Discover how to enhance an electrical drawing package by adding a new sheet with specific details such as the Enlarged Electrical Room and Elevations. Learn how to make changes visually to deliver a neat and clean view, create a view template, and assign it properly for an impressive presentation.
Key Insights
- The article demonstrates the step-by-step process of adding a new sheet to an electrical drawing package. This involves naming and numbering the sheet for easy reference, such as the given example of 'Enlarged Electrical Room and Details' and 'E410'.
- The author illustrates how to visually modify the Electrical Room Elevation view by hiding unnecessary elements, creating a view template from the modified view, and assigning this template to the elevation. This process helps to maintain visual consistency across multiple views.
- The article also showcases how to add further details to the sheet, such as Electrical Mounting Heights, to provide a comprehensive view of the project. The final sheet, E410, is presented as a neat and clean view of the electrical room elevations and details, demonstrating the effectiveness of the steps outlined in this article.
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We are making great progress on our electrical drawing package, so let's continue by adding a new sheet. Let's find our sheets in the project browser. Scroll down until I find Sheets.
I'll right-click and select New Sheet. I want that VDCI 30x42 and I'll click OK. Let's give it a new name.
We'll slow click on its name and the new name will be Enlarged Electrical Room and Details. And we'll do the same to give it a new number. The number will be E410.
That looks pretty good. Now we want to add our Enlarged Electrical Room. We will scroll up in our project browser looking for the Power Plan section.
Floor Plans, Power Plan. We want the Electrical Room and we'll drag and drop it into the lower right corner of our sheet. Now we want to start adding in the Electrical Room Elevations.
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And to do that, we'll scroll down to Elevations. We'll find Electrical Room Elevation 1 and we'll drag and drop it onto our sheet. We'll click the upper left corner.
Let's zoom in here. And it's looking pretty good, but we want to make a couple of changes. I've got this pink line at the bottom I want to hide.
And I want to hide the levels and these reference lines, reference planes. So let's go ahead and make some changes and make a view template that we can apply to the other elevations. We'll start by going to the View tab.
And under View Templates on the left, we will select Manage View Templates. There is already one called Electrical Elevation, but I'll be honest, I'm not a fan. It doesn't set things up the way we need it.
We will select it and click the Delete button and click OK. It's now gone. We're going to make our own and we'll do this graphically.
Let's double click in that Electrical Room Elevation 1. That activates the view and we can make the changes visually. I'll start by clicking on Level 2. Right click and I will say Hide in View Category. That hides the levels.
Then I'll select this reference plane, Lighting Classroom L1. Right click, Hide in View. We'll hide that category.
Looking pretty good so far, right? Now this pink line, I will select one of those pink lines. It's our area boundary from our analytical model. We'll just right click and Hide in View and Category.
So doesn't that view look really nice and clean now? I think it looks good. Let's go ahead and click that outer boundary and drag it in so that we are cropping this view inside the walls and floors so that it looks a little bit better. Awesome.
So that looks pretty good. Now let's go ahead and right click on our Project Browser where it says Electrical Room Elevation 1. Right click and we will create a view template from this view. And we want, you guessed it, the Electrical Elevation.
We deleted the original but now we've created our own. And we'll click OK. And we've already set up all the settings so we'll just click OK.
We did that visually. And now we have to go back to the properties of our Electrical Room Elevation 1. Scroll down. It says View Template None.
We created it but haven't assigned it. We'll click on the word None. And now we'll add in Electrical Elevation and click OK.
And you might say, hey, absolutely nothing changed. You're right. Nothing changed because it's the settings that we created.
So let's double click outside of that room and it deactivates it. Let's make a couple more adjustments. I want to decrease the size of the tagline.
Move it over. Move it to the left a little bit. OK.
Now we've got room for our other elevations. Let's go to Elevation, Electrical Room Elevation 2. Drag and drop. Place it right next to our first elevation.
Looks pretty good. It has all of those levels and reference lines. Let's double click.
And on the left in the Properties window where it says View Template, we'll set that to our newly created Electrical Elevation View Template and click OK. Now we can click on the boundary and pull it in just to the floor and walls that we need for our electrical room. Right in there, just cropping the view a little bit more.
Double click outside of it to deactivate it. Now I click on that view and I can adjust the view title and move that over. Great.
Now we've got one and two. Let's drop in three. Right about there.
Double click. And we'll follow that same process. You guessed it.
Our View Template. We'll set to Electrical Elevation. Click OK.
We'll grab the border and we'll crop it in a little bit tighter on all four sides. There we go. Double click outside to deactivate it.
Click the view one time. Adjust the title to match the others and move it in place. So there we go.
We've got our elevations and we have our enlarged plan. We can center those on the sheet. And we're all set.
Now this could use a detail. We have an awesome detail we've already created. I'm going to go to my project browser now and find our Legends area.
And we want our Electrical Mounting Heights. We'll drag that over. Click to place it.
And the only modification we need to make to this view is that it already has a title. We can select it and change our viewport to no title. That looks really good.
Now we've got our E410 and it's looking wonderful.
