Learn how to organize architectural plans for execution, with a focus on fitness center and locker room spaces. Understand how to play with scales, change view templates, and align view titles for an optimized project browser and titlesheet.
Key Insights
- The article provides step-by-step guidance on organizing architectural plans, including changing the scale of a view, adjusting view templates, and aligning view titles for better visibility and easy organization.
- The author demonstrates the process of setting up sheets for a fitness center plan, including adjusting the scale to a quarter inch which is considered a more reasonable size for such plans. The importance of having similar scales for the enlarge plan and elevations is emphasized.
- There is a detailed explanation on how to manage view templates, with the author advocating for the use of one view template rather than multiple ones to avoid the hassle of constant updates. However, the author does highlight the importance of being flexible with scales within the same view template.
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Now that we've got the schedule all set up, let's go ahead and put our sheets together for the fitness center plans. And so what I'll do is I'll just jump over to my fitness center finish sheet, which is going to be a ID 103. And then I'm going to bring over the plan.
So I'm going to scroll back up, and I'm going to grab my fitness center finish plan, and I'm going to drag that over. And so we set this to 3 8ths inch equals a foot, which is a pretty good scale for something like that living unit. But when we start getting into things like a plan this large for the fitness center and locker rooms, we're going to want to consider using something smaller.
So what I'm going to do is I can't change the scale because we included that as part of the finish plan view template. So I can go into that view template setting here, and where it says include, everything that's checked means those settings get applied to the template. But if I uncheck it and hit okay, then what will happen is I'm now able to change the scale of this view because it's no longer bound to that view template.
So I can change it down to quarter inch, which is much more reasonable size for this plan. And then I can do the same thing we did before where we kind of organize our view title so that it fits a little bit better on the plan. And then also pushing the floor plan up into that top right corner of the sheet.
And then I'll go ahead and do the same thing we did like with our finish plan, how we changed the title on sheet to be different from view name. And so when I look at it, this is really good for organizing our project browser, but not so much for the title we want on our sheet. And so I can go in here and I can change this to fitness center finish plan with all caps.
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And so that changes, but that remains the same. And so we can do the exact same thing for our ID 104 sheet with our equipment plan. And so if I want both of these to occur in the exact same location, we know the drill.
We want to go ahead and place our guide grid. And so I'll go to the view tab, guide grid, and we've already got this enlarge plan one. And so let's see where that lands.
That might be in a good spot for us already. And it does look pretty good. We can use that one.
And I'm assuming it's for this grid line here is what we use for the enlarge plan, but we can use the same one because then we can just have everything working in that same corner. So I'll set my fitness center plan like this, and then I'll do the same thing for my equipment plan. And instead of trying to add another guide grid, I can just go here and turn it on and it sets itself up for me.
And then now I just have to grab my plan, my equipment plan, and drag it on. We'll have to do some of the same steps where we turn off that view template. You can see where we turn off the scale in the view template so that we can have the appropriate scale for this one.
So doing the same thing where we adjust the scale, and then I'll move it and I'll grab as close as I can to that intersection. We didn't copy monitor over the grids, which is why I can't grab them. But if you were to copy monitor the grids over, you'd have no problem grabbing those and moving it over just like that.
Okay, so I'm going to do the same thing here, adjusting the view title and title on sheet. So this will just be fitness center equipment plan. And then I'll adjust the view title location so that it's similar to what we had on the other sheet.
And so now we've got the plans on the sheet. And so for each one, we're going to do something different. And so for this one for 103, we've got a couple interior elevations that we could use.
And then for our 104, we'll use the 3D views. And so the ones that I'm looking for here are going to be this guy, and this guy, which I believe this is our, our D elevator, our A elevation and our B elevation. And here, we're just going to go ahead and grab the B elevation.
And so I'll start with the classroom. And you can see I've got classroom A, and I can just bring that over. And then classroom B. And we're just using these two because those are the ones that really show something on here.
But we can go through that same process where we want to tidy things up a little bit. Because we don't want, we definitely don't want our view to be our view title to be right on the view. But that that looks pretty good, like that.
And then we'll grab our fitness area, B elevation, which can be a big long one here. And these are all set to three eighths of an inch right now, because that's the default, because that's what the view was when we drew those. And this one took a little while to load because it's set in that realistic mode.
But for these, these three here, what I'm going to do is I just selected all three of those. And you can see they're all, they've all been assigned a view template or had a view template, but don't have it anymore like this one. We took it off because we, we ended up needing to change the visual style.
And so I can change this one down to quarter inch. And the reason I want to change these because I like to have my enlarge plan and my elevations be at the same scale. And so I'll just do a little bit of cleanup work here on this one before I move to the next two.
And so both of these right now are part of that interior finish elevation template, which is automatically setting the scale to three eighths. This is not a bad thing, but in this case, we're going to go ahead and uncheck that box and allow us to change the scale. Some of you might be thinking like, well, why don't we just have another view template for quarter inch versus three eighths? And that may not be a bad idea.
I think the biggest problem is you're now putting yourself in a situation where you have to manage two different view templates. They're going to have pretty similar visual or visibility graphic override settings. And so for me, I'd rather just have one view template and live with the fact that they have different scales and deal with them that way than try and manage two different view templates and constantly having to update those.
And we discussed this before, but I just like to have these things kind of line up to one side so it looks good. And so those are the elevations. I think here, this is a bit extreme for this view.
So I'm going to change the visual style on this one back to hidden line. And so to do that, we're just going to go ahead and double click in the view. We could use this option here to change it.
So it says graphic display options, and we can change this back to hidden line here, or we could go ahead and double click into the view and change it from here as well. Okay. Now that we've got the sheet set up, we can go ahead and start adding some annotations.
