Master the art of referencing between drawings, sheet files, and model files in this detailed guide. Learn how to create accurate details and callouts for your architectural plans and elevations, and understand the importance of being able to navigate between different drawings.
Key Insights
- The tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to create and manipulate references on various sheets, including A301, A2.01, and A302, showing how to efficiently navigate between different drawings.
- Various techniques like using 'Control V', 'stretch-crossing', and copying base points are explained in the context of adding and moving references, illustrating the use of such commands in creating detailed architectural plans.
- The guide emphasizes the importance of being able to maneuver between deliverable sheet files and model files, pointing out that changes often occur in real-world projects, and the ability to adapt and modify design plans accordingly is crucial.
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What we need to do next is we need to do some referencing on our A301 sheet. So I'm going to go into A301, and I'm going to do Control-V just to bring this information into the drawing. We want to have some references for how we're going to be laying this queen around the windows, and we're also going to have some references to door, jams, and sill.
So I'm just going to copy this rectangle from here over to here. I'm going to go stretch-crossing, make it a bit smaller. Stretch-crossing, make it a bit smaller.
Move it from here up to here. I'm then going to copy these symbols from here to here. I'm going to take rotate, this symbol, end of here, are for reference from the end of here to the end of here, ortho on to there.
Rotate this guy from the center of the symbol 90 degrees. Rotate previous center of the symbol 180 degrees. Stretch-crossing, I'm going to bring it up arbitrarily.
Move window from the end of here to the mid of that area there. What I need to do, though, is I need to get this up higher. So stretch-crossing, arbitrary base point, pull it up.
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And this is going to be detail number six. Double-click here. The reference is six.
I go okay. I don't need the typical. I'm going to erase the typical.
Now, I'm going to copy this symbol a few times. I'm going to copy it over to here and also to here. Now, this is going to be detail number eight, which is going to be a slice at the footing of the front door.
So I'm just going to stretch this guy up to there. And I'm going to go break at point. I'm going to say break at point this symbol and break it right there.
I'm now going to explode that line segment there and then stretch this down just a little bit. Because what I'm showing is that this detail reference is a slice through that area in the drawing. The one to the right will be detail seven.
Double-click this. Give it a value of seven. Okay.
I'm going to copy this symbol from here over to here. I'm going to rotate it 90 degrees. I'm now going to move it from here over to here.
I'm going to break at point. So modify break at point. Break this symbol right there.
I'm going to explode and fill it here and here. So what this is saying is that detail seven is referencing a cut through the door right there. I'm going to take the word typical, copy the word typical, which means this will be typical for most doors.
I'm going to copy it over to a point right here. Control-S to save. I'm not putting typical on the front door because we have another situation happening on the back.
So Control-S to save. I have one more reference I'd like to put over here. So I'm just going to copy this rectangle from here down to, I'm just going to put it here for right now.
Stretch crossing. Arbitrary base point go down. Stretch crossing.
Arbitrary base point go over. I'm going to move the symbol from here over into here. And then I'm going to copy this symbol from here over to there.
I'm going to copy this line from here to here. Rotate it. Arbitrary base point 90 degrees.
Move the line from the end of here to the mid of the arc. I'm then going to draw a line out here. Extend to that line, that segment.
Erase the line. Move the call out from the end to the end. So what I'm going to be calling out in this area are the venting systems that are happening at the roof, which is detail number two.
And I'm going to copy the word typical from here. Again, my running O snaps are not on. Over to there.
Escape and delete this out. Zoom extents. Save the file.
And I now have all of the detailing that I need to do on sheet A3.1. I have some referencing to do on A2.01. So I'll go into A2.01. Control V. Bring my information here. I'm going to go back and reference the vent. So what I can do for that is I can go back into my 3.01 sheet.
Zoom into here. Edit. Copy with base point.
Let the base point be the end of the house. I can select this and this. Zoom extents.
Go back into my A2.01. I can Control V and put it in right here. So I'm again showing where the venting is. Control S to save.
I also have some referencing I need to do here for the back door and also for the front door. Well, we've already gotten a lot of this front door stuff done. So let's go back to the A3.01 sheet.
Let's zoom into here. Edit. Copy with base point.
Here's the base point. W for window and go around those detail callouts. Zoom extents.
Save the file. Go into A2.01. Do a Control V and put them in right here. I'm going to zoom in a little bit.
I'm going to move them up ever so slightly. Stretch crossing. So again, this is showing the sill condition at the door.
I'm going to draw a rectangle from here to here. I'm going to back off. Match properties.
Here's my source. There's my destination. Fillet radius 0.25. Again, the radius value is saved drawing to drawing.
So I have to give it the new value since I'm in here. And then P for polyline. I will then pick on this polyline.
Now what's happened is the rectangle that I've drawn is so small that by the time it fillets at a quarter of an inch, the rectangle itself can't fillet on all sides. So I've undone fillet radius 0.125. P for polyline and pick it. Now that works fine.
I'm now going to move this line from the end of here to the mid of here. And I think what I'm going to do is rotate that from the end of here. I'm going to rotate it 45 degrees and then move it from the end of that line to the mid of the arc and then fillet this and this.
But again, you see it wants to do a fillet radius of an eighth. R for radius. Escape.
Fillet. R for radius. Give it a value of 0. And fillet these lines together.
Erase this out. And so again, what's happening is I'm showing in elevation the threshold. I'm showing it in plan.
I'm also showing the door jam in plan and in elevation. I'm going to say copy window. From here, apostrophe zoom dynamic.
Go towards the back door. Take ortho off. And I'm just going to paste it here.
Rotate. Crossing. The center of here.
- This is going to be detail reference 9. Detail reference 9. I'm going to say move window. I'm going to get my reference cut happening there at the threshold.
Control S to save. Zoom extents. And then I can erase that information out.
Control S to save. We've now gotten our detail referencing done on sheet A2.1. Last but not least is A302. So I'm going to open A302.
The A302 will be calling the same reference that we used for our roof vent. So rather than recreating everything, edit, copy with base point. Here's the base point.
Put a window around there. Zoom extents. Save.
Go into the A302 drawing. And I'm going to be referencing the vent over the kitchen window. Control V. I'm going to put it right about here.
Because I'd end up having my vent system going on there, I'm now going to move the symbol away a bit. Draw a line from here. Extend to that line this.
Erase the guideline. Move the symbol from the end of here to the end over here. Move window.
The word typical. And pull it away. Again, this is the typical roof jack.
Zoom extents. Save the file. So what we've now gotten is we have our A303 file completed.
We have our wall sections. We have our details. You can see how some details are referenced in the wall sections themselves.
Some people prefer duplicating this information in the wall sections. Other prefer not to. But again, the references to the detail that's going on over there.
And then if I go back a sheet to my A302, you can see we do have our references that are going on to the wall section. We have references to the details. Go back a sheet to A301.
Again, I have plan and elevation references for some of this information. I go back to A201. And we have, again, more detail references going on.
Well, hopefully this class has been fun. You've learned a lot, and it hasn't been too challenging. I've enjoyed sharing with you the process of how we work throughout a set of drawings back and forth.
I've spoken to some of my colleagues to say, should I show my students a pure, clean design process, or should I show them what it's like in the real-world? And unanimously, people came back and said, the real-world. Because when you're working on projects, deliverables crop up out of nowhere. Changes are happening all over the place.
And you need to be able to manipulate back and forth between drawings, deliverable sheet files, and the model files. So again, thank you very much for participating in this lesson. And I look forward to working with you in our next lesson.
