Dive into the comprehensive process of enhancing architectural blueprints through enlarged views in this detailed article. Learn the ins and outs of tagging items, managing multiple views, tightening designs and understanding the use of specific tools.
Key Insights
- The article provides step-by-step guidance for utilizing enlarged views for architectural plans, with a focus on tagging items and managing multiple views on a sheet. This could involve tagging pipes, vents and water closets.
- Understanding the 'add, remove host' tool is crucial in this process. It allows the user to tag multiple items at once but does require exiting the tagging command to reset it.
- The article also discusses the importance of giving your leader lines an endpoint for improved readability, and the use of dot filled 16th of an inch is recommended.
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Let's go ahead and get started with our enlarged views. Now that we've kind of done some tagging on items here, let's go ahead and get started with our enlarged views.
So I can go to the sheet, and what I kind of like to do sometimes when I have multiple views is to do this on the sheet. We're going to kind of start to get into this here. I'm going to go ahead, and I'm on my Level One Enlarged Bathrooms.
I'm going to double-click, and this is kind of where we can start to tighten things up. I noticed here I'm actually going to go ahead and clean that up a little bit because I had a little tag in there. I don't need that tagging on the vent.
I just need that. So what I can go ahead and do is I'm going to tag. Let's go ahead and just start tagging some of these pipes.
So two-inch vent, and I could put this in here. And if I do the Add/Remove Host, there we go. So I can tag both of those.
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I could tag both of these. So again, how I'm getting that is I'm just using this Add/Remove Host at the top. The only downside to this is that you need to go out of your tagging command to go ahead and reset it.
So these are all two-inch vents. And I could add as many of these as I want to, but here we go—three-inch vent.
So that is giving me the "varies." So I wanted to undo that, and I just want to tag these individually.
Then come back up, Add/Remove Host. And I could—let's say I want to do like three in a row—I could do that.
You could do that and move those out or whatever else you think kind of looks best. I'm not a huge fan of that right there. I kind of just like to tag these maybe two at a time.
We'll go here. And then if you wanted to add this to another one, I can go right there, select this one. I'm going to move it down, Add/Remove Host, pick that one there.
I can also tag my Water Closets. So you can see I have my Water Closet 1. I could also Add/Remove Hosts.
I could click on, I can select this guy, Add/Remove Host. So I tagged both those Water Closets. Let's tag that one there.
This one doesn't have a tag yet. I'm going to just go ahead and call this U1 for Urinal 1. There we go.
Yes. Select this guy, Add/Remove Host. There we go.
- There it is. Then over here, this one doesn't have it either yet.
This will be S2 for Sink 2. S2. So I can just assign that there.
Oh, actually that'll be Sink 3, right? Because we have the Vanity as being Sink 2. So this will be Sink 3. If you wanted to tag multiple, again, you can do that.
I could drag that up there, delete that guy, Add/Remove Host. There we go. I'm going to go ahead and escape TG for tag.
Let's do the Add/Remove Host. Boom, boom, boom. We'll get all three of them in there.
And then let's see, let's get that a little more straight on. There we go. And there we go.
If you like that—I'm not necessarily the biggest fan of it—I think some of these lines get a little crazy. The one nice thing that I've noticed, though, is that I need to give an endpoint to these.
So I think giving this leader line an endpoint is a very good practice to do. So I'm going to select this tag, Edit Type. I'm going to go Leader Arrowhead, and I'm going to just give it the Dot Filled 1/16" (inch).
That's one that's already in there. So Apply, hit OK. And it just helps in the reading of this.
I feel quite a bit. Great. Let's go ahead and scroll down.
- I'm just going to start tagging. We have our waste.
I can remove the Add/Remove Host. I'm kind of more of a fan of doing the Add/Remove Host after I do it. We can get rid of that.
So I can just kind of go along and tag as much as I need to. And it's not wanting to go away. There it goes.
No, let's restart this command. I want to make sure this is unchecked. There we go.
I kind of tend to like to add the hosts later on if I can. So here I want to tag the hot and cold water lines. We'll do the one-inch cold water and one-inch hot water.
And you can move these around as you see fit. You can move them all the way out here. They kind of get lost with the sink and everything, but then I can just continue tagging—TG for Tag by Category.
I want to close it on, and you do want to tag every single one. And I might pull these like out here. I currently have it on Attached End.
If I change this to, say, a Free End tag—if I select this—there we go. And I change the leader type to be a Free End.
I would be able to move this guy too, if you want to do that. But the attachment works just fine for the most part. There are some times that you may want to have it be a Free End, but for what we're doing here, it works perfectly fine.
If I move that out and I move that a little closer, that attachment kind of goes a little farther out, which I kind of like a little bit more—not being so much at the back there. And I might move this guy to be aligned with that there. Let's do that.
Take this guy out a little farther. There we go. Let's organize some of these sinks and just move these tags around.
And we're looking pretty good. Let's double-check up here. We need to tag our vents and everything here, but we can go ahead and do that.
So just come into here with the pipes. I do like to kind of consolidate the tags if I can. So what I'll do here is I'll populate those three, select this one, Add/Remove Host there.
Select this one, Add/Remove Host here and here. I can move this farther down, Add/Remove Host here and here. There we go.
So I might add one here to say that one varies. So this may have gotten a little bit bigger. There we go.
Looking pretty good. We have our Area Tags—our Space Tags, excuse me. We have our sinks tagged.
We have our Plumbing Fixture tagged. The only other tag I could probably just add on here real quickly, if I really wanted to, is a Spot Slope for my drainage lines. But I will say that most of the time these Spot Slopes will be handled through a general note or something that'll say like, "Hey, any pipe—any sanitary waste pipe or any pipe draining that is over four inches—will be sloped to 1/8” per foot."
Any pipe that is three inches or under will be at 1/4” per foot. So let's go ahead and let's go over to our next one. Again, we're kind of seeing some of the underground.
We're seeing two floors here, so we need to—I'm going to go ahead and change this guy here. Let's uncheck View Range again. Apply.
Okay. And then we're going to go to our View Range and make it zero for that particular view. That won't affect this view, but it will change this view for us. And back to tagging.