Explore the intricacies of creating sheet views and working views for power plans using CAD in the BIM 322 course. Learn how to duplicate views, rename them, and adjust wires and HVAC zones for the optimum power plan design.
Key Insights
- The article provides a detailed guide on creating power plans in CAD, starting from expanding the project browser to include electrical and lighting plans.
- Readers will learn how to duplicate views for the first and second floors, rename them, and adjust wires for accurate power planning.
- The guide also includes instructions on how to remove unnecessary elements such as HVAC zones, and add relevant elements like callouts for electrical rooms, ensuring comprehensive and clutter-free power plans.
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Welcome back to the CAD Teacher VDCI video course content for the BIM 322 course. In the previous videos, we went ahead and finished up both of our sheet views for the electrical lighting plans, and what we want to go ahead and do now is, let's go ahead and start on the power plans. So in your Project Browser, you'll have Electrical, and then you'll have Lighting, and then obviously for the Lighting we only have ceiling plans, and then under Electrical, if you go farther down under Lighting, we have Power.
Go ahead and expand that out. Now we have two different power plans. We have one here, and a first floor and a second floor.
So let's go ahead and actually duplicate these views so we have our sheet views and our working views. So I'm going to select that first floor power plan, do a right-click, Duplicate View, Duplicate with Detailing. It's going to take me to that.
I'm also going to do that for the second floor. Select it, right-click, Duplicate View, Duplicate with Detailing. And there we are.
What I want to go ahead and do now is, I'm going to go ahead and select Copy of one power plan. I'm going to do either a right-click Rename, or you can just hit F2, and it's going to go ahead and give you a renaming. We're going to remove "Copy of, " change it to "Sheet View—1—Power Plan."
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I'm going to go to Copy of two, F2, remove "Copy of, " "Sheet View, " and there we are. Good to go. I'm going to go ahead and hit OK.
Let's go ahead and start on this first floor plan. I'm going to go ahead and double-click here, and there we are. Beautiful.
Now, if you notice, we do have some extra information here. We are showing the HVAC zones, which we do not want to see here. Obviously, they have no bearing on this drawing whatsoever.
So let's go ahead, go into VV, go ahead and synchronize to central if you need to. I'm going to go into VV. I'm going to scroll down, find HVAC zones, and just go ahead and completely turn those off, hit Apply, and hit OK.
Perfect. Now it's looking how we want it to be. And this is going to be very easy, very straightforward, and very simple.
All we need to do is, we need to create wires and then the wires going back to the home runs, back to the specific panels. So what I'm going to do is start adding in the actual wires. So I'm going to Tab, pick, Arc Wire, hit Escape, and there it is.
Here, Tab, pick, Arc Wire, Escape, and there it is. Tab, pick, Arc Wire, Tab, pick, Arc Wire, Tab, pick, Arc Wire. And again, it's just the same process that we did for the lighting fixtures.
These are already all in their own specific circuits. So there's no need for you to add anything in. Everything's there.
It's good to go. And what we're going to go ahead and do now is, what I'd like for you to go ahead and do is, go ahead, go back and adjust the wires how you see fit. And we'll come back and we'll tag them.
I'll see you then. As you can see, I've gone back and adjusted all my wires, so we're all ready to go. I'm going to go ahead, go through, and tag these real quickly.
So I'm going to go to Tag by Category, and I'm going to just go ahead, zoom in here, pick, pick, make sure I'm just tagging just the ones—just the home runs. And there's not too many of them. Just again, make sure once you feel like you've got them all, just do a quick double-check, go over them all, and just make sure that they're all there.
I'm going to go ahead now, zoom in, and just do some slight adjustment just to clean it up a little bit. Almost there. I'm actually going to go ahead and bring this guy down just a little bit more.
And I'm going to bring this one underneath. Here we go. That's a few more adjustments.
I'm going to go ahead and bring this one in so it's in line with the one above. Again, just making sure everything's clear, readable. And I think we're there.
I'm going to go ahead, Zoom Extents, Control-S, save the file. And there we are. Now, I want to go ahead and keep continuing with this video.
And what we're going to do is, we're actually going to go ahead and create a callout plan for the electrical room. I could go ahead and actually have the tags here, but they'll be fairly large. And we want to go ahead and give some more information.
So let's go ahead and actually create a callout for that room. What I'm going to do is, I'm going to go to View. I'm going to go to Callout.
I'm going to pick up here, drag down, pick it by here. And sometimes with these electrical rooms, a lot of information can get very congested in these small rooms. So what people tend to do is, they tend to do enlarged callouts.
I'm going to go ahead, also just change this guy just a little bit, adjust it just slightly. And there we go. What we'll go ahead and do in the next videos is do the second floor, and we'll also go ahead and detail out this little electrical room.
I'm going to go ahead and Zoom Extents, Control-S, save the file, and I'll see you in the next video.
