Take a close look at the casework drawings for another project. See how plan callouts link to cabinet elevations that show heights, widths, adjustable shelving, and grain direction.
Study the casework drawings for a second project, with plans, elevations, sections, and details for bathroom cabinetry and kitchens.
Key Insights
- Plan callouts point to numbered elevations, and the elevations point to sections on other sheets.
- The drawings show grain direction, mounting heights, and installation tolerances that give framers room to adjust.
- Sections and details use several scales, from full size to 3 inch and 1 1/2 inch scales, to explain each condition.
AutoCAD Drawing Basics
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Let's now look at some casework drawings for another project. Here's the plan. You can see the callouts for the elevations 1,2, 3,4. Elevation 1,2, 3, and 4. Here's another bathroom, elevations 5 and 6. They're calling out the faucet and the sink.
They're including a room number. This will be coordinated elsewhere within the set of construction documents. Here's one of the elevations.
So this is elevation 1 of this cabinetry that's right here. You can see how tall it is, 2100 millimeters. Width, adjustable shelving.
It's showing the grain direction on the door, that they want the grain there going up and down. They think of everything. The sink, and then there are more elevations down here.
If we go back, you can see references to sections, A and B on 1604. We're on page 1603. So again, here are the sections, the height of the fixed cabinet, the hinges, the bracing that's behind the wall, sections through the sinks, section at the mirror frame.
This scale says full, so this is 1 to 1. This is an inch and a half equals a foot, a scale factor of 8. Here it is at full size. Some isometric views to better explain how they want this condition right here to read. Again, thinking through things and attention to detail.
Similar to the other projects, we have the plan view. We have two kitchens, plan views. We have the cabinets, sections through the cabinets.
Here are the uppers, and they're showing the mounting height. You have to add it to get the mounting height, but that's provided. Sections through the cabinets.
Again, just look at the scales, 3 inch, inch and a half, inch and a half. And again, technically what's probably going on is that they have multiple viewports and certain notes are in paper space, schedules in paper space, this kind of information in paper space, more plans, other cabinetry. Again, you can see the different units that they have.
You can see that they're allowing for installation tolerance, 28 millimeters there, 25 millimeters there, because when the framers are framing and if they're not using lasers for everything, you need to have some wiggle room, and so they're allocating for the wiggle room, which is a smart thing to do. This is sort of a typical representation for glass, and you can see that these hinge up. So again, the hinge is up here.
You can see the edge of the doors. You can see the edge of the framing itself, and then you can see the edge of the frame for the glass. Plans, banquette seating here.
So elevation 3 is here. Here's the reference to the section A and section B that are in the drawings. So here they are.
Now we're at the details, similar to before. They're calling this out. See why that's bubbled? So they're calling that out to draw attention to it.
More sections. Beautiful work. And this is the last sheet on this project.
Again, more sections through the cabinets. Well, I hope you're enjoying this, and we will get to our next project in just a few minutes. See you then.
