This article provides a detailed guide on how to incorporate keynotes into drawings, demonstrate how to manipulate the geometry of the arrows and aligning them with the right symbols. Moreover, it also highlights the process of adding text to the top of plate floor level, datum symbol and the vertical dimension, along with other essential steps in drafting.
Key Insights
- The article outlines the process of incorporating keynotes into drawings, starting from aligning arrows to the respective symbols to adding the right annotations and dimensions.
- Specific commands such as 'leader', 'OSNAP' and 'midpoint' are used throughout the guide to assist in the process of symbol alignment, making it easier to navigate through the drawing process.
- The content also delves into how to insert key details such as vertical dimensions, text for top plate and floor level, and adjusting their size and positioning for proper visibility and precision in the drawing.
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We have all of our keynotes in the drawing. What we have next to do is to get the arrows to point to the geometry. Now, when we brought in the keynote and the arrow, we brought in the appropriate leader style.
I no longer need this symbol, so I will select it and delete it. The fastest way to bring the leader in, and again, remember that we have leader 48 is our current dimension style, is to type the command leader, because this is actually called a leader. So leader, I'm going to pick a start point, which is going to be the end of the arrow.
I'm going to pull my hand down and pick. I read the prompt. It says, what do I want to do next? Enter for annotation.
Enter for options. And I have no options. I'm going to end up multiple copying this leader to be at the midpoint of these symbols.
Before I do that, I'm going to turn off my no plot layer. And I'm going to go into my OSNAP settings. I'm just typing OS for OSNAP.
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I'm going to turn on midpoint and go OK. Now, I'm going to move the symbol from the end, F3 to turn it on, to the mid of here. And I'm now going to copy the symbol.
I'm going to type L for last, Enter, from the end to the mid. And I'm multiple copying it to the midpoints of the symbols. You can see that the arrows are not necessarily pointing to the right thing.
Now, I need to fix that. I'm going to pick on the leader, pick on the arrowhead, turn off my running OSNAP. Again, ortho is on.
And I will point to the geometry. Hit Escape, pick on the leader, pick on the head, go up to there. Hit Escape.
Pick here, pull down, hit Escape, pick here, go up. If I'd like to, I can go move crossing and move it a little bit to the left. We're again on Keynote 6. We're pointing to the windows with the dual glazing.
So I'm going to actually point to a point on the window. Keynote 5 is the brick veneer. That's fine.
Keynote 2 is the fascia. Go up here and point to the fascia. Pointing to the shutters, I would actually prefer pointing to the shutter itself.
Move crossing, I hit Escape. Pull it to the left a little bit. Keynote 12 is the brick row lock.
This is the row lock right here. Hit Escape. And Keynote 1, I'm sorry, Keynote 3 is the gutter and downspout.
Move crossing to the left. Pick on the grip, go up, Escape. We have to deal with the upper, the arrows for the upper symbols.
So I'm going to mirror this symbol, ortho on. Move this symbol. From turn on my O-snap, end to the mid.
Hit Escape. Copy this symbol from the end to the mid. I see that Keynote 1 is going to the roofing.
I'm going to bring the arrow up just slightly. Hit Escape. This is pointing to the vent.
And I will point it to, I'm just going to type in perpendicular and go into there. Escape, Control-S to save. We need to put in now the text for our top of plate floor level, our datum symbol, and the vertical dimension.
So I'm on the ANO SIMS 48, and I want to bring in my datum. Insert, block insert, go to browse. My datum is my 01090A15 image.
I'm going to go open. This will be a scale factor of 48. Specify insertion point on screen.
Go OK. And I will pop it in at the end of that line for my plate. I can then copy that symbol from the end of the plate to the end of the plate.
Escape, Control-S to save. Now, I'm aware that I have midpoint as an engaged O-snap. I'm going to do right button, O-snap settings, and I will turn off midpoint.
One of the next things we need to do is to put in our vertical dimensions. We're going to be doing annotation. Now, I'm on the symbols layer.
I can go on my dimensions layer, my ANO DIMS 48. And so I'm going to go to annotate. You can see that my current dimension style is leader 48.
I will make tick tick 48 my current style. Set current. Go close.
Do a linear dimension from the end to the end and place it right about here. If I'd like, I can add a vertical dimension from the plate line to the top of the window and pull it out here. This really is not all that necessary.
Most people know that 6 foot 8 is a typical header height. One thing I would like to do is to have these text values align. So I will pick on the dimension, pick on the grip.
I have ortho on, and I'm pulling it up so that my inch marks align as best I can. Control S to save. What I'm going to do next is to add in the text for top of plate and my finished floor level.
I'm just going to go to single line text. A height of 6 inches is fine. I'm going to pick an arbitrary point.
I will accept the height of 6 inches. Enter. Rotation angle of 0. And I will type in T period O period plate.
Hit ENTER. Floor level. And I will then hit ENTER, Enter.
I'm now going to move the floor level down. I'm going to move top plate down a bit, move both of these, and then move both of them a little bit to the left. Now the reason that this text height differs from this text height is that the top text height is 6 inches.
This is 4 and a half. This is generated to be an eighth inch tall when printed. This is generated to be 3 32nds of an inch when printed.
What I can always do is I can go to scale, choose both of these, pick an arbitrary base point here, type in 0.75, which shrinks it down by that factor, and move this up, move this down. Control S to save. Zoom extents.
Zoom back so we can see things. Control S to save. And it now appears that we only have one more dimension to call out, which would be our dimension from grade to the house itself.
Again, annotate, linear dimension, end of the grade, end of the datum line. Pop it here. I can choose the text, pull it down, escape, Control S to save.
If you'd like, we can pick on the sea ground level. We can turn it into a polyline. So I'm going to go into modify.
I'm going to say polyline edit. It says it's not a polyline. Do I want to make it one? Yes.
Give it a width of 1. Enter, enter. Zoom extents. Zoom real time.
Save the file. I can go back into my A301 drawing, update the xref. You can see that we have all of our keynotes there.
Control S to save. We've now completed our floor plan. And again, our floor plan model is containing the information at a quarter inch for the floor plan.
It's also containing the information at eighth inch for the roof plan. We have our enlarged plan, our A202 sheet. And again, the A202 sheet, we have viewports that are at different scales.
We have managed information visibility by viewport. So again, we have our A201, the floor plan. We have the A202, which is our enlarged multiscale drawings.
And we also have our 301 drawing, which includes our elevation and our roof plan. We have our keynotes. And we've been working with this drawing identically to how people would be doing this professionally within an architectural or design office.
I hope that you've learned a whole lot in this CAD 301 course. What we're going to be doing in CAD 302 is two things. We're going to begin the course with a special project, which I think you will find incredibly exciting because it's very typical of what people are normally assigned when they first start in an office.
And then we will be continuing on with this same residential model, where we will be working on a few more elevations, building sections, wall sections, and interior elevations. So again, thank you very much for joining us in this class. And I look forward to seeing you in CAD 302.