Discover the intricate process of dimensioning exterior and interior walls and curtain walls on different levels of a construction project. Learn the importance of accuracy and consistency in dimensioning across levels, as well as techniques to avoid overlapping symbols and dimensions, and how to locate stair shafts accurately across levels.
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- The article provides a detailed process of how to consistently dimension exterior walls, interior walls, and curtain walls across different levels of a construction project.
- Emphasis is given to the importance of avoiding overlapping symbols and dimensions, and ensuring that all elements are accurately dimensioned in place.
- Dimensioning is essential for accurate location of stair shafts across different levels and to reconcile different wall types within the project, ultimately leading to a more coherent and efficient construction process.
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So I've gone through and dimensioned all of the exterior walls and curtain walls on level two. And so you can see it's the same process that we went through before where we kind of just picked the different points and made sure that we've got everything nice and established. We don't have, you know, egregious overlapping of symbols and dimensions, and everything has kind of been dimensioned in place.
This one I did not dimension on this level because these walls were already dimensioned and those curtain panels go vertical from level one up. And then the same thing here, these are translated from level one to level two. And so the walls got dimensioned all the way across and I was just careful to go through and make sure I kind of cleaned up some of these two-foot dimensions or smaller that overlap with some of the dimension lines.
Now that we've got that set, we can go ahead and dimension the interior walls for the second floor, which will hopefully locate the stairs in the exact same spot that we have them on level one because, you know, the stair shaft should be vertical. So what I'll do is I'll go in and I will activate the view on level two and then do that same dimensioning process where we go forth and set them. And so I'm going to do the same thing.
I like to have the thin lines turned on so I can kind of see. And you'll notice a difference between level one and level two. And this is all having to do with detail level.
I can't see all my different lines. So I'll change my detail level to medium so I can see where my face of stud exists on both of these. And I'll go ahead and dimension this across here so I have the location of the stud here and then do the same thing from level one to level two.
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And one thing I like to check is just to make sure that I have consistent dimensions from level one to level two, because just like you guys, I am human and will make mistakes. And so you can see I got one foot and three quarters, 20 foot 11 and seven eighths. When I go to level two, one foot and three quarters, 20 foot 11 and seven eighths.
And so everything is kind of dimensioned the same way. We're hitting this corner with 12 foot one and an eighth and we're hitting that corner with 12 foot one and an eighth so that we know those things are going to line up in theory, right? And then same thing on level two, pop in and do the same thing as we go down. And so if I dimension to the face here, which is that one foot and three quarters, same as this one here.
And then now I'll grab the same side as the stud on this side. So 20 foot 11 and seven eighths. And again, because of that human factor, I'm just going to double check what we did on level one.
And you can see it's a little different. Again, that human factor. If we need to make that change, what we could do is we can go ahead and modify it by grabbing that grip using the tab tool.
So I am holding down the left mouse button and I'm just going to drop it to where I want it to go. And so now you can see these dimensions are the same from level one to level two. And then we dimension from this grid line here on level one.
And so we'll want to do the same thing on level two. And so I'll go ahead and dimension to that face and pick up this wall. And this wall.
We have the same dimensions that we did before. And obviously, since I've been harping on it, make sure we clean that up. And this one as well on both sides.
Now that we've got our dimensions all squared away on level one and level two, we can take a look at our markup for level one, level two, and our roof. There are a few dimensions that lie on the roof, but I think we can kind of jump into that when we get to the roof portion. There are a few things that we'll do here.
And I think our next step here is going to be to start reconciling the different wall types that we're going to have within this project. And then we can go ahead and do our partition schedule, get those keynotes in and wrap up the rest of our red lines that we have here.
