Explore the intricacies of creating digital plans, as this tutorial guides you through the process of manipulating elements in a plan, such as adjusting height and working in sections. Gain insights into potential issues that may arise during the process and how to resolve them smoothly.
Key Insights
- The tutorial provides a detailed walkthrough of creating a digital plan, specifically focusing on manipulating heights and working in different sections.
- Common challenges in the process, such as elements not cooperating or snapping to unwanted points, are addressed with practical solutions suggested, such as working in section view.
- The tutorial encourages independent practice, urging viewers to apply the demonstrated tools and techniques to other elements within the plan.
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And if you want to do it in plan, we'll do the next one in plan. What I can go ahead and do in the plan is a little bit different, but it does work. So let's go up to our, you know, our toilet up here.
And let's see here. If I select this, right click, drop height. I can do it here in plan.
Let's see, is it going to want to let me do it? No, it's actually not wanting to let me do it. Let's see. What if I go right there? No, I could do it in section, though.
So the other way to go ahead and do this, let me find my working section. I'm going to pull it over here. Sometimes it just doesn't want to work in plan.
It's like it wants to snap to a fitting or do something else. So I'm going to take this section. There we go.
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And then what I could do, right click, drop height. And there we go. And then I could do the upper floor also in section if I wanted to.
That one, I think, went to a different pipe. One thing to ensure with that section is that you're only seeing one sink at a time. So that makes it a lot nicer.
By only seeing the one sink, it really kind of cleans it up. I could go ahead if I wanted to and I could have my plan view showing. I use WT for window tile.
So that I can see both my plan and my section at the same exact time. It seems like I forgot my P-trap here. That's fine.
We know how to put that in. So I'm going to go over to my systems. I'm going to go to my pipe, my pipe fitting.
My P-trap is there and we've done this, so. We know how to put it in there and I can just go ahead, drop the pipe. There it is.
Now, to get to the next one, let's see, do we do the second floor yet? Oh, that was level two. We need to do level one. Ha ha.
You have to remember where you are in your model. That's always important.
Drop the pipe. There we go. And then once I have both floors done, I want to just grab my working section, move it over, go to my next one.
Drop pipe, drop pipe. Sometimes it might be a little easier to do it in the section view because you're only working in that plane. That's kind of the nice thing there and also gives you a chance if you need to, to adjust your hot and cold water lines if you want to get them aligned to like we could say, hey, we want this to come up, we want this to come up.
And there we are. And then the last one here. Let's go ahead and do that there, do that there.
And there we go. There we go. I'll go ahead and look at my 3D view, and it looks like all of our lavatories are tied in. I think we've tied in every single component to our system.
So for these guys over here, if you want to go ahead and do this, I know we've done a lot of this so far, but if you want to tie in these items here, please take the opportunity to go ahead and tie these in. Get a little practice. We've gone through all the tools you can use to get them in.
If you want to add the hot and cold water here, add a connection from, say, the second floor top coming over, you would have possibly, you know, however you want to run that lavatory line, all that stuff. Go ahead and give it a shot. I will see you in the next video.
