Learn how to create a sheet in VDCI using the title block, name items, and place and align floor plans. This professional guide also provides insights into renaming views, handling corresponding levels, and performing essential housekeeping tasks.
Key Insights
- The process begins with creating the sheet from the view tab and using a standard title block, in this case, a 30 by 42 VDCI title block.
- After naming the items on the sheet, floor plans are added and aligned according to their levels. The guide reminds us about the importance of getting comfortable with adjusting and aligning in the context of putting construction documents together.
- Renaming views is an essential step to maintain clarity. However, when prompted to rename corresponding levels, it is recommended to decline as it could cause unnecessary changes to floor plans and elevation datums.
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Our next step here is going to be to create the sheet. So I'll just go from my view tab again, sheet, and we're going to use the same title block we've been using. We want that 30 × 42 VDCI title block, and we'll hit okay.
What we'll do is we'll go ahead and name the items that we're seeing here. So instead of unnamed, we'll call it building area plans. And then we can start putting in our floor plans here.
If I go in and grab my level one gross building plan, I can go ahead and set that into place. I'm just going to put it pretty tight because we're going to try and put four plans across here. So that looks pretty good.
And then we'll line it up with level two. So you can see as I move the mouse around, it really wants to line up there. We'll go ahead and put these next to each other like that.
And then we can check our view titles, make sure everything looks good. We can adjust these around a bit. So I can kind of move it and adjust the tail.
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And this is just good practice to get familiar with and always be familiar with adjusting these things around because you're going to do a lot of this work as you start putting construction documents together. So just calling it level one and level two, it's kind of hard to tell exactly what we're looking at here. So what I'll do is I can rename these views by clicking on the viewport and then clicking on the view title there.
And this one I will call level one gross area. It's asking me if I'd like to rename the corresponding levels. And I don't want to do that because then level one will change here.
Level one will change my floor plans. Level one will change on my elevation datums. So this is a case where you want to go ahead and say no to that.
We just want to rename this view here. So I'll do the same thing for level two. Just add that gross area at the end.
And we are going to answer the question the same way. We'll say no to that question. And now we have our level one and level two gross area plans on the sheet.
Last thing I'll do here, just a little housekeeping, is I'll activate the view by double clicking and then hide the crop region so they look the same. And then I'll just double click out on the sheet to close it out there.
