Discover how to properly align architectural elements and add details such as the window, drywall, and flashing in your architectural design project. Learn shortcuts and techniques for creating detailed, accurate, and visually appealing designs more efficiently.
Key Insights
- The article provides a step-by-step guide on aligning the window component with the face of the sheathing, adjusting it as necessary, and adding details such as the drywall and the stud.
- The author discusses advanced techniques like adding flashing and creating a sealed joint, using shortcuts for detail lines and the start and radius arc tool to create precise designs.
- The article also highlights the importance of adding details like joint sealants and backer rods, as well as adjusting and refining the design with tools like the directional pad for an accurate and aesthetically pleasing architectural design.
Now that we have our window detail component in, we need to get it into the right location. So first thing I'll do is I'm going to use the Align tool from the Modify tab and I'll align the outside of the window with the face of the sheathing. And then I'm going to move it over one inch to have it in the location that we want for this detail.
The next thing we need to do is figure out where it needs to go vertically. And to do that, we're going to have to add in our drywall. And you can see here, we've got a little extra hanging off the bottom of the stud here.
And that's because of the way we placed the stud. So I'm going to align the stud with the drywall here. And then I'm going to go ahead and draw in another piece to represent what would be kind of the head trim there.
And so I'll just set this pretty close in this location. And I'm going to want to have at least a half inch of a sealed joint here in a shim space. So I'll go ahead and I'll align the bottom of my window with the bottom of the drywall.
And that gives us the space that we're looking for. Now that we have the window where it belongs, we can go ahead and start adding some more of our elements. So our flashing is going to come across like you see here.
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And it's going to actually stop about halfway back. And then we're going to have it return down and go through. And so I need to adjust some of these locations a little bit here.
So I'm going to move this down. And then I can copy this down a bit. And we can add the return on the flashing here.
So I can do that with Detail Lines. Again, the keyboard shortcut for Detail Lines is DL. And that's a good one to know, because you're going to be adding a lot of those as you go through and do these types of things.
And to add a radius here, we can use the Start and Radius Arc, which allows me to pick a start and end and then establish the radius. And the cool part about that is it'll lock in when you hit the exact radius you want. You'll notice that I didn't get the same line weight, and that's okay, because we can use the Match Type to match from our heavier line weight to the lighter one.
And then everything looks the way it should. And so this flashing I'm going to have come back to about here. And then we're going to add a head flashing in, but we need to get our sealant loaded in before we can do that.
We're going to load in another detail component. We'll go to Annotate > Component > Load Family. And one thing you may notice is the more details that we're drawing in here, the more components that we have available to us, which means the faster it'll be, the more that we draw.
So as we go through, we'll be able to do this much quicker. We're looking for joint sealant. That's going to be in Division 7, under Expansion Control > Expansion Joint.
And then we have a Joint Sealant section. And we have Joint Sealant and Backer Rod section. And this is the one that we want.
This one here is just a line-based detail component that you can use to kind of cover a larger area. But here we just want to show the backer rod and sealant here. We'll go ahead and click Open.
And we can hit Spacebar to turn it around. And one thing you'll notice is that this section has different types for the sizes that you can use. And so we'll use the 3/8 inch size here and put it into place.
And that's going to kind of determine how we finish off a lot of these pieces. And so we might need to move this up a little bit. And those are things that you kind of just fiddle with as you are drawing it.
And so this line will need to continue down to create the dam here. And then we'll create a head flashing that goes down and creates the hemmed edge here, or the drip edge on this side. So I'll adjust these a little bit.
And then just using Create Similar again, we'll draw those lines in to show the head flashing. And it may be helpful to create a little bit more space between these. So I'm just kind of creating that space by using the directional pad on my keyboard to push these things around so that they're easier to identify.
And same thing with my window. It doesn't have to sit exactly where we put it before. We like to have the sealant on both sides here.
So I can add it again on the backside. And then we'll kind of push this stuff around to get the detail to look the way we want it to. And the space that goes in between these is going to be a shim.
And so I'll tighten this up a bit. And then we're going to have a shim within this space here. Shims can be created a number of different ways.
A lot of people just draw them in with linework. And that's totally fine. It typically works.
But what I like to do is we can use a Filled Region. And I'll keep it with Thin Lines, but I'll just draw a rectangle into this space here to kind of fill in that gap. And what we can do is we can use the Horizontal Lines type.
And this scale at one and a half is not good enough for Horizontal Lines. We'll need to Edit Type. And we can look at this pattern, which doesn't really get used in a lot of locations.
But we can make a new one, which is the Horizontal Small. And so I don't want to override this Horizontal Lines one because we might need it for something else. We'll Duplicate and we'll call it Horizontal Lines.
And then we'll just add at the end "Small" so you know that it's using the small type. And we can use this one and hit OK and hit OK again. And you can see we start to get a little bit more of the pattern showing up.
And so I'll adjust the size of my shim accordingly. And the problem with these patterns is that they're based upon essentially like a global version of this. But the beauty is it doesn't really matter where I put my detail so I can adjust it around as I need.
But this is going to be good for us here. And if it really bothers you, you can always add Detail Lines to fill in that location. Now we've got just about everything drawn in for our detail.
The next thing we need to do is add in any extra notes and add the break lines to finish out the rest of the detail.
