Dive into the detailed process of dimensioning enlarged views in a CAD301 plan model with a focus on areas like fireplaces and bathrooms. The article offers an in-depth walkthrough of the entire process, ensuring the right layers and scales are used for precise dimensioning.
Key Insights
- The dimensioning process begins with ensuring you are on the right layer such as the ANO DIMS 12 layer for a one-inch equals a foot view.
- Specific dimensions of areas such as a fireplace wall and its tile, the door and window edges, and the fireplace opening are detailed using the VDCI TIC 12 dimension style.
- Dimensioning of a bathroom includes aspects like the wall to door distance, countertop distance, and center of the sinks, maintaining the same dimension scale as the fireplace.
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In this video, we are going to dimension these enlarged views. So let's jump back into CAD301 plan model and start dimensioning. I'm going to jump over here.
And let's start with our fireplace. I'm going to zoom into the fireplace. And the first thing we want to do is to make sure we're on the right layer.
I'm going to go up to the layer dropdown. And remember that this view is going to be at one inch equals a foot. We're going to be dimensioning on the ANO DIMS 12 layer.
So I'm going to select ANO DIMS 12. I'm also going to turn off my quarter inch scale dimensions. So I'm going to come back up, hit the light bulb next to ANO DIMS 48.
That way they're out of the way and we can focus on our one inch equals a foot and one half inch equals a foot dimensions. We'll turn them back on later in the course when we clean this up for our A201 sheet file and as we set our layer states surrounding the roof plan. For now, take a look at your handout.
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And you'll see that we dimension the spaces of this fireplace wall and of the tile and also additional dimensions just for the opening of the front of the fireplace from the edge of the door and the edge of the window. So let's jump over to the annotate tab. And you'll notice that we're on TIC 48.
This is going to continue drawing dimensions at the scale that they would be read at quarter inch scale. As I scroll down, you can see we have VDCI TIC 12 and VDCI TIC 24. This is going to be the VDCI TIC 12.
So I'll select that as my current dimension style. As I zoom in, let's start with those outermost dimensions that go from the edge of the door to the edge of the opening, edge of the opening, and the edge of the window. So I'm going to start with a linear dimension.
Endpoint to endpoint. And I'll drag out a little bit further than the tile, but I don't need to go all the way out to the edge of the note plot. So I'll place it here.
And then I'm going to use a continuous dimension. I'll go continue, edge of the fireplace, and edge of the window. Enter to say I'm done.
Escape, escape. Now we can dimension the tile itself. I'm going to go linear.
This is going to be this edge of the dimension. And again, linear here to here. Click.
Now we have the distances between this edge and this edge. So I'll go linear here to here. And I'll bring that out.
And actually, it looks like we place it right on the tile in our handout. I'll hit space to go back into dim linear here to here. And I'll come across and make sure that I grab either this endpoint or the midpoint of the dim line.
Excellent. And then all of the remaining dimensions are going to be up here in the fireplace itself. The first dimension is going to be this edge.
And then to the back of the fireplace. And then to the back wall. So I'll go linear here to here.
And I'll place it right about there. Continue to this point. And then I'll grab the endpoint here.
I could also grab the midpoint, but I like grabbing the endpoint. Enter to say I'm done. And escape.
And the last three dimensions we need are going to be this endpoint to the back two endpoints on the fireplace. And then this endpoint. So I'll go linear here to here.
Now, of course, this one is going to try to drag out in the greater distance. So I need to come into the middle of that dimension and pop down. That's going to allow me to set this dimension in this orientation.
It's going to come right about here. And then I'll go to continue to this corner and to this corner. Enter to say I'm done.
Escape, escape. And we don't need to do a zoom extents here because we want to take a look at our full fireplace. Just make sure that you have all the dimensions for this enlarged view.
And when you've confirmed all your dimensions, go ahead and do a control S to save. And let's move over to our Jack and Jill bathroom. This is at the same dimension scale as our fireplace.
We can move right into the dimensions. We can see in this case, the dimensions are fairly simple. We're going to dimension this portion of the wall to this door to the wall.
We're also going to dimension the countertop distance and dimension to the centers of the sinks. We also have this on our floor plan, but it's nice to have in this duplicated view. So I'm going to go linear end point to end point.
And I don't want to go over this sink. You can see my crosshairs are showing. I'd go right in the middle of the sink.
So I'm going to bring this up a little higher so that I go in between the two sinks and click continue to the door. And then in this case, again, I'm going to grab the end point of this wall. Enter to say I'm done and escape.
Now we can do the distance of this countertop. I'll go linear. You can see this one's up here at the top.
One foot ten. And then I'm going to do the center points of these sinks. Linear from the end point of the countertop to the midpoint of the sink.
