Learn how architectural plans can be edited for specific needs such as creating new openings for stairs and adding walls. This article breaks down the process of editing floor plans for stairwell and bathroom facilities on different levels of a building.
Key Insights
- The article details the process of creating and modifying architectural plans, first by opening the existing plan and identifying the changes that need to be made, particularly for stairwell and bathroom facilities.
- The writer discusses the specifics of editing the floor to create the right openings for stairs, using different tools to create boundaries and cut desired areas.
- Adding walls to the plan is also detailed, with instructions on how to draw them in at the edge of the slab, close off the stair, and copy an entire restroom block to the level two plan.
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Let's go ahead and jump to our level one plan here. And we need to make sure that we have a lot of these things on level two as well. If I were to jump to level two and take a look at it, you can see it's a very different-looking plan.
So first things first, we need to make sure we have the right openings in our floor for our stairs. And then we also need to add a few walls. So our stairwell here doesn't quite close out the way we want it to.
And then we definitely don't have our bathrooms on level two as well. So let's start out by editing our floor to have the right opening. And so if I were to edit the boundary here, I can go in and I can see where it needs to be cut.
And so I could draw my lines in to create the boundary for my stair to cut that. And now you can see we need to create a little bit of an opening here. So this will just be wide open going across.
And I'll do the same thing on the other side. This one's a little easier because I can just use the rectangle tool to do that and create that opening that I'm looking for. And I'll actually pull that back a little bit there.
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And I will leave it there and go ahead. And now I can finish that sketch. I do not want to attach, so I'll say don't attach.
And then I'll go in and I'll add my walls. And so this is a wall that I still want to have finish face interior, but it's going to go from level two to roof. And then I'll have it drawn in at the edge of this slab here that we just created.
And I need to close off the stair on this side as well, doing the same thing. Now I've got the walls that I need for my stairs. Now I need to go in and I can just grab my entire restroom block here, including this wall, which we'll modify when we get to level two.
But I need that wall as well. And I'll copy it from the clipboard. And I'm going to go to level two.
And then I'll say paste aligned to current view. And then I just have to clean it up a little bit to have my restroom block ready to go. The other thing I want to do while we're here is this is a lightweight concrete material.
I want to turn off that surface pattern because it's just really busy and it makes it really hard to see what we're doing here. So I'm going to turn that off using that same process we've always used before. And then the next thing I want to do here is you can see we have the level one underlay on.
I'm going to turn that off. See here: underlay. I just set that to none.
And now we can just see our level two plan. This makes it really easy for us to then go in and finish out adding our doors that we need. And we're pretty much ready to start finalizing our plan with a few notes and definitely want to make sure the plans we're going to put on sheets like this one and this one still have the right scope box associated with them, which they do.
And we'll get into adding the information we need for those plans next.
