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You use these precision templates to produce architectural designs and drawings according to accepted industry standards.

  • Architectural (Imperial)—This template has imperial units in feet and inches, ANSI and architectural sheet sizes and borders, architectural fill styles, and provides symbols based on AIA standards for residential and commercial designs.

  • Architectural (Metric)—This template has metric units in meters and centimeters, ISO standard architectural sheet sizes and borders, architectural fill styles, and provides symbols based on AIA standards for residential and commercial designs.

The ANSI, DIN, BSI, ISO, and JIS dimensioning standards are also available in these templates. When you open these templates, the Draw toolbar appears, containing tools to help you create precision drawings.

Production Drafting Workflow for Floor Plans

You can produce full sets of production drawings according to the AIA standards.

Set up the sheet .

  • Select an appropriate sheet size and scale that allow you to draw the design. The default scale is 1/4" = 1', which is appropriate for the average plan on a D-Size sheet.

Select a border or create one.

  • The Architectural templates are delivered with ten border sizes. Select the borders from Sheet Setup on the File menu so that they appear in the current design. On the Background tab, select the background sheet to display with the working sheet. Use Select Tool to position the graphics appropriately in the border.

    The borders were designed from guidelines from the Construction Specifications Institute (CSI).

  • From the View tab on the Options dialog box, set the grid settings to Grid style to Static, Grid spacing to 1, and Grid index to 1.

Workflow A: Draw the approximate perimeter walls of the floor plan, using Place Doubleline and SmartSketch. Use Trim, Trim to Corner, and Extend to Next for any intersection cleanup between elements where walls overlap or do not intersect cleanly.

Workflow B: Verify on the Tools menu that Maintain Relationships is set on. Draw the approximate perimeter walls of the floor plan, using Place Doubleline, SmartSketch Settings, and PinPoint. Then adjust the distance between walls (doubleline graphics) using Select Tool on the Draw toolbar to make precision distances with PinPoint. Use Trim, Trim Corner, and Extend to Next for any intersection cleanup between elements.

  • Short cut keys F9 and F12 for PinPoint are useful when you draw walls.

  • Avoid trimming for openings, doors, or windows.

  • Press and hold Shift while using Place Doubleline; this action prevents a beginning or end cap from being placed. (Pressing and holding Shift while using Place Doubleline is useful for tracing.)

Draw the interior walls.

  • Using the same techniques and commands you used to draw the perimeter walls, add the appropriate interior walls and adjust accordingly.

Place door and window symbols.

  • Using the Symbol Explorer, select the Doors folder from the Plan Symbols folder in the tree view. Drag the door symbols onto the represented wall elements, and use the bold parameters that appear in the Attribute Viewer to change the size of the door and the handles that appear to orient the door to the position you want. Repeat the same steps you used to place doors for placing windows and all other types of symbols.

You can use two methods to place multiple copies of the same symbol:

  • Holding down the right mouse button, drag the symbol into the template. When you release the right mouse button to place the symbol, you are prompted with two options. Click Stamp Here, and use the left mouse button to place multiple copies of the symbol.

  • Press Ctrl as you drag in a symbol with the left mouse button. Place the first instance of the symbol while holding down Ctrl. Once you have placed the first symbol, you can release Ctrl and use the left mouse button to place multiple copies of the symbol.

  • Annotate the drawing.

Use text and dimensioning commands to annotate the drawing. Text is entered in paper units regardless of the sheet scale. To label windows and doors, use the labels that automatically appear on symbols when you double-click them. Or use labels provided in the Label folder in the Plan Symbols folder.

The following symbol sets aid in production drafting.

Content

Description

Elevation Symbols

Symbols of typical elevation view content based on AIA standards and other common designs.

Plan Symbols

Symbols of typical plan view content based on AIA standards and other common designs. Some symbols such as doors and windows can be modified by parameters that appear when the symbols are placed.

You must install the AEC Solutions option before you can use the Architectural templates.

See Also

Drawing Basic Elements
Drawing Connectors
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