Learn key strategies for creating and arranging floor plans on a sheet in commercial projects, including proper setup checks such as scale, detail level, and crop region positioning. This article provides detailed steps on how to prepare, insert, and align different floor plans on a large size sheet for easy readability and professional presentation.
Key Insights
- The article emphasizes the importance of setting up each floor plan with the correct scale and detail level, ensuring the crop region is in the right location, before moving it onto the sheet.
- Efficient use of a large E1 size sheet, like the VDCI TTLB 30 by 42, is demonstrated. It's typical for commercial projects, and can accommodate multiple floor plans along with schedules and legends.
- The article also outlines methods for adjusting the presentation of project views on the sheet. This includes aligning floor plans and adjusting view titles according to personal preferences or project requirements.
Before we get into scheduling, what I'd like to do is I'd like to create the sheet that we're going to put all these views on and add the information we already have, which is our Level One and Level Two floor plans and the Enlarged Plan on the sheet. So then we have something that we're going to be building to towards the end of this lesson. So to create a sheet, what we'll do is we'll go to View, Sheet, and we want to make sure we're using the appropriate title block, which in our case is going to be the VDCI TTLB 30 × 42.
And this is an E1 size sheet, this is a nice big sheet, it's very typical to use this in commercial projects. And we're going to use that one. We'll hit OK.
And you can see it's a nice, beautiful blank sheet ready for us to add many information to. So our goal is going to be to create a sheet that has a row, essentially, or a column, rather, of schedules and legends and things like that on this side. And then we'll put our two floor plans and our Enlarged Plan in this area here.
We can start that process pretty easily by going first to Level One. And just like we did in our previous lessons is we want to make sure that everything is set up before we move it on a sheet. So I'll have like a little checklist that we want to go through, and that's going to involve double checking the scale.
Scale we want is eighth-inch. Double checking the detail level, so we want to have it at least medium, which is what we have here. And then we want to make sure our crop is on and then our crop region is in the right location.
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So I'll go in here and I'm going to check where that crop region is located. And I want to make sure it's in a situation that will give me a view that is good for this project. So I'll go ahead and check where it's located.
Looks like it's a little far out on this side, so I can always bring that in a little closer. And then I can definitely do the same thing across the top and even on the bottom if I wanted to, just to kind of tighten things up a bit so that my crop region is more relevant to the view that I'm working with. So I'll go ahead and turn it off because I don't need it on.
And now I can use the Tab browsing here across the top to find my A2.1 Sheet and I can go ahead and put Level One on the sheet. And so I'll just place Level One here. And we're probably going to do some rearranging as we go through, but that's a good start.
The next thing I'd like to do is I'd like to adjust my level because I like to have the bubble kind of on the end here, sort of lined up with where these grid marks stop. And then I can bring this across the end here. And this is a preference thing.
Some people like it, you know, the width of the view. Some people like to have it, you know, a short one like this or, you know, even docked to the right or the left. Those are all preference things and are certainly ways that you can decide to present your project.
We'll do the same process for Level Two, just going through that checklist. Eighth-inch, medium detail level. And then let's go ahead and check the crop region.
This one actually looks pretty good. We'll go ahead and put Level Two on the sheet by pressing, dragging, and dropping it across. One of the things you'll want to do is make sure you get it lined up with Level One.
And then what I'll do is I'll use the same scheme that I used for the view title by lining them up like you see here and then adjusting the end to be in a similar method that we used before. So the next view that we've got to put on here is going to be our Typical Office Layout. If I go into my Typical Office Layout, you can see the crop regions already been set.
The only thing that we're not seeing here is the detail level. So I'll change that to medium. You can see that we've got the detail level we're looking for.
The crop region we know is already set because it was set by default when we created it. And then we can go ahead and put it on the sheet. And so I'll put this down below our Level One plan, kind of like that.
And this one we'll just move around a bit. And then I can go ahead and I can adjust the callout boundary. And there we go.
We've got our first three views on the sheet.
