Discover how to add intricate detail to your 22x34 drawing title block, starting from simple lines to complex geometric shapes. Master the art of adding dimensions and offsets to create precise and professional drawings.
Key Insights
- The article demonstrates the process of adding detail to a 22x34 drawing title block, starting with the simplification of the geometry into lines.
- Specific techniques such as offsetting, trimming, and arraying are employed to enhance the title block. These techniques involve precise measurements, such as offsetting by 2 inches or a quarter of an inch.
- Confirmation of dimensions is highlighted as a crucial step in the drawing process. The article emphasizes the importance of ensuring that delta x and delta y values are accurate, as these contribute to the overall precision of the drawing.
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We are in our title block 22x34 drawing, and what I'd like to start doing now is to add some of the detail into the title block itself. Now you can see when I pick on the geometry that everything right now is polylines. So I'm going to begin by simplifying everything, making everything lines.
So I'm going to go explode, do a crossing from down here, drag to the left, pick, enter, CTRL S to save. I'm now going to begin working over here in the title block area. We will offset by 2 inches, pick and go to the left, enter, enter to stop, enter to repeat.
The distance will be.25 or a quarter of an inch, pick and go to the left, enter, CTRL S to save. I now need to trim these components out, so I will choose trim. My cutting edges will be these lines, enter, and then F enter for fence.
I'm going to move my crosshairs so that I'm above the rectangle, pick here, ortho is on, pick down here, enter, enter, CTRL S to save. I'm now going to start offsetting these lines to give us the horizontals. So I will go O space bar for offset, type a distance of 2 and then enter, pick and go up, enter to stop, enter to repeat, a distance of 1 and then enter, pick and go up, enter to stop, enter to repeat, 3 up, pick, pick, enter to stop, enter to repeat, 6 enter, pick up, pick up, enter, CTRL S to save.
I want to confirm the dimensions here, so I'm just going to say what's the distance from the end point of here to the end point up here. And you can see that it's 2 inches and 2 inches, so my delta X value is 2 inches, my delta y value is 2 inches. Again, I went from the bottom left to the top right, which is why delta X is a positive 2 inches and delta y is a positive 2 inches.
If I had said what's the distance from the end up here to the end over here, you can again see that delta X is a minus 2 inches, delta y is a minus 2 inches. So again, CTRL S to save. I have some lines in here, I could either do array or I'm going to do offset, so I will just say offset by a quarter of an inch, 0.25 enter.
I'm going to pick and go up, pick and go up, pick and go up, pick this guy and go down, enter, CTRL S to save. Zoom Extents, Zoom Real Time, I'm going to go back into our working one drawing, reload the XREF, and we see that everything we need to have there is in the drawing. So I'm going to CTRL S to save, and we're going to come back in a few minutes and start putting the text in our title block file.