Creating Enlarged Plan Callouts with Polylines and Custom Line Types in the CAD301 Plan Model

Let's jump into CAD301 plan model, which is our model file, and let's add our detail callouts. Now these aren't details, these are enlarged plans, but you'll see them called detail callouts or enlarged plan callouts in different drawing types.

In this case, we want to draw some symbols on the floor plan and some view callouts so that we know exactly which views, and that's the view number and the sheet number for where these detail views are going to be. When you're looking at the floor plan, if you take a look at your handout on A201 or the enlarged floor plan we give you for the dimensioning process, you'll see that those callouts are around these four areas. So let's jump into CAD301 plan model.

Let's put these into model space. And then when we go back to the A201 sheet file, those will appear at the appropriate scale. So let's jump back into CAD301 plan model.

And if you take a look at your handout, these objects are mostly rectangular. There's a filleted corner, so it's a rounded corner on all of the objects. And you can see that they are exactly in the same place as our no plots.

So for this workflow, we're going to be able to use the no plots themselves to show us exactly where those are going to be. Remember that these callouts are only going to be seen in our quarter inch scale drawing, which means that every symbol we bring in is going to be brought in at a scale factor of 48. And also that we don't need to worry about going over or covering any of our smaller dimension types.

So remember, I have the A and O dims 12 and 24 layers turned off. So make sure that you turn those off as well and are only really working in the A and O dims 48. In this case, these are symbols, so I'm going to set my current layer to A and O sims 48.

So these are going to be on this green layer, A and O sims 48. Let's start by working on the enlarged fireplace plan. So I'm going to zoom in here.

And again, these are going to be rectangles with rounded corners. And you can see on the floor plan that they have a line thickness. This thickness is going to be put into the object itself and not done with a line type.

So from previous experience, we know that's going to be a polyline. Now a rectangle is also a type of polyline. So in this case, we're going to use the rectangle tool and then the polyline edit tool to assign our thickness.

So let's jump right in. I'm going to go to the rectangle tool. Remember, we brought the viewport in from the edges of our no plot to this rectangle right here.

So I'm going to click on here and here to draw my polyline. And again, a rectangle is a polyline. We can see when we selected the flattened grips at the midpoints.

When we have this polyline, we can do multiple things with it. We could fill it at first or we can set its thickness first. And we also need to establish its line type.

So for now, I'm going to select my rectangle and go to the polyline edit tool. That's P-E on the keyboard, polyline edit. And you'll see my options down here in the command prompt.

What I want to do is a width, W enter. And let's try width of one, one enter. You see that makes a nice thick line.

And some offices are going to have a thicker line or a thinner line, but for now, we'll stick with one. Hit ENTER again to say that we're done. And now let's fillet the corners of our polyline.

So I'm going to go to the fillet tool. Now, there isn't going to be a specific radius we need to use. Again, this is going to be up to the office.

But if you look at that handout, the radius is roughly, I would say, two feet. Let's do 18 inches for our radius and see how it looks. R enter for radius, 18 enter.

And in this case, it's a polyline. So let's use P enter for polyline and pick on our rectangle. I like that radius of 18 inches.

I think that looks great. Finally, we need to add our dashed line. So I'm going to select the polyline.

Not all of the objects on this layer are going to be dashed. We need to do this per object. Here's the line type thickness.

Here is our options. So here we see center, hidden two. I want to bring in a dashed line type.

So I'm going to hit other, which brings up the line type manager. And then I can hit load. I'm going to search for dash.

I'll just scroll down. And in this case, let's pick the regular dash line. Hit okay.

Then I can select dash and hit okay. Again, when I hit the other, it deselected my line. So I need to select it again and choose dashed.

Now, this line type scale, I don't like. It doesn't match what I'm seeing on the handout. So let's load one more.