Explore the intricacies of creating building sections, from choosing an optimal location for drawing a section to making necessary adjustments for an accurate scale. Gain insights into how building sections appear on floor plans and the importance of checking for consistency and accuracy.
Key Insights
- The process of creating building sections starts with selecting an appropriate location, such as through a stair or door, followed by drawing the section from the top down.
- Sections are created at the correct scale based on what was used to generate them initially. It's crucial to adjust and align them properly to ensure their accuracy in representing the building's elevations.
- After a building section is created, it's important to check how it's shown on the floor plan to ensure consistency and make necessary adjustments if it ends up in an inconvenient or odd location.
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For our building sections, we already have one created that goes through the stair here, and that's a pretty cool location. I think the next one should go somewhere through the door here. And so what I'll do is I'll draw that section in here.
And I like to draw it from the top down so that the tail's on the bottom, and I'll just kind of tidy it up a bit. And that'll be our second section. If we go to our Building Section sheet, we'll have space for two on here.
And I can go in. And under sections, you can see we've got section one. And we've got section two.
So section two was created at the correct scale because of what we used to generate it initially. And so we'll go ahead and change that to quarter inch. And then I'll kind of just adjust it again, same logic as the elevations—we want those to line up.
And it doesn't necessarily hurt to have the whole building shown here. I mean, we did go through the process and the pain of modeling the whole thing. So why not? I'll just pull this guy away a little bit since it was kind of touching there.
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And then I'll line those up as best I can. And so our eight-foot circle here, I'm going to go ahead and delete because it's not going to be valid anymore. We've already taken care of that.
And you can see we've got the section tags automatically placed. I do like to tighten those up a bit. It is a little too high above the sheet there.
Remember, this is our viewport. So that line doesn't print. And same thing here.
I'll just bring it down a little closer to the building so we can read what we're looking at. And that's probably our easiest set of views so far. Those building sections—before we do move on, though—you definitely want to go back and take a look at how they're shown on your floor plans.
So, you know, if this ended up being in a pretty bad location, which it did not, you'd want to change that, specifically where this head ends up being. Sometimes you'll see it kind of sitting in an odd location. But this worked out pretty well for us.
