Explore the process of adding interior walls and completing section drawings, with a focus on detailing a Jack and Jill bathroom and creating a vaulted ceiling for a living and dining room area. Learn how to use specific commands in AutoCAD to illustrate these architectural designs effectively.
Key Insights
- The process involves detailing the section cut through the Jack and Jill bathroom, highlighting the toilet, tub area, and vanities, and showing a section that looks upwards towards a corner of a closet.
- In creating a vaulted ceiling for the living and dining room areas, the slope is determined to be 2 1/2 to 12, meaning for every 12 inches of run, there's a drop of 2 1/2 inches. The ceiling is centered underneath the ridge of the roof, and the framing size is offset by 6 inches.
- AutoCAD commands such as 'zoom dynamic', 'trim', 'offset', 'mirror', 'fillet', and 'join' are utilized to effectively illustrate these architectural designs, complete the section drawings, and conduct necessary clean-ups.
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So let's go over to the other section and add its interior walls, z-spacebar, d-spacebar. I'm going to go over to here and zoom out a bit. And again, the section is being cut right through here.
So you can see that we have the toilet and tub area of the Jack and Jill bathroom. This is where the vanities are. We are having a section that looks up.
So once I get out of the Jack and Jill bathroom, I will be looking up towards this corner of the closet. Again, this section is just on the uphill side of the wall at the bathroom. So I'm seeing this corner of the closet, this corner here.
I'm going to see these walls here and, of course, the exterior. So I'm going to draw a line from the end of this wall straight down and copy the last item from the end, zooming in to the end here. Again, I'm going to be going through this wall here, the end to the end.
I will see this wall, this wall, and these walls, and also the exterior, which are already completed. But I'm going to put them there anyway. Then move crossing from here straight down.
These exteriors are aligning, so select them, trim them out, trim, clean these guys up, clean that up, that up, this one, and also these. Now again, because what we're showing are section drawings, I will go trim, crossing, and I will be showing this area. And also trim, crossing, this area.
Zoom back, Control-S, save the file, go over to the A302, reload the XRef, and we can see all the latest things that we've done. What we need to do next is to go and start putting in the framing for the vaulted ceiling we're going to be having in the living and dining room areas. The living and dining room areas have a vaulted ceiling that has a slope of 2 1⁄2 to 12, meaning for every 12 inches of run, there's a drop of 2 1⁄2 inches.
So I'm going to go Zspacebar, Dspacebar for Zoom Dynamic, and go over to the appropriate zoom. The vaulted ceiling is centered underneath the ridge of the roof. So I'm going to draw a line from the end of the ridge straight down.
So that's going to be the center line of my vaulted ceiling. And I'm going to end up zooming back and drawing a line from an arbitrary point to a point at 12 feet comma minus 2 foot 6. So that's 2.5 inches per foot is 2 foot 6 per 12 foot. And then I'm just going to go on and stretch crossing this line from the end of here to the end of here to now make it twice as long.
I'm then going to offset that line by 6 inches, which is my framing size. And then I'm going to move these guys from the end of this corner to the end of the framing right here. So this is how I'm going to be having my framing working, because the underside of the framing will connect up at that point.
I'm now going to mirror these guys from the end of that guideline over Control S to save. I'm going to do some cleaning. So fillet this and this, fillet this and this.
This framing here will die into the vaulted ceiling. So trim crossing, clean these guys up. My living room is again going from the break line over.
So I'm going to be extending up to the vaulted ceiling these lines here. And I'm going to do some cleanup in this side. So trim crossing and include this and clean everything up there.
So that's how generically it's going to be working. While I'm here, I can see some cleanup I want to do here. Trim crossing, clean that up, back off a bit.
And so again, my living room vaulted ceiling is going to be stopping at the edge of the foyer over in here. So once I'm forward of my break line, I'm not going to be seeing the vaulting. So trim, here's my cutting edge, Control S to save.
Now I have some more cleanup to do here where I'm showing the drop ceiling. Trim, get this guy, get these guys out of here. And then I'm going to use the join command, join these entities together.
That's fine. I can now erase out my guided line, Control S to save. And now I'm showing the vaulted ceiling within the living room area.
Now, one thing that is happening, though, is that in the hallway beyond, because again, this is the hallway that's going towards the bedroom wings. We have the flat ceilings in the bedroom wings. So I'm going to draw a line from the end of my ceiling over, trim crossing, and clean this up.
And so now when I'm in the living room looking towards the hallway, I will see that kind of a situation as far as the vaulted ceiling and the hallway beyond. Now, after we've gotten this done, the next thing that we're going to want to do is to go and start working on showing the vaulted ceiling in our other section. If you would please get caught up to this point, and we will then continue on.