Set up a blueprint for furniture plans using a different drawing technique. This guide provides step-by-step instructions on how to utilize the model tab and create an organized sheet for your plans.
Key Insights:
- The drawing process for furniture plans begins with utilizing a sheet in the model tab, contrary to the usual method. This technique involves creating a duplicate copy of the sheet and renaming it to properly organize the plans.
- Setting up the sheet requires changing the title blocks and sheet numbers, and updating the titles. The viewport can be adjusted to provide an ideal view of the plans, and any unnecessary elements can be turned off to streamline the design process.
- To avoid any mistakes, it's crucial to double-check the scale, which should be set to a quarter inch equals a foot, and ensure the view is locked. This allows for zooming without affecting the view, thereby maintaining the integrity of the plan.
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So far we've done all of our drawing here in the model tab, but for our furniture plans, we're going to work a little bit backwards and try out a different technique. We're going to begin this time with the sheet. Let's go ahead and go to our i2 tab, that sheet i2, open that up.
We're going to start with this sheet and make a duplicate copy. We'll do that by right-clicking on i2 and selecting move or copy. We want to select move to end and click the box for create a copy and click okay.
So there it is, we can open up that tab now. It's i-2 parenthesis 2. We'll double click to give that a better name. We'll call it i-4 and enter locks that in.
Now let's set up our sheet to get ready for our furniture plans. First we will double click on our title block and we'll change the name and we will change the sheet number. The sheet number will go to i4 and we'll scroll down and we'll change the sheet name over to furniture plans and click okay.
So that looks pretty good. Now we can update our titles. We've got view title 1, first floor, second floor.
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We'll double click and instead of proposed plan we'll call this furniture plan and we'll do the same for our second floor. Double click, change the attributes for the title over to furniture plan and click okay. All right, so our titles are set up.
Now let's make a few adjustments in our viewport. So this is our viewport. It's a big rectangle that surrounds our plans.
If we double click in the center it takes us to kind of an active viewport view. We can make changes now. If you ever get lost in here you can type in ps and enter.
It takes you back to paper space, back to the sheet view. So double click again and let's go ahead and open up our layers. Type in the word layer and we'll turn off a few things that we don't need for the furniture plan.
Number one, we don't need our dimensions. We'll select that and you remember which column we need to click? You guessed it, that vp freeze column. It's the third column over on my screen and you'll see it freezes in this viewport but nowhere else.
It'll still be on everywhere else we need it. Now let's go ahead and look for our door identification, a door ident. Now we've got a problem here, it's our current layer.
We need to change our current layer. Let's change our layer to our iFurniture layer. So iFurn, loose, we'll double click and set that to our current layer.
And now we can hide our door ident. So a door ident and then we'll click the box for vp freeze. And that looks pretty good.
Our plan looks nice and clean. Last two things we need to do are just a couple of checks. Number one, down at the bottom we want to double check that the scale is set to quarter inch equals a foot.
And we want to make sure that the little lock is on. There is a selected viewports are locked. We want to make sure it's locked.
What does that mean? It means we can zoom in and out and it doesn't change the view. It stays locked. Now if that were to be unlocked it would mess us up.
If I zoomed in accidentally it messed up the whole view. I don't want that. So I want to keep this set to quarter inch equals a foot on my scale and I want to keep it to locked.
And that way it can't get messed up.
