Creating a Layout, Section and Elevation with dimensions using AutoCad

Aim:

Create the Plan and Sections as shown in the Figures. Use proper dimension techniques and dimension styles.

• FLOOR PLAN

Use dline to create a double line using straight line segments and arcs.

Use rectang to create a rectangular polyline.

• Draw external walls

New drawing. In Start Drawing templates, click on the New button in the top toolbar and select the Tutorial i-Arch template.

Mspace. In the new drawing, you start out in the paper space. Click Paper in the status bar at the bottom of the screen to switch the model space. In the model space, a UCS icon displays instead of a triangle.

Rectang. In the ribbon, click the Home tab. In the Draw panel, click Rectangle. Specify the lower left and upper right points of the rectangle with your mouse to form the outside of the exterior wall.

Offset. In the Modify panel, click Offset. Specify 9" by typing 9 and pressing Enter. Select the rectangle.

Specify an inside point to create the other side of the wall. Then, hit Enter to escape the Offset command.

• Draw internal walls

There is no double-line tool on the ribbon, so enter DLINE and press Enter to start the command.

Type w and press space for the Width option.

Enter 4.5 to specify a width of 4.5" for the interior walls.

Right-click and select Osnap Overrides, then select Nearest.

Click to specify a point on the inside rectangle of the wall on the East side.

Click to specify a point inside the building.

Right-click and select Osnap Overrides, then select Perpendicular.

Click on the inside of the South outer wall. Press Enter to escape the dline command.

• Draw a simple window

Osnap. Click the small down arrow for the object snap menu in the status bar. Click on Midpoint, Nearest, and Perpendicular to enable these modes.

Line. In the ribbon, click Line. Draw a small 9" line through the outer wall on the East side.

Copy. Select the line you just created. In the ribbon, click Copy. For the base point, click on the selected line.

Displacement. Move your mouse to specify a direction along the wall, but do not click. Type in 48 and press Enter.

Glass pane. In the ribbon, click Line. Click to specify the Midpoint of one of the lines you created, then click to specify the Midpoint of the second line.

Press Esc to stop the line command. Your simple window is complete.

• Dimension the window

Dimension. In the ribbon, in the Annotation pane, click Dimension

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Place the dimension. Specify both sides of the window by clicking on the outside edges with your mouse, then dragging away from the wall.

• COLUMN

Same for the column

First type REC and press enter draw the rectangle of same size as that in the drawing.