This article explains the process of creating and adjusting visual elements in building design plans, with specifics on adjusting crop regions, view titles, graphics, and section lengths. It also explores creating consistency in a set of building sections and managing visibility of section lines in different floor plans.
Key Insights
- The article details adjustments to the visual elements in building design plans, including crop regions, view titles, and section lengths. These adjustments ensure the clarity and accuracy of the design plans.
- Creating consistency in building sections is essential to maintain uniformity across the design. This can be achieved by following similar procedural steps during the creation of each sheet.
- Managing the visibility of section lines in different floor plans is key to creating comprehensive and professional design plans. This involves ensuring that sections are not showing in certain views and adjusting them in others to fit the change in building geometry.
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Now I'm going to go ahead and create sheet A502 using the same process we did before, making sure we use that same title block that we've been using, and then also just taking that small step here to make sure I add that revision to the sheet as we create it, knowing that this is going to be part of that submittal. And then I'll rename this one to Building Sections, and then add sections three and four to the sheet using those same steps. And since these came in at a different orientation, what I could do is I could actually delete them at this point, since we didn't really do anything, and then I'll put them in at the other order so that I can kind of maintain the same consistency.
And then both of these views are currently associated with the scope box as well, so I want to turn that off, and then I can make the adjustments I need to my crop region here to make sure the section actually looks the way I want it to. And so I'm just going to do all those same adjustments that we did before, making sure I get the view title where we want it, and then adjusting the location of the endpoints, and that view looks pretty good. And then I'll go in and do the same thing here.
Disassociate it from the scope box, which is already done here, and then I can go in and adjust the extent of my crop region, the extent of my level lines as needed here. The sections look pretty good, maybe a little higher. That's kind of a subjective thing.
You can adjust that as you see fit, of course. And then I'll go ahead and move these over just a little bit here, and I'll use that as the basis for where I want my view to sit. And then I can move the other view down, and I can move it over from the endpoint so that it lines up.
Last step here would be for the view title to get that into place, and this one wants to line up, so we can just do that. That looks good. And now we have our sheet set up.
We need to make sure that we have our graphics set the way that we want. So on a section view like this, it's pretty cool to see these things way in the background, but it's also not necessary. So this one was set with our section box, so what I could do is I could set my far clip to about 15 feet, and you can see the difference is very dramatic in that view.
So a lot of times what I'll do is I'll actually do this from a floor plan view, because then I have a better idea of what I'm looking at. If I wanted to see kind of how this wall interacted with the rest of the building, I could extend my section to that point, knowing that that is going to be the extent of the view. The same thing here.
If I wanted the section to go all the way out to here, then I could do that, but if I wanted to just have it essentially show the elevator pit like it does now, then I could pull it back to this point. And so eventually we'll have a stair that goes in here, so it might be cool to see that. So I can have this section look beyond to that point here, and I'll do the same operation for these as well.
I can look and say, OK, that's going to be good enough for this one, and that's going to be good enough for this one here. And that gives me an idea of where those are going to sit. And so if you had a consistent depth that you wanted for all of your building sections, you could definitely set up a view template for that and apply it to all of them.
What I want to do now is I want to look at how these section heads and tails look in the three floor plans that we have on our sheets. And so I'll go to level one, and we've already kind of set that one up. It looks pretty good.
And then level two seems like some adjustments need to be made here because the view was clearly different on this level because of the change in the building geometry. And the roof plan will have the same issue, so I'll have to adjust those as well. And that one actually worked out pretty well for us.
So this looks pretty good on those views, and we don't have to worry about making any changes on those. I would then go to my campus site plan and my site plan views to make sure that those sections aren't showing because we don't want to show those sections on this view, and everything looks pretty good. We've got our sections all set up.
Next thing we want to do is take a look at adding dimensions to our plans.