Discover how to enhance your CAD drawings by adding detail components using the annotate tab. You'll learn the process of loading and adjusting components such as gypsum board, exterior sheathing, stud track, and brick, as well as creating repeating detail components and annotating the details for clarity and precision.
Key Insights
- The detail component feature, accessible from the annotate tab, allows you to add specific elements to your CAD drawings. These components, which include gypsum board, exterior sheathing, and stud track, can be loaded and adjusted according to the needs of your drawing.
- You can create a repeating detail component for elements that are repeated in your drawing, such as bricks. This involves selecting the repeating detail option from the component menu, editing the distances as required, and placing it on the drawing.
- Annotations can be added to detail components to add clarity and precision to your drawings. The draw order of elements plays a significant role in ensuring clear visibility and distinction between components such as brick, grout, and flashing.
Detail components can be added from the annotate tab as a component here for details. When we go to detail component, you can see that we have a pretty limited default loaded in, and so we're going to go ahead and load family, and previously we'd loaded in that break line, and so we'll go back up one level, and we're going to look for some specific ones. And so the first one we're going to load in is going to be our gypsum board, and so gypsum board is going to be under division nine, plaster and gypsum board, gypsum board, and then we have the gypsum board wall section that we can add.
So I'll click open. This is going to load in the different types, and so you can see this is set to three quarter inch, and what I'm going to do is I'm going to go ahead and set that to five eighths, and then this is a line based detail component, which means if I click, I can draw a line to represent the detail component, and so I'll set it here, and I'm going to be drawing it on top of the model elements, and now you can see we have another way of showing that. One thing to keep in mind here is we're actually working with actual model elements, so the last thing you want to be doing in this view is deleting anything, just something to keep in mind.
We'll continue on adding more detail components, so the next one's going to be exterior sheathing, and this will be located up a couple levels, so I'll back up till I get to my directory, and we're looking for division six sheathing, and we want plywood section. I'll click open. That'll load in, and we want to make sure we're using the three quarter, and we'll do the same thing and place it in.
The next detail component we're going to load in is going to be for the stud track here, so we'll do the same process. We'll do the same process where we go to component, load family, and I'll back up to get to the main directory here, and this one's going to be in division nine as well. Plaster and gypsum board supports non-structural metal framing.
Here we're looking for our metal stud, and this is going to be the channel section, interior metal runner channel section, and we'll go ahead and click open, and then we can place this in the view, and obviously that's not the right type, so we want to change that to the six inch type, and then we'll locate it, and I like to set it just above the slab so you can kind of see it a little better, and now we have our metal stud, insulation, our drywall on the interior, exterior sheathing. Next is to add the brick, and the process we're going to use to add the brick is a little bit different. So this one's already been loaded in, so as you've noticed here you probably saw it in here, but we have a brick standard here, and we're going to use that one to create what's called a repeating detail component.
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To create a repeating detail component, we need to go to component, select repeating detail, and you can see we've got one for brick already, and so I'll hit edit type, and what I want to do here is I want to make sure that these distances make sense. So I'm not sure where this number came from, but we want something that's about two and five eighths, and this looks pretty close. So let's say okay, and then what you'll notice is as we add the bricks, so if I place by clicking, and as I move vertical, you can see it's adding bricks, and so what I'll do is if I hit space bar, it'll flip it to the other side, and all I want to do is just make sure I run it out so that it goes past my cut, my crop region.
Now when I see this, what I'm seeing here is, number one, I've covered up my flashing here, so I want to make an adjustment to that, and then number two, I'm missing something in between, so we're going to go ahead and add some grout. So I'm going to move this up about a half inch here so that you can see the flashing go through, and then I'm going to add a filled region over the top of all of this, which is going to be our sand, and so what I could do is I could add a rectangle here with the sand region and finish the sketch, and it puts it over the top of it, but these are all set to opaque, so it doesn't matter. It's taken over anyway, but what you're seeing beyond, see how you can see the pattern here between the bricks? That's the wall beyond, and so what I could do is if I select my sand pattern, I can make another one, so I can say edit type, duplicate, and so instead of sand without anything on here, I can add opaque as the descriptor, so it's sand opaque, so that we know that it's masking, and I can hit okay, and then it should start to hide a lot of these other elements, and so the key thing here is to make sure that it's in the right location because we'll want to have it behind all of these other things so that I can see it clearly, and now I get a nice division between the brick, the grout, and the flashing, and so the draw order played a big role on those three elements.
The next step we have is to annotate this detail, and so we'll refine this a little bit more and add some annotations.
