Positioning Keynote Symbols and Leaders for Wall Sections in AutoCAD

Let's begin working on the keynoting for our wall sections. What I'd like to do first, though, is to bring in the wall section keynotes, which I have already prepared for you. So let's make zero the current layer.

And let's go into the Insert tab, Reference Attach, and what we'd like to do is slide down and choose the Keynotes wall section file. Specify insertion point on screen as an attachment. Attachment, scale factor of one.

Specify insertion point on screen. Okay, and bring it in at the end of there. So what we have going on is here are all of our section keynotes.

And here are the keynote symbols and the text itself. Now, we need to begin populating the area around and through here with the keynotes themselves. These keynote symbols were initially created on layer zero, and they were brought in on the appropriate symbol text layer within the wall sections keynotes.

So let's begin by going File, Open, and let's open our wall section file. And I'm going to go Edit, Copy with Base Point, choose a base point at the end of here, and do a window around these guys. These guys being the keynote symbols.

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I'm now going to close the file and discard the changes. I'm now going to go Control V, and I will populate them right here. Now, they again were brought in on the same layer, which was the A text layer over in the keynote symbols.

Let's go to the Home tab. Let's go to Layers, and let's choose the layer ANOSIMS01 is our current layer. Let's select the symbols, and let's migrate them from the text layer to the ANOSIMS01 layer, Escape, Control S to save.

We're going to begin putting all of our symbols in areas right through here. So I'm going to draw a line. Take off my running O snap, put on Ortho from there down to there, and I'm going to copy that last line from the end of here, perpendicular to here.

And then I'm going to select these lines and migrate them to being the red color. I'm just doing this because red to me says something temporary, and once I finish using those lines, I know that I need to delete them. We're going to end up moving the symbols so that the top left corner is nearest to these two lines, and then we will have perfect alignment.

So let's go to the running O snaps, do a Right Button Settings, let's do a Clear All, let's choose Endpoint, and Nearest, and OK. So I'm going to start positioning these things. I'm going to move this symbol number one, turn my running O snap on, from the end of here, the wood sill will be down here.

The gyp board, I will move this symbol from the end of here, nearest to here. The 2x4 studs, move this symbol from the end of here, I'm going to put it nearest to here. The wood base, which is number four, from the end of here, move it down to here.

Move the insulation board, number five, from the end of here. The insulation board is this thing that's happening down here, I'll move it here. Move number six, which is concrete slab, from the end of there.

From the end of here, concrete slab, I'm just going to move this guy over to here. Move number seven, which is the brick, from the end of here, I can move it over to here. Finish grade, from the end of here, move it down to here.

Number nine, the shingles, I will move it up to here. The truss, I will move from here, up to here. Insulation, up to there.

Number twelve, the sheathing, I'll move it from here, up to here. So I've now moved the symbols around, there is not necessarily a rationale behind their placement, other than we're referencing all of the symbols to their appropriate callouts on the symbol legend over on the right. I'm going to save the drawing.

I will now begin placing the leaders to which the keynotes reference. So I'm going to make sure that leaders are my current dimension style. I will go to annotate, go to the dimensions manager, and I do see that leader zero one is my current dimension style.

Again, leader zero one is like leader zero eight, except that leader zero one has a fit factor of one, which is what I want to use when I'm creating my layers in paper space. Set current, close. I'm going to go on and make sure I'm on the proper layer.

I'm on the layer Anno Sims zero one. Type the command leader. I will have an arbitrary base point.

I'm going to do F8 to turn my running O snap off. I'm going to go down here and choose polar tracking, and I will make sure that I am 30 degrees off of vertical. Make sure my leader line goes to 60 degrees.

I'm going to go to the right, enter, enter, and for none. So I have my leader there. It's going to be fast for me if I take this leader definition and explode it and move this geometry independently from this geometry.

I'm going to go X for explode and select this guy that has now separated the polyline from the arrow. X, enter for explode. Do it again.

I now have two line segments. Control S to save. Now let's begin actual positioning.

I'm in my wood painted sill. I'm going to say copy crossing. I'm going to choose here.

Zoom in. I'm going to go on and point to my sill. I'm going to take off any ortho I have going on.

So F8 is going off. F3 is also off. I'm going to copy to the sill.

So that's keynote one. Keynote two is the jib board. I will point to the jib board.

Two by four studs. I will point to the stud. The wood base, I will now point to the wood base over here.

Escape. I'm going to move the wood base callout. Arbitrary point.

Ortho on. Copy it up to there. Zoom back.

I'm now going to copy this line segment from the end of here. Ortho off. I'm going to put it right here for right now.

I'm now going to move this line segment from the end of the line to the mid of the callout for one. I'm now going to fill it like that. I'm now going to copy this line from the end of here to the end, to the end, to the end.

Now what I'm seeing is that as I'm working, I have my nearest OSNAP on. So OS for OSNAP. I'm going to turn off nearest.

I will turn back on intersection. Go okay. Control S to save.

I'm now going to fillet the horizontal with the angled. Fillet the horizontal with the angled. Fillet the horizontal with the angled.

Control S to save. I'm going to back off a bit. I now want to deal with the perimeter installation here.

I'm just going to say mirror. Put a window around this guy. Mirror it here over to there.

Ortho on. Move window. Choose this guy.

Take ortho off. Go over to here. I'm going to go down to a point.

So I can now say mirror this line from the midpoint of here. Ortho on. I'm going to move that line from the end to the end.

And I'm going to fillet these lines right there. Control S to save. We're getting those keynotes done.

So it appears now we've gotten all the keynotes appropriately positioned on the left-hand side. I can now erase the red guideline we've been working with. And I'm going to save the file.

I would like to continue on with the symbology in wall sections A and B. So I'm going to say copy crossing. Get the leader and the arrow from the end of there. Take my running O snap off.

I can see that number 6 is calling out for the concrete slab and foundation. I will go on and put it right here, put it into the slab and foundation. I see that 8 is finished grade.

I'm going to put my finished grade. You know, I could put my finished grade here or here. The reason this is an issue to me right now is that when I consider the fact that leaders might cross over, since I know that I'm going to eventually have a horizontal line coming across here, I can actually put my finished grade over here because of the fact that once I get the horizontal line and do the filleting, nothing will cross over.

I have keynote 17, my treated plate. I'm going to go on and point to the treated plate over here. I have keynote 7, my Roloc bricks.

So, again, horizontal here. My bricks will be going over here. Now, the Roloc bricks is actually the callout that's going to be happening here at the window.

So I'm going to pick it over here, hit escape, mirror crossing, arbitrary point, delete the original yes, move crossing, pick here, and I'm going to go on and choose and point right to the Roloc right there, control S to save. While I'm here, I'm going to go on and get the lines going, copy this horizontal line from the end of the top. I'm going to copy it to the end of the top, end of the top, end of the top.

I'm going to put it at the end of the top here. Mirror this guy from the mid of here, the top, ortho one straight down, erase the original, do some filleting, fillet here and there, fillet here and here, fillet here and here, and fillet here and here, control S to save. Do you see what I did? When I filleted, I picked on the upper side, use space bar for undo, zoom in, fillet, choose below, go to the horizontal, control S to save.

I'm now going to back up. Keynote 18 is weep flashing, which is going to be happening at the base of the brick, so I can see right now that I really need to have my weep flashing happening down here, so I'm going to move these symbols and the 7, move these, I'm going to move them up with ortho on, move window, grab the 18, and I want to make sure that I move it down. Now, the 18, the weep flashing will be down here, I'm going to copy window, the arrow and the line, go on, take ortho off, copy them down to here, copy the horizontal line from the end of here down to here, fillet, fillet here, and I'm going to fillet that little line with that guy over there, control S to save, it makes more sense.

I now need to work on symbol 16, which is the keynote for the brick veneer itself, copy window, grab the leader and the arrowhead, copy it over, make sure I'm pointing to the brick itself. Keynote 15 is going to be the brick, the building wrap, which is behind the brick, so I'll just point to the back of there. Keynote 14, which is the brick ties, we will come back and put the brick ties in, I'm just going to note to it, 13 is 2 by blocking, which is where it occurs, this is 2 by blocking where it occurs right here.

Keynote 12 is the roof sheathing, which is going to be up here that we'll come back and develop. Keynote 9 is the fiberglass shingles, we will once again develop that. Keynote 10 is the wood truss, which is the assembly that's back in there, but I think what I'm going to do is I'm going to point to the wood truss up here, control S to save, move window, I'm going to grab from the end of here, go to the dot X of the end of this symbol, YZ, pop it up here, running OSnap is on, you can see that icon, running OSnap off, take it there, escape, control S to save.

We are at a reasonably good stopping point, so I'm going to stop this video right now, let you get caught up to this point, and then we will carry on. So again, have a good time, and you're starting to see how much fun we really have doing construction documents.