Learn how to modify and enhance your elevations in a design project, with a focus on adjusting view templates, overriding settings, and using texts and lines for better representation. Discover various methods and the importance of consistency across your project to achieve the best results.
Key Insights
- View templates can be used to modify and control aspects of a design, ensuring consistency across all views. Changes made to a view with a specific template will be automatically applied to all views using the same template.
- You can override specific settings in your design, such as adjusting line weights, tailoring them to your interior elevations for a more predictable and controlled result. It's crucial to understand that these changes can be reversed, but they may also inadvertently alter other aspects of your design.
- Combining text and line work can help represent design elements in your elevations. Using the text tool and detail lines, you can indicate open spaces, draw rectangles or make marks that provide more clarity. Consistency is key, and choosing a method that works best for your project will yield the most pleasing results.
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Now that we've got the elevations all set up, we can take a look at some of the modifications that we can make. And so what I'm going to do is I'm going to go into my kitchen A elevation and just make a few observations. And so I can see here that this is the ground molding that we have.
And then we've also got portions of the baseboard that are showing. And we can take a look at one of the things here. And I can see this is a pretty heavy line.
And it sort of dominates the view. And if I wanted to change that, we can take a look at that modification. And it's kind of buried.
So I wanted to highlight that one for you all. Before we do that, I need to make sure that this view has the view template applied to it. Because that way, any changes I make to this one, we can then easily apply to all the other views.
So I'm going to go ahead and set the view template to be our interior finish elevation. And so what that means is if I go to visibility graphic overrides, you can see it's all grayed out because it's now being controlled by the view template. And we kind of want the same thing for all of these here.
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If I select them all, you can see where it says view template just as edit, but then I can apply it to the interior finish elevation. And what that means is that any of these views now all have that interior elevation applied to it. And anytime we make a change in this view with this view template, it'll be automatically applied.
So I'll go ahead and pick on that view template here. And then we're going to go to our overrides model categories. And I'm going to go to walls.
And so instead of scrolling all the way down to walls, I'll just hit W on the keyboard and it pops down. The sweep that we're looking at here is a subcategory of walls. And you can see there's two.
There's wall sweep trim and wall sweep cornice. And so if I were to pop out of that real quick, just to show you where that's coming from, when I hit edit type, you can see the subcategory of the walls is set to wall sweep cornice. That's how we know it's the right one.
If I hit okay, here, I'm just going to pop back into that view template again. And so this is where we would override that setting. And so the cut pattern has an override.
And if I were to go into object styles here, this becomes a different setting. And so now, if I were to go to walls and look at the subcategory for cornice, I can see that the cut is set to five, which matches our wall cut. And this setting here is going to be a global setting regardless of view template.
If we make a change here, you have to ask yourself, do I want this to be changed across all views no matter what? Or do I only want it to be changed to my interior elevations? So that's a question that you have to ask yourself. And you need to understand that it can always be reversed back, but it could be something that you change inadvertently. So in our case, what I'm going to do is I'm going to override the view setting, which means only in the interior elevation.
So I like this because I know which views are going to be modified, and it's a little bit more predictable for me. If I knew it was something where I'd never want this to be at a five, then I would change it in the object styles. But here I'm going to go in and I'm going to change the weight here to be down to one, which is going to match all these other lines here.
And I'll hit OK a couple times there. And then you can see it goes down, so they're all the same weight now. And it's a lot less distracting to the view.
The other thing that we're going to do is since these views that look past aren't necessarily showing anything beyond, we could use a combination of text and line work to just represent that this has nothing going on behind it. And so what I'll do is I'll use the text tool, which from the annotate tab, I'll click on text. And the 330 seconds font is our typical notes text.
And so I'll just type in here open and just kind of tidy that up a bit. And I can put this somewhere in the middle. This is definitely debatable.
You can put it anywhere that works for you. And then I'll just use a detail line, making sure it's set to thin lines. And then I'll graphically show that this is the portion that's open and kind of going to the edge of the text like that.
And one more down here. And so that represents that we have a big opening there. And so what I like to do is I like to try to get this to be almost like a square.
And so I'll try to get these to line up. And if you really want, you can draw a rectangle around the text that you want to use as the basis for your rectangle. And then you can delete that as a construction line.
And I like this because again, it gives me some consistency with it. And then when you hit delete, it kind of looks a little bit more intentional. And so I'll do that here.
And then we have the same situation on this elevation, and this elevation here. And so same thing, we just use TX is the keyboard shortcut for text. And so I can just type open, kind of clean it up a bit.
And this one's a little easier, I can just put these ones in the middle like that. And then using the detail line tool to draw that rectangle, I can go ahead and draw my lines, just to represent that again, that open portion here. And what's great is I'm actually going to just delete that one.
And then I'll select this one here and copy it across. And then I can delete the rectangle and then update the extent of this line so that it matches. A little too quick there.
And now we've got our line set up. Another way we could do this is instead of having multiple lines, because our text by default is set to be opaque, which means it's not going to have a transparent background, is instead of using the box method like we did there, is I could just draw an X across the space. And this works a little bit better when it's just a rectangle.
And so that's another way that you could do that. And it tends to work out better for spaces like this versus the other one, which was an irregular shape and looks kind of odd if we would have done that because we would have cut through the cabinet. Either way works as long as you're communicating the intent of the design.
And so we'll go ahead and just get one more in here. And this is that rectangle tool I was talking about. Another thing is graphically, you can kind of leave it off to the side so it looks more like a graphic and not an object line.
These are all really things that you could set up for yourself in a way that you like to have on your projects. I just encourage you to be consistent throughout. I'm just showing you multiple methods to do this.
And then you can kind of pick which one that you like the best. Okay, so now our elevations are starting to look pretty good here. And so what we could do is we could take these to the next level by adding some dimensions to them and even getting into doing some material tags.
