Learn how to efficiently add detail to your architectural plans using modeling, featuring a specific example of adding a storefront wall. The article discusses the steps of adding walls in model view, checking it in section views, and adjusting wall orientation for accurate representation.
Key Insights
- The process of adding details such as walls to architectural plans can be efficiently done in the model view. This is preferred over drawing in the view as it allows for more accurate placement in the overall plan.
- After adding elements such as a wall in the model view, it is important to check it in section and elevation or 3D views. This helps ensure that the element is drawn correctly and aligns properly with the rest of the plans.
- While working with walls, there may be the need to adjust wall orientation. For instance, in the case of an angled or flipped wall, the 'change wall orientation' feature can be used effectively to make necessary adjustments.
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When we look at how we have kind of just this storefront wall floating in there, the reality is there'd be a framed wall above. And the easy fix to this is as simple as you can get, right? Just drawing lines that show how this might be framed. And you can do that on your elevation views and section views if you wanted to draw it that way.
Or what we could do is we can go into our floor plan view. And in this case, I'll go to our level one plan. And where we have this occurring, what I could do is I could actually draw a wall that represents the wall that's above our storefront.
We were looking at our sections on sheet A702 there. And so we're seeing this portion without any framing, both on the deeper overhang and the other one. And so this is that angled wall.
And so if I go to my level one floor plan, and I pick on this wall here, I can see that this is a 10 foot wall because it goes up to level two minus four feet. And so I could take, say, like wall type A, and I can draw this with the base offset of 10 feet. And having it go up to level two, and then we'll adjust that in a second here, but this minus six inches is going to be fine.
But I can draw that on top here. And we might have to adjust the orientation a little bit here, but I'll draw it on top at this point. And then I can go and look at my section now.
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And if I go to like the overall section that was cutting through there, you can see here that our wall has been added to this point. And then we just need to do the same thing on the opposite sides. And the reason I like doing this in the model versus doing it as just a one off drawing in the view is because of this exact reason right here, you can see I now have a wall, although it's not in the right location, but I do have a wall that's been located that I can now place where we need it.
And so this might require because that's an angled wall, it's a lot easier if you have a section that that cuts through it perpendicularly to make that type of adjustment. And so you can see I can wait until I see the parallel line, this is just a working section, it's not something that's going to be on our view. But I can take this wall, and then now I can move it so that it aligns with where I want it to go.
And then I can put it to the correct offset, so that it's actually hitting the floor there. And now I have this wall here, when I go into section two, you can see that wall occurs. And we just have to do the same thing on these other sides to get that to show correctly on all of our sections throughout the entire project.
So I'm going to jump back to my level one plan. And I can go ahead and draw that. And then this section here that we created, that was just a working section.
So I can delete that because I don't need that view anymore. That's just a quick tip, because a lot of times you'll go nuts and draw many different sections. And that's not necessarily a good thing, because you can end up with more things in there than you really need.
So I'm going to look here, this is the section cutting through our stair. And you can see at that point, we have the stair curtain wall going full height. We don't necessarily want that wall to go through that point.
But we do want to have it on the sections leading up to the stairwell and beyond it. And of course, coming across here. So I'm going to draw my wall, and I'll start it from this point here and bring it across.
And again, I have no idea if this is being drawn correctly or not. Because we will see here in a second when I jump over to one of our sections. And so as expected, it drew going the opposite direction.
And so we want to flip that wall. And we can do that by saying change walls orientation here, I right clicked, and now I can hit change wall orientation. And then I can just adjust that top point so that it hits over here.
And so now we've got this guy drawn in correctly. And we just have to keep going around the building here. And so another thing we could do as well to just make this maybe a little bit easier is I can create a new floor plan.
So I could use either one of my ceiling plans here, which will show that space above a little bit better. Or you can create a new floor plan that cuts at a different elevation. So don't discount that option at all.
Because you can easily get that to work. If I took like my ceiling plan here, and I modified my view range to be a cut plane of like 10 foot one, then you can see we have our walls here. And then this is the edge of my soffit at that point.
And so I could draw those same walls going across here. And it's going to give you the same result. And so I like this method.
Sometimes, sometimes I don't, because you know, things just always don't work the way you want them to. But even though we are going through and doing this process here, you still need to go in and check it in your section and elevation or 3D views to make sure that everything is being drawn correctly. And so using that ceiling plan view, which is not really something we're using for this portion of our project, works out pretty well.
I can check how this works on both our building sections. So I can go to 501 and double check where we have the curtain wall above. And it's on 502, actually, on 502.
And I can see that that wall's showing correctly, that one's showing correctly. And then when we look over here, we can see we've got those walls. And so now when I look at my sections on A702, I've now got those walls that are representing the additional framing.
And then we didn't have it on A701. And so now we've got our wall sections, you know, one last minute thing, just popping in, making sure that this is starting to look a little bit more reasonable is a good, quick step that you can do to help add the detail. Plus, this is an obstruction that should be accounted for, because somebody could be trying to put lighting or sprinklers or something through there.
And having that wall in the model just makes it more accurate.
