Explore the process of creating a detail border with two horizontal and one vertical dimensions, involving steps such as saving, attaching reference files, and manipulating graphics and text positions. Understand the nuanced procedures of transforming, mirroring, regenerating, and zooming image components within a specific area.
Key Insights
- The creation process involves saving the file with a detail border, two horizontal, and one vertical. This is achieved through the File menu, where files can be closed, reopened, and saved with specific settings.
- Visual adjustments, such as mirroring and regenerating, are used to manipulate the image's position and appearance. For instance, a mirror window can be created from a midpoint and stretching or removing certain components can alter the image's layout.
- Users can also modify text and line properties, such as changing the line type or designating a specific area for text placement within the border. Additionally, references can be attached or detached to modify the graphical content.
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So let's begin our Two Horizontal by One Vertical. I'm just going to go File, Close. I'm going to go up to File.
I'm going to go back and reopen my One by One. And I'll go File, Save As. And I'll save the file with the Detail Border, Two Horizontal, One Vertical.
Again, remember where 0,0 is. I'm going to do a similar kind of thing. So I'm going to go Reference Attach.
I'm going to attach in my One Horizontal by One Horizontal. Specify on screen. I'm just going to put it over here.
I'm going to move this guy from the end of here down to the end of here. Back off a bit. Stretch Crossing.
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Now there's a chance, because I grabbed the insertion block base point of this, that if I stretch it, it's going to stretch the lower one. See what's going on? So Stretch Crossing. R for Remove.
Remove this guy from the end of there to the end of there. CTRL S to save. And then I'm going to Mirror.
M-I for Mirror Window from the mid of here straight down. CTRL S, R-E for Regen. What tends to happen when you have the Two Horizontal and One Vertical, your graphic will be here in the middle.
I'm going to zoom in a little bit. Regen again. And you will have some text over here on the right that will point to something over here.
And you'll have text over here on the left that will point to something on the left-hand side of the image. So what we do is we allow for text to be positioning itself right in that area. Now, another thing that we could do if we'd like is we could draw a line from the node of here and go straight down.
I'm just going to take this line, go to Home tab, and put it on the No Plot layer. And then I could Move Window from the node of here perpendicular to this vertical line. And then I'm going to trim that down.
And then I can pick this line, Right Button Properties, and I can change its line type. It's just showing Continuous. I'm going to have to do this another way.
I have to load the line type in the drawing. I'm going to go into Layers. I'm going to, for example, take No Plot, go to Load, and I'm going to load the Hidden2 line type and go OK.
So I've loaded it in the drawing. I have not changed the line type of that layer, but now I can go onto this, do a Right Button Properties, and I can make the line type be Hidden. And so what this is telling me is that, I'm going to extend up to here this.
What this is telling me when I do my text, because I still have my node alignment on the left, but I'm saying, keep your text within this area. Again, it's on the No Plot, it's not going to show. The distance from the nodes to the line there is identical from the nodes to the line over there.
And then I can go back to Reference, go to Insert tab, go to Reference, pick on 1H, 1V, Right Button, Detach, Zoom Extents, zoom back, save the file, and there we are. This is a lot of fun. I really hope you're enjoying it, but this is a lot of fun.
And I think that as we actually begin putting content into the details, you'll start seeing a lot of the enjoyment too. If you would please get to here, and then I will see you in the next video.
