Discover how to efficiently adjust views in a project, ensuring they are all set to the medium detail level and the scale of eighth inch equals a foot. Learn how to select multiple views at once and update their scale and detail level, how to condense the space they take up, and how to accurately place them on a sheet.
Key Insights
- The scale and detail level of multiple views can be updated simultaneously by selecting them all in the project browser, reducing the time spent on individual adjustments.
- Views can be adjusted to take up less space on a sheet, making the final document more concise and easier to read.
- Views can be accurately placed on a sheet using the VDCI 11 by 17 title block, aligning them based on level and option, and adjusting their placement for better visual alignment and ease of understanding.
Now, let's get these views set up so that we can put them on a sheet. And the first thing we wanna do is adjust a couple of the settings. So, number one, we wanna make sure that they're all set to that medium setting for the detail level.
We wanna make sure that they're all set to eighth inch equals a foot. It went to a quarter automatically because we created a call out from an eighth inch view, so it cuts the scale in half. So to adjust the scale and the detail level of all of these views at the same time, I can actually select them all in the project browser.
So you can see here, I've selected these two, and I can do that just by holding down the Control key, and I can have all of those views selected. When you look here in the properties, it says views four, meaning I've got four views selected. And what's cool is I can change that scale, and I can change that detail level to medium, and then it'll update all of the views that I have selected here, which is awesome because then I only have to do that one time.
The next thing I'll do is I'll just tighten these up a bit because we don't need to have them taking up so much space. And you'll see when we put it on a sheet why that's gonna be a big deal. And then we just have to create the sheet.
So I'm gonna go to, I can do this a couple of different ways. From the view tab, we just go ahead and hit sheet. And we wanna use the VDCI 11 × 17 title block because this is more of an exhibit than anything.
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And so I'll go ahead and hit OK. And I'm gonna change my sheet here. We're gonna change that number to A2.0. And I'll change the name here to restroom options.
And then now we can start putting our views on the sheet. And so we can do it a few different ways here. It really just depends on how you wanna lay it out.
But what I'll do is I'll put my level one options across the top and my level two options across the bottom. So I'll grab option A first and kinda just put it on the sheet here in a place that fits well. So you can see I'm just gonna adjust it around using the directional pad.
And this is a little close so I'll just move this down a little bit and over. And just kinda slightly adjust those. Once I've got one set the way I like it, it's really nice because as I put the next one in, I'll be able to line it up.
So you can see I can go and I can grab my level two option A and set this one. And they're gonna wanna line up with each other. Do you see how that's happening? And so I can line them up as it fits and then I can just adjust this a little bit.
And so like I was saying before, I'll wanna tighten these up by moving some of the grids down so they're not overlapping the view. And then I like when they line up and so you can't exactly get it perfect, but you can go ahead and adjust that around and then I'll just bring these grid tails in a little bit and I'll just double click to get out of that view. So remember we double click in, double click far away out, and then we can adjust it.
And so by grabbing this view title, I can move it around. And when you see how I move it, you can see that it's kinda trying to grab onto certain constraints. And what's cool is it'll wanna lock in with the one above it.
We can keep those lined up and the same thing happens with the end point. So you can see I've got it selected and I've got this dot and if I move this around, it'll wanna line up with that end point. So I got everything nice and lined up on the sheet.
Next thing will be to just grab that restroom option A for, sorry, that option B for level one and then we'll move that across and these should line up because they're the same view essentially, just different options shown. And I'll do the same thing. I'll double click in to activate the view and then I'll just go ahead and adjust the extents of my grids so that everything lines up nicely.
Then I can double click out and I can go in and I can align the view titles and then align the end point of that so it's kind of close to lined up with the grid. And this last one is gonna be even better. Because it really is just gonna fit in exactly where we want it because it's got so many things to align with so it's easy to adjust.
So same thing with the grids, just lining everything up. It's one of those things that seems kind of trivial while you're doing it but it actually makes a big difference in your presentation because the nicer and more ordered your elements are on a sheet, the easier it is to read the information. So I'll just finish that out by lining up that end piece and now you can see here, we've got all of the four options on all the four views on the sheet and this is easy to adjust and kind of keep modifying as needed and if things were to change in either option then we have this sheet ready to go and it's easy to send out to our client.
