Delve into the intricate process of creating demolition keynotes for a second floor plan using AutoCAD. From adding door openings to setting up layers and adding multileaders, the article provides a detailed walkthrough of the steps involved.
Key Insights
- The process begins with minor adjustments such as adding door openings between rooms. This involves setting the current layer to the A-Wall Demo layer and drawing lines to create the opening.
- The next step is to add M leaders or multileaders. This is done by setting the current layer to the A-Anno Keynote Demo and adding the leaders at specified places, like the bathroom door.
- Finally, the process involves copying the keynotes for convenient tagging. The last part of the process also involves verifying all the keynotes and saving the changes made.
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Now let's create the demolition keynotes for our second floor plan. We'll move our AutoCAD plan over to the second floor plan. And we can also pan in our PDF to the second floor plan.
First, a bit of housekeeping. It looks like we still need to add in this door opening between the upper two bedrooms. Let's zoom into that area.
And let's go back to layer. And we want to set our current layer to the A-Wall Demo. A-Wall Demo.
We'll double click. It's a current layer now. Current layer.
Oh, didn't quite catch. Sometimes we have to double click again. There we go.
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Now it says Current Layer A-Wall Demo at the top of our layer window. Now we can type in the word line. And we'll notice our dimensions are starting from this right wall here.
We'll click one time. We'll turn our ortho on, which is right here. We'll go straight out.
And we'll type in 3 foot 4 inches. Enter. We'll go down and click.
Go to the left. And we'll go to 2 foot 8 inches. Enter.
And then straight up. Now we'll use our trim command. Trim out these extra lines.
And I will type the line command again. And we'll connect the dots. And one more time.
And now we've created this opening in our existing wall. All right. All set there.
Now we can go back to layer. And change our layer again. We'll go back to the top.
A-Anno Keynote Demo. Double click there. Make sure it's set to the current layer.
And now we can continue. We'll add our M leaders. So M leader.
Right here in the bathroom by the door. We'll click. Click again in the same place.
And this tag is number 8. Click OK. Oh, and I didn't quite click in the same place. So let me do that again.
I'm going to turn ortho off to help me with this. Select that keynote and delete it. I'll do M leader.
I will click. Click again in the same place. Number 8. And OK.
That looks good. Now I'm going to do the next key. The next multileader, which is right here.
Number 1. So M leader. Click. Click.
And this is number 1. And OK. Let's take a look at this number 8. If you wanted to move a keynote because you didn't quite click right. It's OK.
You can do that. Just hit M on your keyboard after selecting it. And then you can click once.
Click again and move these keynotes anywhere you wish. All right. Let's continue on.
Let's do M leader. I have one for this door. Click.
Click. And we'll do number 1. And OK. Now for this bedroom, we could try another option with these keynotes.
And that is that we can copy them around. It's OK to do that. We can click 1. We can do CO to copy.
And we'll copy this number 8 keynote from here up to here. No problem. All right.
Let's do M leader again. And let's add our leader right here at this door opening. Click.
And then a second click. We'll put the 3. And OK. We'll hit ENTER this time.
And we'll do our M leader right here. Number 8. We'll click. Click in the same place.
- And OK. Enter to repeat the M leader command. We'll go on this door.
Click. Click. This is 1. And OK.
M leader again right here for the closet. Click. Click.
And 2. And last but not least, we have one down here at the door. We'll just click enter. Click 2 times.
This is 1. And OK. Let's just zoom out and verify that we've got all of our keynotes here. And it looks like we do.
I think we're in a good place. So go ahead and hit that save button.
