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So the next thing we're going to do, we're going to add these lights.

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And let's just say the surveyor picked them up because when you're adding things like lights, generally

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it would be in the form of a symbol rather than trying to draw something that looks exactly like that.

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Things like light sockets, light switches, lights themselves, all those kind of things tend to be

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shown with symbols rather than too much detail.

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And the only thing in this case that would be correct would be the length of it.

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So you might have different length lights.

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Let's say you had a light that was a meter long, another one that was 1.2m, maybe one that was only

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600mm and you'd have those saved as blocks which you and you just use the correct length, but the symbol

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would look the same.

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It would just change in length.

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Okay.

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So in our case, the surveyor has picked up that there's like this number of lights are far in that

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room, two in that room, four in that room.

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And let's just say he wrote down on the note that they're all 1200 length lights.

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So for Imperial guys, let's say four foot long kind of strip lights, and we're going to draw these

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as this block like it's shown here, which is kind of a standard light block.

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We're going to draw them 1200 long.

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So let's start by just creating one.

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And I'll click on a polyline, and I'm just going to do the line 1200, okay?

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And then I'm going to offset that.

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And let's say let's offset 50, see how that looks.

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I'm going to offset it 100.

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So we're just creating a symbol here, really.

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There's only about 1200 length, which was of any importance.

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So I'm just going to create a line from those end points.

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Now I'm going to use scale just to create that to make this line longer.

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So I'm going to click the scale command, select the line, right click, select the midpoint, and

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I'm going to scale it by two.

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And now it gives us a double length line.

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So that's just a simple way to do that.

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We can now mirror it.

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Okay, Use the midpoint as the base point.

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And there we go.

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That's our our light.

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I'm going to turn that into a block.

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And you probably already guessed what I'm going to call it.

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I'm going to select for the base point.

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I'm going to select the midpoint here.

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It doesn't really matter in this case.

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And for objects, I'll select all of them and then.

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Okay, so now we have this light block here.

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We can start adding it in the rooms.

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So in this room we've got two down the center.

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So first thing we want to do is find the center line again.

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I'm just going to I'm going to create because we haven't really got a line.

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We can't use a midpoint of this.

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We can't use a midpoint of this.

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I'm going to create a new line.

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Okay.

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Just here.

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And then I can find my midpoint.

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Hold on.

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I'm going to delete that line.

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You don't want to leave these kind of things laying there because you'll forget they're there and they

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might cause problems later on.

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And now I can move the block.

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I can use the midpoint and put it there.

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Um, and I'm going to use grips to move this in.

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So now our line is the width of the room.

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I could do a mirror on there and use that midpoint as a base point and that looks okay.

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So now we've got two lights in our room.

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I'm now going to use those and I'm going to copy them and I'm going to do this by eye.

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I'm going to put it there, okay?

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And then I'm going to draw another kind of construction line.

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I'm going to go from that midpoint to that midpoint.

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I'm going to use that to mirror them.

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So now we've got before and I know this room is the same size as this one.

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So in this case, I can select all four copy from that base point.

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To the.

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Okay.

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And for this one, we want two lights.

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I'm just gonna.

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Let's see.

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We'll get these in the middle.

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So I'm going to do a line from there and then take a midpoint down.

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Remember to delete that one.

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And now I can copy that midpoint.

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And perpendicular onto that line so you can see how these objects snaps really help you lay things out.

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And then let's just delete these construction lines.

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And there we go.

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We have our room, our lights laid out now.

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Is that accurate?

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If you had an electrical guy or you'd actually taken measurements off these, they would tell you exactly

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where they were.

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In this case, it's not important.

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They're indicative.

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If this was an electrical light for an electrical technician, you would generally use something like

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a ceiling grid.

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So there'd be a ceiling grid in this room and you would show which squares it was going into or you'd

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if it wasn't a ceiling grid, you'd dimension it off the walls for electrical contractor.

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But we know how to do all that.

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We don't we don't need to go into all that detail.

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It's just indicative in this case.

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And a lot of the time when you're creating things in CAD, you will be working indicatively like this.

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And what you can do now, we can just copy it, use that as a base point and there we are.

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Now, I would say.

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There would probably be some lights down the corridor, but we haven't got them on our survey.

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Maybe they use free standing lamps or something like that.

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These two aren't in here either.

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So we'll just following our survey and that's it.

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So that's how we get our lights in.

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Again, don't worry about the colours for now.

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We'll do that under layers.

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But you can see we've got our blocks.

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Our light blocks.

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We've got our door blocks.

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We've got our window blocks, we've got our wall.

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So already we've got this floor layout done.

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It's basically drawn.

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Now it's just a case of tidying it up and applying some standards before we go into the kind of title

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block.

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And that's it.

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So creating those blocks allows you to do same geometry very quickly.

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And just these we've still used pretty much basic AutoCAD commands and we've already got our building

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layouts.

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So yeah, fairly simple.

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You could go away, you could do that, you could already you could measure up a building and draw it

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up.

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And in the next few chapters we're just going to look at tidying it up and apply it to some standards.