Delve into the meticulous process of adding dimensions to a building plan using the Annotate, Align Dimension function. Learn how to accurately and efficiently pick the right points on your plan to display information, adjust dimensions when necessary, dimension doors and windows, and add text to your dimensions for better clarity.
Key Insights
- The Annotate, Align Dimension function is used to add the necessary dimensions to a building plan, ensuring that the right points are picked for accurate information display.
- Adjustments can be made to dimensions as required, such as changing a window dimension from 9 inches to 1 foot. The process also involves adding dimensions to doors and windows, based on a center line.
- Text can be added to dimensions for better understanding, such as indicating a typical jam dimension. This helps to standardize dimensions and provide clarity to those interpreting the plan.
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Now let's add the rest of the dimensions. So again, we're going to continue on with the Annotate, Align Dimension, and it’s important to ensure we’re picking the right points, because that's how we're going to display the information. I’ll always use Tab to make sure that I hit the wall face, and then go through to make sure I hit the right elements on my window.
So in this case, I'm going to have two layers of dimensions, so if I move my dimension string down, you can see it'll hit the point where I'm looking for on this 5'11" dimension, because the next string that I'm going to do here is going to represent the extents of this window. And as I look at it, I can see that this dimension here, instead of 9", should actually be 1 foot. And it's no big deal, because I can just select the window, change it from 9" to 1', and now I have all the dimensions I need.
Going back through onto the next side of the building, what I can do is add the next layer of dimensions. So this would be the same EQ one that we have on the other side, so I can tell it to be EQ. And for this one, it's showing the actual dimension value.
And so when we click EQ, you can see how it toggles it back and forth from EQ to dimension value. And here, since we have a good overall dimension, putting EQ here is not that big of a deal, because it’ll still show and make it possible for you to distinguish what that value is. Now we need to dimension our doors and windows on this side.
And so just like on this side of the building, it's all going to be based on this centerline. And if you remember from earlier in the lesson, we used Create Similar, and I can do that here as well. So I can right-click, and I can click Create Similar, and now I have the dimension tool ready to go.
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And what I'll do is just pick all the different points that I want. So like I was saying before, I wanted to dimension the doors and windows. And I want you to notice how I'm going through and doing this.
It's not in any particular order, because it doesn’t really matter what order I follow. All that matters is that we terminate it at the last point that we want, and then we can place the dimension as you see here. If for some reason you accidentally hit a point that you didn't want—let’s say I hit the centerline of the window on accident—then you just click that same point again, and it'll remove that witness line.
And then again, just click into the blank space, and that'll finish your dimension. So the last couple that we need to do would be to define the widths of our typical walls. So I'll put one here that shows this one being 6 inches, and then move that out so that you can see it clearly.
And then we'll do another one here for the typical 4-inch wall. And you might have to use Tab a couple times to get back to that one, but it's not too bad to be able to select that. And that would be our dimensions for the floor plan.
The next one we'll do is dimension with a little bit more information on it. So what I can do is dimension, say, this typical jamb dimension, which in our case is 3 inches. And I can take it, and just like the other ones, we can move it off to the side.
But in this case, I want to add some text to it. So I can click on the dimension value here, and then click on it and see how there's a box around it. Once I click on it again, I'll get this pop-up.
And I can add to this. I can say something like jamb typical, so that you know that every time you see a door that's not specifically dimensioned, that 3-inch dimension is going to hold true everywhere. And there we go.
We've got a dimensioned floor plan. The next step is to get all of these views ready to be put onto sheets.
