Learn about the process of creating an A301 sheet file with a roof plan layer state in a CAD software. Understand custom settings, attaching external references, and inserting blocks for a comprehensive sheet layout.
Key Insights
- The article discloses a step-by-step approach to creating an A301 sheet file, starting with setting the roof plan layer state, saving the file, and moving on to creating a new A301 sheet file.
- The article highlights the importance of attaching external references, specifically the roof plan model, to the drawing. It also mentions adjusting options such as path type and line type scale to ensure correct placement and appearance.
- The author emphasizes the need to insert blocks like title blocks and drawing titles into the sheet layout. They also mention the importance of setting the correct drawing scale and ensuring that all inserted blocks fit into the title block correctly.
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Now that our roof plan is fairly done, let's check our layer states. So I'm going to come up and make my current layer, layer 0. I'm going to hit the layer drop down and switch to the floor plan layer state. Let's take a look at how that looks.
Make sure there's no roof geometry on, no roof annotations on. It looks like it's all set. Let's switch back to the layer state of roof plan and this looks great.
So with the roof plan layer state set, I'm going to hit CTRL S to save and that way, when we start our next process, which is the A301 sheet file, when we xref this file in, these are going to be the layers that will be shown when the file is placed. So let's go ahead and start our A301 sheet file. Let's go file new.
I'm going to use the CD template so that I have my sheet size and file save. And in the sheets folder, this is going to be again, I'll click to just copy most of the text. This is going to be CAD301A301.
I'll hit save and we have our file. Now, this drawing is going to contain two separate xrefs. We haven't started one of them yet, which is the elevation file, but we have done the roof plan.
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So let's attach our roof plan model, set up our sheet with our title block, our TBTX and our viewports and then when we finish the elevation, we will attach that file as well. So the first thing I want to do is go reference attach. It's also the keyboard shortcut attach.
You can just type it out. Here, I'm going to start by going up two folders until I see CAD301 plan model. You can see the preview is showing what we just saved, which is the roof plan layer state.
I'll hit open. Let's check all of our options. Again, attachment is fine.
Definitely want the relative path and all the other options look good. Let's hit okay, and you'll see that it's placed relative to zero, which is down here. One thing you'll note is that our line type scale looks a little different.
If I zoom way in, I'll see my dashed line on the roof outline layer. But we'll fix that in our viewport. Let's jump over to the 22 × 34 sheet and let's attach our title block.
ATTACH, attach. Go back into blocks, title blocks, and I'm going to grab TTLB 22 × 34. Again, same settings because this is a paper space object coming in at paper space and we can see that it's been attached correctly.
I still have my, so I can insert my tbtx file, but before we do, let's check all of our options. I see my uniform sales not set to one. Let's reset that.
Angle looks good, and I don't even need the insertion point. This can go right at zero comma zero comma zero. Browse for a block.
Jump out and back into title blocks, tbtx, and it'll place automatically. We can jump right in to start typing our sheet information. All right, sheet number is going to be A3.1. Drawn by, again, these are going to be your initials, and I'm using my initials for check by, and scale is once again going to be as noted.
Remember, this means that we should check the drawing titles themselves to understand the scale of the drawing. So I'll hit OK. Zoom in, just make sure that this populated in the right location.
It did. We can zoom extents and control S to save. Now I see on the handout that this is broken into a one-third at the top, which is where our elevation view goes, and two-thirds at the bottom, and these span the full width.
Let's go ahead and browse and let's find our no plot horizontal view one-third and our no plot horizontal view two-thirds. So I'm going to bring in first the no plot horizontal one-third. I'll hit open, and you'll see because of our settings, it was placed right at zero.
That's totally fine. I'm just going to move it up into this space, and once again, I'll go browse and bring in no plot horizontal two-thirds. Open.
Again, I will bring this up into this space. And in fact, we could start by placing these right at the points they're going to need to go. So I'm going to go to the move tool, select my top no plot, move it from this end point up here to here.
Once again, move this no plot, and I can go up to this end point or down here. It doesn't matter. These should fit right into place in our title block.
When you have that done, we can finish inserting our blocks by bringing in our drawing titles. So I'm going to insert, and I'm going to find that full drawing title, drawing title one. Open.
Again, it'll place it down here at zero. That's totally fine. Next time, we'll check this box for the insertion point.
And let's fill out the information for the roof plan. So this is drawing label two. Drawing name is Roof Plan.
Make sure you have all caps on. And drawing scale is going to be one-eighth of an inch equals one foot dash zero inches. Make sure that's at one-eighth of an inch, not one quarter of an inch.
I'll hit OK. If I select this block, you can see I can click the grip to make it hot. Move it right into place.
And in this case, I can click it again to place it here. So let's click the insertion point. Click here and place right in this rectangle.
