Discover how to ensure your architectural plans are ready for print in PDF format. This piece guides you through the process of checking your plans, adjusting annotations, adding detail items, lining up tags, and aligning building plan views on all sheets.
Key Insights
- The architecture plans must be meticulously reviewed before printing them to PDF. This includes ensuring clarity in illustrating existing underground piping and making necessary annotations.
- A detailed step-by-step guide is provided on loading Autodesk family details such as break lines from the cloud, and correctly placing them onto the plan for improved clarity.
- Finally, the article emphasizes the importance of properly aligning all tags, hiding any unnecessary elements, and adjusting the view of building sections for a cleaner presentation of the plan.
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All right, in this series of final videos, we're going to go through our plans and double-check to ensure that they're ready to go before we then print them to PDF. So let's go ahead and start with our FP1 site plan and take a look. So the first thing I'll notice if I zoom in, all of this underground piping is existing and I'm not making that clear.
So what I want to do is double-click into it from my sheet. And let's just add “exist” to each of these annotations. Okay.
And then one more thing I'd like to do is this city main is actually continuing in both directions. Now, it's not important to show that, but we do want to bring in a break line and show that the pipe does continue. So let's go ahead and load that family.
If we go to our Insert tab, let's find the Load Autodesk Family, and this will locate them from the cloud. So under Browse, let's go to All Results. And from here, we want to go to Detail Items.
Then under Division One General, we can find our break line. So let's go ahead and click and load. Now, if we go to our Families in the Project Browser, and we find our Detail Items, there's our break line.
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Let's expand that. And then we can drag this onto our plan. We'll set it like this for now.
Now, this is not exactly what we want. So I'm going to rotate this 90 degrees and I'll pull it down like that. That looks good.
We might make it even a little bigger. Something like that should work. Okay.
Now let's go ahead and copy it to the other side. And we'll rotate this 180 degrees, move it over. Okay.
Now that's a little clearer that this pipe is continuing in both directions. So that looks good. Double-click out of that.
Let's go ahead and check our Level Two sheet. As long as you don't have anything overlapping, this looks pretty good. So I think we'll be okay with that one.
So let's go ahead and check out FP3. Now you can spend some time cleaning up your tags to ensure that they're in a row. As an example, I'll just zoom in here and double-click.
And I might just want to nudge these over so that they line up appropriately. Most importantly, just make sure that you're not going over existing piping or over sprinklers or anything like that, hiding information with your tags. Okay.
So here's a good opportunity to double-check all of your tags. Okay. Let's check out FP4.
The same thing here—make sure you're not hiding any sprinklers. And as an example, I'll zoom into the gym and just adjust these pipe tags on the branch lines—line them up just a little bit. Okay.
Again, take the time you need to make sure your plan looks good. We'll go to FP5. And I think here, I want to hide the building sections because we're calling that out on the piping plans and the RCP. We're just going to show the sprinkler location.
So let's go ahead, double-click there, select all of these, right-click, and choose Hide in View > Elements. Let's go ahead and do the same thing on FP6, our Level Two reflected ceiling plan. All right.
And then our last sheet with our building sections—I think I'd like to pull these up so I can actually see the roof of the building. It's my opinion this makes it a little clearer. So I'll double-click in.
That looks good. Do I have any extra levels? No, let's check the next one, double-click out, double-click into this one, and go ahead and pull this up like so. I want to place my assembly near the riser manifold.
So I'm going to move that—maybe move that a little bit closer to the flange. Okay. Double-click out of that.
And we'll do the same thing with this section. Just pull it up to the top. Okay.
Lastly, I think I see some doubled items here. So this I'm going to deselect. And same here.
We don't have these doubled over from when we copy monitored. Okay. The last thing I'd like to do here is in my building sections, I have the Crop Region Visible.
If I zoom in, I'm just going to turn off Crop Region Visible. That looks better. And we'll do that for the last two.
Okay. Let's go on ahead and save our project. And in the next video, we'll be aligning the building plan views on all of our sheets.
So they're aligned in the same place, as well as our titles. See you there.
