So now we can begin to actually look at the project that we're going to create in this course.
And this is an architectural AutoCAD course.
So we are going to be creating a building layout.
And in your resources folder you should have something called building survey.
Now we have got a version in millimeters and a version in feet, so you can choose which you'd prefer.
Um.
If you if you're unsure of how the difference is and how to do that.
We did go over those in the units chapter, so you might want to watch that again if you're still unsure.
But if you're pretty much there with it, 80%, the rest will just come naturally by following along
with this course.
Okay, so most of my demonstration will be using this millimeters one I don't want to be to keep swapping
over and saying every day mentioning two different things.
It's just going to get confusing and long winded and boring.
So I'm going to go ahead and start creating this building using the millimeters shown here.
But if you're using feet and inches and you're more comfortable with feet and inches, just do exactly
the same as I do.
But set your drawing up as we did in the units chapter in feet and inches and just use these dimensions.
So so here, for instance, whereas I'll be drawing a line at 6000mm, you would just type in 19ft ten
inches.
Okay.
So apart from the actual unit itself, everything else is going to be exactly the same.
So it's up to you which one you use.
They're both included in the resource folder.
And there we go.
So.
What is this?
Well, we're going to pretend that a surveyor has gone out to site, measured up this building, brought
back the dimensions, and we're going to draw it up.
Okay, So this is a typical thing you would do if you was in an architectural company.
Maybe it was refurbishing this building interior design.
Maybe you need to do a layout for it.
Decorations.
Real estate, state agents.
Maybe measuring it up to rent out the office.
Whatever the situation, we're going to pretend we've got this marked up drawing with all dimensions
on.
But I've come from site and we're going to draw it up in CAD.
Now, looking at this, I can tell you one thing.
This is a car technician's dream to get a markup like this.
For one thing, it's obviously already in CAD, but we'll forget that for a minute.
Usually things like this would come to you on a bit of screwed up paper.
The dimensions would be scribbled on.
You won't be able to read them.
There will be coffee stains on it.
The surveyors dinner will be on it.
All sorts.
So yeah, you probably won't be given something as good as this.
But for the purpose of this course, we're going to follow along with these markups and these dimensions.
So what have we got?
Okay, well, all the dimensions obviously are these.
Numbers with the arrows.
The building layout, it's so it's 20m by 10m or 66ft by 33ft.
And these thick gray walls are the external walls here.
Okay.
Inside we've got a number of rooms separated by these internal walls.
We've got doors.
We've got our main entrance with a double door here.
We've got windows around the building and we've got some blocks in the form of lights.
These are strip lights in the building.
So we're going to show all this.
We're going to mark it up and you're going to create recreate this in AutoCAD.
And after this course, you'll be able to do this over and over.
So you'll be able to get some measurements of a building, either measure it yourself or get them from
someone else and you'll be able to churn out this kind of floor layouts.
No problem.
Later on, we're going to put it on a title block.
Use a viewport, a view from paper space to model space.
Put our own dimensions on maybe some notes and get it to a point where you could print it out and give
it to someone as a completed floor layout.
Okay, so.
This course is going to teach you everything you need to know to do that, which will.
The same principle will go ahead for any 2D layout.
This this is a fairly simple building as buildings go, but it would be exactly the same process if
there was numerous rooms and and you were doing numerous floors, maybe five floors.
All the same, it'd be the same process, just more of it.
Okay, So let's get started.
In the next chapter, we're going to look at setting out those external walls and getting our drawing
going.