- [Instructor] In this chapter, we're going to take a look
at how we communicate our design intent.
So we have a new drawing for you,
GF, which stands for ground floor
and then -1031 Southeast Madison.
So it's the ground floor of a building
on 1031 Southeast Madison.
That's the location of the building.
Now, when you open up the drawing,
you can see that we are in the model tab
looking at the ground floor plan.
And the whole idea
is that we want to communicate this
quickly and easily using a title block
and viewports, et cetera.
We've touched on that previously in the course
but what I want to do now is again,
delve deeper so that you are aware
of the full workflow and process that you need to use.
So the first thing we need to do
is create a title block.
Now, as I've stressed
all the way through this course,
I often work in metric millimeters.
I'm going to be using
a metric millimeters drawing in this case,
Obviously, if you were working
in something like feet and inches or meters
the units would be subtly different
and perhaps even the drawing
and sheet sizes would be different as well.
We're going to be using an ISO A1
landscape orientation sheet.
So it's in landscape orientation
and it's an ISO A1 sheet size.
Now I need to draw that title block
in the model space first
and then get it across into my layout tab.
And then also set up a page set up and viewports
so that everything is scaled appropriately.
Let's create that title block first.
I'm going to zoom in
on a little bit of space here on the right.
So can you see, I'm getting right in
nice and tight there on the corner of my floor plan.
The reason being is I'm going to draw
the title block real size
in my metric millimeters model space
where everything is drawn real full world size anyway.
So there's the title block layer,
all set up and ready to go.
It's down near the bottom
of the layer dropdown menu on the layers panel.
I'm in the home tab on the ribbon.
I'm going to go over to the draw panel,
click on the flyout here and select rectangle.
I'm going to come into the drawing area,
click somewhere over here
for the first corner point of the rectangle
and drag upwards to the right.
Now the size of an ISO A1 sheet is 841.
So that's going to be the length like that.
And I'll type that in the box there.
I'll press the tab key
and the other value is 841 by 594.
So let's pop that in there like that,
and then tab again
and that's the actual size of your sheet
compared to as you can see
the real world size
of your floor plan in the model tab.
Once you've done that, press enter
and there is our title block.
It's very small, isn't it?
That's why we need to use scaling in viewports
to get that floor plan onto that sheet size.
I'd like you now just to zoom in.
So we'll zoom in a little bit here
on our title block.
We're just going to use a little bit of offsetting
and a little bit of trimming
and a little bit of text,
very quick and easy.
So I'm going to jump to the modify panel now.
There's the offset command there.
Come into the drawing area.
The offset distance is going to be 10
like so, and press enter.
We're going to select the rectangle,
click on it and move inwards.
So your purple rectangle is your original rectangle.
You want the orange offsetted rectangle
on the inside like that,
left-click to confirm.
We're then going to select
the inner rectangle this time again,
click on it, move inwards again
so that the orange is on the inside,
left-click to confirm.
Then press enter to finish your command,
the offset command.
We're then going to pop up here to explode,
there's explode there.
And I'm going to explode this rectangle
and this rectangle,
the two inner rectangles.
Press enter to confirm.
And then what we're going to do,
these are now lines as you can see,
there's one line there, one line there
one line there, and I need those to be lines
because I'm going to right-click now and erase them.
But I've also got lines
on the inner middle rectangle.
Can you see?
There are lines but the outer one
is still a polyline and it needs to be
'cause that's the outside extent of our sheet.
Another little offset now,
I'm going to click on offset here,
come into the drawing area
and type in 30 for our offset and enter.
And I'm going to offset,
I'll zoom in a bit so you can see this.
I'm going to offset that line just there,
left-click, move upwards for the offset,
left-click again, enter to finish.
Now we've got a little title bar
where we can actually add some text
to our title block.
Make sure that you're using,
in the annotation dropdown,
the title layout 10-millimeter text style.
There it is there.
And also make sure
that you change your layer now to title text.
And what we're going to do,
we're just going to place some single-line text,
some very simple single-line text.
So I'm going to click on the flyout here
on the annotation panel and single-line text.
Right-click and justify.
I'm going to use the left justification.
And then I'm going to come over here
to that endpoint snap there and left-click.
As I move away, can you see that it's only asking
for the rotation angle of the text
because the height of the text
is defined in the text style.
Press enter to accept the zero
which is horizontal text.
And there's our little cursor.
I'm just going to type in something like 1031
and then Southeast Madison like that.
And then I might put space, dash space
and then ground floor in capitals like that.
And then it's enter once, enter twice.
There's our bit of single-line text.
We're going to do the same on the other side now.
So again, we're going to come up to the annotation panel
click on the flyout and select single-line text.
This time it's a right-click, justify
and I'm going to select the right justification.
I'm going to go to the endpoint again, same workflow,
left-click on the endpoint snap,
rotation angle will be zero again for horizontal.
So just press enter to accept the zero.
And there's our little cursor there.
Now it's up to you.
You can put your name.
I'm just going to put LinkedIn Learning
like that and then enter once, enter twice.
And that should justify it
from the right nice and neatly.
We don't need that little line there anymore.
That can go.
So I'll just right-click and erase for that.
Because the bits of text
if you click on them, have their own grips
for setting out you'll notice like so.
There's the left-hand justification.
And in this case it keeps the left justification
but we've got our right justification as well.
Hit escape just to deselect the text.
Just roll out on the wheel a little bit
and pan down so that you can see
all of your title blocks so far.
So that's our title block.
We now need a little notes column
in the top right corner.
So we'll zoom in on the top right corner now
and pan down a little bit.
Change your text style,
so it's back up to the annotation flyout
and click on the styles here like so.
And this time you want
the notes layout 3.5 millimeters.
We're then going to come into the drawing area.
But before we do so,
we need to click here on the text flyout
and go multiline text.
There's our little ABC on the cross air
indicating that we're using multiline text.
That's how big your text actually is using that textile.
So I'm going to come up here a little bit,
try not to snap to your borders for your title block.
Click once, drag, and place your text
about there like that and click again.
So you've now specified the area
for your notes column using multiline text.
The multiline text editor kicks in on the ribbon.
Now make sure before you start typing
that you always click in the little text editing area.
You'll see your little pointer
turn to a little cursor, can you see that?
Click there like so.
Then I'm going to type NOTES in capitals like that
and then a colon,
and then I'm going to go and press enter.
I'm then going to go to bullets and numbering
up here in the paragraph panel.
I'll select numbered.
And there's my number there
but click back into the text editor, always do that.
And I'm just going to put in here
all dimensions in millimeters like that.
Put a full stop,
punctuation is always good in your notes column.
And then we'll put,
do not scale from this drawing
like so as you can see.
Now, the good thing is
you can also spell check your text in AutoCAD.
I'll show you that in a moment,
but what I can do in multiline text
is I can highlight the word notes there
and what I can do is I can make that bold
and I can underline it
so it highlights in the drawing.
You can then click on closed text editor like so
or you can just click away from the text
and there's your notes column.
If you zoom out slightly,
what we've done now is created
a very, very simple title block, like so.
And you'll notice that text
kind of goes a bit blurry.
That's because it's very small
and the more you zoom out,
can you see your text gets blurry
and then when you zoom back in
you can see it again.
That's one of the benefits of AutoCAD.
It kind of pixelates things
so that you can zoom in and out quickly.
So there's our very, very simple title block.
What we need to start thinking about now
is how do we get that into a layout tab?
How do we get our page set up working
so it knows it's using the right sheet size and so on.
And we're going to look at that
as we go through these videos
in this particular chapter.