Discover how to develop detailed plumbing drawings as part of the BIM 322 course, focusing on the use of single-line diagrams and detail levels to enhance readability. Dive into duplicating views, adjusting line weights, and establishing working and sheet views for an effective modeling process.
Key Insights
- The BIM 322 course focuses on enhancing the quality of plumbing drawings, using single line diagrams and adjusting detail levels for improving the readability of the model.
- The process involves duplicating the views of the first and second-floor plumbing, and retaining room tags for a thorough detailing process.
- Models are developed in two views: the working view and the sheet view, which aids in creating an organized and manageable working process.
Welcome back to CAD Teacher VDCI's video course content for the BIM 322 course. In the previous videos, we went ahead and actually finished our mechanical plans and got them located on sheets. We're going to leave these alone for now and come back to them later in the course when we’ll be adding more information, detailing and schedules, and things like that.
What I want to go ahead and start with now is, actually, let's work on plumbing. So in your Project Browser, from the top, please have Mechanical expanded. Scroll down and you'll find Plumbing, and then you’ll see the floor plans: Plumbing 1 and Plumbing 2. Go ahead and click into the floor plan for Plumbing 1. As you can see, I just have this very basic drawing.
We don't have a whole lot of plumbing information in this but we're going to go ahead and do some work on it anyways. So what I want to do is, if you zoom in closely on the men's and women's bathrooms, you can see that we actually have the full thickness of the pipe. If I go up here to Thin Lines and click to activate that, it makes the view a little easier to read because those line weights are now removed.
This is not exactly how I want it to be shown when placed on a sheet. I want to give more of a single-line diagram. The reason the pipes are showing their full width is due to the Detail Level setting below.
If I change this Detail Level to, say, Coarse, you’ll notice that it becomes more of a single-line diagram and is slightly easier to read. I want to go ahead and change this back to Fine because this will be our modeling or working view where we’ll do our actual modeling.
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We want to do the same thing we did for our mechanical drawings—we want to duplicate each of these views. So I'm going to zoom extents and go over to my Project Browser.
I'm going to select my first-floor plumbing view, right-click, Duplicate View, and choose Duplicate with Detailing because I want to bring over the room tags. I'm going to go ahead and duplicate with detailing. Let’s go ahead and do the same for the second-floor plumbing view, since we know we’ll need to do it later anyway. Click on the second-floor plumbing view, right-click, Duplicate View, Duplicate with Detailing.
Now that I’ve created both of those views, I’m going to go over to “Copy of Plumbing 1, ” right-click, and rename it. I’m going to remove “Copy of” and rename it to “Sheet View-1-Plumbing.” Then I’ll go to “Copy of Plumbing 2, ” right-click, rename it, remove “Copy of, ” and rename it to “Sheet View-2-Plumbing.” Hit OK.
And there we are. I'm going to go ahead and press Control+S to save my file. We've got the working and sheet views set up now.
So I'm going to go ahead and stop this video here, and we’ll continue on with annotating the first-floor plumbing plan. See you then.
