Take a deep dive into the intricacies of wall partition detailing in this thorough analysis. Learn about the section cut, the purpose of insulation, and the significance of the plan view and top section cut in understanding the complete structure.
Key Insights
- The wall partition detail is a section cut that provides a close look at the structure of the wall, showing components such as the base, the gypsum board sides, and the insulation in between.
- The insulation within the wall acts as a sound barrier between offices, demonstrating the practical considerations behind architectural design.
- The detail also includes a plan view from above and another section cut at the top, providing a comprehensive understanding of the wall's connection to the structure above and how the acoustical ceiling tile comes into play.
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Now let's take a look at the detail on this page. Over here on the right we have our wall partition detail. Let's double click to activate that view.
And this detail is a little bit different from other details we've looked at. It is a section cut and it's very detailed. We're zoomed in really close to the wall and it switches orientation.
So it's kind of a mind-bending detail, but I wanted to challenge ourselves right at the end of the class. We have our base. This is the bottom of the wall.
Imagine slicing through one of these walls and at the bottom there is a metal track that runs along the ground. It has the two sides are gypsum board and in the middle is insulation. It's kind of like a sandwich.
And why the insulation? It helps cut down on sound transfer between offices. Then we have a plan view and that's now looking down at the wall from up above. And that's the view we're going to look at and complete.
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Then at the top we have another section cut looking at the very top of the wall and showing how it attaches up to the structure above. And we also have a little detail showing us how that acoustical ceiling tile ceiling in the offices comes into play. All right so let's jump in and tackle this.
First let's go to layer and we want to change our layer to A-Wall LM for elements. A-Wall Element, A-Wall Element. Double click, make it current.
And let's type in the line command L-I-N-E. I'm going to click on the top right corner of this wall and I want to turn on ortho. I'll go straight up to the top there and I want to go right to the perpendicular point.
Click and hit escape. I want to trim out the excess TR to trim and trim out this much right here. So that's just one little outline of my gypsum board walls.
Let's select it and do CO to copy. And we'll be a bit tricky because we already have the spacing on the detail below. We'll click on the very top the top end point here and then a little hard to see what's happening.
If we go to the left, the next end point, click. We've got the line over there, here, and here. And hit escape.
So essentially copied the four lines over to match the four lines here. So that's the gypsum board on the right and the left. Now we want to hatch it.
Hatch it in. And so it's the hatch command. And so we're going to go to layer first and we'll change our layer to A-Wall Pat for pattern.
A-Wall-Pattern. And then we'll type in the hatch command. And the pattern we want is actually called concrete.
And you might ask yourself why concrete? And it's not because we're doing concrete but it's kind of little dots and that's used all the time for gypsum boards. So select that pattern and then click inside the wall. And we want to be right in these walls.
We'll click on the right wall and then on the left wall. There it is. And enter.
It's a little hard to see if we zoom in. We have these little dots that kind of represent the gypsum of the gypsum wall.
