Explore the process of creating enlarged plans of different areas of a house using CAD. The article instructs on inserting no-plot view quarter size images at different scales, creating new dimension styles, and setting dimensions at scale factors of 24 and 12 within each enlarged plan area.
Key Insights
- The article guides through creating enlarged plans for a house's kitchen and laundry area, fireplace area, Jack and Jill bathroom area, and guest bathroom area. These enlarged plans are inserted into the A2.2 sheet using no-plot view quarter size images at different scales.
- Dimension styles play a crucial role in defining the scale factor. The author creates two new dimension styles, 'tick-tick 24' and 'tick-tick 12', derived from the existing 'tick-tick 48'. The fit factor is the only variable between these styles.
- Dimensions at a scale factor of 24 and 12 are set within each enlarged plan area. Setting dimensions involves the selection of the appropriate dimension style and layer. The author suggests placing dimensions inside each area while ensuring they stay within the boundaries.
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We've gotten our A2.1 sheet file together, and what I'd like to work on next are creating some enlarged plans of different areas of the house. So what I'd like us to do is to go back to our 301 plan model file. And so I already had mine open, you might have to go File, Open, and choose your CAD 301 plan model file.
I'll go to the Home tab, and I'll make sure that 0 is my current layer. What we're going to be doing is we're going to have some enlarged plans of the kitchen and laundry area, the fireplace area, the Jack and Jill bathroom area, and also the guest bathroom area. And we'll have these enlarged plans at different scales.
Now, we're going to have a total of four enlarged plans that we will end up putting on one sheet, our A2.2 sheet. So what we're going to be doing is we will be inserting our no-plot view quarter-size image at different scales. So I'll go to Insert.
I'll choose Block Insert. I'll go over to Browse. I'm making sure I'm in my CAD 301.
I'm going to go down and choose my no-plot view quarter image, and I'll go Open. Now, I'm going to say Specify Insertion Point on Screen. The first one I'm going to work for will be at my kitchen, and the kitchen area will be at a scale factor of 24.
So I've chosen Specify Insertion Point on Screen at a scale factor of 24. I'll go OK, and I'm going to position this image file so that I'm going to take off my running OSnaps. I'll position it so that the innermost boundary includes the area for the laundry and the kitchen, and Control-S to save.
I'll pan up and over and go towards the fireplace area. So I'll go to Insert, and you can see that the block is already in the drawing, so I don't need to go to Browse. It's already right there.
I'll say insert this at a scale factor of 12. So a scale factor of 12 is 1 inch equals a foot. So again, I'll insert my no-plot view quarter-size no-plot area, Specify Insertion Point on Screen, a scale factor of 12.
I'll go OK, and I'll place it right about here. What I'm going to do next, rather than inserting it again, I'll just copy this block. So I'll go to the Home tab and choose Copy, this block, Enter, Arbitrary Base Point.
I'll put it around the guest bath, again, trying to keep the image frame within that region, and copy it over here to the Jack and Jill area, Enter, Control-S to save. So again, what we've done is we've brought in the no-plot view at a scale factor of 24 for the enlarged kitchen plan, and a scale factor of 12 for the enlarged fireplace, guest bath, and Jack and Jill bath area files. Now, we've brought in the no-plot views.
If we go look at the layers, you can see that we already have layers for our dimensions for a scale factor of 48,24, and 12. So again, we're using A-ANODIMS, and at the end, we're showing the scale factor, 48 for quarter inch, 24 for half inch, and 12 for one inch. We have the layers, but if I were to go to the Annotate tab and look at dimensions and choose the expanded arrow on the right, you can see that in our drawing we only have the tick-tick style for our quarter-inch or 48 scale factor.
So, in addition to putting the dimensions on a correct layer, we also need to have our dimensions set up with a dimension style that is appropriate for the scale factor. So I have tick-tick 48 selected. I'll say choose a new dimension style, and you can see that it's saying start with tick-tick 48, and it wants to call it copy of tick-tick 48, but I'll deselect copy of, press the end button, backspace twice, and choose 24.
Because if you remember, all of the base information in the dimension styles is consistent, the only variation is the fit factor. So I'll say create a new dimension style called tick-tick 24, start with the tick-tick 48, and then I'll choose continue. So all of the parameters are the same except for the fit factor.
I'll go to the Fit TAB, and I'll give it a scale factor of 24. What I tend to do is to select more text than I need, so I select it, type a 24, and then a period, so it shows a scale factor of 24, and I go OK. So you can see we now have a new dimension style called tick-tick 24.
I'd like to create another dimension style called tick-tick 12. So again, tick-tick 24 is selected. I'll choose new, and you can see it's starting with the style tick-tick 24.
I'll deselect up here, press the delete button, press the end button, backspace twice, type in 12, and go continue. So once again, I'm in the dimension style modification area. I'll select the 24, type 12, period, and go OK.
So what we've now done is we have created two new dimension styles. We already have one called tick-tick 48. We've just created tick-tick 24 and tick-tick 12.
What I'd like to do next is to make tick-tick 24 my current dimension style, so I'll say set current and go close. And then what I'd like to do is to go into my layers, and I'll make ADIMS 24 my current dimension style. So what's going to be happening is that we're going to be putting some dimensions at a scale factor of 24 in the kitchen laundry area.
Now, there's a method to my madness. What we're going to do is we are going to purposely put dimensions at a DIMS scale of 24 and 12 within each of these enlarged plan areas. So I'll simply zoom into here.
I'll go to annotate. I'll do some linear dimensions, put on my running OSnap from the end of here to the end of here, place it here. Linear, end of here, end of here, place it here.
And so what I'd like to do is rather than having you watch me put all these dimensions in, if you would please add some dimensions to each of these areas using the tick-tick 24 and the dimension style A-ANODIMS 24. So again, add some dimensions at that scale inside this region, and then please go into the guest bathroom area, add some more dimensions. I'll say from the end to the insertion point of the toilet block, place it there, and then I'll just do a continued dimension to the bathtub and then go to the end of the wall.
So I'm just trying to get a few dimensions in there. The same thing in this bathroom, linear dimension. I can say from the end of the wall to the insertion point of the block, place it here.
I'll continue to the insertion point of the block and continue to the end of the wall. Again, feel free to put them wherever you would like. Make sure that they're staying within the boundaries, and I'd prefer that you keep them within this area.
So I'm just throwing some random dimensions into all of these areas. Again, in the fireplace, linear dimension from end to end, place it here, and I'll continue, go to there, continue. So it's up to you where you place the dimensions, but if you would please, place dimensions within each of these enlarged printing areas using the layer A-ANOSDIM24, and please also make sure that while you're doing that, that you are also using the dimension style TICTIC24.
So I'll pause this video for a few moments so you can get some of those dimensions in there.