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Annotating Site Plans: Steps to Add Text and Labels

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This tutorial walks through annotating site plans: steps to add text and labels, covering essential tools and techniques for your projects.

Let's continue annotating our site plan here. We're in our FP1 site plan, and if we go to our floor plan where we made Site Plan Underground, let's drag that over to our site plan sheet just like this. We'll see it's a little too big here, but we'll adjust that in a second.

Let's just drop it on our plan right here. Okay, there's a few things we'll have to fix, but first, the scale's too big. So let's go ahead and change that under Properties > View Scale, and let's try 1/16" = 1'-0".

Okay, this is a little better. Now we can access this plan in two ways. For now, let's go to our actual site plan.

Now, initially when we set this up, we hid all of this pipe, but then we ended up drawing more on Level 1 because this is a copy from the Level 1 piping plan. Now the pipe that we drew is starting to show up. We can either hide it all or we can change our view range.

So let's go to that. We hid it last time. This time we can go to our View Range, and right now our Top is set to 3 feet and our Cut Plane is set to 4 feet.

What we can do is set our Cut Plane to 3 feet and let's set the Top to the Associated Level 1 and click OK. There we go. Now all of that pipe is hidden.

Now one more thing I want to do—make our crop region visible and tighten it up just a bit in case we need that extra room in our plan. So just the perimeter of the building and the underground piping and the backflow preventer. Okay, let's start annotating some of this information here.

To do that, we'll go to Annotate and use the Text tool, and let's use the Text with Leader. Before we begin, we'll be at 3/32" Arial text. Let's go to Edit Type and make sure our Show Border is on.

So make sure you select that and click OK. Let's zoom in and we'll start here. We can adjust this later.

Okay, once you have your leader put in, we'll label this as our 8". Let's use all caps: 8" CITY MAIN, and we can move the arrow around.

That's good. Now we can either copy this or we can make a new one. Let's go ahead and just make a new one.

Start here. And this was our 6" PVC underground piping. Let's copy this one.

Make sure we're pointing at the backflow and let's label this as a 6": PDA BACKFLOW. Okay, we'll continue to annotate this pipe here.

We can put it on this side this time, maybe. And now we can take the leader and drag it so it's on the other side of the text box. Now, again, don't worry about matching mine exactly.

Just make sure you're annotating with the same text. Okay, let's move on to our point of connection. We'll copy this here and go to our riser inside the building.

And if you recall, this was a 3" riser. So let's label this 3" FIRE SPRINKLER RISER. VDCI POINT OF CONNECTION.

This is the point in our contract where we would begin. Our scope of work does not include the underground and backflow preventer, but for hydraulic purposes for calculations—which we will not do in this course but will be needed in our site plan—this is why we're providing that information.

Okay, this looks good.