Discover strategies for creating and managing sheet sets in architectural projects. Learn how to create new sheets, assign revisions, adjust view titles, and position views for optimal space usage and consistency.
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- The article provides a step-by-step guide on creating new sheets for architectural projects, emphasizing the importance of adding revisions early, even if the exact details are not yet known, to save time in the project's later stages.
- The author emphasizes the importance of setting up and adjusting view titles correctly, ensuring consistency across different sheets, and positioning views correctly to make optimal use of available sheet space.
- By properly managing these aspects, architectural professionals can create more organized, efficient, and understandable project sheets, supporting better communication and collaboration throughout the project duration.
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Let's go ahead and create the next set of sheets here. And so we're looking for elevations, which are going to be our 400 series sheets. If I go to my View tab and then Sheet, I can go ahead and create a new sheet here, and this is going to be 401, and I'll call that Building Elevations.
And then, since we're already here, this will save us at the end. We can go ahead and create that revision for our final. We can click Add here.
And even if you don't know what the date is and you're not sure yet, that's fine, because as long as we have it created, it allows us to use it for the future. And so the midterm's done; we've issued that.
We can go ahead and check the box. And so now we're just dealing with the final, and I can hit OK. Then I can assign that revision to this sheet.
Now I'll create my next elevation sheet, because I'm going to need another one here using that same 30 × 42 title block. I'll do the same thing—add that revision.
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This is something that, if you do it as we go, will certainly save you time at the end of the project. Now we've got our views here. And so, instead of just calling it East, I'm going to call it my East elevation.
These are just little things you can do to save yourself a bit of time in the long run. It's not a huge step, but it does help ensure that you get the right title on your sheets here. So just renaming all of these.
So I'll go ahead and put my East and my North elevation on this first sheet. And we're using eighth-inch because that's the scale of our floor plan here.
And so again, just like our other views, I want to make sure I leave a nice row here for notes and things like that that we'll add to the sheet. So there's the East elevation and the North, and this is really going to determine how far over it goes, because this one's going to take up a lot more space.
I'm going to go ahead and make some adjustments to my view title here and do the same thing on this side. That'll give me an idea of how I can set this larger view on the sheet. Even though we used our scope box to help define these things, I can still pull back, with the 2D extents, the levels, because they certainly don't need to go back that far.
Now I can go ahead and set this one into the appropriate location. Then I can have this view line up with it on the other side. A lot of times what I'll do is put in a little cheat line here.
This is just a detail line that I'm creating, and then I'll move it from here across so that they're lined up down the sheet like that. If we wanted to, we could tighten this view up a bit, but I think we're good here. I'm just going to nudge it a little bit further over.
Because we are going to need some space for our keynotes eventually in that location. Then we'll go to 401, and this will be our West and South elevations that go onto this sheet. We'll pretty much repeat the exact same steps that we just did on the other side.
So, just adjusting those level lines and then making sure I've got some consistency with my view title here and doing the same thing—just adjusting the view title and the level lines. Then I'll go ahead and line the two up, and it looks like we got pretty close—just a little bit of an adjustment there—and then I'll move it over, and now we've got our elevation sheets ready to go, along with the ones that we created for the midterm.
