Discover the process of creating elevation keynotes from an existing roof plan in a construction document set. Learn how to effectively use the text editor, adjust parameters, move keynote borders, and manipulate mText to establish a comprehensive and professional elevation keynote.
Key Insights
- The article details the process of creating elevation keynotes for construction documents, utilizing an existing roof plan as a starting point. This ensures consistency and coherence across the document set.
- The tutorial explains key techniques such as using the text editor to input data, adjusting the bounding box parameters to accommodate longer text, and moving keynote borders to align with specific text lines.
- The author emphasizes the importance of saving frequently during the process and double-checking against a handout to ensure accuracy before transferring the keynotes to the main A301 drawing.
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We have finished our work on the roof plan drawing, and we've completed the work on the roof plan, and we've brought the roof plan keynotes into our A301 drawing, and we're getting ready to start working on the building elevations. But one thing that is very typical when you're putting a set of construction documents together is that you bring the set to the same level at the same time. Now, however, we have not even begun working on our elevations, but we do have our roof plan keynotes.
So what I'd like to do next is create our elevation keynotes. So what I'm going to do is be in my roof plan keynotes drawing, and I'll save the file, CTRL + S, then I'll go to File, Save As, and I will save it with the name CAD301 Keynotes Elevation and overwrite that file. Again, what I'm doing is creating my elevation keynotes, but using my roof plan as the starting point.
So the first thing I will do is double-click on the name, select Roof Plan, and then type Elevation, and close the editor. Now, I'm going to click on the text, and you can see the icons for the bounding box, the insertion point, the right side, and the bottom. I'll begin by expanding the bounding box down because I know that the elevation keynotes will be longer than the roof plan keynotes were.
Then I'll double-click the text and start typing. So you could just start typing "Fiberglass Roofing Shingles with Class-A Fire Rating." Now remember, when typing, just keep typing and only hit ENTER after "Fire Rating."
But I've already pre-selected and pre-typed my text, so I'll CTRL + V it. So I'm CTRL + Ving in my text, and I'll close the text editor and CTRL + S to save. Now, you can see that if I were to select the text and move the bounding box, that by moving the bounding box border, I can change the parameters of the width.
So I've essentially just typed everything in. Now I'm going to start moving. I'm using mCrossing.
I'm moving my keynote borders with Ortho on, pick an arbitrary base point, and move it so that the number two lines up with the word Vinyl. Then I'll go M enter for move, P enter for previous, R enter for remove, and select this, select Enter, base point, move up, move previous, remove the third one, Enter, get near the four, line that up with Aluminum, the brick veneer is fine, move the six arbitrary base point up, make sure that the six lines up right there, and then I'll copy this keynote, and I'll do this with Ortho on, making it so that my crosshairs are lining up beside the text. I'll pan, Enter.
Now the reason I couldn't say copy from insertion to insertion to insertion is because this is mText, and it shares one common base point up there. So CTRL + S to save. I'll change my values, double-click on that, make it a seven, double-click here, make it an eight, double-click here, make it a nine, double-click on this, a 10, and 11, and last but not least, a 12.
Zoom extents, zoom in real-time, CTRL + S to save, and I'm once again looking at my handout and making sure everything works perfectly, which it appears to have done. So I'll save this file. I will now go back into my A301 drawing and bring in the Elevation Keynotes.
As an XRef, go to Insert tab, Reference Attach. I'll scroll down, and choose Keynotes Elevation. Again, my base point is going to be the top right.
I'll say Open, and place it in, Insertion Point Specify on Screen, Scale of 1, and place it at the end of this line up here, CTRL + S to save, and now we have our A3.1 sheet with the Keynotes for the Elevation and the Roof Plan completed. While we're on this path, let's go ahead and do the same thing for our Floor Plan Keynotes. I'll see you in a minute.