Creating Title Sheet Information in AutoCAD

Rather than giving you a PDF and saying, type all this stuff in, I've already created most of the notes for you. We will not be using these keynotes, so let's just go on and erase these out. And let's go to the Insert tab.

Let's go to Block Insert. Let's go to Browse. And please slide down and choose the CAD302 Title Sheet Information.

Go Open. We're going to pop it in at 00, and we will pop it in exploded. So, see how much work we got done rapidly? Let me just sort of go over some of this stuff with you, because this is information that is relatively standard on title sheets.

So again, we have the Sheet Index. There's the Scope of Work, and we're just saying here that it's a new residence. Now we have the Project Directory, and what I've done is I've just included the typical people who are listed on the Project Directory, which would be the Owner, the Architect, Structural Engineer, Civil Engineer if you have one, and the Title 24, which is the Energy Calculations person.

We have a Development Summary. We have the APN, which is the Assessor's Parcel Number. Then we have the Legal Description of the Property.

We have an Occupancy Group, which is Residential. This is Type 5 non-rated, which means wood construction. We're seeing that the zoning designation in this area is Limited Agricultural Use, because we have some residences, but there's an overlay zone of limited agriculture.

Then we have the Area Tabulation for the Building, and we're going to be filling in that information ourselves in a few minutes. We have the Area Tabs for the Building. We have the Lot Area and the Community Planning Group.

General Notes, just general construction notes, talking about compliance with the appropriate building codes. Special Inspections, these are certain inspections that when the construction is going on, and they're typically structurally related, but there are certain engineers that need to be called by to confirm that things like earthquake hold-downs are being properly installed. We have the Vicinity Map.

We're going to pop that in next. We have some Fire Notes. We have some general construction notes going on over here, and we have a Nailing Schedule.

So what I'd like to do first is to bring in the Vicinity Map. So I'm going to go to the Home tab, make sure I'm on Layer 0, go back to the Insert. I'm going to go Reference Attach.

Again, it's still looking for image files, and so the image that I want to bring in is the CAD-302 Vicinity Map. And just remember that you can choose different kinds of images and drawing types to bring in. So I'm just going to go back to All Image Files.

I'm selecting the Vicinity Map. I'm going to go OK. Specify Insertion Point on Screen.

It's already been scaled for you for a scale factor of 1. I'm going to go OK and pop it in. What I want to do next, though, is I want to go on and position this image so that it's centered in this area. So I'm going to go on and say Move, choose the image from the mid-between two points.

I'm going to go from the end of there to the end of there, and it's going to be moving to the mid-between two points of the end of there and the end down there. Control-S to save. Zoom extends, and once again, save the drawing.

The next thing I would like to work on are the area calculations. We need to find out the square footage of the first floor, the garage, and also the porch at the deck. If you would please go on and open your 302 plan model file.

Now let's go to Layers, and let's turn off some layers. We don't need to see any of our annotative symbology, so all of those can go off. We really only need to see the wall.

So I'm going to turn off everything but the wall, turn off the wall masonry, and I'm going to make for right now a wall my current layer. Now I'd like to go on and create a new layer, and I'm just going to call it A-Area. I'm going to make it now the current layer, and I will make its color red so it will show up.

And I'm going to begin like we've done before, drawing a polyline around the place. So I'm going to do a polyline. I'm going to go apostrophe OS for OSNAP.

I'm going to deselect midpoint, make sure OSNAP is on, and go OK. I'm just going to start going around the outside of the building because we're going to be doing the calculations for the interior square footage. So I'm simply tracing this polyline.

I'm going to go perpendicular to the garage wall, and then go perpendicular to the outside wall over here, and then C to close. So that's going to end up being the habitable square footage. I'm going to draw another polyline around the porch, again going around the outside of the fireplace, and then C to close.

And then another polyline that will be going for the garage, and close it. So CTRL S to save. I need to find out the square footage.

I'm just going to type list, and I can see how many square inches and how many square feet. So I'm just going to take the 1819, CTRL C that, go back into my title sheet, double-click on the first floor value right here, do a CTRL V that will populate it, and put a comma in right there and close that text editor. I'm going to go back to the plan.

I'm going to list the garage, and you can see that it's 503 square feet. CTRL C, go over to my title sheet, double-click, CTRL V, CTRL S. Now I need to add these up.

There's an interesting way I can do this. I can go back into my plan model file, and I can type area, A for add. I want to first add an object.

I'm going to pick this first rectangle, and then I will choose this one. And you can see that it's adding as we go. So I selected, there was the 1819, and then it added the 503, so the 2322 is my total.

So I'm going to say CTRL C, go back to my title sheet, double-click here, and CTRL V, put a comma in, CTRL S, go back to the plan, back off, hit escape, list this polyline. You can see that it is 232 square feet. CTRL C, go over to here, double-click, and CTRL V it right there, and CTRL S to save.

Let me just show you something fun though. I'm going to draw another rectangle right in through here. Pretend this is an atrium.

So let's say that we wanted to know the square footage in the house with the exception of the atrium. If I were to go area, A for add, object. If I first choose this object, you can see that it's showing me the square feet.

And then I'm going to hit ENTER to say that I'm finished with add. Now there's the S for subtract, and then the O for object, and I can select this area right here. And if I do an F2, we have the area, we can see where we added, we have the 1819 square feet, here's the square feet that we just subtracted for our atrium, and you can see by adding and subtracting that it does tell me that the total available area.

So I'm going to do CTRL S to save. Now, something to remember. We have now added the A area layer into our plan model file.

If we were to go into our 201 or 202 sheets, with the A area being on, the first time that the 201 and 202 sheets would see this new layer, they would want to have that layer on in the deliverable sheet files. So I'm going to go up to layers, I'm going to go back to layer states manager, floor plan, I'm going to restore that. Okay? And then I'm just going to go back into layers and confirm that the A area layer is turned off.

So A area is turned off, and then I'm just going to double check, so floor plan. Now, you can see right here the reason that A area was turned off in the layer states is because we had made the selection turn off layers not found in layer state. So again, what's happened is we have added the A area into the drawing file, but the layer state is saying if you see new layers added, don't display those in the layer state.

If the A area had been turned on, we could have then gone in, turned off the A area, go to layer states, we could have created a new layer state called floor plan, and gone okay, and overwritten the new definition. Now, so we've added the area into this drawing. If you remember, we also added the shadow layer into our elevation file.

So what I want to do is I want to go back into my elevation drawing file. I'm going to go to layers. I'm going to make sure zero is my current layer, and I'm going to turn off the layer A shadows.

Turn it off and freeze it. Again, because these elevations will be referenced into our 301 file, and if we had the shadows on in here in the elevation file, the first time that 301 saw the updated xref, it would say, oh, the shadows layer on. I want to have the shadow layers on in me, and we don't want that to happen.

So I'm just going to now save the changes. Another calculation we need to do is the square footage of the lot. And again, the reason the xref came in was simply because we'd updated the elevation file.

I want to calculate the area for the square footage. If you would please, go open your meets and bounds drawing. In the meets and bounds drawing, I'm going to take the property line, convert it into a closed polyline, and get the area off of that.

So PE for polyedit. I'm going to pick. It says it's not one.

Do you want to make it one? Yes. And I'm going to J for join. Join all of the segments.

Enter. Enter, enter. Control-S to save.

Now, I'm going to list. Now, we understand that when the civil engineer is doing their work, they are letting one unit represent a foot. So Control-C here.

Go back into my title sheet. Double-click here. Control-V.

Close the editor. Zoom extends. Zoom real time.

Save the file. We've now completed our title sheet. So let's go plot.

Here's our configuration files. Do a preview. Make sure it looks right.

Zoom in. Looks pretty good. Do a right button plot.

And again, we're in our 302 folder. I'm going to be saving it with the name VDCI title sheet 100. I'm going to go save.

Overwrite the file. And there we are. If you would, please get caught up to this point.

We've gotten a whole lot done between CAD 301 and 302. We've developed our title sheet, our site plan, floor plan, enlarge plan, elevations, roof plans, building sections, wall sections, and dealt with some details. So again, thank you very much.

And I look forward to seeing you in a future class.