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Let's begin working on our title sheet. So let's go File, New, use the template, and let's save the file in our CAD302 folder with the name VDCI-TS100 for Title Sheet 100. We're going to be working on our title sheet.
Everything will be put in in paper space. So let's go to our Layout environment. So I'm going to go to the 11x17, right-click, New Drawing Layout.
Go to the Layout itself, right-click, Rename, and it will be VDCI-22x34. I'm going to delete the Model View window. Go into the Layout tab itself, Page Setup Manager, choose the 22x34, modify it.
We're showing Drawing to PDF as our format. We want to choose ANSI Expanded D, 34x22, Layout is fine, Plot Scale Factor of 1 is fine, Landscape is fine, and we want to choose our VDCI standard color table file. There we are.
Close it and save the file. Let's go on and reference attach our title block. So Insert tab, Reference Attach.
We want to scroll down and choose our VDCI title block, TTLB2234. Insert it as an attachment, Scale Factor of 1, bring it in at 0,0, OK, CTRL S to save. Now we want to bring in the title block text file, which again will contain attributes, so Block Insert.
Let's go to Browse. We're in CAD302. Scroll down and choose VDCI-TBTX2234.
Insert it at 0,0, Scale Factor of 1, Rotation of 0. The sheet number will be TS1.0, drawn by [your name], checked by [supervisor’s name], Scale would be as noted, OK, CTRL S to save. One of the first things we want to do is to start putting in our list of pages. So here's what I'm going to do.
Let's go File, Open, and let's scroll up and just choose one of the keynotes. So I'm just going to choose the roof plan keynotes and go Open. I'm going to go Edit, Copy with Base Point.
Here's my base point up here. Select the text and the line. I'm going to close the file, discard the changes, CTRL V and just paste this in.
So all I'm doing is bringing the information in. This is going to be my sheet index. I'm going to select here and I will type in sheet index and close it.
I'm going to move these keynote symbols over to the left because we might be needing them later on. Save the file, go into the text, select it. I'm going to begin typing the sheets that we have, which will be Title Sheet, Architectural Site Plan, Floor Plan, Enlarged Floor Plan, Building Elevation and Roof Plan, Building Elevation and Sections, Building Sections, Wall Sections, and Details, and close the interface.
I'm going to move the text over to the right with Ortho on. I'm then going to copy the text over to the left. Double-click the text, select it all, and it will be TS 1.0, AS 1.0, A 2.1, A 2.2, A 3.1, A 3.2, and A 3.3. Close the editor, select the text, pick the grip, move it to the left, move the text over to the right, again Ortho on so I have alignment.
Now we have our sheet index done. I'm now going to zoom out, do a move window, move these symbols right into here. One thing I’d like us to include on our cover sheet is a variation of a rendering of the project.
We're going to begin by reference attaching the Building Elevation file into the drawing, and we will bring it in scaled down. So I'm going to go Reference Attach. I'm going to choose my elevation model.
The scale that I'm going to use will be 0.015. Now it's not a normal scale, I'm just bringing it in, obviously a little bit larger than an eighth-inch scale. Specify insertion point on screen. I'm going to pull the elevation in right there.
Now you'll notice that we have the other elevation over here on the right. So I'm going to XCLIP the file, so XCLIP. Choose the file, put my window around this, and I've now clipped the file.
I'm going to save it. So again, what's happening here is I simply want to have the elevation in here. We're going to make it look as rendered as possible, given the kind of line work we're working with.
So what we're going to do in a second is go into the elevation file and begin putting some shadows on the building.