Handle and manipulate elevations in your architectural plans by moving them onto a separate sheet, updating the title block, adjusting the viewport, and making necessary modifications. This guide details a process that ensures precision in presenting your architectural work, focusing on I5 Kitchen Elevations.
Key Insights
- The guide provides a step-by-step process for moving your finished elevations onto a separate sheet, including creating a copy of the existing project and renaming it accordingly.
- The process also includes adjusting the viewport to unlock it, positioning the elevations, and setting the scale to half an inch. Any missing components can be brought back by manipulating the layer settings.
- Additionally, the guide emphasizes the importance of double-checking and adjusting the titles, drawing numbers, and scale on the sheet to ensure all details are accurate and compliant with the project requirements.
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Now that our elevations are complete, let's put them on a sheet. We'll begin by right-clicking on I4 tab and selecting Move or Copy. We're going to move this to the end and check the box for Create a Copy and click OK.
It'll show up here as I4 parenthesis 2. We'll open that and then we'll double click and we're going to call this I5. We also want to double click on our title block and make the updates there as well. We want the sheet number to be I5 and then scroll down and we're looking for the sheet name and we'll call this Kitchen Elevations and then we'll click OK.
Now that looks really good. Now let's double click in our viewport and we want to unlock this. So click the box or the lock to unlock it and we'll actually zoom out and zoom into our elevations.
Try to center those on the screen and then change the scale intentionally over to one half an inch and that's looking pretty good but we're noticing a few things are missing. So let's type in the word Layer and our AANODIMS at the top is set to Freeze, VP Freeze. We'll turn that on and that's about it.
I think that looks pretty good. Let's go ahead and close Layers and we can kind of pan this around to try to show these dimensions on the left and these dimensions on the right. They kind of just barely fit.
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Once they do fit, go ahead and click that lock button and just verify that the scale is set to one half an inch still and if it's locked now we can zoom and pan around and it won't mess up our view. All right so let's double click outside of that to deactivate the model space view and if you have trouble with that again our little secret is PS for paper space. It takes us back to our sheet level and now we can move these around.
Let's move these titles into place and we'll copy them. We want to have four total. There we go.
One, two, three, and we got one, two, we want to add three. We'll double click here. Set this drawing number to three and this one to four.
Now the numbers are correct and we'll update the names. So number one, we will call this Door Wall Elevation. Now this could be south, north, east, or west, or we can name kind of a landmark like the door.
So Door Wall and this will be the Hearth Wall. Number two, we'll double click and call this Hearth Wall Elevation and apply. Okay, number three, this could be the Range Wall Elevation.
And last but not least, number four, this is going to be called our Island Elevation and click OK. Now we have one more adjustment to make. If we zoom in, it's kind of small but we'll notice that the scale is set to one quarter inch equals a foot and we're not working at that scale for our elevation.
We'll double click and we'll change that scale to one half inch. One half inch. I'm going to select that whole thing and do CTRL C on my keyboard and just quickly populate that into each of these scales.
So I'll just paste, CTRL V on my keyboard, and they're all half an inch equals a foot. And now all of our views are named.
