Update and repurpose notes in an AutoCAD for Interior Design Residential Sheet document, including deleting unnecessary demolition notes and incorporating relevant General Notes. The article guides you through the process, demonstrating how to effectively use tools such as the text editor and Ortho to enhance your work.
Key Insights
- The article details how to delete unwanted demolition notes from a sheet in AutoCAD, guiding you through the selection and deletion process.
- You can repurpose and update upper notes by opening your AutoCAD for Interior Design Residential Sheet Notes document, scrolling down to the General Notes section, and replacing the text.
- The tutorial also explains how to use basic AutoCAD tools like Ortho and the text editor to move text sections, copy and paste General Notes, and view the final result of your modifications.
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Our last step for Sheet I2 is to update the notes. They currently show the demolition notes. We don't need the demolition notes, so we'll select those and click Delete, just on the lower ones.
The upper notes we will repurpose. We'll need to open up our AutoCAD for Interior Design Residential Sheet Notes document and scroll down to page 6. And keep going to page 7. General Notes. We're going to update this.
We're going to double-click where it says Demolition Keynotes. Highlight all that text and type in General Notes. Just like that.
Close the text editor. I'm going to select this body of text and move it up. I'm going to click and move it up.
Make sure Ortho is turned on. I'm going to go up half an inch. Now I've got my General Notes in my document.
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I'm going to select all of those General Notes. CTRL C on my keyboard. Double-click this text box.
Highlight everything and delete. Even delete the number 1 and CTRL V to paste. With that, I'll click on Close Text Editor and see the result.
There are all of my General Notes. It talks about everything we're doing in a general term for this residential remodel. And that is it.
We are looking really good. We've got our Proposed Plans sheet all complete.
