Discover the step-by-step process of creating construction documents, with a focus on piping and reflected ceiling plans. Learn how to correctly scale and place plans onto sheets, ensuring a clear and comprehensive construction document.
Key Insights
- The article provides a detailed walkthrough for creating level one and two piping plans and reflected ceiling plans as part of construction documents.
- It emphasizes the importance of correct scaling for plans, suggesting that a scale of three 30 seconds of an inch equals one foot can be suitable for ensuring comprehensibility while fitting the entire building onto a single sheet.
- The article also demonstrates the process of including additional elements such as sprinkler legends into the construction documents, and adjusting these elements to ensure clarity and readability.
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All right, we’re nearing the end of creating our construction documents. In the last video, we completed our sprinkler legends. So let's go down to our Sheets in the Project Browser and start creating our Piping and Reflected Ceiling Plans.
Let’s open up the FP3 – Level 1 Piping Plan sheet. We can scroll up to our Floor Plans, find the Level 1 Piping Plan view, and drag it onto our sheet. For now, just place it somewhere in the middle of the sheet.
Looks good. If you look at the Floor Plans list, you'll see a filled-in square next to this view, indicating that it has been placed on a sheet. Let’s do the same for Level 2.
Go to Sheets and open FP4 – Level 2 Piping Plan. You can minimize the Floor Plans panel if needed—this simply shows that Level 1 has already been placed. Now drag the Level 2 Piping Plan view onto the sheet.
Place it somewhere for now. Great. Let’s move on to FP5 – Level 1 Reflected Ceiling Plan, and find the corresponding view in the Project Browser.
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Drag the Level 1 Reflected Ceiling Plan view onto the sheet. It appears a bit large for the sheet, so let’s drop it here temporarily.
Now check the Viewport Properties. The View Scale is currently set to 1/8" = 1'-0", which is a bit too large to fit everything on one sheet for this building. So let’s change the scale to 3/32" = 1'-0" to match our Piping Plans.
There we go. Now we can just place this view somewhere near the middle of the sheet. We also created our sprinkler legends earlier.
Let’s find that under Schedules/Quantities: Level 1 Sprinkler Legend. Drag it over and place it in a corner of the sheet.
The “Temperature” label appears to be cut off, so let’s expand the field and reposition it. Now that we can clearly see each category, that looks much better.
Okay, let’s do one more. Open FP6 – Level 2 Reflected Ceiling Plan, then find the corresponding view and drag it onto the sheet. We're seeing the same issue as before—this view is also at 1/8" = 1'-0" scale.
The problem is, we’re unable to change it directly because this view is using the Reflected Ceiling Plan View Template we created earlier.
So, we’ll need to go into the View Template settings and update the scale to 3/32" = 1'-0". There we go. All set.
As for our final sheet, FP7 – Building Sections, we haven’t created those sections yet. So in the next video, we’ll put those together, and that will complete our final sheet.
