Learning to effectively scale your roof plans and incorporate them into your A3.1 sheet can elevate your architectural drawings and precision. This article provides a step-by-step guide to help you navigate the process using layering and scaling techniques.
Key Insights
- The process involves shifting back and forth between your A3.1 sheet and your A3.01 plan file. By manipulating layers on these files, you can assure that your roof plan fits the appropriate scale.
- After adjusting the scale factor (in this case, to 96), an angled line is drawn to aid in the placement of the roof plan. This line can be erased after the roof plan has been inserted and the file saved.
- Lastly, adjustments are made to the viewport and certain layers are turned off to ensure a clean presentation. These steps prioritize the clarity and readability of the drawing, especially in regards to sharing progress with clients or team members.
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We're working on our A3.1 sheet, but you can see that we don't have our roof plan at the appropriate scale. So what I'd like us to do is to go back to our A3.1 plan file itself. Let's go to layers, and let's turn on the A no-plot layer.
Now we're going to be seeing all of the no-plots that are related to the A2.1 and 2.2 sheet. I'm going to go and make zero my current layer, turn it on, and make it the current layer. And I'm going to bring in my two-thirds horizontal at a scale factor of 96 because our roof plan will be displayed at a scale factor of 96.
I'm going to begin by drawing a line from the apparent intersection of the left side and the top of the roof and take it to the opposite corner in the bottom right. I'm now going to go to the Insert tab, go to the Insert command, go to Browse. I'm going to slide down and choose no-plot view horizontal two-thirds.
I'm going to say specify insertion point on screen. I will say a scale factor of 96. I will go OK, and I will bring it in at the midpoint of that line that we just drew.
And again, when I chose the line, I purposely picked off of the midpoint so that it would properly isolate information. I can now erase the angled line and save the file. I'm now going to go back to my 301 sheet file.
You can see that it wants to reload the XREF, and I'm going to say fine. So I've reloaded the XREF, but remember that when we XREF'd attach the model file in, we had the no-plot layer turned off. So even though we've turned it on in the source file, we need to turn it on in this destination file so that we can see things.
So I'll go to the Home tab, and I'll go to the Layer States, and I will choose the Xref plan model file. Take the no-plot layer, and I will turn it on. So you can see that it's there.
I now need to zoom, so I will go View, Zoom Window, and I will zoom from the end of the bottom right corner to the end of the top left corner. If you look down here, you can see that we have the appropriate scale. I now want to lock that viewport.
So again, I've locked that viewport. I will go into paper space, CTRL+S to save, and we're there. We've brought the roof plan in.
We've scaled it appropriately. The only thing I'm going to do is I'm going to jump into this viewport and roll back and pan out of the way. And the reason I'm doing that is that in the event somebody calls and says, hey, would you please send me a progress of where you are in the A3.1 file, that they might not understand our work in progress.
They would much rather not see anything up here than to see two occurrences of the roof plan. The last thing I'm going to do, and I don't really need to do it because the no plot layers are non-plotting layers. I'm going to go to the Home tab.
I'm going to go to Layers. I will make zero my current layer. I will turn off the no plot, and I will also turn off the xref no plot.
Close the Layer interface so that if need be, I can print this drawing and provide it to the client. What we'll be doing in a few minutes is returning to our roof plan and adding more information. I hope you're having a good time.
Talk to you in a few minutes.