Discover how to make final alignment adjustments on your sheet before printing to PDF. Learn two options for setting up a grid and aligning everything appropriately, and one personal favorite method using detail lines.
Key Insights
- The article teaches how to set up a grid and align everything before printing to PDF. It provides two options for grid setup - using the guide grid overlay and adjusting distances between boxes to locate different items.
- A preferred method shared in the article is using a detail line to locate the position of titles on all sheets and align everything accordingly.
- The article concludes with cleaning up the plans and sheets, adding extra detail, aligning everything, and preparing the documentation for printing to PDF.
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In this video, let's just make some final alignment adjustments on our sheet before we print to PDF. So let's go on ahead and start at our FPO on site plan. Now there is a way we can set up a grid actually and line everything up that way.
So I'll show you two options with the grid and then another one I personally like to use with detail lines. So first let's go on ahead and find the view tab. And you should see this guide grid.
And let's just use guide grid one. And now what you can see here is this overlay, you can have distances between certain boxes to locate different items and adjust as needed. This works.
Now to turn that off, all you have to do is in your properties of your sheet, go on ahead and select none. Okay, what I like to do instead is use a detail line. So let's do this first with our sheet titles.
So what I'm going to do is type DL. And if this is the spot, I'll say right here is where the location of the titles on all of my sheets will be. So I'm going to zoom in and find the very center of the circle, you kind of have to eyeball it, but this will be okay.
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And I'm going to draw a detail line somewhere to there. Now like we've done before, I'm going to go to copy to clipboard. And now we don't have this on our FP2 sheet with all of our details.
So I'm going to skip to FP3 and I'm going to align to current view, I'm going to go to FP4, align to current view, FP5, align to current view, and FP6, align to current view. Okay, now it's just a matter of moving these to the end of that detail line and use the arrow key. That's good.
I zoom out, okay, let's go to FP5. And I'll do the same thing. If you hold shift with the arrow key, you will move in the larger jumps.
So you'll alternate between holding shift and not. Might have to zoom in. Okay.
Actually, when we're done, we can go on ahead and delete the detail line. Back to FP4, and FP3, zoom in, and FP1 we can delete that. Okay.
Now let's do the same thing to our piping and reflected ceiling plans for the building. So let's go back to FP3, level one piping plan, and I'm going to say this is a good spot. Okay, so now I'm going to find this corner of the outside of the building of the gym area and use my detail line and I'll have to eyeball it to about there.
Let me even move that down just a bit. Okay. Now we'll do the same thing.
We will select it, copy the clipboard. Now let's go to FP4, zoom out a bit, align to current view, and FP5, align to the current view. And lastly, FP6, align to current view.
Okay. Now the corner should end up right there. So I'm going to click into my plan and again, I'll just use the arrow key and shift if I need to for larger jumps.
Okay, that's good. When I'm done going ahead and delete. Now let's do a zoom extents.
So by double clicking your middle mouse button, and you'll see this at the end of this procedure why this is going to be helpful. Let's go on ahead and go to FP5. All right.
That's pretty good. Zoom extents, double click middle mouse button and FP4. All right.
And one more sheet, FP3 is what we did. Zoom extents, FP4, zoom extents. Now if I start at FP3 and then FP4, FP5, FP6, you'll see that corner is in the same location.
So it gives a nice base point to our plans on our sheets. Okay. We have cleaned up our plans.
We have cleaned up our sheets. We have added extra detail and aligned everything. All that's left is to print to PDF.
So I will see you in the final video coming up next.