Explore the process of detailing an electrical room in the BIM 322 course with CAD Teacher, taking into consideration elements such as renaming, hiding unnecessary features, establishing dimensions, and tagging panels. Learn how to ensure that your documents are clear, concise, and easy to understand, preventing the need for constant clarifications while presenting a professional image.
Key Insights
- The BIM 322 course covers vital steps in detailing an electrical room. These include renaming the call-out view, hiding grids and power outlets, and adjusting crop range to ensure visibility of all important elements.
- Creating clear and concise dimensions is crucial in this process. This involves selecting the 'align dimension' from the annotate tab, measuring from the wall edge to the center of each panel, and making necessary adjustments to maintain an even dimension throughout the outline.
- Tagging panels and hiding the crop view greatly enhances the readability of the final document. It is also recommended to adjust and save the file once all wires are accurately tagged, thereby ensuring ease of reading for the installers in the field.
Welcome back to the CAD Teacher VDCI video course content for the BIM 322 course. In the previous video we went ahead and actually got our wires and wire tags for the first floor and we also created this call out view up here for the electrical room. Let's go ahead and start detailing out that electrical room.
First thing I want to go ahead and do though is I want to rename that call out so I'm going to select it, do a right click, I'm going to go to rename and let's go ahead and call this enlarged sheet view, sheet view, first floor and then electrical room and hit okay. And there we are. Let's go ahead and double click into that view here.
So as you can see we have some of the information here. There's a couple of things I do want to hide though. I don't really necessarily need to see the actual grids so I'm going to go ahead and select those, do a right click, hide and view, category, it's going to hide all my grids for me.
I also don't really necessarily need to see this power outlet here. So I'm going to do the same thing. Select the power outlet, do a right click, hide and view, category and there we are.
Now it's going to just have us with just these guys here. I'm going to go ahead and view these crop range just a little bit so I can see that entire door and there we go. What I want to do is I want to go ahead and establish some dimensions so I'm going to go up to my annotate tab, going to go to aligned dimension and I want to go ahead and measure from the wall edge to the center of the panel, center of the panel, center of the panel.
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Do the same thing for the ones below, pick, center of the panel, center of the panel, center of the panel. Now let's say that I want to actually adjust these slightly and so what I'm going to do is I'm going to go ahead and give two feet between each panel. So I'm going to go ahead and select this guy here and that's going to allow me to get these here.
I'm going to pick here and change this to two foot. That's going to go ahead and make two feet there. I'm going to select this guy, I'm going to go ahead and pick here, change this to two foot and let's go ahead and pick this other one and then change this to two foot.
And there we go. We could always go back and adjust these wall dimensions if we want to. I want to go ahead and actually make this four foot five and three foot three just so it's an even dimension.
Pick there. Let's go four foot five. Pick this next one.
I'm going to click on the dimension, two foot. Pick this one. Pick on the dimension, two foot.
Pick up here. Let's go ahead and make this three foot three. Pick on the next one, two foot.
Pick on the next one, two foot. Perfect. And again, you can always adjust these dimensions to your liking.
If for some reason the place that you're working or the people that are requesting documents don't necessarily like the center of the panels but they like to the edges of the panels, I can just grab the witness lines and edit them accordingly. But we're going to go ahead and leave it to just the center of the panels. And one more time, control Z. There we go.
Perfect. All right. I want to go ahead.
One last thing that I want to do on this is actually go ahead and tag the different panels. And you may need to expand this out just a little bit but we're going to go ahead and leave it for right now. And what I'm going to do is I'm going to go to tag by category.
Pick here. There's no tag loaded for the electro equipment so let's go ahead and load one. I'm going to go ahead and hit yes.
I'm going to go to annotations. I'm going to go to electrical and let's see if we can find electrical equipment tag. There should be a panel tag, panel name.
That's exactly what we want. I'm going to hit open and there we are. So there we go.
Pick, pick, pick. Pick, pick, pick. And those are actually perfectly placed.
We don't really need to move them. Again, the reason why we've given this information is because of the fact that it's easy to read as compared to it being on our first floor power plant. It's a little bit easier of a view to do.
So what we're going to go ahead and do now is we're done with this. The one thing I do want to do though is I don't want this crop view showing up in my view. Or when I put this onto a sheet.
So what I'm going to do is I'm going to go down here to the visual style bar. I'm going to go to the hide crop region and there we are. No need to adjust any of these tags.
If you want to adjust them, feel free to. But from what I see here, everything is looking good and we're set to go. What I'd like you to go ahead and do now is let's jump up to that second floor power plant.
And there we are. Again, the same kind of thing here that we're going to do. What I'd like to go ahead and do is I'm going to go ahead and actually create the wires.
So I'm going to go to this one here. So once you have all your actual wires in, I'm going to go ahead and pause the video now. And then go ahead and pause on your machine.
And then I'm going to go through and actually adjust my wires. I'll see you when we come back. Welcome back.
I've gone through and gone ahead and adjusted all my wires to get them to look how I like. And so what I'd like to go ahead and do now is let's go ahead and tag those wires. So tag by category.
And I'm just going to tag all of the ones with the arrowheads. I'm saying those are the home runs going back to the panel. Again, I'm not adjusting these quite yet.
I'll go ahead and adjust them in a second. And I believe that's all of them. Just do one quick look over.
And, again, this is something that you should be doing with all your work. Just one quick look over, making sure you're getting everything you need to. We're good.
I'm going to go ahead and hit escape. And then I'm just going to go ahead. Let's go back and adjust the specific text.
So they all look nice and are easy to read for the installers in the field. That's the whole point of this. One of the biggest things that I tend to stress is that these documents that you're going to be producing are representative not only of yourself to your office, but they're also representative of the office that you work for.
So you want to make sure that you're putting together good documents and that are clear and concise and easy to read. So you're not getting a lot of RFIs. You're not getting a lot of questions.
And that's going to make people want to actually work with you more because it's easier to read your documents. You do good work and everything's already set up and they don't have a lot of issues. This is one of these kind of things that you want to pay attention to on how all this stuff reads and goes together.
Looks like we're good to go. Purposely left one out. I'm going to go ahead and hit tag by category again.
Pick here. I'm just going to go ahead and drag it out to match up with that one. Move it up a little bit, a little bit away from that grid line.
And there we are. I'm going to go ahead and zoom extents. Control S, save the file.
And I believe we've gotten the power plan for the second floor. It's very simple, very easy, very straightforward. And we will be creating sheets in the next series of videos.
I'll see you there.