Learn how to add symbols, section elevations, and plan callouts to your architectural project. This informative guide provides step-by-step instructions on using these essential tools to enhance your project's professional presentation.
Key Insights
- The article provides an in-depth process of adding important elements such as symbols, section elevations, and plan callouts to an architectural project. These elements play a crucial role in enhancing the project's professional look.
- It places a strong emphasis on the importance of meticulousness and precision while adding these elements. As these elements will be used repeatedly in multiple projects, it's crucial to ensure they are correctly aligned and placed the first time to save time in future projects.
- The guide emphasizes that it's essential to maintain a neat and well-arranged title sheet as it is the first thing that everyone sees. It also offers a detailed method on how to adjust the symbols legend and place it on the title sheet for an organized and tidy look.
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Picking up where we left off, we're going to go ahead and add the rest of our symbols to our project here. And so we're going to add our elevation section and callout tags. So these are kind of like our general drawing symbols here.
And then our next row is going to be section elevations and our enlarge plan callouts. And so it's the same process we were doing before, hitting that symbol tool and then jumping in and picking the one we want. So I'll start with my wall section, which is going to be the section head open, and just placing it kind of roughly where I want it.
And I'll use that handy dandy control drag tool to move the text over. And then I'll just call this one my wall section tag. And then we'll just continue on repeating the process.
We have section head open, and then we're going to do section head filled. And this will give me my building section or my overall sections. And you can kind of try and line these up as best you can, but you'll notice that the symbol size isn't really going to allow you to line them up in rows.
So it's nothing to worry about if they're not perfectly lined up going horizontally. Now vertically, we do want to make sure that those stay lined up so that it looks nice and neat. And that's important here because this is something that you're going to use over and over again.
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And so we'll grab the symbol for our elevation, and we want to use the elevation body. And that's going to be the elevation mark body square with detail number should give us a box with, you know, the four points on it like that. And you'll notice I didn't do one thing, which I really should have done before we started this, and that was moving over or copying over a center line for me to use.
And I may have gotten pretty close. Not so bad. But, you know, it's just good practice for things that you plan on using over and over again on projects.
You know, just make it the best you can the first time so you're not spending a bunch of time going back and redoing things. Or what's worse is if you put it into a template and then you're redoing the same stuff over and over again from project to project. That's something you definitely don't want to be doing.
So, you know, taking the extra time to add in these lines here and then, you know, really taking my time to make sure I get the text lined up is just effort we're doing now to save us time later. All right. So then elevation is going to be and mark body circle is what I meant to say there with the detail number type.
And you can see I just lined it up as best I could there. And then I'll copy the text down again, just making sure it's relatively lined up. And one more here is going to be our enlarge plan call out.
And we're looking for call out head. So you can just kind of start again typing that in and it'll filter it down, which is an awesome feature. And this gets used in a couple of different ways.
So I want to add a few different titles for it and detail call out. And I'll just kind of squish that a little bit. And you can see this is maybe a little wide, but we'll we'll adjust that and maybe kind of move this thing around a little bit as we need to.
When you look at it here, you can see these lines are no longer needed. So I want to go ahead and remove those. And now I have this legend here that I can put on my title sheet.
And so if we go back to our title sheet, you can see we've got this space in here. And so when I say like adjusting it around, you can see I can grab that graphic symbols legend. And if I place that on the sheet here, you know, it's roughly the width that we want it to be.
So I just kind of finagle it around a little bit, set it where I want, you know, trying to keep the spacing looking nice and tidy because we don't last thing we want is something really messy on the title sheets. First thing everybody sees. And so I'm going to take this graphic symbols note off because we've got it right here.
And I'll just change this viewport to one with no title. So that does not exist in our model right now. We need to do edit type and duplicate.
And so we'll call this viewport no title. And then you can turn the title off. So see where it says show title.
We can say no. And then it goes away, which is something you guys are already familiar with because we've done that in previous courses. If you wanted to, we can go in and say, OK, well, now now we know exactly how wide we want this.
So I can kind of shift these over a little bit, just create a little bit more space. And I think that looks good. And if you for some reason needed to add more symbols, you know, we could definitely tighten this up and get a third row if we really needed to.
So that's our title sheet as of now. And we're going to dive into picking up some of the red lines that came with your resource files that you downloaded.
