So now I want to look at some layout work.
And in this chapter it's going to become a lot of things we've gone through which may be a bit hazy
or you don't quite understand why we're doing it.
This chapter will probably solidify a lot of those things and you'll realize why we do it that way,
especially things like viewports and paper space and model space and dimension styles, that kind of
thing.
So we've got our building layout.
If this was a rather than just one drawing, this is going to be a kind of a package of drawings.
We're going to have a main layout, which we've done here, and then we're going to have a drawing for
each room.
And remember, when I say drawing, I don't mean model.
I mean as in a drawing sheet and text and dimensions.
Okay.
But what we don't want really is lots of different models.
And this is when people aren't using paper space and model space correctly, this is where they come
unstuck.
Because if you are in model space and you've just scaled up your title block and put it around here
if you want to show.
A drawing that just shows this room.
You got to do another one.
You got to do a new model for every drawing.
And if something changes, you have to change that in every model or drawing that you do.
Whereas this way, the correct way, paper, space and model space, you don't need to do that.
And I'll show you what I mean by that now.
So we have these layout tabs we have to which the default of this drawing was to have two tabs.
Okay.
To make things easier, I'm going to select this tab two, I'm going to right click and I'm going to
go delete and it will say it will be permanently deleted.
Yes.
So you can right click and you can get a few different.
Options for these, But we're going to go to rename and we're going to call this full plan Enter.
Okay, Now I'm going to right click it and I'm going to go to this move or copy.
So rather than create another tab, insert the title block, fill it in with maybe the date and the
address and all that.
Again, we don't need to.
All we need to do is click on, create a copy, move to the end, click okay.
And what it's done, it's done an exact copy of that tab, but it's new.
The title block and the text are all new.
So if we if we were to change this title, for instance, to Room zero one layout and let me pull that
out there, maybe delete that.
Okay.
Then this one hasn't changed.
So we could have this that says full building layout.
I'll get rid of that and I'll get rid of that.
So we've got building one full building layout and then here and let me rename this right click, rename
room zero one here we've got a tab which is building one, room zero one layout.
But it's still showing the whole building.
I'm going to delete these dimensions now and this piece of text I'm going to delete and I'm going to
delete these room names and this dimension.
I'm going to take this and I'm just going to move it out to the side just for now.
Okay?
So we click into the tiled model space and now our pan.
So this room 101 is kind of in the center.
And this, this whole layout was a scale of 1 to 100.
So one meter.
On the drawing equals 100m in real life, basically, you don't really need to think about it.
It's just 1 to 100.
The scales are down here.
I'm going to try and change this to 1 to 50 and let's see if we can get anything better.
One to 1 to 40 isn't a great scale.
1 to 30.
I've never used 1 to 20.
Okay.
I'm going to go with this 1 to 40 just because it kind of fits nicer and I'm going to click outside.
So we've zoomed in to the room.
It does look a bit odd that we've got We've also got most of this room and there's so another thing
I'm going to do, I'm going to select the viewport now.
The viewport was a rectangle.
If you remember, we put the rectangle here.
Following this line when I tried to click that viewport.
If I bring up our properties, it will tell us what we're clicking.
I'm actually clicking the polyline of the title block.
I want this viewport window we put on here.
We know it's there.
Okay.
But I can't click it.
In AutoCAD.
If you imagine a lot of the time, you end up with lines on top of each other.
And when you just click it, AutoCAD doesn't know which line you want to click.
If the lines are actually on top of each other, one line will be classed as as on top in AutoCAD view.
And when you select it, that's a line that will be selected.
Now, it might not be the line that you want to be on top, but you can change that.
And the way you do that, you click on the object right click and you can go to this draw order.
Okay, so I've clicked the polyline, which is part of the title block.
I can send it to the back.
So let's say you had five objects on top of each other.
I could just send this right to the back, or I could send it underneath another object.
So if there were lines crossing each other, I can select another object and bring one underneath.
In this case, I'm just going to send it to the back.
That's the easiest way.
And now when I click again, you'll see it selects a viewport because now the viewport is sitting above
that line.
So if ever you, if ever you click in a line and it's selecting something else instead and you want
the object beneath it, you can use that draw order.
Here and you can bring objects up and to the back.
So now we've got our viewport selected.
I'm going to use grips and I'm going to drag them in.
And what I want to do is just have the room that we're concerned with something like that.
Much in my drawing.
So now I've got a drawing, which is room zero one.
I don't actually want this square shown, so I'm going to go to layer properties and you can see these
are our layers we created earlier.
These ones.
These are just part of a tower block.
So these came in.
When you bring in something, it brings in the layers as well.
But I'm just going to create a new layer and I'm going to call it viewport for viewport, okay?
And I'm going to turn it off and then I'm going to select this and I'm going to put it on the viewport
layer.
Oops, like that.
And it will save a current layer will be turned off.
We don't want it as a current layer.
So I'm going to select this and I'm going to put it on the viewport layer, viewport layer, and it
will say that it's been moved to a frozen layer.
Just to let you know, that's fine.
But now you can see what we have here is room one and I'm going to move this back in.
Okay, so now we have a drawing for room one and we have a drawing for full plant and we can put dimensions
on here now.
But refer just to the room.
Now I change.
I did change the dimensions of style to demonstrate something.
So let's go back to building style.
Okay.
And.
So now we'll put dimensions on that.
Just relate to this room.
Maybe something like that.
And this is a room one layout and we can save that.