Delve into the process of creating an enlarged floor plan with a call-out view of complex areas in CAD design. This discussion particularly focuses on the creation of a call-out view for a bathroom area in BIM 322 course, showcasing the necessary steps, and potential complications when annotating intricate plumbing details.
Key Insights
- The article provides a step-by-step guide on creating a call-out view of the plumbing area in a bathroom. This is achieved using the view tab in the CAD software, outlining the area of interest and solidifying the view.
- Editing and annotating the call-out view involves specific strategies such as adjusting the view range to show less information and tightening up the drawing. This process also includes annotating the pipes using the tag by category option and adjusting the notes as necessary.
- The call-out view helps in providing a clearer picture of highly detailed areas. By creating enlarged floor plans, the intricate details of the plumbing become more readable and the likelihood of problems arising during the actual installation are reduced.
Welcome back to the CAD Teacher VDCI video course content for the BIM 322 course. In the previous video, we went ahead and actually detailed and annotated our first-floor plumbing drawing. And in this next video, we're going to go ahead and create a call-out view of this plumbing area or these two bathrooms, just because there's a lot of information here that we want to be able to get across.
So what I'm going to do, let's roll back and zoom out. And let's go ahead and actually go to the view tab. This is what we're going to be using to create our different call-outs.
I'm going to go to view, and I'm going to go to call-out here. Go ahead, synchronize with central if you get this pop-up. And as you can see, I'm not going to reference another view because I do want to create an actual new view.
If I were to reference another view, it would actually create a drafting view. And this is what we would use for like details or something like that. But we actually want to create an enlarged floor plan here.
So what I'm going to do is I'm going to go ahead and start up here and drag it out. And as you can see, I'm going to just make a call-out of the entire bathroom. I'm going to go ahead and click again to finalize the view.
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And there it is. As you can see, I have a call-out of sheet view dash one dash plumbing now in my project browser. I can go ahead and actually edit and adjust the location of this call-out head.
I'm going to go ahead and click to activate the grips. And I'm going to go ahead and bring it all the way out here. And I'm going to go ahead and put it about like that.
Once we have that, let's go ahead and jump into that view so that we can actually start to edit and annotate that one. I'm going to hit escape just to make sure nothing is selected. And I'm going to double-click on the head of the call-out here.
So I'm going to double-click here. And there we are. As you can see, it's a quarter of an inch equals a foot.
And it's a lot easier to read because it's a lot smaller. So what I'm going to do is go ahead. I'm going to adjust this view range just a little bit, change the clipping plane of it just slightly so I'm just not showing quite as much information.
Just to tighten it up a little bit. Perfect. Now I want to go ahead and annotate this view.
I don't need to put in more lavatory tags or equipment tags. I'm just going to go through and start annotating the actual pipe.
So let's go ahead to the annotate tab here. I'm going to go to tag by category. And I'm going to go ahead, select this pipe here and this pipe here.
I'm re-tagging these for posterity's sake. I'm going to zoom in, tag this pipe here and here. Tag the main run and then just tag all the runs coming off of the actual toilets themselves.
We also have some hot and cold water. And these are always going to be a half inch. We also have some drain lines.
Once I have what I want to have tagged, I'm just going to go ahead and adjust the actual notes now. I'm going to hit escape, escape to get out of my tag command. And then just grab them and adjust them as I see fit.
One of the really cool things about Revit is it detects where the text is in relationship to the leader. So what we can do is, is that if I pull the leader to a certain position, I can get the text to read left to right, rather than vertically. I'm going to go ahead and pull this guy out a little bit.
Bring it down again. I want to move it up. Same thing here.
And I can go ahead and move this one in a little closer to the pipe itself. I'm going to bring this one actually to this side here. Bring it down again to get the vertical text, move it up.
This one, I'm pretty much just going to move in there, bring this over here. And again, remember that there's no strict rhyme or reason to any of this. I'm just going to go ahead and do what I think and feels looks good on this specific drawing.
Move this one over to the edge here. I'm going to pull for these vent lines there, or excuse me, the drain lines. And I can go ahead and actually stack those two tags together to help clean it up and make it look a little less cluttered.
This one's giving me a little bit of trouble, but it's not anything that's too bad. I'm just going to bring it down here. And because this one really isn't pointing to anything, what I'm going to do is give it a free end.
And what that's going to do is it's going to allow me to place the end of this leader wherever I want. So in the options bar, while I still have it selected, I'm going to go up here to the options and choose free end. It's going to reset everything, but that's fine.
I'm going to go ahead and drag it up. Just kind of align it with that tag there, and there we go. I'm going to go ahead and also tag this one here, there and there, and just adjust those as I need to.
Again, it looks like I need to go ahead and give them the free end again, because technically the pipe does go underneath the lavatory, but I need to go ahead and actually give it, I need to give it to actually point to the actual pipe where it's being seen. So I'm going to go ahead and select both of those, change them both to a free end, select one, apply the free end setting, and there we are. Looking good.
I'm going to go ahead and zoom out, and I could always go back and tag the lavatories, but that information is already given in the other drawing, so no need to. Again, the reason why we did this drawing is to just give a little bit more information and a little bit clearer picture of exactly what's going on. I just need to tag a couple more over here, and then we'll be done.
And I'm going to start pulling in and stacking more than two tags. I'm going to go ahead and hit escape to exit, say I'm done, come down here, pull it up there, there we go. Bring this one down here, and then just adjust it a little bit as I need to.
And as you can see, it's getting a little bit complicated, but it's much cleaner than it was previously. This would almost be nearly unreadable if we were using just a standard floor plan view. And if it was unreadable, that could create problems in the field for the guys actually installing it, making it harder to do.
And there we go. I'm going to go ahead and zoom extents, and we have now that actual enlarged plan view there. And I'm going to press Control and save the file, and I'll see you in the next video.