Learn how to enhance your building section's interior with detailed features like windows, doors, and the fireplace using various commands. The tutorial provides a step-by-step guide on copying lines, using the match properties command, inserting block symbols, and more to create a realistic and comprehensive view of your structure's interior.
Key Insights
- The tutorial guides you through adding interior details to a building section, including windows, doors, and a fireplace, by setting the current layer to zero and drawing lines from intersections using the ortho mode. It also involves copying these lines across adjacent edges of doors and windows.
- It introduces the use of new symbols on interior features through the block insert command. For instance, a door can be symbolized by a 'door 2668 French interior view' or a fireplace by a 'fireplace interior view' to provide more realistic details.
- The tutorial also explains how to reference one section in another, demonstrating the importance of cross-referencing for accurate presentation of the building's sections. It also highlights the need for correcting any errors as soon as possible to avoid complications down the line.
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Let's add some more detailing to the interior of our building section. I'm going to go on and make zero my current layer. I'm going to back off, I'm going to pull some lines down for the windows and doors that are in the living dining area and in the family room.
So I'm going to zoom in and draw a line from the intersection with ortho on straight down. And then I'm going to copy this line in many occasions. So I'm copying it to the adjacent edges of all the doors and the windows at the far part of the section.
I'm also going to copy the line from the end to the midpoint of the fireplace. And then I'm going to move these guys down. And again my typical header height will be six foot eight, so offset the floor by six foot eight.
And then MA for match properties and bring that in, control S to save. Now what we're going to start doing is to insert some new symbols. So let's go to insert, block insert.
Let's go to browse and let's slide down and choose window 2050 interior view. Specify insertion point on screen and I'm going to pop that in at this intersection. I'm going to go back to block insert, go to browse.
I'm going to go down and choose door 2668 French interior view. Specify on screen, bring that in right here. Block insert, I'm going to go in and bring in the fireplace.
Go to browse, slide down, fireplace interior view. Specify on screen, pop it in at this intersection. Pan over, insert block, go to browse, slide down for my windows.
This will be the window pair 2050 interior view. Specify on screen, bring it in there, control S to save. I'm now going to make some copying.
So I will copy this block from the insertion base point of the block to the intersection of here. Hit the space bar to repeat copy. Select the door from the insertion base point of the block to the intersection here.
Escape, control S to save. I can now erase out my guidelines. Erase out this guideline and MA for match properties.
Here's my source and I'm now migrating all of these blocks to be on the medium layer. We've gotten this done. Now we're going to start looking in at our other section.
This opening that's going to the hallway will be on the medium layer. So MA for match properties. I'll choose a medium and I will select these entities.
Control S to save. We have our porch door. We have our opening into the hallway.
I believe that we need to look at a door that's being cut in through here. We have a door that we need to show what we're doing. So offset by six foot eight.
This will be just like the other door we did in the bathroom. So I'm just going to do a trim crossing and get rid of this information. And then draw a line from here to the end of the concrete.
Copy that line. CP for copy from end to end. MA for match properties.
Here's my source. There's my destination. Control S to save.
We have a bit more cleanup and some annotation I'd like to do. I'm going to go on and erase out this line right here. And again, we used that line for establishing the position of the slice through the ceiling in the other building section.
I'm going to erase that line. Now, if you remember, our building section jogs. It comes across and jogs at this point.
So this line that we have going on right there is representing a break line. So it's showing where the building section is breaking or twisting. So let's go up to layers.
And I'd like for us to use the layer A Annotated Symbols 48. And I would like for us to draw a break line. Now, you can either type in the command break line or you can go up to the express tools.
And in the express tools, there's a symbol that's called break line symbol. And how this works is by reading the prompt, you can see that it says it's going to have a size, which will be factored in by our scale factor. There will be a size and the size of the symbol will be a half an inch.
And it's saying, where's your first point? Where's your second point? Where do you want the break line symbol to be? And you can see that this break line symbol itself is very large. We're going to want to change the size of that break line break itself. So I'm going to erase out this symbol.
I'm going to go back to break line. I'm going to do a right button. I will choose size.
And for size, I will choose 0.125. Type in 0.125 for an eighth of an inch. And now it says, where do you want that symbol to be? I'm going to begin by saying nearest to the symbol right here to the break line we put in before. And then go nearest to down here.
It's saying, where do I want the break to be? And I'm going to be going right about there. And you can see that now I have the break symbol in there. I'm going to go to home tab and erase out the pull down line that we used from before.
And I'm going to convert. This is already a polyline, but I'm going to convert the break line symbol, which is a polyline, and give it a width. So I'm going to pick on the symbol, do a right button, polyline, give it a width of one inch.
And so now we have the break line symbol that now has a width and it clearly reads in the drawing. There's another bit of annotation I would like to reflect in each of the sections. I'm going to go down to this elevation.
You can see that in this lower elevation we're saying here's the elevation, but there is a building section cut here that looks to the right, which is the longitudinal section in the building. And if I pan over to here, you can see that in this elevation that it's again saying there's the transverse section that's cut over here looking this way. Well what I'd like to do is to reference the longitudinal section in the transverse and to reference the transverse in the longitudinal.
So here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to go into this elevation and I'm going to say copy, crossing, and I'm going to do a crossing, get the symbol in the polyline, get the crossing here. And I'm going to copy it from the end of the ground perpendicular to the end of the ground right up there.
Control S to save. Now let's go back to our A302 drawing and reload the xrefs. So you're beginning to see how we're able to reference one section in the other.
But what's going on is this section here is section 2 on sheet A32 and I'm simply confirming that I'm referencing section 2 sheet A3.2 in this lower image. I now need to reference the other section, the section 3 image in the image 2. So I'm going to go back to my building section file. When I pan over to here and if I were to say copy, cp for copy, crossing, I've gotten the polyline.
And if I copy it from the end of the ground or the plate line perpendicular to here, you can see that I am in fact bringing over that referenced information. But remember that the section jogs. When we began the section on the exterior elevation, it was in fact at this point, but later on in the building, it jogged to down about there.
So what I need to do is to confirm that I'm now showing the section cut in the appropriate location. And you can see that when I'm looking at this section horizontally, it's already not where I'm showing it on the elevation. It has already jogged over here to the left.
Let me just pan up here so you can hopefully see it more clearly in that the section started here, came over and jogged to the left and then jogged up at this point. And where our longitudinal section is cut, we've already jogged the section over. So I'm going to draw a line from the end of the section cut up there and just pull it way down.
And now I will say move crossing from the end of here perpendicular to here. I can now erase out that segment. Zoom extends.
Control-S to save. Do some panning. Once again, Control-S to save.
Go into my A302 drawing. Reload the XREFs. So again, we have our break line and we have our references to the section cuts.
I'd like to go and take the break line, make it extend not as far above the sections as it does. So I'm going to go back in. I'm going to say 18 inches.
So I'm going to offset by 18 inches. Take this line, go down. Trim.
There's my cutting edge. Erase that. Draw a line from here over horizontally.
Move last arbitrary point up 18 inches. TR for trim. There's my cutting edge.
Erase that and save. Okay. Now, ever since we began working on our building elevations, there was a quote-unquote error which is made.
And that error was in both elevations and it has continued on to the building sections. I purposely created the error so that we can understand the importance of paying attention to detail and the need to fix situations as soon as we possibly can. So again, this was a pre-programmed error that has now compounded itself and it needs to be adjusted in the elevations and in the sections.
So I'd like you to spend a few minutes, think if you can figure out what it was, and then when we start on in the next video, we will clean that information up.