Explore the process of annotating a site plan, including adjusting scale, manipulating view range, and utilizing text tools for clear labelling. Understand how to conceal specific elements, fine-tune crop regions, and provide essential information for future hydraulic calculations.
Key Insights
- The article provides a step-by-step guide to annotating a site plan, beginning with adjusting the scale of the plan under properties, and then changing the view scale.
- Manipulating the view range can effectively hide certain elements, such as piping, that may not be needed in the overall view of the site plan.
- Annotation is done using various text tools and includes labelling elements like the city main, underground piping, backflow preventers, and points of connection - crucial information for future hydraulic calculations.
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Let's continue annotating our site plan here. We're in our FP1 site plan, and if we go to our floor plan where we made site plan underground, let's drag that over to our site plan sheet just like this. We'll see it's a little too big here, but we'll adjust that in a second.
Let's just drop it on our plan right here. Okay, there's a few things we'll have to fix, but first the scale's too big. So let's go ahead and change that under properties, view scale, and let's try 1 16th of an inch.
Okay, this is a little better. Now we can get into this plan in two ways. For now, let's go to our actual site plan.
Now initially when we set this up, we hid all of this pipe, but then we ended up drawing more on level one because this is a copy from the level one piping plan. Now the pipe that we drew is starting to show up. We can either hide it all or we can change our view range.
So let's go to that. We hid it last time. This time we can go to our view range, and right now our top is set to three feet and our cut plane is set to four feet.
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What we can do is set our cut plane to three feet and let's set the top to the associated level one and click okay. There we go. Now all of that pipe is hidden.
Now one more thing I want to do, our crop region, make it visible and we can tighten it up just a bit in case we need that extra room in our plan. So just the perimeter of the building and the underground piping and the backflow preventer. Okay, let's start annotating some of this information here.
So to do that, we'll go to annotate and let's use the text tool and let's use the text with the leader. Before we begin, we'll be at three thirty seconds aerial text. Let's go to edit type and make sure our show border is on.
So make sure you select that and click OK. Let's zoom in and we'll start here. We can adjust this later.
Okay, once you have your leader put in, we'll label this as our eight inch. Let's use all caps. Our eight inch city main and we can move the arrow around.
That's good. Now we can either copy this or we can make a new one. Let's go ahead and just make a new one.
Start here. And this was our six inch PVC underground piping. Let's copy this one.
Make sure we're pointing at the backflow and let's label this as a six inch. Our PDA backflow. Okay, we'll continue to annotate this pipe here.
We can put it on this side this time, maybe. And now we can take the leader and we can drag it so it's on the other side of the text box. Now, again, don't worry about matching mine exactly.
Just make sure you're annotating with the same text. Okay, let's move on our point of connection. We'll copy this here and we'll go to our riser inside the building.
And if you recall, this was a three inch riser. So let's label this three inch fire sprinkler riser. VDCI point of connection.
This is the point in our contract where we would begin. Our scope of work does not include the underground and backflow preventer, but for hydraulic purposes for calculations, which we will not do in this course, but will be needed in our site plan. This is why we're providing that information.
Okay, this looks good.