xr, select the one horizontal, two vertical, right button, detach it out of the drawing, come back into the screen, hit Escape, Zoom Extents, Zoom Realtime, RE for Regen. And so again, what we have going on is we now have our graphic would be here in the middle. We'd have text on the left.
We'd have text on the right. We have the nodes as I get in, RE for Regen. We have the nodes that we can start using when we put in mText.
So for example, I can go to Home Position, go to Text. I can go from the node of here, go to the top one. I'm just going to say nearest to here.
And then I have my text. I need to make the text an eighth of an inch high. So I choose that.
And I can say, hello, how are you? Close the Text Editor. And so now I have the text that does align with the nodes. So Zoom Extents and Save the File.
We've now created the detail borders that we need for a 1 × 1, a 1 × 2, a 2 × 1, and a 2 × 2. And when we come back, we're going to go on and start talking about how we number details once they start getting placed in the drawing. See you soon.
