Discover the step-by-step process of creating and adjusting building elevations for architectural projects. Learn how to effectively utilize different views, scales, and phase settings to create detailed and accurate south and west elevations.
Key Insights
- The building elevations for a project may only require south and west aspects, which can be added to the building elevation sheet. It is not unusual for the elevation to be at a different scale than the floor plan, but it can be adjusted to a quarter-inch scale for consistency.
- Setting the phase filter to 'previous plus new' is important for new construction views. The views can be associated with the same scope box used for other elements of the project, which helps to tighten and organize the overall view.
- View titles and level lines need careful adjustment to ensure they are not too close to the building, and they should ideally align with the ones above. A temporary detail line can be used as a guide, but it should be deleted once it has served its purpose.
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The building elevations for this project are pretty easy because we only need to have the South and the West elevation. And so what I'll do is I'll go to that building elevation sheet at A401 and I'm going to go to my South elevation and I'll put it on the sheet and you can see it's pretty small. It's not custom to have your elevation be at a different scale than your floor plan.
We want to change that to be at quarter inch as well. And just like any of our other views, it's important that we have that phase set correctly. So with the viewport selected, I'm going to set my phase filter to previous plus new because that's the phase we use for new construction views.
And then I'll just kind of move it around to get it in a location that works. The, um, the views are pretty far out there. And so what I could do is I can actually associate it with the same scope box that we've been using for everything else.
And you see how it tightens everything up. And then I'll just adjust my view title accordingly and then do the same thing with our West elevation, which I'll put on the view on the sheet as well. And so let me put this one up top because it's going to be view number one.
And then same issues we had with the South elevation for the West elevation. We'll set the scope box to scope box one. We'll set the phase to previous plus new and can't forget about the scale.
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We want to go ahead and set that to quarter inch as well. So the way the view titles are shown here, the way the level lines are shown here, we want to make sure that we adjust those a little bit. So this is a little too close to the building.
So I'm going to move those out so that they're not sitting on top of the building there. And then what I like to do is I like to make sure that they're pretty well lined up with the one above, even if that means drawing just kind of a detail line as a bit of a guide. The key is to make sure you delete that detail line after you're done using it.
And then I'll adjust the view title to match and I just missed it. There it is. Okay.
And that will be our elevation sheet.
