Delve into the process of creating enlarged floor plans and interior elevations for a project. Explore the importance of adding dimensions, keynotes, tags, and organizing these views for professional documentation and design clarity.
Key Insights
- The article emphasizes the importance of creating enlarged floor plans and interior elevations for detailed architectural projects. This includes adding dimensions, keynotes, and additional tags to correspond with the keynote file and partition schedule.
- Organizing these views is crucial for clarity in project documentation. This can be achieved by creating separate headings in the project browser, such as 'floor plans' and 'enlarged floor plans.
- It's necessary to create a view template for these enlarged plans and apply it to maintain consistency across views. Furthermore, the article highlights the significance of accurate naming and position of the plans to avoid any confusion during the design process.
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Now that we've finished up with our sections and elevations, we're going to go ahead and jump back into our floor plans. The focus of these next few videos is going to be to create enlarged plans and interior elevations for this area of the plan for both Level 1 and Level 2. Part of that is going to be adding dimensions, keynotes, additional tags—you know, wall tags and those kinds of things that correspond with our keynote file and also our partition schedule.
So to start that, what I'm going to do is—I'm in A201 here—and I'm going to jump in and create an enlarged plan of this area for both Level 1 and Level 2. The first thing we'll do is go to our View tab, pick a callout, and you can see it says Floor Plan here. What we can do is, instead of just leaving it as Floor Plan—because what will happen is, if I were to create an enlarged plan here—you can see that we have a new floor plan that was created in this same category.
While that's fine, and it is still a floor plan and it's true, there's a better way for us to organize these views. So what I'd like to do is, when I make a callout, instead of using that one, I'd like to go ahead and say Edit Type and duplicate the Floor Plan type here to make one that is going to be Enlarged Floor Plans. What this will do is just give me another heading in my Project Browser, and it's a better way to organize our files.
Just like we did with the Wall Sections, we'd have the opportunity to then assign a view template to those views. We don't have a view template for enlarged plans yet, but we will in a minute, and that's what we'll do after we have that set up. So I'm going to hit OK, and then I'll go ahead and create my new Enlarged Floor Plan for this area of the lobby.
I'm just going to move this over to the side so it's a little bit more clear. And since we're not really going to have a separate plan for the lobby, I'm going to go ahead and extend that through. Remember, same thing goes for our enlarged elevation plans and our Wall Sections—I can go ahead and move this here, and that change is going to be reflected on both our floor plan view, which we're seeing here, and also the enlarged plan that I've created.
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Remember, that is effectively the crop region that we're seeing on the overall floor plan. If I were to make the adjustments in either one, you're going to see those impacts back and forth. Just something to keep in mind.
It's not a huge deal, and it's not something that's going to ruin your project, but it is something that can create a setback if you're not paying attention as you're going through it. Like I mentioned, we ended up with a new category here—Floor Plans, Enlarged Floor Plans—and you can see we've got Level 1 Floor Plan Callout. I'm going to go ahead and rename that, and I'll call it Level 1 Enlarged Lobby Plan, because it's essentially our entire lobby for Level 1.
Then we'll repeat that process, but we're going to do the same thing on Level 2. If you want to, we can go ahead and just copy this one to clipboard, then go to our Level 2 Floor Plan. We can do Paste Aligned to Current View, and it'll paste the same outline that we created on Level 1 into the Level 2 view.
You can see right here, it created a floor plan for me. Notice it's not exactly where we want it to be, right? That's okay, because I can take this one and change the type to move it under Enlarged Floor Plans. Then we definitely want to be all over this and rename this thing as soon as possible, because it's definitely not a Level 1 plan, and we want to clean up the text so it doesn't say Enlarged Lobby Plan 1.
That's an important thing to do because you want to make sure that it's showing everything clearly and correctly. Now we've got our lobby plans for Level 1 and Level 2, and these are going to be views that go onto our sheet A601. We can go into A601, and you're going to start to see a pattern here where we go in, and now we need to bring in our Keynote Legend.
So I can go to 602, which I know has the Keynote Legend, and I can copy it to clipboard, jump over to A601, and then I can say Paste Aligned to Current View. Now I have my Keynote Legend, which again gives us that consistent edge that we want to try to maintain. So I can go into my two plans that I created, starting with Level 1 first, and place that on the view.
I can set it to where I want, and everything looks good. It's the scale we want to use, the plan orientation, the view title is all pretty close to what we want—just slight little modifications, because we can't just leave it as is, of course. For Level 2, I'll just drag that one over and go ahead and do the same thing.
Just make the small tweaks to tidy things up a little bit so that we can have that information on the sheet. Now the bottom portion of the sheet is going to be interior elevations, so I'm going to go ahead and just grab both of these and nudge them up closer to the top so that I have enough room down here to put restroom interior elevations for both our Men's and our Women's Restroom. Our next step is going to be to set up one of these to be our default view template, create the view template and apply it, and then we're going to go ahead and create our interior elevations and go through the process of adding the notes and dimensions and the sorts of things we've been mentioning all along.
