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The Impact of Technology on Education: Enhancing Learning Through Innovation

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Let's begin referencing our details throughout the sheets that we've gotten completed. Our current layer is A. Anno Cimso 1. We're going to be doing our detail referencing in the paper space environment of all of the sheet files. Again, the reason we're doing this is that this way we can have more than one person working on a project, and one person can come in like we're about to do right now and reference details on the four or five sheets we're going to be working with, and someone else can be updating the model.

So I'm going to begin by inserting. I'm going to go to Insert, Block Insert, go to Browse. I'm going to choose 01090A05, say OK, and specify the insertion point on screen.

I'm going to pop it in right here. And the drawing label will be 3, and the sheet will be A3.3. So there's the symbol. This is going to be referencing detail 2,3, 4,5, 6,7, 8, and 9. So again, we're going to be referencing these details throughout the sheet.

Now detail 3 deals with the condition here at the eave. So I'm going to draw a rectangle right around here. I'm going to go to PEDIT, set the width to 1/8 inch.

That's too much. I'm going to go back to width and set it to 1/16 inch, and then go back again and set it to 1/32 inch. So again, it's going to be a polyline that has a width of 1/32 inch.

I'm going to use F for Fillet, R for a radius of 1/4 inch, P for Polyline, and L for Last. I'm then going to take the polyline, go to the Home tab, and assign it the Hidden 2 linetype. You can see that Hidden 2 has not yet been loaded.

I'm going to click Other, then Load, scroll down, and choose Hidden 2. Click OK twice. Now I will select it and assign it the Hidden 2 linetype.

Hit Escape. I'm now going to draw a line from the midpoint here straight up, use PEDIT, choose Yes, give it a width of 1/32 inch, and move the symbol from the quadrant on the bottom to the endpoint of the line. CTRL+S to save. I'd also like to do some referencing down here, so I'm going to draw a rectangle, turn off running OSNAP, place the rectangle right there, and another rectangle in this area. Use MA for Match Properties—here's the source, here's the destination. Go to Fillet, it remembers the radius, right-click Polyline, right-click Repeat Fillet, right-click Polyline again. CTRL+S to save.

I'm going to copy our detail from up here down to over here. I'm going to turn off Ortho, copy it again, and pull it down here. This detail reference will be detail 4, so I'll label it number 4. This detail reference will be detail number 5. I'm going to rotate this line from the endpoint here; since positive rotation is counterclockwise, I'll rotate it -45 degrees. I'm going to move the line from the endpoint to the midpoint of the arc. It's a little bit too long, so I'll stretch it using crossing selection from the endpoint to the midpoint. Repeat the stretch command again. I'm going to move my symbol from one endpoint to the other. CTRL+S to save. I will do a similar kind of referencing here—I'll mirror this line from the center of the circle, Ortho on straight over, and delete the original. Now I'll move it using crossing selection from the midpoint here down to the midpoint over here. Trim, stretch crossing from the endpoint to the midpoint. CTRL+S to save.

Now I think one thing I might do a little more is just move these guys slightly to the left so I can also include some of the footings being constructed. Now both of these symbols are typical, so I'm just going to go into single-line text and give it an arbitrary base point. The height is 1/8 inch—accept that. TYP. (period). I'm going to move this from here over to here and copy it from here to over here. Again, my running OSNAP is on, so I'm just going to place it right there. Escape. CTRL+S to save. We've completed these references on this sheet. What I'd like to do now is take one of these, put it on the clipboard, and go into some other sheets.

So I'm going to say Edit, Copy with Base Point, select the base point, choose the symbol, the line, the rectangle, and the word "TYP." Use Zoom Extents. CTRL+S to save. Now we have finished our A3.3 file.