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AutoCAD Setup

1

Set Drawing Units

UNITS command — Architectural for feet/inches, Decimal for metric.

2

Create Layers

Layer Manager — name, color, lineweight per drawing standard.

3

Set Up Layouts

Paper space layouts with title blocks for plotting.

4

Save as Template

Save .dwt with your standards — start every new drawing pre-configured.

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Let's begin putting the text in the drawing. Let's list the detail border. And we see it's a scale factor of four.

At a scale factor of four times an eighth of an inch, the text needs to be a half an inch high. So I'm going to go to A Text, then to M Leader. I'll zoom in.

I will go from the node of here, and I will say nearest to here. The text height wants to be a half an inch high. I type in one over two.

And I'm going to type in brick veneer. Close. Go back to text.

From the node of here, nearest to here. I will type in the value of half an inch. Jiffy.

Seal. Water protection. Install per MFGR guidelines.

Pan down here. Go to text. From the node of here, nearest to here.

Sierra, half inch height. Sierra. Pacific.

Windows. Carmel. Collection.

Dual. Hong. Windows.

Install per MFGRS guidelines. Close text editor. If you remember, we've changed the size of the detail border a couple of times, and the scale factor was four, which means three inches equals a foot.

So I will double click. Give it a value of three inches equals a foot. Save.

Edit. Copy with base point. The base point will be the node of here.

Choose this text because we'll have it in both details. Zoom dynamic. Come down to here.

Double click. Change the value home position three. Pan up a bit.

Control V to the node of here. Zoom dynamic. Edit.

Copy with base point. I'm going to say the insertion base point of this text. Select it.

Zoom previous. Zoom dynamic. Control V at the node down here.

I have to draw some M text from the node of here nearest to here. Let the height be half an inch high. Sealant and backer rod.

Save the file. It's now time to put the M leaders into the file. If I go to annotate and go to M leaders, you can see that there's the M leader 48.

I'm going to modify it, and I will let it have its leader format as straight. Leader structure has a scale factor of four. Right button.

Rename M leader 04. Set current. Close.

I'm now going to zoom in. M leader. MLD.

I'm going to go nearest to here. Ortho on. F8.

And close it. I can now copy. Well, no, I can't copy because I need to have the angle here.

So M leader, I'll say here. I'll go down, turn ortho off. Turn polar on.

Pan over a bit. I want to be 30 degrees above vertical. Close it.

Back off. I'm going to copy this from here up to here. Hit escape.

Move this. I'm going to get it lined up first. Move this.

Ortho on. Point exactly to it. Draw my line from here down to here.

Move that grip perpendicular to here. Move that grip perpendicular to here. Move that grip.

I'll just move it back. And from here, perpendicular to here. Zoom extents.

I'm going to say move the line. Orthos on. Straight up.

I'm going to copy this M leader. From here, ortho off. Over to there.

Zoom in. I'm going to move this M leader from here. Again, I'm positioning it vertically.

Over to there. Pick on it. Move the grip to the left.

Copy the leader from there. And again, notice how I'm picking my base point off of the geometry to make things easier for me. To there.

And then point to the brick veneer. Here, take the grip. Ortho back on.

Move to the left. Triangle grip perpendicular to here. Zoom in.

Triangle grip perp to here. Triangle grip perpendicular to here. Zoom back.

Erase the lines. Zoom extents. And now we're getting ready to W block out the details into their own individual files.

So I hope you've learned a lot. If you would, again, please get your drawings to this point. When we come back, we'll W block the drawings out into separate files.

And after that, we will begin assembling our detail sheet.