Explore the BIM 322 course where you learn to create local files based on a central file, modeling, annotating, and developing construction documents. It specifically begins by expanding the project browser's Mechanical and HVAC areas, and then offers detailed instructions on duplicating views with detailing and renaming them for easier navigation.
Key Insights
- The BIM 322 course covers creating a local file based on the central file, modeling, annotating, and constructing sets of construction documents.
- Practical instructions on how to expand the project browser, duplicate views with detailing, and rename views are provided in the course.
- Students learn to annotate drawings and prepare them for sheet placements, including the addition of tags for ducts and air diffusers.
Welcome back to the CAD Teacher VDCI video course content for the BIM 322 course. After we've created, in the previous videos, we created our local file based on the central file, and we're going to go ahead and get started in our actual modeling and annotating and creating our set of construction documents. What we want to go ahead and do first is, under your project browser here, please go ahead and expand Mechanical.
This is the area that we'll be going ahead and starting first. Go ahead and expand your HVAC also, if it's not expanded. And then expand the floor plans, the ceiling plans, so your project browser starts to look like this.
And the views that we currently have here, and where we're going to go ahead and start, is we're going to go ahead and start at the first floor Mechanical ceiling plan. And as you can see, we already have information populated. It's already been modeled for you; you don't really need to go back and model anything else.
What's going to happen is that what we call this view is what we're going to be using as our working view. And what our working view is, is it's a view that we're doing the actual modeling in—not for annotations, or only for those needed for modeling. The reason why we use the working view versus the sheet view is because I don't want to have all of my text annotations and everything in here while I'm modeling, because it's just going to make it a lot harder to model.
So the first thing that we want to go ahead and do is we're going to duplicate this view with detailing so that we can actually get these room tags to come over. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to go over to Ceiling Plans, First Floor Mechanical, and I'm going to right-click. I'm going to go to Duplicate View.
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If I did the standard duplicate, I would not get the room tags, and I'd have to repopulate those. I want to bring those over to the sheet view that I'm going to create, so we're going to do a Duplicate with Detailing. I'm going to go ahead and click Duplicate with Detailing, and it's going to create an exact copy of that one.
Now what I want to do before I go any further is I want to go ahead and rename this. So I'm going to select Copy of 1-Mech. I'm going to right-click, and I'm going to go to Rename.
And I'm going to go ahead and rename this. I'm going to remove "Copy of" and name it Sheet View – 1-Mech. And then hit OK.
And so this is going to actually become our sheet view that we'll actually be putting on the sheets. I'm going to go ahead, jump to my Second Floor Mechanical also, and do the same thing. So I'm going to jump to that Second Floor Mechanical.
Again, you can see that we have the room tags here, and we have everything else modeled. I'm going to go to the Second Floor Mech, right-click, go up to Duplicate View. I'm going to choose Duplicate with Detailing because I want to go ahead and bring over those room tags that I already have placed.
So I'm going to go Duplicate with Detailing. Again, it's going to create that "Copy 2 of Mech." I'm going to select that.
I'm going to go ahead and right-click. I'm going to right-click and select Rename. I'm going to take out "Copy of" and just replace it with "Sheet View –" to give myself the standard naming scheme.
And I'm going to go ahead and hit OK. What I want to go ahead and do now is I'm going to go ahead and jump to that Sheet View – Mech 1. If you want to be able to see the full names of these drawings here, go ahead. You can hover over this portion here until you get this cursor icon, and then you can click and drag it out a little bit, just to make sure you can actually see everything.
And so what I'm going to do is let's go ahead and jump back to our Sheet View 1, or Sheet View for the First Floor Mechanical. And what's going to go on is we're going to go ahead and start annotating this drawing, and we're going to go ahead and start getting it ready for placement on the sheets. And the first thing that we'll be doing is actually annotating—we'll be adding tags for the ducts and the air diffusers—these are the pieces that go in the ceiling that actually supply and return the air to the spaces.
I'm going to go ahead and start that in the next video. I'll see you there.