Discover the process of transitioning from mechanical and plumbing drawings to electrical drawings with the BIM 322 course. Learn how to compress mechanical areas, expand electrical sections, adjust elevations for electrical fixtures, and duplicate views for sheet views.
Key Insights
- In the BIM 322 course, students are guided through the transition from mechanical and plumbing drawings to starting on electrical drawings. This includes learning how to clean up the project browser by compressing sections that are no longer needed, like the mechanical area.
- Adjustments to the elevation of electrical fixtures, such as power outlets, are also covered in the course. Students learn how to select and move these elements to the correct location, enhancing the accuracy of their plan.
- The course also teaches how to duplicate working views to create sheet views, a process also used for plumbing and mechanical drawings. Renaming and organizing these views in the project browser is also discussed, providing more effective project management.
Welcome back to the CAD Teacher VDCI video course content for the BIM 322 course. In the previous videos we went ahead and actually finished up our mechanical and plumbing drawings and in this video we're going to go ahead and start on our electrical drawings. So in your project browser, all I'm going to go ahead and do is I'm just going to go ahead and compress the mechanical area in my project browser since I no longer need it and it just helps clean it up, make it a little bit easier for us to read.
As you can see I have electrical here expanded. If you go ahead and click on the plus sign next to electrical, it will go ahead and bring these out, expand them out if you need to and let's go ahead and jump to this first floor lighting plan. And this is a reflected ceiling plan so we're actually looking up towards the ceiling.
And as you notice, we have a fairly basic plan here. One thing that we do have going on is that we have some electrical fixtures showing up or some power outlets. Now what's happening here is that these outlets, if I click on one of them, you see that their elevation is at four feet.
If I go out and I double check on my view range, I can see that my cut plane is at four feet. If these are here at four feet, I'm able to see them because my cut plane is at the same location. But obviously I do not want to see these on this plan so what we're going to go ahead and do is I'm actually going to move these to the correct location.
So go ahead, select both of these holding control, and I'm going to go ahead and move them to an elevation of one foot six. And there they are. Perfect.
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I'm going to go ahead and hit escape to deselect because even though they're off my screen, I still have them deselected. So what we need to do first is if you notice in our project browser, we only have really what we would use as our working views. We want to go ahead and duplicate these so we have our sheet views.
Same exact process that we've done for the plumbing and the mechanical drawings. So what I'm going to do, I'm going to hover over electrical lighting one, right click, duplicate view. I'm going to duplicate with detailing so I can bring over those room tag names.
There we go. I'm going to go ahead and also do that for the second floor also. I don't need to double click into it.
I can just select it, do a right click, duplicate, duplicate with detailing. And there we are. I'm going to go ahead and select that electrical, that copy of, I'm going to do a right click rename.
I'm going to go ahead and rename this dash sheet view. Hit okay. I'm going to go ahead and do the same thing for the second floor.
Right click, rename, remove copy of, change it to sheet view. And hit okay. Now one thing you may notice is that now how it's kind of organizing it.
And this kind of comes down to personal preference. If I expand out my mechanical, do you notice here in the electrical we actually put sheet view at the end? And then we actually went ahead and put sheet view at the beginning on our mechanical. Now there's two or different, there's a couple different trains of thought on this.
Whereas here I have all my sheet views grouped together as in one or two and they're all in the same location. Or I have it grouped by level. I'm actually going to go ahead, I like how this feels where I have the sheet views grouped together.
So I'm going to go ahead, select these again, do a right click, rename. And I'm just going to go ahead and move sheet view to the beginning of the view name. And I'm going to do that for both views.
So right click, rename. I'm going to delete sheet view from here and I'm going to type in sheet view here. And there we go.
Now I have actually both of those grouped together. What I'd like you to go ahead and do is please make sure you're in your sheet view one for the first floor. I'm going to go ahead and talk about a couple of things.
What's going on is I have just the lighting layout here. I'm also showing the switches. The reason why I'm showing the switches is because I need to show how these lights are being controlled.
So which lights are going to which switch. We're going to be drawing in wires in the next few videos. But I wanted to also show you that we have the switches, we have the lighting fixtures.
All these lights and everything have already been placed into a circuit. So as you can see, I hovered over one light, I hit TAB, and it's going to give me the overall circuit which then is showing the lines back to the actual panel. We're going to be using these guys here.
They're already all created in a circuit for you so there's no need for you to go through and do that. And I will see you in the next video.