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- The professional landscape in construction is rapidly evolving due to the convergence of construction and technology. This shift is transforming the way projects are planned, managed, and executed.
- Building Information Modeling (BIM) has emerged as a revolutionary tool in the construction industry. It not only facilitates effective collaboration among project stakeholders but also significantly enhances project efficiency and productivity.
- Learning BIM can substantially augment a construction career. It not only provides a competitive edge in the job market but also offers numerous opportunities for career growth and advancement.
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While we're making good progress, I know that I need to get the insulation down here. So, zoom dynamic, Z, spacebar, D, spacebar, go up to here, copy this line. I'm going to say from the end up here, apostrophe, Z, spacebar, D, spacebar, go down to here, and I'll say copy it to the midpoint of right here.
CTRL + S to save. I'm going to try trimming that line. I just want to make sure I have enough of the pattern showing and save.
I'm going to put a hatch in here for the gyp board. We normally use a dot pattern. So, I'll go to hatch, expand the list, AR Sand, that's the one we typically use.
I'm going to hover over this area, and I'm finished with the hatch. I think I'm going to pick the hatch though, right-click, Properties, and I'm going to change the scale factor of the hatch to 0.75, and I'm also going to move the base point to the end here. I'm going to close the hatch editor.
I'm not overly thrilled with it because there's just not enough dots. So, I'll pick it again, right-click, Properties. I'll set the scale factor to 0.5. That's better.
Hit escape. I'm going to do a match properties, and put this hatch on the medium layer because they're little dots and they won't show up as comfortably. I'm now going to copy the last part from here to here.
I'm going to go into Zoom Dynamic, and I'm going to copy this wood trim, and I'm going to copy these hatches too. From here, apostrophe, Z, spacebar, D, spacebar, enter, F8, copies it straight up. I'm going to move this line from the end of the line to the end of this arc of the wood itself.
I'm going to check my distance from here to here. I'm going to offset by an inch and a half and see what happens. Too much.
I'm going to offset by an inch, extend out to here this, extend out to here this line, trim crossing. This is a small segment. I'm going to move the window including this line from the end of here to the end of here.
Trim that and that. I'm going to copy crossing these guys. I'm picking my base point over here so I can more easily maneuver and do that.
Zoom in, trim, cutting edge, cutting edge, cutting edge, and cutting edge. That little bit right there. Erase these guys out.
B hatch, pick a point. You usually want to make sure that you can see the entire region being hatched within the zoom window. Close, and then M-A for match properties, source and destination.
So what it did is it not only migrated to being on the medium layer, but it used the same 0.5 scale factor that we had over there. So CTRL + S to save. I have a little bit of work to do here.
This is a brick veneer, and so I'm going to move this line from the end of here to the end there. Trim. This can actually go away now because the window assembly takes care of that.
I do have some visqueen that I'd like to put around here, visqueen or jiffy seal. So I need to at some point move the assembly forward so I can have the space for the visqueen to show up. What I can do is I can offset by 1/16 of an inch, and I'm just going to stretch this from there to there.
Take this, and put it there. Fillet this and this.
Well, I'm going to go match properties, this and this. Convert this to a polyline.
Make it a polyline. Give it a width of 1/16. Jiffy seal is a water protector that helps prevent wall damage.
I'm going to draw a line from the end of this straight up. I'm going to go back and get the bricks now. Is everything right in there? Yes, it is.
Behatch. Pick in this area. Close it.
Match properties: source and destination.
I'm going to pick on this. I just deleted the hatch pattern on the right. Go to properties.
I'll let my scale factor be 12. One thing that really is true about the AutoCAD scale factors is there's not necessarily a rhyme or reason to what the actual scales are. I'm going to move this ever so slightly to the right.
I am blocking part of that. We'll come back and fix this later. This line here can go away.
Extend up to here this. I'm going to copy my jiffy seal from here, apostrophe, Z, spacebar, D, spacebar. I'll just put it there.
Break. This polyline shows on the edge. The first point is at the end of this up to there.
We have the brick going down to there. I need to move the brick down. I'm going to move the brick down.
I’ll move it a quarter of an inch. That's fine. Extend to here this.
Trim this. I have the jiffy seal. What I want to do is I need to have sealant and a backer rod.
I'm going to draw a donut. The inside of the diameter will be 0.25. The outside, I'll say 3/16. And I'll put it right there.
Match properties: source and destination. Trim this line out there. Erase that little segment that's in there.
I'm going to draw an arc. I'm taking off my object snap. So arc from here to here, to here.
Arc here to here to here. And arc here to here to here. Match properties: source, destination.
Trim. Trim. Trim.
Save. I'm going to pan back. Copy this hatch pattern from here over to here.
BHatch. Let's see if this works successfully for us. Here and here.
Again, can you see how the hatch pattern has gone beyond? That's because I have an open area. It's going behind this piece and coming through. So draw a line from the end of here over.
Erase out the hatch. BHatch. BHatch.
Pick here, here, enter, match properties, source, destination. You know, this sort of bugs me how it just reads like that. So I'm going to erase this out.
BHatch. Pick this area, close, match properties, source, and destination. BHatch.
Pick in this area, escape, match properties, source and destination. Pick this hatch, double-click on it, set the origin to be down here. It didn't move it enough.
Double-click on it, set origin, I'll say over to here, and that's good enough because it shows that it's the same material. I want to get rid of this material, zoom extents, and save the file. We've completed most of our work.
We now need to look at how clean the details are. If I go into layers, you can see that there are some interesting layer names that are not normally ones that we use. Please update your drawing to this stage, and then we'll continue with the cleanup.