AutoCAD Architecture 2009 Getting Started with AutoCAD Architecture March 2008
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Contents Chapter 1 Getting Started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Using this Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Managing Your Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Creating Spaces to Calculate Floor Plan Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Creating Color-Filled Presentation Plans . . . . . . . . .
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Getting Started 1 Welcome to AutoCAD® Architecture 2009! In this short tutorial, you learn how to use the features of AutoCAD Architecture to design and document a small office building. Working from a two-dimensional AutoCAD floor plan sketch, you quickly create a presentation plan, a floor plan layout, door and window schedules, a section, and a detail, all within a coordinated set of drawings.
Imperial and Metric Convention The exercises in this guide contain both imperial and metric values. This means that when you see an imperial value, a metric value is displayed in square brackets next to it. For example: Add a 6' X 6' [1800 mm X 1800 mm] window centered in the top wall of the stairway. All audiences using imperial measurements should use the imperial values only. All audiences using metric measurements should use the metric values in brackets only.
A Workspaces toolbar, located under the drop-down menus at the top left of the screen, lets you choose the workspace that you use to begin your project. Each AutoCAD Architecture workspace includes the specific user interface components that you use in the appropriate phase of your project. For example, the Design workspace contains all the basic tools that you need to create building components in your design drawings. The Design workspace is selected by default.
■ Under Window Elements, select or clear Show ToolTips. ■ If you want to change the time interval between displaying the basic tooltip text and the extended information, select a different delay value. If you want to turn off the extended tooltip information completely, clear Show extended ToolTips. ■ Click OK. 10 Open the tutorial project: ■ On the Navigation toolbar, click (Project Browser). You use the Project Browser to create, copy, and switch between projects.
To store and manage drawings with this feature, you first create a project. In the project, you create the basic levels (floors) and divisions (wings) of the building model to create a matrix of locations where you can assign the drawings that contain the geometry of your model. Using enhanced AutoCAD Xref technology, drawings that contain the building geometry can then be referenced together, and views of the building can be created and referenced onto plotting sheets.
Although this Getting Started project is unfinished, a few constructs reside in the project: 4 floor slabs, an elevator shaft, and an 05 floor. You will create constructs for floors 1-4 of the building. In contrast, elements contain collections of geometry that can be used repeatedly in different design drawings, such as a drawing of a service core that would be referenced onto multiple floors of a building. In the AutoCAD Architecture project workflow, elements are referenced into constructs.
5 Click the Sheets tab. The Sheets tab lists a set of project drawing sheets that you can plot or electronically publish. Sheet drawings contain paperspace layouts that comprise the sheet layout. You reference model space views from view drawings onto sheets to create sheet views. If you are familiar with the AutoCAD Sheet Set Manager, the Sheets tab should also look familiar.
room schedule that automatically reads the area information from the space tags, and reports it in the schedule table. When the schedule is complete, you use the editing grips available on AutoCAD Architecture objects to change the dimensions of a space on the floor plan. The space tag automatically reports the new room area, and with the click of a button, you update the schedule to include the new area. 1 Open an AutoCAD drawing that contains the 2D floor plan sketch: ■ Click File menu ➤ Open.
This setting assigns the 01 Spaces construct to the first floor (level) of the building, in division 1 of the building. By default, each project has a single division. ■ Click OK. Notice the open drawing has been renamed 01 Spaces, and displays in the Constructs folder on the Project Navigator. Next, access a space tool, and set the space properties so that the spaces you create are 2D and are tagged as they are created.
7 Autogenerate the remaining spaces on the plan: ■ Right-click in the drawing, and click Generate all. Tagged spaces are created in the remaining rooms. ■ Press ESC to end the Space command. 8 Reposition one of the tags in the upper left space: ■ Zoom to the 5 spaces in the upper left corner of the floor plan. ■ If necessary, on the application status bar, click ■ Select the tag that overlaps the 2 spaces on the lower right of the zoomed area. A cyan Location grip displays on the tag.
■ Select and move the Location grip to reposition the tag centrally on the space. ■ Press ESC to end the command. 9 If necessary, reposition the tags in the other spaces on the plan. The space tags on the floor plan report that all the rooms are the same type of space. Next, learn how to use the different space tools to create space objects for other room types on the plan.
TIP Make sure you select the space and not the tag. ■ Press ENTER, and press ESC. The space tag now identifies each selected space as a corridor, and the space displays with a colored fill. ■ Use the other space tools on the Getting_Started tool palette that correspond to the names in the plan shown to redefine the remaining spaces on the plan. When you finish, all spaces will display with colored fills.
IMPORTANT Press ESC after creating each space type to end the previous space command. 11 Create a preliminary room schedule that reports the name and area of each room: ■ On the Getting_Started tool palette, click the Room Area Schedule tool. ■ On the command line, enter all, and press ENTER twice. ■ Move the cursor to the left of the floor plan until the bottom of the schedule table aligns with the bottom conference room wall, and click to place the upper left corner of the schedule.
12 Modify the dimensions of a space on the plan, and observe changes in the schedule: ■ Select the large conference room on the right side of the drawing to display editing grips. ■ Click the lower edge grip, drag the edge down, and click to resize the room. The exact dimensions are not important, but ensure that the conference room is noticeably larger. Notice that the space tag reports the new area and dimensions after you resize the room. ■ Press ESC to end the command.
Creating Color-Filled Presentation Plans In this exercise, you use a display theme to rapidly create a graphic report of the spaces. When you create the report, the space data is read, and the spaces fill with color depending on the current report criteria. A legend that you place near the color-filled floor plan represents the theme and indicates the colors used in the plan. 1 On the Project Navigator, click the Views tab.
4 On the Standard toolbar, click (Save), and leave 01 Space Plan open. Laying Out a Floor Plan In this exercise, you develop a floor plan from a 2D linework sketch created in AutoCAD. You open the drawing in AutoCAD Architecture, and add it to the Getting Started project as the 01 Floor plan construct. Using the design tools included in AutoCAD Architecture, you quickly and easily convert the linework in the sketch to interior and exterior walls, and then add doors, windows, stairs, and spaces.
■ Select the black linework for the perimeter of the floor plan, and press ENTER. ■ On the command line, enter y (Yes), and press ENTER. The exterior linework is converted to walls that display editing grips. The perimeter polyline was drawn in a clockwise fashion, so the exterior and interior wall components are oriented correctly. ■ Press ESC to hide the wall grips. The walls clean up automatically, and the software places them on the correct layer.
■ For Justify, select Right. ■ Press ESC to hide the grips. 5 Convert the interior wall linework to interior walls: ■ On the Getting_Started tool palette, right-click the Interior Wall tool, and click Apply Tool Properties to ➤ Linework. ■ Select the black linework that represents the interior partition walls, and press ENTER. ■ On the command line, enter y, and press ENTER. ■ On the Properties palette, under Dimensions, for Base height, enter 9' [3000 mm]. ■ For Justify, select Center.
Because you selected Offset/Center for the Location property of the door, dynamic dimensions display the door as centered in the wall, or as offset an automatic distance from the end of the wall segment. ■ Move the cursor horizontally. By moving the cursor horizontally, you can change the swing side of the door. ■ When the door is centered in the wall, and the door swings into the corridor, click to place the door.
■ When the door is centered in the exterior corridor wall between the left and right interior corridor walls, click to place the door. 9 Add an exterior door to each stairway: ■ On the Getting_Started tool palette, click the Hinged - Single - Exterior door tool. ■ On the Properties palette, under Dimensions, for Standard sizes, select 3'-0'' X 7'-0'' [900 mm X 2000 mm]. ■ Under Location, for Position along wall, select Offset/Center. ■ For Automatic offset, enter 10'' [200 mm].
■ Using the same offset distance, place another exterior door in the stairway in the upper right corner of the building. 10 Add interior doors: ■ On the Getting_Started tool palette, click the Hinged - Single - Full Lite door tool. ■ On the Properties palette, under Dimensions, for Standard sizes, select 3'-0'' X 7'-0'' [900 mm X 2000 mm].
■ Place windows on the floor plan as shown, using a 6'' [150 mm] automatic offset and the center option. ■ When you finish placing the windows, press ESC to end the command. 12 Place a stair in the stairway in the upper left corner of the floor plan: ■ Click Format menu ➤ Options. ■ On the AEC Object Settings tab, under Stair Settings, for Calculator Limits, verify that Strict is selected, and click OK.
■ On the application status bar, click to turn on Ortho Mode, move the cursor directly up, and select a point on the inside of the top horizontal stairway wall, perpendicular to the one you just selected. ■ Press ESC to end the stair command, and select the stair.
Now that you have added walls, doors, windows, and stairs to the floor plan, apply different display configurations to the floor plan. By changing the display configuration, you can control the hatch pattern detail without having to redraw or rescale the objects. This makes it easy to shift from this floor plan view to a presentation view or to a reflected ceiling plan view, without creating new views or drawings.
This display configuration displays the spaces with colored hatch patterns. 17 On the drawing status bar, for Annotation Scale, select 1/8'' = 1' [1 : 50]. The Annotation Scale controls the tag size. 18 Reposition the space tags as necessary. 19 On the drawing status bar, for Annotation Scale, select 1/4'' = 1' [1 : 100]. 20 Save and close the 01 Floor construct. Next, schedule the doors and windows on the floor plan.
The spaces in the plan view display hatch patterns, and the doors and windows on the floor plan are visible. 3 In the 01 Plan view drawing, beginning with the curtain wall entry door, tag the doors on the floor plan to include them in a door schedule: ■ On the Getting Started tool palette, click the Door Tag tool. ■ Select the door in the curtain wall entry, and press ENTER to center the tag on the door. ■ In the Edit Property Set Data dialog, for Number, verify that 01 displays, and click OK.
■ Press ENTER to place the schedule at the current drawing scale. ■ Zoom to a line on the schedule, and view the door information. 6 Tag the windows on the floor plan view to include them in a separate window schedule: ■ On the Getting_Started tool palette, click the Window Tag tool. ■ Select the bottom window in the left exterior wall of the conference room on the lower left corner of the plan, move the cursor slightly to the left of the wall, and click to place the tag.
8 Save 01 Plan, and leave it open. Making Floor Plan Revisions In this exercise, you make several revisions to the 01 Floor construct. You take advantage of the many features of AutoCAD Architecture that make it easy to adjust any of the objects in your design. To edit the objects on a floor plan, you can change object properties, use object grips, or use dynamic dimensions. 1 On the Constructs tab of the Project Navigator, double-click the 01 Floor construct.
4 Flip the hinge side of an interior door: ■ Select the door in the bottom wall of the large office next to the copy room. ■ Click the left arrow grip to flip the hinge side of the door. ■ Press ESC to end the command. Next, change the dimensions of an exterior wall to see how it affects the floor plan design. 5 Grip-edit the right exterior wall of the conference room on the right side of the building: ■ Select the right vertical exterior wall of the conference room.
Notice that the dynamic dimensions display the changing dimension of the wall. ■ Click to place the wall, or enter a larger value in the dynamic dimension. The spaces are associative to the walls, so they update when you place the wall. The space tags also report the new area for the room affected by the change. 6 On the Standard toolbar, click (Undo) until the wall is restored to its original dimensions.
■ Drag the grip down until the dynamic dimensions display a width of 6' [1800 mm], and click to resize the window. ■ With the window still selected, on the Properties palette, for Height, enter 6' [1800 mm]. ■ Press ESC to end the command. 8 Change the size of the remaining windows: ■ Select one of the other windows on the floor plan, right-click, and click Select Similar. ■ On the Properties palette, for Standard sizes, select 6'-0'' X 6'-0'' [1800 mm X 1800 mm]. ■ Press ESC to end the command.
To create the section, you use a section callout tool to place a section line in the 01 Plan view, and then generate a new view drawing that contains the section. The new view drawing externally references all of the constructs (and elements that they reference) that create the office building geometry. After you create the section, you study the section view, make some design revisions in the building constructs, and then update the section to include the revisions.
■ Under Views, double-click 01 Plan. ■ On the Getting_Started tool palette, click the Section Mark A2T tool. ■ If necessary, on the application status bar, click ■ Beginning in the upper left corner of the building, specify a point to the left of the exterior storage room window for the start point of the section line. ■ Move the cursor to the right, and specify a point past the stair in the stairway and in front of the exterior door.
Notice that the section view displays exterior doors on the second, third, and fourth floors, and a stair on the fourth floor. The exterior doors are only necessary on the first floor of the building, and the stairs to the roof are not needed. 6 Save and close the Building Section view. 7 Remove all exterior doors in the 02-04 Floor constructs: ■ On the Constructs tab of the Project Navigator, double-click 02 Floor. ■ Select the 2 exterior stairway doors and the sliding door, and press DELETE.
After you draw the detail components, you create another view for the detail, and add reference keynotes to the detail in this view. You use a smart keynoting tool to select the component and draw a leader line; the reference key and related note automatically display. The key and note are extracted from the property set data of the detail component. NOTE To complete the metric version of this exercise, you must have the UK metric content installed on your system.
■ Zoom in around the top of the first floor window on the right exterior wall. 3 Begin detailing by adding a course of bricks to the view: ■ On the Getting_Started tool palette, click the Standard Brick - 3/8'' Jt [Standard Brick - 10mm] tool. ■ On the application status bar, verify that Ortho Mode and Object Snap are on, and an endpoint object snap is selected. ■ On the command line, enter c (Count) to insert a course of bricks, and press ENTER.
■ Move the cursor over the endpoint shown. ■ On the command line, enter y (Y flip), press ENTER, and click to place the bond beam. ■ Press ESC. 5 Add a concrete masonry block course above the bond beam in the detail: ■ On the Getting_Started tool palette, click the 6'' x 8'' x 8'' CMU [140 x 200 x 400mm Block] tool. ■ On the command line, enter c (Count) to insert a course, and press ENTER. ■ Enter 2 to specify the number of blocks in the course, and press ENTER.
■ On the command line, enter x (X flip) [y (Y flip)], press ENTER, and position the angle as shown. If you are creating the metric detail, you may need to adjust the position of the angle. ■ Press ESC. 7 Add a window head to the detail: ■ On the Getting_Started tool palette, click the Storefront Head at Finish [115mm Shopfront Head at Finish] tool.
■ On the command line, enter near, press ENTER, and select a point on the underside of the bond beam, perpendicular to the upper left corner of the window head. ■ On the application status bar, turn on Object Snap. ■ Move the cursor to the lower left endpoint of the bond beam, and click to place the channel. ■ Select the lower left endpoint of the channel that you just placed, move the cursor up, and select the upper left endpoint of the second concrete masonry block. ■ Press ESC.
■ Select the lower left endpoint of the wall board that you just placed, enter y (Y flip), press ENTER, move the cursor up, and select the top left endpoint of the vertical hat channel. ■ Press ESC. 10 Detach the section view that you referenced to create the detail: ■ On the drawing window status bar, click (Manage Xrefs). ■ On the External References palette, under File References, select Building Section. ■ Right-click, and click Detach. ■ Close the External References palette.
12 Add a cut line to the detail: ■ If necessary, on the application status bar, click to turn on Ortho Mode. ■ On the Getting_Started tool palette, click the Cut Line tool. ■ Specify a point to the left of the second CMU [Block] in the detail, but within the extents of the model space view. ■ Move the cursor to the right side of the detail, and specify an endpoint for the cut line. ■ Select a point above the detail components to specify the cut line extents.
■ Under Architectural, right-click General, and click New ➤ Sheet. ■ On the New Sheet worksheet, for Number enter A101. ■ For Sheet title, enter Client Presentation. Notice that the file name is created automatically from the number and title that you enter. ■ Select Open in drawing editor, and click OK. ■ Zoom in to the title block on the sheet. Notice that the title block already contains the title, number, and name of the project.
