Discover the step-by-step process of integrating wall sections into a drawing, adjusting proportions, and creating a label for the image. This article provides an in-depth look into the intricacies of creating and modifying wall sections, shedding light on the philosophies of developing wall sections and detailing the steps required to achieve a professionally presented drawing.
Key Insights
- The creation of a wall section involves initially preparing the drawing space, followed by the introduction of the wall sections into the reserved area. The image in the drawing requires a label, so it needs to be created and saved as a separate file, which is then integrated into the wall section sheet.
- There are two general philosophies on developing wall sections: one involves extracting information from a building section into a separate drawing and then developing the wall section in that separate drawing, while the second philosophy involves developing the wall section information within the building section file itself. The latter approach ensures that any detailed information added to the wall section is reflected in the building section.
- The article also highlights the importance of scaling and positioning wall sections appropriately within the drawing. To illustrate, if the building sections are a quarter inch, the wall sections need to be scaled down by 1 over 24 to ensure they fit the drawing proportionately. This scaling also applies to the text labels on the drawing.
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We are getting ready to bring our wall sections into this drawing. We have the area over here reserved for our wall section notes. We will have our wall sections down here.
We're going to need to create a label for the image down here. So let's get that done first. Let's go open Drawing Title 2 and let's go File, Save As, Drawing Title 3. The proportions of this drawing title image are narrower than the space that we need to have filled in our wall section sheet.
So let's go over to the sheet file and let's draw a line nearest to any of these lines here and let's go perpendicular to this line right there. So this will become the guideline that will tell us the width we need to make Drawing Title 3. So I'm going to go change this to Layer 0 and I'm going to go Edit, Copy with Base Point, let that be the end of the line, select the line. I'm now going to go into my Drawing Title 3, do a Control V and bring that line in.
Now I know how long or wide Drawing Title 3 needs to be. I need to re-familiarize myself with this drawing. So I'm going to type Base and I see that the base point is 0, 0, 0 and I'm going to draw a line from 0, 0. I will draw a line from 0, 0 to confirm that this is the base point.
So I'm going to move this line segment from the end of here to the end of here and move this entity with Ortho on straight up. I'm going to say Stretch Crossing from the end of the rectangle to the dot X of the end of this line, YZ at, Escape, Control S to save, delete out the line, enter, zoom extents, zoom real time, save the file. Now we can close this drawing and go back into our 303 drawing.
I'm going to erase out the line and now I'm going to bring in the drawing title. So Insert, Block Insert, go to Browse, I'm going to slide down, choose my Drawing Title 3, specify insertion point on screen at the end down here. I'm going to read what it says, what the drawing label is, this will be number 1, the drawing name will be Wall Sections and the scale will be 1 half inch equals a foot.
Now I have that information in there. I'm going to back out, Control S to save. Now when we were working on our 302 file, we were showing the elevation and two building sections.
It is very typical in a set of construction documents that elevations and building sections will be at the same scale. So the elevations were a quarter inch, the building sections were a quarter inch. The purpose of a wall section is to provide even more detailed information than we have in a building section.
So a wall section would be zooming in on an area like one there, an area here, an area here, and you can see that we have potential areas to present lots of wall sections. What I'd like to do next is to go into our section file, our building section file, and to start working on the development of our wall sections. So let's go over to our sections model.
I'd like to go on and make my current layer a no plot. I'm going to turn it on and make it my current layer. What I'd like to do is to start putting some rectangles around the areas where we will be developing wall sections.
So I'm going to draw a rectangle around this wall, a rectangle around this area, and I'm going to do a zoom dynamic and do a rectangle around this area. We're going to be having three wall sections. I'm going to be moving my rectangle so that I can include the footing.
Save the file. What I now need to do is to bring these rectangles into my section sheet file. Now let me tell you though, there are two general philosophies on developing wall sections.
One philosophy is where you would extract information from a building section into a separate drawing and then begin developing the wall section in that separate drawing. Here's the problem though. If, as you develop your detailed wall section, you find that you're going to have to make improvements to that wall section to better reflect actual construction, then you have to come back into the building section and modify that information there.
So again, one philosophy is where you take the information from the building section, copy it into a new file, and then start developing that wall section file itself. Another philosophy, and this is the one that we're going to be using, would be where you would actually develop the wall section information within the building section file and the additional detailed information that would be reflected in the wall section would be on layers that would not be presented in the building section, but only in the wall section. Because again, as you go look at your handout, you will notice that in our wall sections themselves, we do have more information presented in the wall sections than the building sections.
So since we're here, I'm going to say edit, copy with base point, I'm going to choose the end down here, and select this rectangle. I will go into my 303 file, control V, and put it in here. Now I have my no plot layer turned off, which is why it's not showing up, so I'm going to turn on my no plot layer, and you can see that that rectangle is there.
Now what we were talking about before was the fact that the building sections are a quarter inch, and we were going to go on and make our wall sections at half inch. We've brought the rectangle in, zoom extents, at full size, zoom previous, and if we want to present this information at half inch equals a foot, I need to scale the rectangle down by 1 over 24. So I'm going to say scale, choose the rectangle, here's my base point, 1 over 24.
So you can see how small that one wall section is going to be if it's presented at half inch. But let's continue on this path of working at half inch. So that was going to be this symbol here, I'm going to go on and just put some text in here.
I'm going to say single line text, and I'm just going to call this section 1. I'm going to scale the text, end of here, by a factor of 10. I'm just simply getting that information in there. And then I'm going to go on and CTRL C, CTRL V this into our other section just so we can have some information going on.
So edit, copy with base point, the base point will be here, I'll choose the number, I will go back into the 303 sheet file, CTRL V, place it there, zoom extents, scale this, apostrophe, zoom previous, base point, end of here, 1 over 10. And then I'm going to move that number right into there. Going to go back to my section file, I'm going to then copy that number 1 from here, apostrophe, zoom, D for dynamic, I'm going to copy it here and here, double click this guy, I'll let this one be 2, double click this guy, let it be 3. I'm going to move the 3 here to here, move the 2 here to here.
Again, these are simply reference information for us so we can start getting our hands around what we're doing. So I now want to bring this wall section information in, the boundary in, so edit, copy with base point, the base point's the end of there, I will select the number in the box, go to A303, CTRL V, I'm going to pop it here, zoom extents, I'm going to scale these two, apostrophe, zoom previous. Base point, end of here, 1 over 24, move this here, go back over here, edit, copy with base point, here's my base point, select this rectangle and this text, go into our A303, CTRL V it here, zoom extents, scale these two, apostrophe, zoom previous.
End of here, 1 over 24. So you can see, and I'm going to do this too, MA for match property, source and destination. Move this guy to the right.
You can see that the wall sections, when they're presented at half inch equals a foot, are still going to be relatively small on the sheet. If I go to my A302 file, you can see they're even smaller here, but it seems to me that since we're working on a one story building, what we can do is we can go on and rather than present these at half inch equals a foot, we can present them at inch equals a foot. So I'm going to begin by moving this to there, by moving this to there, and then scale these three, base point, end of here, by 2. Move the previous selection set over to here.
Move crossing these guys. Well, let's do this. Let's be more accurate.
I'm going to say move crossing from the end of here to the end of here. I'm going to say what's the distance from the end of here perpendicular to here. So I'm going to draw a line from here perpendicular to here.
Move this there to there. I'm going to divide this line into four segments. And so I'm going to say move crossing from the end of here to the node of here.
Move crossing from the end of here to the node of here. Move crossing from the end of here to the node of here. So what I've now done is by having taken the available distance and dividing it into four areas, I now have equal spacing between each of my wall sections.
Erase window this. Move crossing. I'm just going to move it up.
Ortho's on. Control S to save. While I'm here, I want to double-click on the label, and I want the information to reflect the fact that I want it to be one inch equals a foot.
So zoom extends. Control S, and we're there. Now we're going to go on and bring the building section model as an XRef into the model space environment.
So I'm just going to go back into my section model. Zoom extends. Control S to save.
Go back to my 303 sheet file. Go to the model space environment. Make my current layer zero, and I'm going to go to reference attach, my section model.
I will bring it in as an overlay because all I really need at this point is the section information itself. I'm going to deselect specify insertion point on screen, pop it in at zero, zero, zoom extends, zoom real time, and save the file. And if you remember, this information was line work that we drew in our last section file.
So what I'd like to do next is to actually start prepping the final positioning of the wall sections within the sheet file. I'm going to go to paper space. I'm going to go up to view, viewports, create a new viewport using an object, and I will select that rectangle.
Jump into the space. Have to do some panning. You can see there it is.
Zoom window from the end of the rectangle there down to the end over there. You can see that my scale factor is an inch equals a foot, and I'm going to lock the viewport. Go into paper space, create the next viewport, view, viewports, use the object, select here.
Again, it's doing the zoom extends. Now, our second wall section. Jump in.
There it is. Zoom window from the end of here to the end over there. See my scale is an inch.
Lock the viewport. Go to paper space. Zoom extends.
Save the file. I'm in paper space. Create the last viewport.
So view, viewports, object. Choose the rectangle. Jump in the hole.
I'm going to go back to paper and zoom back so I can see better. Double click to jump back in. Zoom window from the end of here down to the end over there.
Go to paper space. Zoom extends. Control save.
Now, one thing I see going on in the background is the batten type line that we had going on in our building section itself. So I'm going to go view, regen all. And by regenerating it, now you can see that the presentation is more normal.
So I'm going to save the file. What we're going to do in a second is we're going to go back into our section model file and to begin developing the actual wall section itself. If you would, please get caught up this far and we'll continue on afterwards.