Explore the intricacies of designing a master bedroom and storage space in an architectural plan, with a focus on properly creating and aligning walls. Learn the importance of accurate measurements and how assumptions in design can lead to complications in an AutoCAD project.
Key Insights
- The article provides a detailed walkthrough of designing walls for a master bedroom and storage room in an architectural plan, presenting crucial steps like offsetting and trimming.
- The piece underscores the importance of accurate measurements in the design process, explaining how offsets and extensions are used to create accurate wall locations.
- The content warns against making assumptions in an AutoCAD project, emphasizing the need to refer to given dimensions or ask for clarifications if certain elements do not align as expected.
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Let's zoom in on the master bedroom area and work on the walls there. Here we can see that there's a big vertical wall that splits the living room, the storage room, and the master bedroom, and it's also the bounding wall for the closets.
That wall is an offset from this top corner here to the left six feet seven inches. We can go offset, six feet seven, enter, from the outside to the left and click, enter to say I'm done, enter to go back in, and I'll do six, enter, to the left again, enter to say I'm done. Let's trim up that little piece, tr, enter for trim, one, two, three.
And I'm going to extend this all the way down to that wall, even though I know we'll bring it back and make it a little shorter in a minute. So I'll go ex for extend and then click on these two edges. All right.
Now we can see that the wall here simply extends over to create this storage room. We can go ex again. I'll use my b, enter for the boundary edge of this edge here, enter to lock it in, and then this line and this line get extended, enter to say I'm done, tr for trim, and I'll trim out one, two, and three.
There we go. There's the storage room. Now, if we look at these two closets here, we can see that there's kind of a big rectangular shape and the middle wall actually goes all the way across.
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Again, it doesn't look like it. There's a door there, but that wall does go all the way across, and then the door opening is going to be added later. We can see the first offset is from this interior wall down, and that distance is 11 feet 5 inches.
So I'll go o, enter for offset, 11 feet 5, enter, from this wall down and click, enter to say I'm done, enter to go back in. The next offset is 4 feet 9 1⁄2,4 feet 9.5, enter. It's this line down and click, enter to say I'm done, enter to go back in, and the last distance is 5 feet 11.
5 feet 11, enter, and I'll go from here down and click, enter to say that I'm done. Now we can get our 6-inch offsets. This one goes up, and these two go down.
Offset, enter, 6, enter, here down, here down, and the bottom one goes up, here up, enter to say that I'm done. Now, if we look right here, we can see that there's no dimension on the handout for the hallway. Instead, we see that there's three dimensions here, 2 feet 6,2 feet 6, and 2 feet 9. Those three dimensions together create the width of the closet because it's the wall, the door, and the wall again.
So let's do those offsets. O, enter, 2 feet 6, enter, here to the left. Once again, here to the left, enter to say I'm done, enter to go back in, 2 feet 9, enter, here to the left.
Now, we're going to add our door openings later, so for now we're going to take these lines and hit delete, and then this line needs to be offset back to the right. O, enter, 6, enter, here to the right. Now, if we thought that these two lines lined up, or that these two lines lined up, and we used that as an assumption, we might have been wrong.
Let's see if these lines line up. I'll just use a quick extension, and here we can see that we were right. Those ones did line up, but we don't want to use that as an assumption.
We instead want to use the dimensions we're given. Here, if we think that these lines line up, we can see that they don't, and that can become very dangerous when working in an AutoCAD project. If there's an assumption about a wall that's made, it's always best to confirm it with dimensions that are on the drawing in other locations, or ask.
If something doesn't line up, always ask. Okay, so now that all of these lines are drawn, we can start to use fillet to clean up some of these corners. Fillet, M, enter for multiple.
I'll start with my inside corners, here to here, and here to here, and here to here. Those are the good inside corners. Now we can do the outsides a little easier, here and here, here and here, and here and here.
That shape looks much, nicer, and now, in fact, it's only trimming up the wall joins. T, R, enter, and I'll just zoom in and pick all of these one at a time. You can use fence if you prefer, but sometimes it's easier to just use single clicks.
Enter to say that I'm done, and zoom extents, control S to save. Okay, we are done adding all of the wall geometry for the master bedroom and the storage space. If we check the garage, we can see there's no internal walls required for the garage space, so the only walls that are remaining in our project is the kitchen and the laundry room.
I'll see you in the next video.
