Discover the process of creating detailed building sections in architectural design software, with a focus on creating and refining wall sections. The article details the steps involved in creating a wall section, including setting detail level, adding room tags, adjusting the depth, adding break lines, and representing bat insulation.
Key Insights
- The article explains how to create a detailed wall section from a building section, including setting the type to wall section and adding detail callouts for specific sections.
- Techniques for refining the graphics of the view are discussed, such as adjusting the far clip offset for depth, adding break lines as detail components, and hiding unnecessary elements like furniture.
- The article also elaborates on the addition of detail components like bat insulation, and the importance of adjusting the view for a more realistic appearance, such as adjusting gridline extent and adding room tags.
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Now that we have our building sections created, we can go ahead and create our wall section. And I like to do this from our view here, so I can go ahead and move over to section one, which was the horizontal section that we created. And I can go to my view tab, and I can select callout.
And I actually have the option to add another section here, whether it's a detail view, which we'll get to in a little bit, a building section, or in our case, a wall section. So I want to make sure the type is set to wall section, because then it'll sort the way I want it to in the project browser. So I'm going to create a wall section over this area here.
And now I've got a detail callout for that specific wall section. If I double click on the bubble, it'll take me to that view. By default, it's going to double the scale.
We went from quarter to half inch. What's great about this wall section is it also maintained the detail level. We've got that set already.
And you can see with this level of detail, we're able to add a lot more information. Now I can go ahead and start refining the graphics of this view, just like we did on the other sections. So the first thing I'll do is making sure this is the 2D extent.
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We can drag out our level lines. And then what I like to do is I will go a little further out than what I wanted to on these elements here, because I'm going to add a break line to show that this is the end of the view. And I don't really need furniture to be shown in this view.
So I'm going to go ahead and hide that view or hide furniture in the view by category here, using visibility graphic overwrites. But I do want to add the room tags so that you know what you're looking at. So I'll add the room tags pretty close to the end of the wall there, because this is a wall section.
We're not really trying to show too much of this information here. Now to finalize the view that we're showing here, I do want to not see this line going across, because it's just added information that we don't need on this. So I'll go ahead and we can adjust the depth.
So the far clip offset is going to be the same as its parent view, which is our wall section. But we can control those independently. If I change the far clip settings from same as parent view to independent, then I can change this to something like two feet, and it'll bring it back considerably, and we won't see as much of that information.
Now we can add our break lines in to make this look a little bit better. The break line is what we call a detail item. So that would be from our annotate tab, and it's a detail component that we can add here.
And what we need to do first is load it into our project. We'll go to insert, load family. This will be US Imperial, and it's going to be in detail items.
And it'll be located within the general folder break line. So I'll click open, and then we can add this by going to annotate component on the annotate tab. So you may notice that this shows up a couple of times.
Well, it's a different component here than it is in the architecture tab. We'll grab this one, and this is a pretty flexible item. We can stretch it and pull it however we see fit.
So what I'll do is I'm going to hit spacebar, and we want to make sure it's facing the right direction. So I'll hit spacebar a couple times again, and then I'm going to stretch it out a bit because this is a wall section. And so using these grips here, I can actually change the width of the break line, and I can make it look the way that I want it to for this particular view.
And that looks pretty good. So what I'll do is I'll just copy this one up vertically, and then I'll set it so that it clips both of our ceiling and our floor here, and then I'll just spread it out a little bit longer. And doing the same thing for the roof.
One thing that's important to note here is that this crop region isn't part of our view. If I were to turn that off, and we didn't have these break lines here, then you would not have a good way of terminating the view, and it would look kind of strange. You also may notice that this symbol is not necessarily in the middle of my break line.
And so if I zoom in, you can see I've got this toggle right here, which is in the middle. I can move it around until it's relatively close to the middle there. The next thing we can do is we can add another detail component to this view, which will represent the bat insulation that we'll see within these walls here.
And this is done pretty quickly and easily, and you can even do it on the building sections if you wanted. So this is an insulation option in the Annotate tab, and we can adjust the width of it. I typically like to go just a little bit lower than what is shown for the stud size.
So in this case, we have a five and a half inch width set, because these are going to be six inch studs. And so you can see it kind of fits itself right in there. And these are justified based on the center.
And so if I go ahead and draw these in, we can get that to fill in those gaps. And this insulation just needs to go up to the roof level, because this is no longer part of the exterior envelope there. And with just those few changes, we're able to create a view that looks a little bit more realistic and is ready to start adding detail elements to.
Last thing I'll do, and this is just a pet peeve of mine, but I'll just drag the gridline extent down a bit so it's not tucked away into the foundation.
