Learn to create masking regions and annotate details in your section view windowsills using two different line styles. Understand the process of creating a sloping grade away from a building, adjusting the floor level, and manipulating line visibility.
Key Insights
- The article explains the process of creating masking regions in section view windowsill, which is essential for creating a sloping grade away from a building.
- The tutorial includes instructions on adjusting floor level by dropping the grade and sloping it gradually away. This involves the use of wide lines and invisible lines to define and hide different areas of the design.
- Masking regions have one type - a white fill that blocks everything below it. The article demonstrates how to complete the command by hitting the green check box to finish edit mode, highlighting the effect of the masking region on the design.
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In this video, we're going to create something called Masking Regions, and we will do this in our Section Detail—Windowsill view that we worked on in the last video. We'll go to our Annotate tab, Detail panel, Region, click that arrow to the right, and now we're going to select Masking Region. And what we're going to want to do in this exercise is create a sloping grade away from our building, and we're going to drop the grade a couple of inches down below from the floor level and then slope it gradually away.
So let's select our line style, and what we're going to do is use two different line styles for this exercise. First, we'll keep it on Wide Lines and start at the top right corner of our slab, go down two inches, click once, and then we're going to kind of drag our mouse over to the right, and then let's drop this about three degrees down, click again, and then now let's hit Escape and change our line style to Invisible Lines. And we'll click up here. It doesn't really matter how much you go up; go up a couple of inches and then drag all the way to the right. And then again, we want to close that loop. You'll notice there are really no options for types of this masking region.
It's only one type, it's a Masking Region, and it's going to be a white fill that's going to block everything below it. To complete the command, simply hit the green checkmark to finish edit mode. Click off again. You'll notice now our region—if we select it again, it'll highlight it in blue—is hiding that top of the toposurface, and our edge styles here are shown as wide lines at the edge of the slab and top of grade, and then it's hidden where we drew invisible lines at the top and then to the left here.
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So let's do one bit of cleanup here graphically. Let's just turn off our crop region by hitting the Hide Crop Region toggle, and that completes this exercise. In the next video, we're going to create detail components.