Discover the process of undertaking a graphics sweep in a project, including deleting unnecessary elements, checking for consistent information, and adding the correct project details across all sheets. Learn the importance of thoroughly reviewing your work to maintain a high level of quality and consistency within your projects.
Key Insights
- The graphics sweep process involves reviewing and editing different aspects of the project, such as eliminating redundant elements like extra elevation tags, ensuring consistent presentation across all sheets, and adding correct project details.
- Keeping a check on the correct placement of elements like graphic legends and floor plans across all sheets is crucial for maintaining uniformity in the project.
- Ensure to fill out important information such as the project name, number, issue date, author, and checker on each sheet. Some information may autofill, while others, known as instance parameters, need to be updated per sheet.
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Now we're going to do what I call a graphics sweep. We have a few sheets that we're going to add for our print here, and I just want to look at them and make sure that we've got everything we need. So the first thing I'm seeing is we have this extra elevation tag, which we are not going to need.
So I'm going to zoom in here, and I'm actually going to delete it because we don't need it as part of our project, and if we did for some reason need it as part of our project, we can go back in and add it again. And this is great because it was showing up on all three of our views, and by deleting it, it's gone. So I could have easily done a hide in view, but instead, I went with the delete option because I can create it more easily than I could hide or unhide it throughout that process. So that was the first step.
The next one is going to be to make sure that we have all of the information shown that we want. So I'm going to take a look back at level one. Everything looks good here.
I don't have anything kind of overlapping or not shown correctly. My scope box gave me a good look at my crop region, so everything looks good there. My graphic legend is in the same place on every sheet.
My floor plan is in the same place on every sheet because that's how we set it. And so I'll just do that same check on every single one of these sheets. Everything looks good, and it looks good there.
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And then we can go through and we can add the information for our project. So I'll go back to my first floor plan, and the owner, we'll just go ahead and put VDCI here. The project name is going to be BIM 301. The project number, we'll use the same thing, BIM 301.
For the issue date, you can put the date you're issuing it. The author will be the student name, which would be you, and the checker will be your instructor's name. And so we'll want to have that information filled out.
It's a good habit to get into, ensuring this information is filled out on each of your sheets. And what's great is some of it will fill out automatically, but some of these things change per sheet, which makes them instance parameters. So you'll want to go in and make sure you get those filled out on each sheet.
And it's not too bad because we only have a few sheets. Okay, it seems like everything is just about ready to go. The last thing we want to do is make sure we get the title sheet in order, and we're going to take a look at that in the next video.
