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Let's continue on with our project. One thing I'd like to do is to turn off the no-plot view layers from the details. I'm going to go to Home, Layer Properties.
I'm going to sort by color. Click it one more time. I'm going to choose these four no-plot layers and turn them off.
And I think I'll go on and freeze them at the same time. But what you can see is missing now are the grids that separate the details. And those grids are normally not in the details because we might decide to have a two vertical or a two horizontal there.
And so it's just easier to let us establish the grids on the sheet itself. I'm going to go back to Layer Properties. I'm going to sort by name and I'll click it one more time.
I'm going to make Title Block my current layer. I'm going to draw a line from the intersection of our crop mark down to the intersection of our crop mark there. Copy the last item from intersection to intersection and to intersection.
I will draw a line from the intersection of here to the intersection of that crop and then copy the line from the intersection to the intersection. If, for example, we needed to put a two vertical in there, we would just trim and make it open. So save the file.
I'm going to go back to Layer Zero and go to the Insert tab, Reference Attach. I'm going to attach detail four. Scale factor of one.
We're going to scale it down like before. Pop it right there. Now, do you see that this detail is six inches equals a foot, which is a scale factor of two.
So scale this guy by 0.5. Move this from this intersection up to this intersection. I'm going to save the file. I'm going to go back to Layer Properties.
I'll just hover over it here and then slide down. Go to that magenta layer for the new detail and freeze and turn it off.
So again, you can see that once again, here we had a scale factor of four. Here we have a scale factor of two. The text is the same size.
The leader heads are the same size. And I'm going to save the file. I'm going to go back in, Reference Attach, detail five.
Just pop it in here. Look at the scale. An inch and a half equals a foot.
That's eight. So scale crossing one over eight. Move this from the intersection of here up to the intersection of here.
Save the drawing. Go back into properties. Slide down.
The next magenta layer—turn it off and freeze it. And save the file.
What I would like for you to do is to include your details, the two that you've done yourself, in this location and in this location. And now I'm going to bring in the next of the details. Reference Attach.
Slide down. I'm going to choose detail nine. Specify on screen.
Just pop it in here. Zoom out a bit. It's a scale factor of four.
So scale this guy by 0.25. Move this detail from the end of here to the intersection of here. Save the file. And go back to Reference Attach.
Pop in the last of the details, number 10. Specify on screen. Right there.
Scale factor of four. Scale 0.25. Move this from the intersection of here to the intersection of here. Control-S to save.
Go to Layer Properties. Freeze and turn off the no-plot layers.
Zoom extents. Regen. Save the file.
And then I'm going to trim that and save the file. We have the details on the sheet. All we need for you to do is to get your two details in here.
And then we come back. We're going to start numbering our details. And then we will begin learning about cabinetry and millwork drawings.