Discover techniques for adapting architectural design plans to enhance their accuracy and functionality. This article sheds light on processes such as adding tile dimensions, adjusting sink height, and incorporating elements like mirrors into restroom schematics for more realistic and efficient designs.
Key Insights
- The article discusses how adding tiles and adjusting dimensions such as sink height can improve the realism and functionality of architectural designs. It's crucial to consider shared walls and how changes in the project can affect existing designs.
- The piece underlines the importance of annotating designs adequately, especially when adding new elements like mirrors. It's necessary to choose appropriate fixtures and consider their visibility in different views and detail levels.
- The article demonstrates the process of adjusting the transparency of certain elements and the implications of such decisions on the overall design. It emphasizes the need for careful consideration when modifying existing elements and adding new ones to ensure the consistency and accuracy of the design.
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So I've gone through and added tile to the rest of the restrooms using this scheme here. And a couple things to note, you know, as you go through, some of these walls are shared, like these two were shared here. And just remember that that end wall condition might appear in some of these depending on how your walls were drawn or joined or any changes that may have occurred throughout this project.
So it's important to note that you might have to come back and catch those ones and paint them as well. And so the next thing we're going to do is we're just going to go through and add some dimensions here to put some more annotations on this plan. And so I'm going to jump over to my men's north here, and I'll just add a dimension to show the sink height.
And these ones are very low. So it's a good thing we added the dimension so we can make those higher so that it isn't like we're providing sinks for a preschool here. And so the max height for those is going to be thirty-four inches.
And we can go ahead and align these two together. And of course it's being difficult, but I can always look at what our elevations are. And this family's got some weird stuff going on in it.
You can see the elevation from level is set to eight inches because it's trying to hit a typical elevation. And we've offset it from what it thinks it should be. And so we will go ahead and just match these two.
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So I can always just go in and copy that value and paste it. I think in the long run what I'd probably do is want to go in and actually have a better working family instead of doing that. But sometimes you know we got to get work done.
So then I'll go through and now I just need to get these notes that we already placed adjusted correctly. And now you can see we've got our sink height dimension. And we can go ahead and make that change in the women's room as well.
So I'll just select them both at the same time and paste in that value. And then make the adjustment to my keynote. And I can just kind of move the whole thing up.
And to maintain consistency, I'll go ahead and add that dimension here as well. And you can see it's not quite grabbing the whole extension line. And it'll do that when the wall continues on past the view.
And then we can add the dimension for our tile pattern here. And I'll put an overall on this one as well. And one thing that you may have noticed that is missing is we have sinks without a mirror, which is weird.
We should add a mirror to our sinks. So I can go in and I can do the Load Autodesk Family. And from our root directory, just by clicking Home here, I'm going to go ahead and search for a mirror.
And we've got a couple of options. If you're really feeling it, we can go with the ellipse one. But I'm going to go with the rectangular mirror here.
And I'll click Load. And I can go ahead and place it on our wall. And so this mirror is just showing as a rectangle.
You can see it's still showing as transparent. And so we had this same issue with the mirrors or the banquette that we had in the kitchen. And so if I were to modify this family—
If I click on it and I say Edit Family, we can see that this is probably not showing in some views. So it's showing in front and back,
But it's not showing in plan and RCP. And it's also showing in these three detail levels. We have to investigate further as to why this is not showing up.
And so when I look at the different categories here, it is showing a solid and the subcategory is Mirror. We can look at what the subcategory is for Specialty Equipment. And we can see why that one's transparent.
And I think I know exactly why. When we go back to our sheet here, we had gone through and set our toilet fixtures, which are part of the Specialty Equipment category, which the mirror is also part of the Specialty Equipment category.
And so if you remember correctly, what we did is in our View Template for our Interior Elevations, we made Specialty Equipment 100% transparent. And so what we're seeing now is the impact of making a decision like that.
And it's one of those things where we just have to decide how we want to handle it as you continue to add fixtures. Is it easier to make the Specialty Equipment—like if we went back in here and modified the template and had Specialty Equipment be non-overridden, meaning it's going to have those not be transparent like you're seeing here—
And then we can go in and Override by Element to have those specific elements that we want to be surface transparency, keeping in mind that we have to do that in every single view. And so I'm actually a fan of this process here because what we'll be doing is we will be going through and modifying the elements we want to be transparent.
And then if there's more that we add, like a mirror or something else, then those will come in the way that we're expecting them to. And they're not going to come in transparent automatically.
So I'm going to go in and I'll just do the Override Graphics in View by Element here. And set all of those to have a surface transparency. And it's really not as bad as it sounds because there's just a few of them that are causing problems.
So this one's not even causing an issue because it's not blocking anything. But these two are. If I select both of those and do the Override Graphics in View by Element,
I can set them to fully transparent. And I've just got one more to do here. And that'd be the elements in this view.
And now my elevations are back to the way they were. And my mirror is now looking a little bit more of what we would expect. And so we can get back to business here.
And I can set my mirror to be the right width that I want. And in this case, I would like to have it be the width of our sinks, which is going to be 4 feet.
And so right now it's set to a 72×48. And the type that I want isn't available. And so BIM 101 review here, we want to make a new type.
We do Duplicate. And then I'll make a 48×48. And then make sure I change the heights here.
So I want my width to be 4 feet. And I'll hit OK. And then I just have to put it into the right location.
And so the elevation from level is going to be… we'll make that three feet. And then I'm just going to place it so that it's centered over our sinks here. And then I can do the same thing in the women's room.
And the other thing too is we want to check to see if we have a keynote for this one. And I think we did. Which we do.
Which is Keynote F10. And so while we're at it, we might as well add the keynote as well. We'll do the same thing in the women's room.
And then we can go ahead and move on to our next exercise for this lesson, which is going to be cleaning up our wall sections.
