Learn about the process of navigating through various sheets in a project plan, including viewing existing conditions and understanding the significance of locked items. This article will also guide you on how to safely work on a project without accidentally affecting existing structures.
Key Insights
- The article discusses how to navigate through different sheets in a project, focusing particularly on sheet I-002 which contains general existing condition notes about a commercial warehouse.
- Locked items such as A-Wall-Exist, A-Glaze-Window-Exist, and A-Door-Exist are highlighted; these are locked to prevent accidental modifications while working on the interior design project.
- Two methods to handle existing layers in a commercial project are discussed - either by bringing those layers in and locking them, or by having them in a separate file and bringing them in as an external reference (X-Ref).
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Now let's navigate to our next sheet I-002. Click on that tab and bring that into view. We will notice we have some notes here, general existing condition notes.
We talk about what's going on with the building today. It's a commercial warehouse, it's empty, it's clean. We've got some big windows along the sides, front door, back door, an existing utility room, and this roll-up door right here.
All of our Essence law firm is going to go right into this space. Go ahead and double-click this viewport to activate it and then zoom in. Let's look at each detail here.
We'll notice something kind of strange. As we move our cursor over the walls, we get this little lock button. What does that mean? If I go to layer and look at some of these layers like A-Wall-Exist, I'll notice that there is a little lock.
It's locked in place. A-Glaze-Window-Exist is locked as well. A-Door-Exist is locked.
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All these existing layers are locked. That's so that we can't accidentally mess them up as we work along in our project. And that's a good thing.
We don't want to kind of mess anything up that's existing because we're not changing it. It exists. Now, in a commercial project, we can do just like this, bring in those layers and lock them.
That's one way to do it. The other way is to have it in a separate file and bring it in as an external reference or X-Ref. Either way is okay.
For this class, we are using the bring-it-in and lock-it-down method. That's about it for this sheet. It just shows this existing condition and we're going to fill it in with all of our interior design project.
