Discover how to add detailed line work to a model to further embellish and highlight crucial details. This article walks through the process of using various lines to represent different elements such as the finished floor, flashing, air vapor barrier, and more.
Key Insights
- The article provides a detailed guide on how to use detail lines in a model to add information and increase detail. This includes using wide lines, hidden lines, and medium lines for different purposes.
- The process involves changing line types, setting offsets, and drawing across the model to represent various elements like the finished floor, the air vapor barrier, and flashing at the base of the wall.
- Other embellishments such as insulation, metal stud track, exterior sheathing, and a pattern for brick can also be added to enrich the detail of the model. Adjustments can be made using a directional pad on the keyboard.
The next step here is we're going to add some line work to embellish the detail a little bit. And we'll start off by showing the finished floor. And so I'll use a detail line.
We can go to Annotate > Detail Line. And this is just us drawing lines to add information to the model. So I'll use Detail Line here.
And I'm going to change it from Wide Lines to Hidden Line. And what I could do is I can set the offset to be half-inch. And I'll just draw the detail line going across here to show where the finished floor is.
And you'll notice here that I picked Hidden Lines. And that is actually a green line, oddly. And Hidden is the one we're looking for because it's just going to be a black line to represent our finished floor.
The next one we'll do is going to be our air vapor barrier that's going to run down the exterior sheathing. And then we're also going to have a line here to represent our flashing at the base of the wall. So I'll start with the flashing first.
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We'll use a Detail Line again. This one instead of Hidden Lines, I'm going to go ahead and pick Medium Lines. And I'll give this one an offset as well, but this time we'll use a quarter-inch.
And then I'll start roughly six inches above the slab. And I'm just going to move it along. And you can see by having that offset selected, it allows us to go in and then draw in these flashing pieces.
And so I'll bring it down. Probably going to adjust this a little lower. And I'll bring it down.
And then I'll create the hemmed edge, just kind of sketching this in. And I'm going to turn off the offset because that's just too difficult to predict. And then now we've got our hemmed edge.
And then with this region here, we have all these grips, so I can adjust it down a little bit so that we can actually see the flashing in that location. Now we can do the same thing with our air barrier. We'll use a Detail Line.
We'll use that same quarter-inch offset. And for this one, we're going to use Center Line. And so I'll just start kind of in this location here and move it down.
And then when I get close to where my flashing is going to be, I'm just going to offset that over a bit and then we can move it down to cover over the top. And you can always go back and make adjustments to these. I'm just using the directional pad on my keyboard to kind of shimmy it into place to where I wanted it.
And that gives us the line work elements that we can use to embellish the detail. We can also use things like insulation, like we used on the wall section. I can add that in to the detail.
And then we can use what are called detail components, something like the metal stud track, the exterior sheathing, another pattern for gypsum board. And also we can use a pattern for brick, which is going to be a repeating detail component that we'll add a little bit later. So the last line that I want to add is going to be another vapor barrier.
And that's going to be for the below slab. And I just want to make sure that one is set at Center Line as well. And the next thing we'll do is we're going to take a look at adding detail components to make the detail look even better.
