In this session, we are going to create CAD drawings from our 3D model. I will show you how to use the annotation tools to make structural and architectural drawings. First, let me explain how to make structural shop drawing. After finishing the structure plane, we can adjust the display of the grid according to the projects needs. Next, let us do distance dimensioning between the columns because the centers of the columns are on the grid points. When we model the columns, we only need to measure the distance between the grid points. Under the Modify tab, find a major panel. Click on the aligned dimension, mark the distance between the grids. Next, we are going to tap the columns, beams, and flows with size calls so that the user can find the size of each structural components easily with the structural size chart under the annotate tab. Finally, Tag panel, click on the "Tag All." Select "Floor Tags," "Structural Column Tags," and "Structural Frame Tags." Click "Okay." We can quickly create tags of question marks on the columns, beams, and floors. Double-click the text on the columns one-by-one to enter the corresponding size codes. Then relocate the tags to avoid overlapping. Now, let me quickly finish the tagging for pins and plates. Next, let us annotate the elevation of the floors. Under the annotate tab, find the dimension panel. Click on the Spot Elevation. Click on the target floor to start annotating the elevation. Click on the location for a notation. Click again to finish the task. Next, we are going to add detail lines for the structural plan. We need to draw detailed lines for the floors, the vertical space, and the driveway. Under the Annotate tab, find the detail panel. Click on the Detail Line, select the Thin Line in Line Style, and draw a diagonal line from the upper right to lower left on each of the floor panels. Draw two diagonal lines on vertically penetrating spaces, such as elevator shafts and pipes shafts. Draw a downward arrow for the lane to indicate that it's traffic direction. If the line blocks the annotation, just send the background of the annotation to opaque. Finally, we need to add tags, annotations for boundary lines, and building lines. Under the Annotate Tab. Find the text panel. Click on the text. Click next to the boundary line, and enter the hex. You can use the Rotate tool to change the text direction or Drag tool to move the text. Do the same for the building line. Using these annotation tools, you can complete the following 1f structural plan by yourselves, including all columns, beams, floor calls, floor elevations, ranging lines, landlines, and explanatory texts. The finished drawing looks like this. After completing the annotation, we can place the structure pane onto the sheet so that it can be printed. Under the View tab. Find a sheet composition panel, click on the "Sheet." Layer some P4 sheets in the sheet window, and you can also use self design sheet frames for each project. Here we just use the most common A3 horizontal sheet. If you do not see the A3 horizontal sheet in window, you can click "Load" and load it from the title blocks folder. We usually change the name of the sheet to facilitate management. Here let us change the name to S-2-2. From the Project Browser, drag one of structural plan onto the sheet. We need to use the detailed line tool and the Text Tool to add a title, size table, and descriptions. Because the use of these tools has already been introduced, I will just demonstrate that quickly for some part of the task. Please practice the tools by yourself and complete the rest part of the structural sharp drawings as shown on the screen. The finished drawing looks like this. Next, let us make architectural sharp drawing. Like the process of creating the structural plan, we need two dimension distances on the architectural sharp drawing. Compare with the structural plan, the distance dimensioning for the architectural plan is much more complicated. Therefore, I will only explain the principles. The details are case-by-case and should be adjusted accordingly. First, for the exterior part, we need to label the distance between corners of the building and windows. Second, for the interior part, distances between walls should be labeled. Third, the annotations in the outer region of the drawing should be organized well to facilitate reading. I will now quickly demonstrate the interior distance labeling. After labeling the distance similar to the structural plan, we need to label the codes of the doors and windows so that the user can know the size after seeing the architectural plan. Open the tech or tour, we select door tags and window tags. Click "Okay." Click "Label" twice to enter the corresponding code. Here, I will quickly demonstrate the labeling of windows once. Next, let us label each space in the architectural plan so that the usage of each space can be clearly shown on the drawing. Under the Architecture tab, find a room and area panel. Click on the "Room." Put the room label in the target space and enter the room name. If they are multiple rooms in a space, we can use the room separation line tool to add room boundaries before room labeling. Similar to the structural plan, the architectural plan also needs labeling of the floor elevation but when setting the view template, we have hidden the floor. We cannot use the spot elevations tool to place the elevation label. We need to design a general elevation and notation by ourselves before we can place the labels. For convenience, we can modify an existing elevation annotation to get what we need. Let us go to the File tab to open the Family file called Target filled.rfa. If you have it installed correctly you should be able to find it. Click on it and open it. Under the Create tab, find the Properties panel. Click on the "Family Category and Parameters." Change the Family Category to Generic Annotation. Under the Create tab find the Text panel. Click on the "Label," click next to the annotation and the label window will pop up at the new parameter name elevation. Choose number for Type of parameter and select Instance. Click "Okay." Then the parameters to the label and set the Sample Value to 0. Click "Okay." Adjust the position of the label, save a new Family file and import it into the project. After importing the general elevation and notation just created we can place that elevation labels on the architectural plan and manually enter the elevation values according to the structural plan. Please use the annotation tools to complete the 1F architectural plan by yourself including annotations for all doors, windows, rooms, floor elevations, detail lines, and descriptive text. The finished drawing looks like this. Next, let us place the completed architectural plan onto a sheet. Let us create a new A3 horizontal sheet and rename it to A page 2. From the Project Browser, drag 1F Architectural Plan into the sheet. There are many types of walls in the architectural plan. In order for users to distinguish them clearly we need to add a legend for architecture walls. Under the View tab find the Create panel, click on "Legends" and choose Legend. Let us name it as Building Wall Legend and choose 1 to 100 ratio for the scale. We can get a wall symbol directly from the wall family. In Project Browser find families under Walls. We can find all types of walls in the project. Take the wall type we need into the sheet. Here we need Brick Wall 12, RC Wall 10, and RC Wall 15. Use the Text tool to add descriptive text, adjust the detailed level to find. Now we can see the completed legend of architectural walls. Next, let us strike the legend into the A-2-2 sheet and use the detailed line tool, and the Text tool to add the title and description for the drawing. This part of operations is the same as before so I will let you practice it by yourself. The completed architectural shop drawing looks like this. For saving the sheets into drawing files, let us click on the "File" tab to find the Export Tool. Select the CAD Format then select DWG. Choose all the sheets that we need to export then click "Next." Name the files and set the path where we would like to save the files. Click "Okay" to save all the CAD drawings.
