Friday, February 10, 2012

Plans, Elevations, Sections: part II

Floor plans

NB. Never delete the site plan!!
  • If you do accidentally delete any of the other floor plans, you can restore them by:
    • View, Plan Views, then select the ones you want back
  • With the cut plane, you can adjust this to show things that are on different heights so would not normally show up at the default 1.2m cut plane:
    • View, Plan Views, Plan Region - just select the area you want to appear differently and this will create a different separate cut plane just for that area.
    • Then Edit the View Range (properties) to a height which will show the element
    •  NB. the cut lines won't print so don't worry about those.
Elevations

Only use the Building Elevation or Interior options for my purposes...
NB. 'Far Clip' = depth or the line at the back...
Interior elevations:
To get these:
  • View, Elevation, choose Interior Elevation in the properties area
    • will insert an elevation symbol but will 4 directions which you can tick on to give views inside a room (eg) in 4 directions
    • views will show up in the Elevation (Interior) views (rename these something sensible)
  • focuses just on a particular wall
Sections
You can create staggered lines for your section cut by selecting the section line and using the Split Segment function
Likewise, you can cut into the line so it doesn't go all the way through the drawing (for display purposes) by clicking on the section line and finding the break symbol.

1 comment:

  1. If it doesn't work I'll let you know but I expect it will, thank you for posting this tip. And good luck with your endeavors!

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