Discover how to effectively adjust and label views in the Building Information Modeling (BIM) 322 course. Learn how to add plumbing fixture tags and rename sheets for clarity and consistency.
Key Insights
- This article provides a step-by-step guide on how to adjust views on a drawing, including selecting, activating views, and zooming in to tag categories appropriately.
- The author emphasizes the importance of efficiently utilizing space in a drawing, by adding plumbing fixture tags where necessary.
- The process of renaming sheets and views in a project for consistency is also explained, demonstrating how to use the project browser and the naming conventions for different levels.
Welcome back to the CAD Teacher VDCI video course content for the BIM 322 course. In the previous video, we went ahead and actually changed some scales of these drawings so that we can read the information more clearly, and I hope that you went back, activated those views, and adjusted some of the tags so everything is a little bit nicer. Now, since we do have so much space here, it's okay that we are going to go back and add our plumbing fixture tags into this drawing here.
So what I'm going to do is I'm going to select it again, right-click, Activate View, I'm going to zoom in, and I'm just going to go to Tag by Category. Again, I'm just going to do the actual plumbing fixtures themselves real quickly. Because we have just so much space here, it's actually good that we can give this information in multiple locations. And you know what? I'm not really going to adjust them too much. I'm going to go ahead and actually grab this tag and pull it down just a little bit so it doesn't get confused.
There we go, and we're good to go. I'm going to right-click, Deactivate View, Zoom Extents, press Control+S to save the file. We're almost done with this sheet.
What I want to go ahead and do now is rename the actual sheet. So I'm going to go into my Project Browser, scroll down, go down to my Sheets area, select it, right-click, and rename. Let's call this P1.0 and let's go ahead and call this Plumbing Plans.
There we go, and as you can see, it's updated over here. What I want to go ahead and do now is name each of these views on the sheet. I'm going to go ahead and select this view here, scroll down, Title on Sheet.
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I'm going to enter "Plumbing Plan – Level 1." On this view here, this is the first floor. So I'm going to go ahead and title on sheet "Enlarged Bathroom Plan – Level 1." Again, we want to remain consistent with our names. We have the dashes there: Enlarged Bathroom Plan – Level 1. I'm going to go here, Title on Sheet "Enlarged Bathroom Plan – Level 2." Again, we want to remain consistent with those naming strategies that we have throughout the entire project.
Enter to lock it in. As you can see, I've adjusted all those. I'm going to go ahead and Zoom Extents, press Control+S to save the file, and we're pretty good with these plumbing sheets right now.
We'll add some more information later on, but let's go ahead and keep moving on, and I'll see you in the next video.