Right.
So we've we've already created our building layout.
Now we've got our model and we've put it on the correct layers.
So we've got some CAD standards going on there and that's it really, in terms of this beginner's course
and creating your architectural model, you should have all the necessary skills to create a building
layout to scale to the correct size and using whatever dimensions, whether that's imperial or metric.
You know, how to create blocks, you know how to hatch, you know how to then put those objects on
a layer, create a layer, specify a color, that kind of thing.
So what we have now here is a good CAD model, and this is better than I see from people who have been
using CAD for a long time.
People don't use layers.
People put everything on layer zero.
They don't have all the different colors without using by layer as much.
It's some drawings are a complete mess.
And if you can just follow these simple rules, even if you were creating a building many times this
size, just follow those simple rules and you'll be creating good CAD files.
So.
We're going to move forward now and turn this from a model.
We're going to create a drawing from it.
So what we have here in model space, the actual building, all draw an actual size.
This is what would be known as a model.
Okay.
And that's kind of a different differentiation between a model and a drawing.
A drawing is what you print out and give to someone.
It's it's to scale.
It has the text, the dimensions, that kind of thing.
This is a model.
This is your building to actual size.
And you could do various things with this.
And you'll see when we get on to the kind of different viewport stuff, how powerful this can be and
why you would use paper space and model space.
So let's go into the layout tab.
AutoCAD defaults with two layout tabs.
Don't worry about just use layout one.
Okay.
You'll see.
Our background has turned into the white background showing that we're in paper space and we have a
window, a viewport window here that you can click on and it's just a generic one that you get when
you start AutoCAD.
Okay, So we're going to we're going to bring in a title block and we're going to change this.
The first thing I want to do is turn our grid off.
Now, we've been working away quite happily with this grayed out grid in my background.
It doesn't really get in the way.
It's of no use really to us, but it doesn't really get him away.
But it does tend to get in the way when you got your white background in paper space.
So I'm going to turn it off, but I need to turn it off in model space.
But I can do that via paper space.
And I know that sounded really complicated, but let me show you what I mean.
I can double click inside the viewport.
And I could now select parts of a model.
I could delete things.
I can edit this model.
I haven't got in.
In model space, I'm still in my layout tab.
I'm in paper space, but I'm actually working on my model.
And that's because we're in something here called tiled model space.
And all that means is we're looking through the viewport window into model space while still being in
paper space.
Okay.
It's, um.
It probably did sound complicated.
Don't worry about it.
Just remember, there's paper space.
Which is this where you.
You can't select them because we're in paper space.
There's model space where everything's actual size and you can't even see your paper.
But there is this tiled model space which allows you to go between the two.
Okay.
And it will become obvious why you need that later on when we start doing different drawings.
But for now what I want to do is just double click into it and turn off the grid by selecting that and
then double click to get out of it.
Just double click off to the side.
Okay, Because it is annoying that grid is annoying when you're in paper space.
So we're going to bring in a title block.
And what I want you to do is go to open.
Okay.
And in your resources folder, you should have this error form three D, which is kind of a standard
title block.
There's one in inches and then another one is in millimeters.
Okay, So I'm keep with the same whatever you've been working in, I'm working in millimeters on this
drawing.
I'm going to open the millimeters title block.
And this is kind of a standard title block just a generic one as an example.
But you'll see this is why you can have multiple tabs because we have an A01 and these are different
sizes.
We have a, a one, a two, a three, and then a four vertical and horizontal.
And these are all in their own tabs.
So what I'm going to do is go to this A4 horizontal, okay?
And I'm going to draw a wind around everything.
To select it all.
And I'm going to go to the the copy, but not this copy the clipboard copy to copy it to my clipboard.
And then I'm going to go to our building layout and make sure I'm in model space.
I'm going to pull this down and say paste to original coordinates.
Okay.
And it looks like nothing's happened, but if I double click my middle wheel to zoom extents, there
we go.
We have a title block in our paper space.
Now, this kind of generic
viewport that is on the AutoCAD default, we can use the grips.
Now I'm just going to click that corner and I'm going to I'm going to put it in that corner there.
And then this corner I'm going to put into the.
So I've added it to our viewport, but nothing's there because we haven't we haven't actually moved
to the drawing yet.
So by double clicking inside it, okay, I'm going to get our drawing back in the center of the screen,
back in the center of a window, I'm going to double click my middle wheel, which will zoom extents
and now I can specify an actual scale.
So let's try 1 to 100 and that looks perfect.
So I'm just going to use a middle wheel pan to get that centered and I'm going to click double click
out here to go to put us back into paper space.
So you can see this is the reason we have this extra tailed model space here.
We have our our model here we have paper space, but without a model space, there's no way of seeing
how they look together, if that makes sense.
We can edit our title block here.
We can move our title block.
Okay, We can move that where we want, but.
We don't want to be moving things in model space to try and get them into the right place in paper space.
All we need to do is double click inside and we can use this kind of viewing method tiled model space
to get things looking right.
So that's why you have that there.
Now one thing people think when they see this, my white paper is wrong.
Something's gone wrong here.
Nothing's wrong, as we've said in the core module.
All that's happened is until you print for the first time, AutoCAD doesn't know what size this needs
to be.
So I'm going to go to print and I'm going to select.
A pdf any of the PDFs will do.
You might not have the same as me depending what Adobe software you've got, but you should have an
AutoCAD pdf.
Okay.
It doesn't really matter paper size.
Well, I used an A4 landscape title block.
So I'm going to select A4 size.
What to plot?
I want to plot.
Well, in this case, we only have one thing on the drawing on this sheet, we have that title block.
So I'm going to go extents which will print the extents.
I'm just going to scale it to fit just.
You can see it's pretty much 1 to 1.
In fact, I'm going to go to extents I'm going to center the plot and I'm going to I want it printing
1 to 1 actual size.
Okay.
And this gives you a little preview of that just to show you that it's going to fit.
We want it landscape.
Everything else will leave as it is.
And if I press okay, it's going to print.
I don't want to print.
I just want to apply those settings.
So I'll click apply to layout.
And now what will happen if I cancel that?
You can see it's lined up nicely now in our white space and on our paper and that's looking good.
So now we have a title block in here and we have our drawing and we could move this about to get it
to the right position.
And once we've got it right, we can left click out here.
And now when we pan, we pan the whole thing.
Okay, so all we need to do now is double click on these.
Call it whatever you want.
Okay.
If you need more space, you can drag that along.
It's just.
So you can edit this how you want.
You can put your initials in the date revision.
You can give it a draw number if you need to, but that's how you would do your title block.
Okay.
In the next chapter, we're going to look at adding some actual text to show what this is and mark it
up.