Learn how to effectively use a guide grid in designing your floor plan sheets in a more organized and aesthetically pleasing manner. This article provides a step-by-step guide on setting up and adjusting guide grids on your demolition plans, ensuring that they are placed in consistent locations across different sheets.
Key Insights
- By utilizing guide grids on your plan sheets, you can determine the most effective and visually pleasing placement for your demolition plans, avoiding arbitrary locations on the sheet.
- Guide grids can be adjusted to fit specific plan views and can be translated to other sheets for consistent placement across your design project.
- The guide grid can also be used to adjust the location of your view title, making sure it's positioned consistently across different sheets. Remember to select only the view title when making these adjustments to avoid moving the entire view.
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Now I'm going to go to my first-floor demolition plan sheet and I'm going to grab that demo Level One and we're going to put it on the sheet. And so what I want to do is I want to place this in a way that'll give me some room to put some notes on the side and kind of on the bottom here, and we also want to place it in a location that makes it pretty visible. We're not like tucking it, you know, back in the corner here so it's on the binding edge or down on the bottom or something weird like that.
So it still needs to be placed in a graphically pleasing way so that we're not just putting it in a random location on the sheet. Once I've determined that I like where it is placed, then I can go in and I can create what's called a Guide Grid and I can put the Guide Grid in a known location. A good location for that would be like a grid intersection, something that's going to translate to all of my plan views.
And so I can go to again my View tab here, Guide Grid, and I like to give these good names so I'll call it Overall Plans because they're all going to be at that location. And this big grid doesn't really help me out too much unless I really wanted to do a lot of counting, you know, like figuring out how many over, how many down, but that doesn't sound good to me, so what I'll do is I'll just move it and I'll reduce it down to just essentially one row like you see here, and I know OK I can use that intersection. And so I'll peel it down so that I only have one intersection, and then if I move it from this intersection here to let's say this grid between A and 4, now I have a location here that I could translate to other sheets. If I were to go to my Level Two demolition plan sheet, I could turn on the Guide Grid, pops up here, and then I can even go in, grab that Level Two plan, just place it wherever, and then I could do the opposite of that, moving the plan to the Guide Grid instead of the Guide Grid to the plan, and so now if I were to be flipping through sheets in a PDF all of these are going to appear in the exact same location, which is nice.
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We'll do the same thing with the roof plan—go to the sheet, turn on the Guide Grid, Guide Grid's there, and then I could move the demo plan over, and like I did before, just place it wherever, and then I'll move it into place, and now I've got all three plans in the exact same location. Now that we've got it set up, what I could do is I could start looking at where my view title is. And what's great about the Guide Grid is I can even use that to help me out. If I wanted the view title to sit at the exact same location as well, I could say move my Guide Grid down and then I could adjust the view title height to sit at the location. And this one's not as precise—you've got to do a little nudging and zooming way in to get this to where you want it—but it works essentially the same way. So I could adjust it, you know, remember when we want to adjust the view title we need to select the view first and then we can adjust these extents here. But if we want to move just the view title we need to select it by itself. And so in this case, I want to adjust the extents, so I'm looking for grabbing this dot right here, so then I can then move it out so that it lines up roughly with the edge of my plan here because that's where our scope box is and the way we set that up we know that it's going to be the same on every single view. And so I'm just grabbing that dot and then I just move my mouse so that it kind of hovers over that line. And then now if you look at all my sheets as I print them they're all going to have the exact same location. If I go through back to Level Two I could do the same thing. We got pretty lucky on that one but I can move it and I want to be careful not to move the entire thing, but I want to make sure I'm just selected on the view title. And you can tell because when you select the viewport it'll give you that black outline right there. So just the view title and just give it a little nudge down. It doesn't have to be exact but it should be pretty close. And then I can move the view title extents so that it's the same on all the sheets. And I'll do the same thing lastly here with Level One and that one was even closer, nice. So just a couple nudges and it should get us within an acceptable tolerance there. And then just adjust the view title as we see fit. And there we go, so we've got all of our views set up. Last thing to do will be to look at graphics, and we're going to take a look at what happens when we make some changes to the graphic overrides for the phase settings.
