Referencing Sheet Information in Construction Documents: A Practical Guide

One of the important things within construction documents is referencing information from one sheet to another. We've been working on our A2.2 file and we are showing our enlarged plans. But what we need to do is to go into our A2.1 file and confirm the referencing between the drawings.

Now I'm going to go on and open my A2.1 file. And what you can see if you look in here is within my A2.1 file I am showing my annotative 12 and 24 dimension scale factor information. I do not want to see that information on this particular sheet file.

That enlarged dimensioning information only wants to be referenced on the A2.2 deliverable sheet file. So here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to go into my A2.1 layer management and I'm going to say turn off the layers for DIMMS 12 and DIMMS 24 within this sheet file.

Now I have the appropriate layer information visible within the A2.1 sheet file. But what I need to do is to have the references to the 2.2 information reflected in the A2.1 file. Now all of that source information is over in my model file.

So I'm going to go on and open my model file. I need to change my layer so that my current layer will be A. Anno Sims 48. Because what I'm going to end up doing is drawing polylines around the enlarged areas that I can then be reflecting that information within the A2.1 sheet file.

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So here's what I'm going to do. I'm on the Anno Sims 48 layer. I'm going to draw a rectangle and I'm going to say from the outer to the outer.

And draw another rectangle from the outer to the outer. And another rectangle from outer to outer. And last but not least another rectangle from outer to outer.

Now what I have going on is I have my running OSNAPs engaged. And so I've been able to draw right on top of the existing no plot rectangles. I'm going to go on and turn off my no plot layer.

And what I'd like to do is I'd like to give these rectangles some beef. So I'd like to go on and give them some line weight. So one of the commands I can use is polyedit.

The PE command polyedit is listed on your command mnemonics listing. So I'm going to type PE and then enter. I'm going to select this polyline.

And you can see I have the option for width. So I will do a right button and choose a width value of 2. So I've given it some beef. And I'm going to hit ENTER.

What I'd like to do next is to go on and give this a fillet radius of 2 feet. So I'm going to say fillet. I will do a right button.

Choose radius. Give it a value of 24. Do a right button.

Choose polyline. And I will then pick on the polyline. Control S to save.

Now what we normally do though is when we choose these filleted polylines to go around geometry is we normally have them on a line type scale and a line type other than continuous. So I'm going to first go on and look at my line types and see what line types I have in the drawing. Well you can see that within my drawing I have these line types available.

So I'm going to select on the polyline. And I will go on and choose hidden. Escape.

Control S to save. So this is how I've done that. Now of course one thing I wanted to make sure is that we have the proper line type scale visible within our drawing.

So I'm going to go format. Line type. And I can see that my line type scale is 48.

So I can always select it. Do a 48 period. And go okay.

Now what I'd like to do next is to have a reference that's going from this enlarged area over to my A2.2 file. So I'm going to go on and say insert. Go to block insert.

I will go to browse. And I'm going to choose 01090A05 which is my drawing label file. And I will go open.

I will say give it a value of 48 because I'm working on my floor plan file. My 1 to 48 file. And this is the file from which the referencing will occur.

So I'm going to go on and say bring the A0 file in at a scale factor of 48. And go okay. I'm going to pop it in right here.

Now because I said select insertion point on screen, the command responses are up at the prompt. The drawing label will be image 2. And the sheet will be A2.2. Go okay. And zoom and control S to save.

I'm now going to draw a polyline from the end of this quadrant. I'm going to say perpendicular to the vertical line. And I'm going to say move crossing from the end to the end where it's straight.

And then I'm going to try the match properties. So I'm just going to type MA for match properties. Here's the polyline.

Here's the destination. So I was able to go on and give this a polyline width. But I do not want this to be a hidden line type.

So I will select it. And I will move it from being on the hidden to the bilayer line type control S. So what I'm saying in this drawing is that when you want to see this enlarged plan, go to image 2 on sheet A2.2. And you can see that enlarged plan. Once again, MA for match properties.

I will say here's the source. Here's the destination. So again, this was a polyline.

This is a polyline, which is why the match properties worked. I'm going to go back to fillet. You can see that it remembers it had a radius of 2. I will do a right button polyline and choose on the polyline control S to save, which let me fillet all the radii with a value of 2 inches.

I will now say copy this geometry from the end of my extension line to the end of the straight part of the curve there. But this image is on image 1 on the A2.2 file. So I will double click here.

I will say that the drawing label is 1. Go OK. Control S to save. Zoom extends.

I'd now like to work on my guest bathroom. MA enter for match properties. Here's the source.

Here's the destination. Enter. I'm going to go to fillet.

It once again says a radius value of 2. I will do a right button. Choose polyline. Pick here.

I'm now going to copy. Do a crossing from the end of my extension line. At this point, I'm going to say nearest NEA for nearest to here.

But you can see that this is in the way. So I'm going to say move. Enter.

Ortho is on. Pick here. Pull this guy in.

And then control S to save. But my polyline is encroaching into my symbol. So I'm going to say break.

So I will go into modify. And I have break at point. And I have break.

So I'm going to choose break at point. Break this line at the intersection of here. And so it's broken this into two segments.

I will then go erase the segment on the right. Now, you can see that this reference is once again going to the kitchen. I will double click.

And I will say the value of 3 and go okay. Once again, MA for match properties. I choose the polyline here.

I choose on the polyline here. Enter. Control S to save.

I'm going to go back to fillet. My radius value is 2. I will do a right button polyline. And I will choose on the polyline.

Control S to save. I'm now going to copy the symbol and the extension line from the end of the extension line. I'm going to say pop it in.

I'm typing in MID of right there. Escape. Now, the bottom line is that I'm not overly happy with how this looks.

It's encroaching. And were I to shift this to the left, I wouldn't have enough space to properly reflect it. So, I'm now going to say move.

Choose these symbols from here. And take ortho off. And put it here.

Escape. Control S to save. So, what I'd like to do is to take this symbol and rotate it 90 degrees.

Again, positive rotation is counterclockwise. So, I'm going to say rotate. And I will choose the line, the polyline.

My base point will be the center of the symbol. And I'm going to rotate it with ortho on 90 degrees. I'm now going to move this over to here.

And I'm going to move it down a little bit. And I will now say extend. There's trim.

The opposite is extend. Extend to the polyline, this entity. Control S to save.

But again, we know that we have, hmm. This is reference 3 that goes to the Jack and Jill. I need to update this to reference 4, which is the guest bathroom.

So, I will double click. Give it a value of 4. And go OK. Control S. Zoom extents.

And I save my file. So, what we now have going on is within our model file, we are showing the references from the A2.1 floor plan over to the enlarged plans at the A2.2. So, I'm going to go into my 201 drawing and reload the XRef. Now, I'm going to go on in this file.

And I will make 0 the current layer. I'm going to turn off the no plot. And I will also turn off the XRef no plot so I can properly see how this drawing is going to look.

So, everything's fine. I have the floor plan. I'm saying for the enlarged plans, go to image 1, image 2, image 3, and image 4 on the A2.2 sheet file.

But I need to be concerned that some of these components of the filleted polyline will be showing up in my A2.2. So, I'm going to save the file. I will go into my A202, reload the XRef, and you can see little bits of it on the corner. So, all I need to do is to go into layers and I can say take my annotative symbols 48, turn them off in the A2.2 file, and everything is now fine.

So, I hope this has been a good learning experience for you. And we will be continuing on in a few more minutes.