Learn how to create and organize sheets for your building project using the View tab and Sheet option. This article walks you through the process of setting up building sections, details, and adjusting elements for a clean, professional presentation.
Key Insights
- The article provides a step-by-step guide on how to create different sheets for a building project, starting from the View tab and selecting the Sheet option. It includes the creation of a 30x42 title block, and sheets A5.1 (Building Sections) and A8.1 (Sections/Details).
- It details how to arrange building sections, details, and other elements on the sheets, ensuring level heads line up, using detail lines for alignment, and adjusting graphics for a better presentation. Tips on how to handle finicky elements and turn off crop regions for a clearer view are also included.
- The article emphasizes the importance of making adjustments for a clean-looking detail sheet, finding common ground between elements, and ensuring view titles are correctly adjusted. It also discusses the use of grids for precise placement and the need to save work frequently.
Now it's time to create some sheets. And so the first thing that I want to do is create both the sheets that we need. And so, straight away from the View tab, I'm going to go to Sheet.
Pick our title block, which will be the 30x42. Hit OK. And the sheet I want to create here is going to be A5.1. And this one's going to be called Building Sections.
The next sheet I'm going to create, again, View tab, Sheet, is going to be Sheet A8.1. And this one's going to be called Sections slash Details. Because we're going to have the wall section and the details we created on that same sheet. So I'm going to go back to A5.1. And I'm going to put my building sections on this sheet.
So I'm going to grab Building Section 1 first. And I'll set it up in the top right corner. And then I'll grab Building Section 2 second.
And I'll set it below that. And what I want to do is I want these level heads to line up. And so I'll move those around accordingly.
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And they won't snap like some of the other elements we're used to. So what I do a lot of the times is I'll draw a detail line so that I can get them to line up. And then I can move it from that end point because it will allow me to snap to that point to the detail line.
And sometimes it's a little finicky. And so I'll just move it around like that. Now that I've got these two views ready to go, what I could do is I could finalize the graphics of these by double-clicking and making any adjustments I need.
So the only thing I'll do here is turn off my crop region so that I don't see that on the sheet. And it gives me a better idea of what it's going to look like. So same thing here.
I'll double-click in to adjust it. And it looks pretty good to me. So that's sheet A5.1. It's got our wall section, an extra building section tag, another one here.
And let me adjust this guy so that it has the same graphics we're using throughout the project. And then we'll go to sheet A8.1, the other one that we created. You can use your tab browsing or you can look for it in your project browser here.
And I'll put the details on here. And I'll start from top down. So I'm going to put my window head detail first.
And I'll set that in the top corner. And then I'll add the brick at slab edge detail because it's another wall detail. And then I'll add my door threshold detail as number three.
And the goal here is I want to try to find some common ground between the three of these. And so this one is a little bit wider. You can see that it doesn't quite have the same size as the other ones do.
So I'm going to adjust this as much as I can. So I'll move it over so that they all kind of line up. And you can see it's not going to be an exact fit.
But that's okay because I can kind of move these around a bit. And then if I need to, I can pull in some of this text, keeping it lined up, of course. And that will allow me to condense the size of the detail so it's a little closer to the same width factor as my other two.
And so the view titles need to, of course, be adjusted. And then this gives me the ability to have a clean-looking detail sheet. Sometimes you might see a grid on these things that allow you to place them within a certain size box.
And that's definitely an option as well. Next thing we're going to do is we're going to add our wall section to this view. And I'll set that next to my details so that everything kind of lines up.
And there's that famous save warning. So I'm going to go ahead and save. And now I have these details that are referenced on the sheet.
If we go back to our building sections, you can see my wall section is referenced on the sheet. Building sections are referenced. And so is our other detail, which we put in place.
Next step is to give everything a double check and make sure that it's ready to go to print for the final.
