Discover the intricacies of creating wall types and labelling elements using the left justify feature for a smoother workflow. Learn how to adjust line types and spacings, apply door tags, and designate areas of work using different pattern types for enhanced project visualization.
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- The article provides a detailed walkthrough on how to create wall types and add material tags to them using the left justify feature for a seamless tagging process.
- The author demonstrates how to modify line types and spacings, apply door tags, and change text parameters to label elements effectively.
- The guide also showcases how to designate and visualize areas of work using different pattern types and the creation of custom symbols to represent non-contractual elements in a project.
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So I'll repeat some of the steps that we just did here. And I'm essentially going to copy this one down to here and I'll change the wall type from our Ephus to our brick on metal stud. And then I'll go through and I'll add my material tags to that.
We're going to annotate material tag, and this will go much more smoothly because we have our left justify on. And so we can easily tag these elements and you can see how less cumbersome this is by just having something as simple as left justify be an option and the last one will be the gypsum so small things, but big improvements there, and so now we have our, our wall types and what I'd like to do is actually label them so I can go in and I can, this is a bit of a cheat, but you know what, it works really well. So I can go in and we have wall tags that we could load in if there isn't one already loaded in.
So let's take a look and there is, so I'm going to grab this wall tag, half inch, and I can add that to my type, but I don't want it to be one. I, cause this is really just saying that it's going to be the instance parameter for that, but we really want it to be something custom. So I'll use the text tool.
So I use keyboard, shortcut TX for that. And I'll make this wall type a, and then I can just put that over the top because this text is set up to be masking and then I can just copy this one down from here and then change that to be, and so we cheated a bit, but you know what, that's okay because that's the, that's the look that we were going for here. Now I can cheat a little bit more, but we've already resigned ourselves to being okay with that.
So, um, this door symbol I want to use again, but I'm just going to change the, um, the type here of these lines. And so instead of being demolished, I'll just change them to thin lines and then I can change this to be something that's more typical. So door per schedule.
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And then the last one here is our area of work because we are only doing a project in a relatively small portion of the building. So then I can limit to our contract work so I can make a symbol like this field region here, and I can say area of work, and then we use this NIC for not in contract, and I'll just change this pattern instead of the diagonal cross hatch, the, the small one is what we're seeing here. We can just go with like a diagonal up, or if you really want to use the cross hatch, we can edit type and duplicate, and we can say diagonal, and we'll call it diagonal cross hatch large because there are different types in here and we do not have that one loaded yet.
We can take this one here, diagonal cross hatch, and we can duplicate it. And you can see the line spacings are set here at a very precise 15 over one 28. And we can just adjust that to something a little bit more reasonable here.
If we were to change it from 15 over one 28, which is probably about an eighth of an inch, we can make it maybe three eighths of an inch, which would be a bit larger, and we can use that pattern. We can also use our symbol again, and we can add the door tag to that. This is another cool thing to do.
You just pop the door tag in, and then we can drop this guy on here and say door tag, and I'll just add the leader to point to it. And so when we have the text here, whether it was created with a leader or without one, remember we always have the option to add it or remove it. And I'll just kind of tweak this line a little bit since we went a little too crazy with it the first time, and I'll move the whole thing over just a tad, making sure that this covers the whole, the whole legend.
And that looks pretty good. Now we can put this on our first and second floor plan sheets. So I always like to just place it on one of them, like say my first floor plan here.
Remember we made that no title viewport type and legends are great because I can copy them to clipboard using the two sheets of paper from the modify tab. And then I can use the modify paste aligned to current view and it'll drop it in, in the exact same location.
