Analyzing Cabinetry and Millwork Drawings from Mount Blue Associates in San Diego

I would like for us to spend some time reviewing cabinetry and millwork drawings. These drawings have been provided to us by our friends at Mount Bluen Associates here in San Diego.

They're a very, very nice group of people. They do amazingly wonderful work, and their drawings are over the top. The detailing in the drawings is incredible, and I felt that since this is a detailing class that you would really benefit by seeing how the best of interior cabinetry, millwork, and interior elevation drawings can be accomplished.

So let's begin. The documents provided by Mount Blue cover four different projects, and you're going to see similarities in all of them between the projects, but let's just begin. This is page one, and I'm not going to call them all page one and page two, but what I'd like you to do is spend a couple of minutes and just look at this drawing and see how things reference one another.

In the top left corner is the plan view. So you can see that there's a sink. Here's a countertop.

Here is an island. This is a reference here to an elevation that's labeled as one. Then there's an elevation 2a, 2b, referencing the island.

When you look at the cabinetry working in here though, do you see the dashed line? That's because these are individual cabinets that are being made. So let's just back off a little bit. So this elevation one right there is referenced down here.

Now if I go into that area, you're going to start to see even more references that are happening. Items like this are sections through the cabinet. So that would be section D on sheet S2, section B on sheet S2.

So let's just go back. Elevation at break room. So this elevation two deals with these elevations right here.

So again, these are the elevations for the island. And if I see right here, section A that's cut through the cabinet, this is the section A that is cut through the cabinet, section B. And then we have additional details that are referenced elsewhere in the sheet. And just look at the quality of the work that they've put through.

They've traced the outlines with heavier line weights. The drawing reads graphically. Things that are closer to us are in darker line weights.

Things that are farther behind are in lighter line weights. Let's go to the next page. This deals with some seating.

So here is information on the bench seating. Their equipment works in metrics. And so this is how many metric units they have going on in there.

They've called out the kinds of materials. Again, we look at text alignment. Do you see how nicely that reads? How this is graphically very, very pleasant.

So again, here is a front view of that seating. And here the seating is in plan view. So again, this reference here is to elevation one.

And there is elevation one. There are sections again through here. Here's section A that goes through the seating.

This section A represents this section A right here. Again, you can see that there are references of sections through the cabinetry. There's also a detail, detail four on page 1-1.0. And this is very common to have this kind of referencing going on sheet to sheet to sheet.

We have again more BonnCat seating. So here is the plan, elevation one, elevation two. And here is elevation one and elevation two.

Again, we zoom in and we're going to see references to sections. See section A on sheet 2.1. All of the notes are very clearly detailed. They've even made mention of where the electrical outlets are.

You see that this says doors not in contract typically because these are legal documents. You know, these are legal documents. You can see the scale of the drawing is referenced here.

Chances are what they've done is this drawing has been printed in paper space. There's a viewport for this area that would be a non-rectangular viewport. It would go around it that way.

There would be a viewport around this elevation and a viewport around this elevation. So again, a viewport here, rectangular viewport here, an upside down L-shaped viewport here. And then this chart would probably be in paper space and these notes would probably be in paper space.

The reason I'm guessing that it's going to be working that way is by having some things in paper, some things in model, when push comes to shove, the office can have more than one person working on the drawing. And chances are, very good, that the interior elevations are actually referenced, X-refed, into the model space environment. Again, so you can distribute the workflow.

Well, let's take a break for a second and we'll come back and start our next image.