Discover how to effectively compile your project information onto a drawing sheet using the View tab, Sheets, and the VDCI 30x42 E1 horizontal title block in this comprehensive guide. You will learn how to edit information, set up your views, adjust elements such as elevation tags and crop regions, and ultimately prepare your work for presentation on a sheet.
Key Insights
- The article explains the process of creating a title block for a project using the VDCI 30x42 E1 horizontal title block. Critical information such as owner, project name, sheet name, project number, issue date, author, and checker are filled in.
- The importance of setting up the views properly before adding them to the sheet is emphasized. Adjustments are made to elements like elevation tags and crop regions to ensure a clean presentation on the sheet.
- Detailed instructions are provided on how to modify dimension strings, copy dimensions across levels, and hide elements in views. These adjustments not only improve the readability of the sheet but also ensure the accurate representation of the project.
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The time has now come for us to collect all of the information that we've created and put it onto a drawing sheet. So the first thing that I would like to do here is actually create that sheet. So I'm going to go to the View tab, then Sheet, and we're going to want to use the VDCI 30x42 E1 horizontal title block here.
And this will be our title block for this project. And before we put any views on here, the first thing I want to do is I'm going to go in and we're going to edit the information in here. So for the owner, we'll put the class name, which is BIM 101.
Project name, this will be our final, so we can call this final. And then the sheet name, which is this unnamed section here, we can call it Plans, Elevations, Sections. And then our project number, we'll call it BIM 101.
The issue date, you can put the due date for the final. The author, this should be your first and last name. And the checker would be your instructor.
The sheet number, we're going to go ahead and leave this as A101. But we want to make sure we fill out this information, because it is pretty important to have that on a title block as you go through when you're creating real projects. So it's just a good habit to get yourself into.
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Now we're going to start by adding our floor plans and our roof plans. But before we do that, we want to make sure those views are set up the way that we want them to be, so that we can put them on the sheet very cleanly. So I'm going to go to level one first.
And what I want to do is I want to adjust a few of these things. So first off, this elevation tag is way too far out to get added into the view. So I want to go in, and I'm just going to select it with a crossing.
And then I'll set it right in inside of my dimension string there. The next thing I'll do here is I'll go in and I'll turn on my crop region. So this is very similar process to what we did in project one, just a little larger scale.
So I'm going to bring in the crop bubbles. And I am losing those elevation tags, but that's fine, because we're only going to put one elevation on the sheet, and that's that one there. And so I'll bring it in so that we have a reasonable crop region here.
I can bring it in a little further on that side. And then I'm going to take a look and just scan the view to make sure everything looks the way I want it to. And it looks pretty good.
I am seeing a couple of things that we could change. So first off, when we look at our dimension strings, you'll notice that these gridline dimensions are set to EQ. And that's a function of using that EQ Option.
But that doesn't mean that we have to show the dimensions as an EQ value. I think just as a standard, using EQ for a gridline dimension is probably not the best thing to do. So what we could do is if we pick the dimension here, I could change it from Equality Display here as Equality Text to be the actual value.
And then it'll change it to the actual dimension value. So same thing here. I'll select the dimension string, and I'll change it from Equality Text to Value.
And it'll show me what the actual dimension needs to be. Now I've got level one set up, I'll go ahead and do the exact same thing for level two. So I'll turn on the crop region.
And I'm going to go ahead and crop it pretty tight to the building. And you may also notice that we don't have any of the dimensions shown here. So what I could do is go into level one, and I can actually copy these dimensions for selecting them.
I'm just holding down control as I click. And so I can copy these dimensions from level one, and then I can do the paste. And then I can say Aligned to Selected Views.
And then I can pick my level two plan and my roof plan and those dimensions should copy to those views. Now when I go to level two, those dimensions will show up. And the same thing when I go to the roof plan, I'll have those dimensions showing up.
So level two looks pretty good. I'm going to have this legend on level one. And so I really don't need to have this in here.
So I can hide it in this view and not show it or we can just leave it on. Let's see what it looks like on the sheet. And then we'll look at the roof plan real quick.
And this one needs to just be cropped down. And there we go. I'm going to turn off the crop region or just hide it in these views now because I've set them to be the way that I like.
And now we're ready to put all the views on a sheet.
