Discover how to organize and manage interior elevations for architectural projects using innovative methods. This piece offers valuable insights into efficient view management, renaming strategies, and sheet creation for larger elements in architectural design.
Key Insights
- The article discusses a unique approach to organizing interior elevations by renaming each view for clarity and project management efficiency. This method eliminates the need to sift through various elevations in the project browser.
- After renaming the views, the author emphasizes the importance of consistency. The same naming strategy is applied to all four views, with shortcuts such as copy and paste saving time during the process.
- Additionally, the process of creating new sheets for larger elements such as a fitness center or equipment plan is explained. The author provides a step-by-step guide on setting up new sheets using a pre-defined title block, ensuring automatic ID sequencing and easy scalability adjustments.
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Now that we've got our room set up, walls set up, and our views set up, we can go ahead and get started on getting this organized a little bit better. And so first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to take a look at our interior elevations. And so kind of the way we did it before was this was the first view on the sheet, second one, third one, and the fourth one.
And we'll use a similar process. But this time, instead of kind of going through the project browser, because right now I've created many interior elevations. And so when I look at my views within here, you can see there's going to be a whole bunch of just elevation one, two, and just all kinds of stuff that we wouldn't even know what it was.
I kind of know that this is the one we're looking at here. But if you don't want to deal with trying to figure out which ones are which, you can just pick it here in the view. And then if I were to go into my properties palette here, I can actually look for what the name is and see it says elevation name two dash B. And so then I can change it to fitness center A. And then I can kind of work my way down through and set them up that way, instead of trying to figure out which one they were.
And I'm going to rename this one because I called it fitness area, so I want to be consistent. But I'll do the same thing for all four of these. And if you want to be, if you're doing a bunch, right, I can highlight these, use control C to copy that.
And then I can call this one B. And then now when I rename the next one, when I click into the box, it'll highlight the whole thing. And so I can hit control V to paste in the fitness area and then just use space dash space C. And then the same thing for the last one here. So not a huge savings in time, but it definitely starts to help if you're making a whole bunch of these in here.
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And so my tags a little close, so I'm gonna move that over. But I'll do the same thing here, where I'll type this in classroom, and then I'll select it, control C to copy that. And this one's going to be A. And I missed a space there.
And then I'll just kind of work my way through it. Oops, B, and then C spacebar is not working well for me right now, for some reason, that's okay. And D. And so those are all the views that we'll have set up.
You can clearly see there's a lot of work to be done because that is definitely not the extents of the view we're looking for. But we'll get to that in our next step. And that that's something that we're already accustomed to doing, because we did the same thing over in our living unit plan.
So the next thing we want to do is we need to make a sheet. And so our sheets for the living unit were the A101 and 102. And so I'll go ahead and create a new sheet here.
And I can do that from this point here, I can right click new sheet using our title block. And I'll go ahead and make this one the ID 103. And this sheet will be fitness center finish plan.
And I'll put caps lock on there. And I'm just trying to be consistent with how we did it on the living unit. So fitness center, finish plan, and then I'll create another sheet.
And the beauty is it'll be A104 automatically for us. And this one I'm going to call equipment plan. Because it's not really a furniture plan in this case.
And so those are the two sheets that we're going to have set up for this one. And this is a much larger element. We'll probably end up dropping the scale down to quarter inch, but we'll see kind of how it looks.
And it's something we can easily change as we go through and do the exercise.
