- [Tutor] We're staying in our ground floor plan
Rev2 DWG file.
We're going to take a look now
at some other drafting tools in AutoCAD.
We're going to look at points and we're going to look at donuts.
Now, when I say donuts, it's obviously nothing to eat here.
It's a donut geometrical shape. So apologies for that.
You might have got excited and got some coffee in,
but the donuts that we are going to use are geometric ones
not ones that are edible, unfortunately.
So we're going to go to the layer drop down first
in the layers panel.
And we're going to go up into the layers panel here
and basically scroll all the way to the top
and click on the zero.
We're going to use layer zero for these.
It's quick and easy and layer zero is basically
a different color and it's just the default layer.
So we're going to create some points along this line here.
Now, the reason we're going to do that,
is we're going to basically create some bicycle parking bays
so that people can cycle to work
and drop their bicycles in the landscaped area,
lock them up, pop in through this door here
into the building.
Now, what we want to do is we want to divide
this particular lineup into a group of segments.
Now to do that, we need to use AutoCAD points.
So on the home tab on the ribbon,
we're going to go to the utilities, fly out here,
click on it and pin it open.
And you'll notice we have a point style option there.
Click on it and you can pick a point style.
Now the point style is normally just this tiny little dot
which if I placed it down this line,
I wouldn't be able to see them.
Now the actual node object snap is this one here,
it's this style.
So what I can do is I can select a point style
that kind of represents the node snap that will appear
when I'm using object snaps.
So let's go with that one there, like so.
Point size is 5% relative to screen.
So what that means is, no matter when I zoom in or zoom out,
it's always going to be 5% of the size relative to the screen.
If you set the size in absolute units,
when you zoom right out from the drawing,
they're going to get much smaller.
So I always use the relative setting there.
So that particular point style,
5% set size relative to screen
and then I'm just going to click on okay, like so.
Now when I do that, what you'll find is
that I can actually start using my point styles
in different ways.
So using the layer zero,
I'm now going to go over to the draw panel here,
unpin the utilities panel that can go back into the ribbon
and I'm going to click on the fly out here on the draw panel,
click on the pin, and I've got two options.
I can either divide or I can measure.
I'm going to use divide in this case, click on divide
and I'm going to select the object I want to divide like so.
There it is.
I'm going to enter the number of segments I want
going down that vertical line.
And I'm going to say, I want 10 segments.
When I press enter, you'll notice there's my points
using that point style that I selected earlier.
So the benefit is these points are on a separate layer
so I can freeze this layer now.
So if I go to a different layer now, perhaps,
and let's say I go to a floor layer, for example
I will go back to the zero layer in a moment.
But what I can do is I can now click here and slide up there
and I can freeze the zero layer and the points disappear.
When I click on the snowflake again
they come back again like so.
So that means that I can put them on a separate layer.
Now I would normally put them on their separate own layer
and I'm not going to worry about that right now.
I'll just hit a escape to lose the layer,
drop down menu and go back here and slide up the layer menu.
Make sure that I've got zero selected
as the current drafting layer.
Now, what I'm going to do is just draw a line
from one snap here, coming outwards,
probably by about a couple of meters to specify each bay.
And then I can use the copy selection command
to basically copy it from point to point.
Now, what I am going to do
is I'm going to go to layer properties now
and I'm going to start creating some layers.
I need to start thinking about this
and put in objects on the appropriate layers.
So what I'm going to do, I'm going to create a new layer
in the drawing and that new layer
is going to be called bike bays like so.
There's bike bays there. I'm going to give it a color.
So I'll click on the color box there and what I'll do,
I'll give it a magenta color that color there, magenta.
And I'll okay that.
I'll then click on the little green tick here
in the layer properties manager,
that makes it the current drafting layer
and then I can close the layer properties manager.
Now, let's have a think about that for a minute.
Let's have a think about what else we might need there.
I'm going to create another new layer
and I'm going to call it bike bays and then a dash
and then it's going to be SO points, setting out points
like so, and they're my points where I've divided that line.
So I will make them the same color as well.
So I'll just press enter for that layer too.
Now you'll see why I'm going to do this in a moment
'cause I want them on a set at layer.
So I'm going to close the layer properties manager.
What I can also do is unpin the draw panel,
and then I'm going to select each of these points here first,
before I put the bike bays in.
There we go like that.
And then I'm going to go to my layer drop down
and we need to look for B.
Obviously these will start with A,
there's bike bays and SO points there.
So you want bike bays SO points and it puts those points
on a separate individual layer of their own.
Now that's important because we need to be able
to freeze that layer in a moment.
Hit Escape to deselect them
and then you make sure that you go
and use your bike bays layer, not the SO points layer,
but the bike bays layer.
And then we're going to draw a line.
So we're going to go over to the line command
and I'm going to snap to this point here
that I've created, this magenta point.
Now, it's a node snap that we're going to be using.
So it might be worth jumping down.
Here's the fly out for your object snaps
and switching node on.
So there's a tick next to it.
Then click on the little fly out arrow
and then I can draw a line, there's the node snap,
left click, come horizontally to the left
using your polar tracking and type in 2000.
2000 millimeters or two meters enter and then enter again.
Now the good thing is,
because we've got the node snap switched on
in our object snaps, I can now select this line,
right click on it and go to copy selection.
And then I just go node snap there.
And then I just snap down to each node,
clicking each time to place a line on each node like that
and then enter to finish.
So there's our little bike bays
all set up in our little landscaped area.
Now those points, if I zoom in and out, if I double click
on the wheel to zoom extent, you'll see they look smaller.
If I type regen and press enter to regenerate the drawing,
can you see they're bigger again?
They're always 5% of the screen size relative to the screen.
I don't want to be able to see them though.
So I'm going to click on the layer drop down,
bike bays SO points.
I'm now going to click on that little sun symbol
to freeze them.
And as you can see, they disappear.
They haven't been deleted. They just disappear.
Hit escape a couple were times to lose
the layer dropdown menu
and you've now got your bike bays set out nice and neatly
using those points that we created.
We're now going to take a quick look at the donut command.
So I'm going to come down to the bottom left corner
of the drawing,
going to zoom right in on the bottom left corner here
where the walls are and where the grid lines are.
And you can see that we've got an intersecting couple
of grid lines there, and we've got a corner of the building.
I want the corner of the building to have
its own setting out point.
So what we're going to do,
we're going to go to layer properties
and we're going to create a new layer
and this new layer's just going to be called setting out points
like so.
Press enter and I'm going to give that layer a color
which is going to be red.
And then I'm going to click on, okay, like so.
It's using a continuous line type, which is fine
and it's called setting out points, select the layer,
click on the green tick
to make it the current drafting layer.
Close the layer properties manager.
And then what we're going to do,
we're going to go to the draw panel again
and click on the fly out.
So we just need to make sure that we click
on that fly out at the bottom there like that.
And there's the donut command right there.
Click on donut and come into the drawing area.
Now, ask for the inside diameter of the donut.
At the moment it's 0.5 which is actually 0.5 millimeters.
It's going to be a little bit small for this drawing.
So we need an inside diameter of the donut.
I'm going to go with, let's go with about 100 there and enter.
And then the outside of the diameter of the donut
will go for 200.
Press enter to confirm
and there's our little donut floating around.
I'm just going to pop that right
on the corner of the building there and click.
And there's my little setting out point,
enter to finish, that's basically a donut in AutoCAD.
It's a flat 2D geometric donut.
Not one that you can eat I'm afraid,
but again, what we can do there is we can go
to a different layer on the layer dropdown.
So if I slide all the way up and make layer zero
the current drafting layer again
and then click on the layer dropdown again,
come down to S for setting out points
and what we'll do is we'll click
on that little sun symbol layer that freezes the layer
for the moment.
Hit escape a couple of times to deselect the menu
and you can see the setting out point has disappeared.
If I now double click on the wheel to zoom extents,
what I can do is I can go back to those two layers
if I wanted to, go into the layer drop down.
As you can see, if I come down, there's the two snowflakes.
I can click on the snowflakes at any time
and bring those layers back if I need to.
I don't need to at the moment, but if I need them,
I can obviously thaw them out at any time.
I'll hit escape now just to lose the layer dropdown menu.
And that covers our points and our donuts
as our other drafting tools in AutoCAD.