Right.
So now we can start adding these internal walls.
And when you're creating things in AutoCAD, it's always good to be thinking to yourself, what's the
easiest way to to do this?
When you get more experienced as you're actually modeling or drawing a line, your brain will be kind
of one step ahead and it will already be thinking how you're going to create the next object.
You won't even be thinking about the object you're actually drawing at that point.
But that's further down the line when you get more advanced.
For now, let's just have a look at this and think what would be the easiest way to create it?
So we can see these lines.
We have a main corridor here, which is basically two lines.
If we ignore the doors for a minute and then we look at these rooms, these lines dividing the room,
the rooms are actually the same length either side of a corridor.
So I'm already thinking I don't want to draw things twice.
I could just put these walls in right the way across and then I can add the two walls for the corridor.
And with some trimming and filleting and things, I can just kind of cut all those out.
So that's.
That's the way I'd like to go and that's the way we'll look at doing it in this course.
So first thing I'm going to do is set out these walls that are running north to south on this plan,
and the first one is going to be 4100mm or 4.1m across in our millimeters.
Example, fate is 13ft six millimetres, 4100.
So I'm going to set that out first.
And also the thickness of these walls There they are, 100mm.
Okay.
So all these internal walls are 100mm or 4in for the Imperial guys.
So.
Let's look at that.
We want a line, first line, first internal war line is going to run down here.
It's going to be 4.1m or 4100mm off of this line and it's going to run all the way down and then be
100mm thick.
So how can we do that?
We could offset a line here, but this is a this is a polyline, okay?
So it would end up offsetting the whole rectangle if I clicked on offset and try to offset that, it
would offset the whole rectangle there.
Now I could draw a line there and then I could offset that and it would just offset that line.
But then we're adding geometry and it can get messy later on if we forget to delete it.
There's an easy way to start your line.
To start this line at a point that is 4.1m from there.
So what we do, we turn on this down here, this step in reference line.
Okay, we turn that on and that will let us kind of select a start point without creating any extra
geometry.
And I'll show you what I mean.
Now I'm going to go to polyline and I'm going to hover over this corner, make sure you've got your
oh snaps on as we did in the Snaps chapter.
And you've got at least I would say for this one, let's put on end point midpoint perpendicular and.
Intersection.
So hover over this corner.
Don't click anything and you'll see.
When we first hover over it, we get our normal.
Dimension Square.
But then it kind of changes and it will say end point.
Okay, so hover your cursor over it until it changes and it says end point when you get this.
Move your mouse along the wall that you want to measure along.
Okay.
So you go endpoint and make sure when you do it, you get this kind of green dashed.
If you can see there's a green dashed horizontal line following my wall where I am.
What's happening here is it's allowing me to put in a start point a lot like when we put type in a length,
when we create in geometry, we can also now doing this, we can just put in a distance for our start
point.
So I'm going to type in 4100 and I'm going to press enter and you'll see now it's moved the start point
of that line.
Okay.
And if I turn off the one with F8, it's moved it.
To this point here, which is four files on 100mm long.
And I'm just going to go down and because we've got perpendicular on, it will allow us to snap perpendicular
and I can left click and right click to finish.
Okay.
And if I do a distance measurement from here to here, you can see it's 4100.
So I'm just going to show you that again because it can be a bit difficult to follow.
Make sure you've got your oh, snap on with at least end point and perpendicular and make sure you've
got this highlighted here.
Click on your polyline.
Don't click, but hover over the corner until it changes to just say End Point, move it along the line.
You wish to measure along.
Make sure you've got the green dashed line.
You don't have to move it in any.
Just move it to the correct kind of direction you want to go.
You don't have to try and get the dimension correct for 4100 just in the general direction.
You want to measure along, you could move it right out here if you want.
As long as you've got this green dashed line, then put in the dimension.
You want to move along.
4100 press enter.
And now it's moved the start point to that position.
Then using the perpendicular stamp, you can left click right click to finish that command.
And there you go.
And now we can use the offset command.
And I'm going to type in 100, which is the thickness of our internal wall, and I'm going to offset
and make sure you offset to the right side.
There we go.
So that is our first wall and that is the wall here running all the way down.
The next one is going to be exactly the same process, but six meters.
So let's do that again.
Polyline.
Hover over this corner.
Wait for it to change.
Move along.
Make sure you get your green dashed line.
Type in 6000, enter and then snap perpendicular.
Now, right.
Offset.
It's already set to 100.
So we can just right click because because it remembers the last offset you did.
And we've got another wall.
And again, our next one is another six.
Now we've, we've offset this one six metres and now we want to offset this one six metres so we can
do it the same way or we can just go copy and I'm going to window select both those lines right click
and for the base point I'm going to click here and drop it to that point there.
And because I basically copied this wall using that base point, I know that this is 6000 as well as
that 6000.
Okay?
It's the same dimension.
If you're doing the same dimension, you can just do it that way.
Or you could have done it the same way we did the others.
It's completely up to you.
So now we've got these three walls running this way.
We're going to put.
Two walls running horizontal and this is going to be 3600 down.
So same process.
Polyline hover over there.
Wait for it to change.
Move it down.
We've got our green line type in 3600.
Enter.
And I'm going to go right the way across.
Get perpendicular, snap.
Right click.
Done.
Sorry.
Left click to place it, then right click done.
Offset that.
100 saved right click offset.
There we go.
And now I'm going to just offset this 2000 here.
So I'll go offset type in 2000, offset that one right click to finish command, right click to repeat
command.
This time it's 100 enter and I'll offset that.
And just as a check, I'm going to make sure that this distance here is 3600, which it is.
So we've got our internal walls now.
We just need to tidy it up.
Okay.
If you look on our drawing where our walls cross, we've got these crossing lines.
We don't want any walls across the corridor.
We don't want a wall here.
Most of that can be done or all of it can be done with just trim, extend and maybe some fillets.
So let's look at trimming first.
I'm going to select Trim Left Click Trim, and I'm going to click on these kind of in the corridor walls.
But on the room side, I'm going to right click to complete the selection, and now it's going to ask
us what we want to trim.
So I'm going to just left click in the space here and draw a window right the way down the corridor,
left click right click to finish Command.
And that's taken all those out.
I don't want these little pieces here because these walls are kind of I just want the internal walls
to be one complete kind of flowing section.
So we're hatch.
It will fill them all in.
We can do the same command.
I'm going to select Trim.
I'm going to left click in this space.
I'm going to select all these lines with a window going this way.
Remember, if we went the other way, we'd have to complete.
We'd have to cover the whole line this way, we just touch them.
So I want to trim.
I'm going to right click and now I'm going to just left click and select these objects here to trim
them out.
And there we go.
Same again down here.
Okay.
Now, this one is a bit different.
Here we wanted this corner.
We don't want the wall and we want this corner.
This is our open reception area.
So what I'll do here, I'll click on fill it, I'm going to click R for radius type R enter and it's
already set to zero, but I like to just do that.
Make sure we haven't got a curved radius on there.
Sometimes you could have a very, very small curved radius and you don't know about it.
So I've set that to zero and now I can select these two lines and give it a radius and all I need to
do is delete that one and we're done.
And that is our internal walls.
Easy.
So.
Already.
We've got our main building layout and our room separations done.
Just using those few commands.
So you probably seen now already what I've spoken about in the basic modules section, although AutoCAD
is really powerful and it's got lots of commands for different things.
The main kind of tool belt that you use is just a very small selection of commands that allow you to
do quite a lot of things.
So in the next chapter, we're going to look at putting the doors in so you can actually get into these
rooms.