Discover how to create a furniture plan sheet in a design software, ensuring all elements are aligned correctly for an organized and consistent presentation. Learn how to place views on the sheet, use a guide grid for alignment, adjust the bubble, and more.
Key Insights:
- Aligning plan sheets in your software can be done efficiently using the guide grid. This ensures that plans are in the exact same spot on different sheets, granting consistency and easy comparison.
- For better organization and clarity, it is advised to give the guide grid a specific name that represents its purpose, rather than a generic one. This helps in easy navigation and identification.
- To avoid unnecessary clutter, unused or redundant elements like elevation tags and room separator lines can be turned off. This results in a cleaner, more comprehensible floor plan layout.
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Now that we have all the content that we've created that we wanna use for these sheets here, we can go ahead and make sure we've got everything that we need. If I go over to my ID 101 sheet, you can see I've got my plan and I've got all of my elevations. And then if I go to my furniture plan sheet, you can see we're not quite there yet.
And so what we need to do is pop in and place the views on that sheet. And so I'm gonna look at my finished plan sheet because this is gonna be the basis for how we create our furniture plan sheet because we want everything to kind of be the same. Specifically, I want this plan to be in the exact same spot on both sheets.
And so to do that, what I wanna do is I'm gonna go down to where it says guide grid and you can see here it says none because we don't have one placed. And so we're gonna go to our view tab here and click guide grid. And then I always give it a good name so I can remember what it is because guide grid one means absolutely nothing to anybody.
So I'm gonna call this enlarge plan because that's gonna represent this plan here. And then I'll take the guide grid and I'll squeeze it all the way down to just one or two squares so that it's easy to see and it's easy to identify. Specifically, I like to get down to just like one intersection like this.
And then I'll grab it and I'm gonna move it over to the grid intersection. And I want these things to line up with each other because if they line up with each other, then I can have it align on both sheets here. Okay, and I'll just get this as close as I can here.
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And then from this point, now I've got this guide grid which can exist on both sheets. And so I'm gonna go ahead and jump over to my other sheet and then I'm gonna grab my furniture plan and we'll go ahead and place that on the sheet. And I'm just gonna place it wherever because that's what's gonna happen here.
And then if I go to the sheet properties again, just click into the white space, you can see I have an option now for enlarge plan. And then I can move this plan over so that it aligns with that grid, the kind of the same way we just did, but in reverse. And so now I've got this set up over here.
And because this is a linked element, it's not allowing me to grab it as well, but that's gonna work for what we're doing here. And so now I've got my furniture plan on the sheet and I can make some adjustments just kind of like what we did before where I tweak this around and adjust the bubble. All the same stuff we did on our finished plan sheet on the furniture plan, so we wanna be consistent.
And so same thing how we said typical one bedroom finished plan. We'll pop over here and we'll change the title on sheet to match that and we'll say typical one bedroom furniture plan. Now they have the same kind of nomenclature going on here between the two of them.
The other thing I wanna do is I wanna make sure the crop region's not turned on both of these views because we're gonna use the crop region as the printed element for the boundary on our elevations. And so if the crop region is on in the other views, then it's gonna show up and we don't necessarily wanna see that. So once I've got this all cleaned up the way I want it, that looks good.
And this sheet looks pretty good. So I think we're all set on that one. But over here on the furniture plan, we need to clean up this view a little bit.
And you can see the elevation tags really aren't doing anything for us here and it's just kind of getting in the way. And so what I wanna do is I'm gonna adjust this view, which has a view template associated with it and turn off the elevation tags. And you can see I just selected the view and I can see it's interior furniture plan.
And if I were to go to the VG overrides annotations, I can drop all the way down here to elevations and turn that off. And so now the elevations are off. And then the other thing I can see here that I'd like to turn off is gonna be our room separator lines.
I definitely don't need those. And I do need to make sure I've got room tags on here. And so those are the two things that we can go ahead and add.
And so the same process we did before where we go into the view template, this one's gonna be, I believe, model categories. And I thought it was on rooms, but I knew deep down it was under lines. But lines, and then if we look here for, oops, we can see it here, room separator.
So this is the categories lines and then room separation and hit okay. And so that's gonna remove it from this view. And then if we go to add our room tags, there's a couple of ways we can do this from the architecture tab.
You can see there's the option to tag rooms. And so if we go to tag rooms, we can do tag all not tagged. And then we need to just make sure we pick room tags.
In my opinion, it should just automatically pick it because we picked it under the room tags option, but it doesn't. We'll do it here, no big deal. And then it'll add all the room tags for us.
Just like anytime we've had tags be automatically placed on our plans, it's our job to go in and remove them or adjust them or whatever we need to do to make it look like a nice clean floor plan that we've created. And this all looks pretty good now. A couple of adjustments there.
And so that gives us a good setup for our furniture plan. And then the next thing we'll do is take a look at creating our schedule sheet, which is gonna be the ID 301.
