Explore the step-by-step process to create detail lines in your design project, and discover how to select line styles, draw and copy lines, and change visual styles for better understanding of your work. Learn about the intricacies of graphical cleanup, dimensioning mullion locations, and manipulating far clip settings for a neater, more comprehensive design.
Key Insights
- The article focuses on creating detail lines in design projects, starting with selecting line styles from the Detail Line panel in the Annotate tab.
- It further discusses copying and drawing detail lines at the center of all horizontal mullions, changing the visual style to wireframe, and drawing dash lines to represent the second floor line behind the spandrel glass.
- The piece ends with insights on graphical cleanup, changing the depth of the view by adjusting the far clip settings, and dimensioning mullion locations in relation to the top and bottom edges of the curtain wall and the top of the second floor.
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In this video, we're going to create detail lines. And continuing off where we were before, let's double click our enlarged elevation view and go to our Annotate tab in the ribbon above. Click on that.
And then under the Detail panel, you'll notice there's an icon for Detail Line. So let's click on that. And on the far right, you'll notice there are line styles that we can choose from in this drop-down menu.
So let's expand that and select the line style center line. In the workspace below, let's go ahead and draw detail lines at the center of all horizontal mullions, except the top and the bottom. We'll go ahead and start from the top here, draw one across there.
And then what we can do is actually just select the line. And then what I'm going to go ahead and do is copy and then check off multiple in the option bar here. And then we can just go ahead and take that, copy it down, and we can snap to the reference planes that are already existing in this file.
So go ahead and drop one there, drop one there, and then finally there. We'll leave the bottoms alone. Then you can hit Escape to end the command.
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Now let's draw dash lines to represent the second floor line behind the spandrel glass. So in this project, there is spandrel glass, and it's represented with this gray tone here, here, and then down here. So let's go ahead and change the line style from center line to hidden.
And then what we're going to do is let's go and change the visual style to wireframe. And then now when we hover over the level two line here, you can see we are hovering over the six-inch concrete slab. Let's go back to detail line, hidden line.
And then what we can go ahead and do is draw two lines here and here, and then find that bottom of the floor slab. And then what I'm going to do here is just go ahead and create one, drag it into its right place so that it stops at that center mullion. And let's just turn this back to hidden line so it's a little bit easier to read.
And then I'm just going to copy this dash line across. If we right-click our level lines, and let's go ahead and just do some housekeeping here and hide in view, we'll hide the level category. Now we can clearly see our two dashed lines that are indicating the floor slab location.
And then let's go ahead and do some other graphical cleanup. We'll right-click our reference planes, hide in view, category again, and that's going to hide all of our reference planes. And let's turn off our crop region, which is this rectangle.
And we just find the hide crop region icon at the very bottom here. Click on that, and you'll notice it disappears. And there's one more thing we want to do here to clean it up graphically.
You'll notice we're seeing the edge of the building, but then we're also seeing that CMU wall beyond. We can change the depth of this view and how far we're looking into the model by changing the far clip settings for this view. We'll just simply go to the properties, and then change far clip settings from same as parent, which would be our south elevation view.
And then let's make it an independent view. And what that does is now we can change our far clipping. Let's click on where it says no clip.
We can either select clip with a line or clip without a line. And you can see here in these graphics, it indicates either that clipping plane will appear as no lines, or it'll actually cut it in the model, and you'll see the lines there. In this instance, it doesn't really matter.
We're not going to see either one, so I'm just going to select clip without line, select OK. And then with the far clip offset set to 10 feet, by default, you can see that CMU wall beyond disappeared. And then finally, let's go and dimension the mullion locations in relation to the top and bottom edges of the curtain wall and the top of second floor.
We'll just go ahead and go to annotate again, and then aligned, and go ahead and dimension from the top of this curtain wall. And let's use the Tab key to help you pick the top of that curtain wall accurately. And we'll go ahead and reference that top of slab that we just drafted in there.
Continue selecting the center lines all the way down to the floor slab below. And it looks like this line is a hidden line, and we actually want to show it as center line. We'll just change that type there.
And we finished dimensioning this. And in the next video, we're going to look at filled regions.