This article provides a step-by-step guideline on how to import a manufacturer's CAD detail for sill detail, following similar steps as with the previous jamb detail. The guide includes instructions on adjusting the colors, positioning, saving, and loading the detail into a project file.
Key Insights:
- The tutorial instructs on how to import a CAD detail - the storefront-sill.dwg file - and adjust the colors to black and white for better visibility.
- Additional steps include positioning the imported detail by centering it along the vertical and aligning the lowest point to the horizontal reference plane, saving it as a new family storefront-sill.rfa, and loading it into a project file.
- The article also provides tips on accurately placing the detail in the project file, using thin lines for detailing, hiding unnecessary components, adding detail lines, and recreating lost keynotes.
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In this video we're going to repeat the same steps we did in the last video, but do it for our sill detail. We're going to import another manufacturer's CAD detail. Let's start by going to the application menu, new, family, detail item.
Let's import CAD, and this time we're going to select the storefront-sill.dwg file. Set the colors to black and white. Open that up, and let's place this so that we center it along the vertical, and then we can select the lowest point and align that to the horizontal reference plane.
Let's do a save as, and we'll name this family storefront-sill.rfa. Select save, and now that we've named it, we can load it into our project file. So click load into project. Now let's go to our sill detail.
Under sections, wall section, section detail, dash window sill, double click that, and let's place it where our mullion is. We'll go to component, detail component, in the annotate tab, and our storefront-sill detail appears as the last component loaded into the project file. Let's put it in its correct place.
Sometimes it's helpful to turn on thin lines so you can toggle that on and off so you can really get down and see the detail of where lines are hitting, and it looks like we have it in the correct spot. You can toggle those lines on. The shortcut is tl for thin lines, and we'll do the same as we did in our jam detail.
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We'll hide these components from the model, and we'll just draft over it, and you'll notice once I hide this mullion that this keynote is referencing, just like it occurred in the last video when we hide this element. The keynote disappears. Let's keep that wall there.
We'll hide the glass, hide this mullion. Okay, so let's add detail lines. We'll use thin lines again as the line style, and simply copy these lines across for the panes of glass, and then we'll just add another detail line to represent the end of our mullion, and the last step is to recreate that component.
I should say recreate that keynote that was lost when we hid the mullion component, so let's go back to Annotate tab, Keynote, and in this case we'll use a user keynote, and select under Exterior the 2x5 aluminum curtain wall mullion, which has the keynote E5. Click OK, and now we have our keynote back, and the manufacturer's detail imported. That concludes lesson 3. In the next lesson, we're going to look at detail libraries and 3D detail views.