Discover how to format drawings for different sheet sizes, from a one-by-one detail border to a one-horizontal-by-two vertical detail border. This article provides a step-by-step guide to cleaning up, saving, and modifying your drawings to fit within various configurations.
Key Insights
- The article provides a clear guide on how to create various configurations for different detail borders. It starts with formatting for a one-by-one detail border and progresses to a one-horizontal-by-two vertical detail border.
- It walks through the processes of purging, saving, copying, moving, and regenerating drawings. The author emphasizes the importance of ensuring elements align correctly in different configurations.
- The use of the VDCI Detail Border in the drawing process is highlighted, demonstrating how to create more complex configurations based on a standard one-by-one format. The tutorial concludes with detaching references and final purging before saving the finished drawing.
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Before we leave the one-by-one detail border, there are actually two more things I'd like to do. And this is because this format will be used over and over again. So I want to clean the drawing up.
I'm going to make zero my current layer. And then I'm going to go to Purge. So File, Drawing Utilities, Purge.
I'll purge everything. Make sure it says Purge Nested. I'll go back and check it one more time, because sometimes it doesn't get everything.
So everything's now been gotten, and Control-S to save the file. Now what we're going to do is to begin our one-horizontal-by-two-vertical drawing. You might be wondering, what's a one-horizontal-by-two-vertical detail border? I have no idea.
Well, what I have in front of you are drawings for a 22-by-34 sheet and drawings for a 30-by-42 sheet. In previous courses, we've taken the screen and had one viewport. We've had two viewports, like the two horizontals.
We have a two vertical, and then here we have a one vertical and two smaller but larger configurations. So you can see we have the same thing going on for the different sheet sizes. Every now and then, depending on what you're detailing, the information may not fit appropriately within a one-by-one detail.
Now most details are able to fit within a one horizontal-by-one vertical, but there are times you need different configurations. So you can see right here that I have a vertical, vertical, a two-by-two, and over here I have verticals, horizontals, and a two-by-two. So again, depending on what we're detailing and the scale at which we want to have that detail presented, there are occasions when we need to use formats other than a one horizontal-by-one horizontal image.
So let's go on and begin this process. We are back in our one horizontal-by-one vertical drawing. Let's go one more time, File, Save, and now let's go File, Save As.
So again, File, Save As, and we're going to slide down and choose our VDCI Detail Border, one horizontal-by-two vertical. We have it in here. What we need to do is to use the standard one-by-one as a base that we can then be developing our vertical off of.
So I'm just going to go to the Insert tab, and I will say Reference Attach. I'm going to go to my C drive. Now look at what it's bringing in.
It wants to bring in image files, so I'm going to change it to DWG files, and I'm going to bring in my VDCI Detail Border one-by-one. Specify insertion point on screen, OK. I'm just going to pop it in over here.
Then I'll move this from here to here, and copy this XRef from here up to here. OK. So you can see that we want to know exactly how things need to line up. So I'm going to go Stretch, Crossing, so I went S spacebar, C spacebar.
I pick here. I'm picking above the node from the end of here up to the end of here, and I'm going to save. What I'm now going to do is I'm going to move my Xs because, again, I'm positioning them so that they would line up with those over there.
So I'm going to say Move Window. I'm going to say from the end of the XRef to the end of the XRef up here, and then I'm going to copy CP Window, Enter, Base Point Anywhere, Destination At. So what I've done, now I'm hitting Escape, what I've done is I've copied those nodes on top of themselves.
Now I can type Move, then P for Previous. I can say move them from the node up here to the node down here, and now I have two on top of one another right there. Then Move Previous, which is going to go up from the node of here to the node down here, OK, and Type RE for Regen.
I have a few more I'd like to create because I need to have the list going down longer. Copy Window, Base Point Anywhere, Destination At, Escape, Move Previous from the node of here down to the node of here, and then Move Previous from the node of one down to the node below. And I'm going to draw a line from this node over here, and I'm just going to erase out these extra ones right there and save.
- What I'd like to do is to go back and do it again. So I'm going to undo.
I'm just pressing Undo several times. So where I am, I'm at the point where I've already moved the nodes from down here to up here. I want to copy all of these guys on top of themselves and then move them down.
So I'm going to say Copy Window, Base Point Anywhere, Destination At. It wants to continue copying. I hit Escape.
So I've now copied the items on top of themselves. The original points are now a selection set. So they are the previously selected entities.
I'm now going to say Move Previous from the node of the top down to the node, just panning down so I can figure out which one it is, and then Move Previous from the node of one down to the node of the next one down. Escape. Copy Window, Base Point Anywhere, Destination At.
Hit Escape. Move Previous, and the highlighting also tells me, from the node of there to the node down here. Move Previous from one node down to the next node.
I'm going to draw a line from the node of here over and erase out the ones that are down below. Erase out the line. And again, this point style has a value that the size of the node is a percentage size of the screen.
If I zoom in and Regen, it makes them a lot smaller. I can also go up to Format, Point Style, and you can see that this is my point style. And the point size is set for 5% of the screen.
And it says, set the size relative to the screen. You can make it be absolute units. So let's see what that does.
That's pretty big. Format, Point Style. This is why I tend to keep mine at 5% relative to the screen.
So again, I zoom in, I Regen, it's 5% of the screen right now. I zoom back out, and it looks good. But as soon as I do another Regen, it makes it larger.
So I'm just going to zoom in, Regen, and make that happen. Okay, so what we've done so far is we've gotten our one horizontal, two vertical complete. But we have these XREFs in here.
We're just going to go to Reference. And I'm going to use the larger format. Pick on the 1x1, right button, Detach it.
That's just easier than erasing and having to purge. But while we're thinking about purging, let's go back up to File, Drawing Utilities, and let's purge the drawing one last time.
You can see there's nothing there. Close and save the file. If you would please get this done, and then we'll move over to our two horizontal by one vertical.
So I'll see you in a few minutes.