Explore how to accurately represent upper cabinets in a floor plan view using symbolic lines in your annotation tab. Learn how to select the appropriate subcategory, adjust the line's thickness, and ensure the line adheres to your length and cabinet depth parameters.
Key Insights
- The article highlights the use of symbolic lines to accurately represent the upper cabinets in floor plan viewings.
- Choosing the appropriate subcategory for the line type, such as the hidden line options, can aid in correctly setting the line's thickness.
- It is crucial to ensure that the symbolic line sticks with the parameters set for cabinet depth and length, and the line's visibility in 3D viewings can be regulated by choosing between a symbolic line and a model line.
Traditionally, what we would see in a floor plan view that represents the upper cabinet is a dashed line across the top of the base cabinet. And so what we'll want to do is add a line that's at the same depth of our upper cabinet so that we can see it correctly in our floor plan view. So I've just jumped over to my reference level here.
And what I'll do is if I go to my Annotate tab, you can see we have an option for Symbolic Line. All that we're doing here is literally just drawing a line that's going to represent the upper cabinet at this location. Before we draw the line, what I want to do is I want to go ahead and choose the appropriate subcategory, and this will help define the line type that we're using.
If you look, we have a few options that we can choose from here. And I want to go with one of the Hidden Line options. "Projection" will give us a thinner line, which is definitely more appropriate here.
If you wanted a thicker "Cut" line, which means it's being sliced in section, so it's typically shown thicker, then you can use the "Cut" here. But I'm going to go with "Projection" for this one. And then what we can do is to make our lives just a little bit easier, we can go ahead and uncheck "Chain".
And I'll go ahead and pick that intersection, draw my line across, and pick the next intersection. And then you can see here we have a couple padlocks. So I'll go ahead and lock both of those padlocks.
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And then the next thing I'm going to do is just double-check to make sure that this Symbolic Line is actually going to stick with our length parameter and our cabinet depth parameter. So I'll change the cabinet depth to one foot, and you can see it went with it.
We're good there. And I'll just change it back to the one foot two inches that we had. And I'll do the same thing with the length parameter.
I could just change it to three feet, or something even larger, just to double-check to make sure it goes both ways. And it looks like we're good to go. Now we have a Symbolic Line in place to represent the upper cabinet depth.
If I were to go to the 3D view, notice that line does not show. And that's because it was created from the Annotate tab as a Symbolic Line, which is just a two-dimensional, single-view type of element that does not show in all the different views. If you wanted that to be the case, then you would need to use a model line.
