Set up your sheet for demolition plans using AutoCAD, starting from the model tab and adjusting the sheet name to Demolition Plans. Learn how to update the notes section by opening the AutoCAD for Interior Design residential sheet notes document, highlighting the title and text notes, and replacing them with Demolition Keynotes.
Key Insights
- The article provides a step-by-step guide on updating an AutoCAD sheet to reflect the details for Demolition Plans, beginning with changing the sheet name from Existing Plans to Demolition Plans via the Attribute Editor.
- It explains how to modify the notes section of the sheet by opening the AutoCAD for Interior Design residential sheet notes document, replacing the General Notes title with Demolition Keynotes, and deleting the existing notes to paste the new ones.
- The tutorial also includes instructions to adjust the text notes for better readability and to make necessary modifications in the demolition keynotes, which are referenced in the plan.
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Now that we have finished all of our work in the model tab, we are ready to set up our sheet for our demolition plans. Here in AutoCAD, I'll notice that I am in this model tab right now. That's where we have done all of our work so far.
Now let's look across the bottom and we're going to open up the I-1 tab. So click that and that opens up this drawing page and it's our sheet, it's I-1 and it currently says Existing Plans. We want to update that to Demolition Plans and we'll do that by double clicking somewhere on the title block.
That opens up the Attribute Editor and we'll scroll to the very bottom, click on Sheet Name, highlight the word or words Existing Plans and we'll change that to Demolition Plans and then click OK. Now our sheet name is updated and now we want to work on updating our notes section, our notes column right here. To do that, we need to open up our AutoCAD for Interior Design residential sheet notes document.
With that document opened up, we'll scroll down. We've already completed the sheet list, we've already added our project specifications all on I-0. Now we're going to go down to I-1, Demolition Plan.
Now we want to highlight the title first, Demolition Keynotes, and then right click and select Copy. Back in our AutoCAD sheet I-1, we'll double click on General Notes, we'll highlight everything. We can click Delete on our keyboard and then right click and select Paste.
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Now we can close the Text Editor and we'll notice a little bit of overlap between our title and the text notes. Let's click our text notes and hit M for Move on our keyboard and Enter. We want to make sure Ortho is turned on down at the bottom.
We'll click one time and you could eyeball this. I like to type in my dimension so I'll type in 1 over 2 inches for half an inch and click Enter. That moves it down exactly half an inch.
Now we don't want these generic text notes, we want to add our Demolition Keynotes. Back in our document, we'll highlight all of our keynotes and we'll right click and select Copy. Back in AutoCAD, we'll double click on our notes.
We will select them. We can do that manually by dragging our cursor all the way down or we can do CTRL A, highlights everything, and click Delete. We'll right click and we'll do to paste all of those notes in.
Now I don't love the way that AutoCAD wraps the text here. I like it more like our document where everything is to the right of the numbers. Let's go ahead and right here in this section, we'll highlight everything.
In the Paragraph Options and our Text Editor Options, there is a little button that's for bullets and numbering. If we pull that down, we can turn them off. Then pull it down again and go back to numbered.
Notice how it justifies everything. It looks a lot better now, right? That looks good. We'll go ahead and click out of that box.
Just to note, these keynotes are these keynotes. The bubbled keynotes in the plan reference these keynotes. It says, for example, one pointing towards the door.
It talks about remove the door and frame, store in dry location. It tells the contractor what to do for each of these numbers. The cool thing about it is if we need to make a change, we just change it once in the demolition keynotes.
For example, store in dry location. Let's double click here and let's add some extra text. We can say, to be refinished.
Then another period there. Those doors are going to get refinished. We wanted to add that note.
We just add it once and it really applies to everywhere that there is a number one bubble. All right, that was fun. Let's go ahead and add some additional notes.
We can simply copy this section down. We'll select the text notes and the title. We'll do CO for copy.
Enter. We'll click right at the top one time. CO, enter.
We'll click at the top one time and go straight down. Let's go down. We'll leave ourselves a little bit of extra space.
Let's do five inches. Five inches, enter. We'll hit escape.
We don't want to keep copying it. There we go. Back to our document, our residential sheet notes.
We'll scroll down. Our next section of notes has to deal with the fact that we don't want the contractor to simply remove walls. We want to make sure that they coordinate with the structural engineer's requirements.
We'll select our title first. Demolition notes. We can right click and select copy or control C. Back to AutoCAD.
Double click. Highlight everything. Right click and go paste.
Now it says demolition notes. Now we'll go back to our document. We'll select all those demolition notes.
Right click and select copy. Then double click in that notes section. Select everything.
Hit delete on our keyboard and then right click and paste. Now we have those notes. Click somewhere else and it will apply.
Looks pretty good, right? We've got our demolition keynotes and our demolition notes. At this point, our demolition plans are done and they look good on the page. Go ahead and smash that save button.
