Discover the intricacies of adding more detail to your building site plans, including how to add project addresses, detailed notes, and more. Learn how to insert PDFs into your plans for additional information and how to adjust and align them for a well-organized layout.
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- The article provides a step-by-step tutorial on how to add more detail to your building site plans, including how to insert the project address on the building.
- It also explains the process of inserting PDFs into your plans for additional information such as general notes and drawings. These can be adjusted in size and aligned for a well-organized layout.
- Moreover, the article provides hints on managing overlapping information and turning off the crop region visibility to create cleaner, more readable plans.
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Let's go back to the Text tool, this time without the leader, and let's change this to a quarter inch. Let's go ahead and place our project address on the building: 3904 Crofton Street, San Diego, California, 92110. Okay, that looks good. Now let's go ahead and return to our Site Plan.
You can see all of our information is here. Now, we have some additional notes and details to add to the sheet to provide more information. We might need to move this—let’s center it right here.
So let's go ahead and add more information to our plan. We'll go to the Insert tab and bring in some PDFs first. Under the Insert tab, locate Link PDF**, and navigate to where your BIM 324 file download is saved. Find the “PDF Handouts” folder, and let’s bring in Backflow Standard Drawing 1 of 2**. Go ahead and click Open**, and set the DPI to 300 for higher quality. Okay, we can adjust the size later, but for now, let’s place this right here. This drawing contains general notes and illustrations for the backflow preventer shown in our plan—useful for hydraulic reference and for plan review.
Okay, let’s go ahead and do that one more time and bring in Drawing 2 of 2**, and we’ll try to align it with the first one. It’s a little large, so we’ll need to adjust it to fit the sheet. I’ll click on this corner here and resize it approximately like this… and like this. You can also use a Detail Line placed at the bottom of the sheet to check alignment—it’s not quite perfect, but that’s okay.
Delete that Detail Line, use the arrow key to move the drawing over. I’ll hold Control**, select both drawings, then nudge them up and over. Looks like I need to scale this up just a bit—like that. Okay.
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Now it looks like we have some overlapping with our existing information. I’ll click on the Site Plan and use the arrow key to nudge it over a bit.
I don’t want to see the crop region here, so I’ll click on it and turn off Crop Region Visibility**. That looks a little better.
