Creation of Column Schedule and Drawing Template using AutoCad
Aim: To create the column schedule for the given figure:
Introduction: This drawing can be prepared by using different tools present in the AutoCAD like line,rectangle,text commands while specifying the desired length and the angle of the drawing which is given in the figure.
Procedure:
- Open the AutoCAD software.
- Type QNEW in the command line and then press Enter.
- Now type UN or Units in the command line and then press Enter.
- A diaoluge box appears on the screen. From that diaolouge box select type as "Architecture". In precision select 0'-0". Insertion scale as "Inches". Decimal in angle type and precision in zero "0". Press OK and then enter.
How to create the table:
- Create a rectangle by typing Rec or Rectangle in the command line and then press Enter.
- Create a rectangle of 60' X 20'.
- Now use the command "Explode" to explode the rectangle in single lines.
- Divide the rectangle 60' line into 10 columns and then again divide 10' line to 5 columns by sing offset command.
- Type O or offset in the command box and press Enter.
- Select the left side and give offset distance as 10' first and then again using the offset command give offset distance as 5'.
- Now create row at top and the bottom of 2' and 4' line respectively by using offset command.
- Type O or offset in the command box and press Enter.
- Select the top line and give offset distance as 2'. Again use the offset command select the bottom line and give offset distance as 4'.
- Now trim the all unwanted or unnecessary line by using trim command. Type Trim in the command line and then press Enter.
How to enter the text :
- We can enter the text in the table by using single line text from the text drop down menu.
- First of all specify the point of text from the drop down menu.
- And then specify the point of text.
- And specify the text height as 8" and the text angle as 0.
-Incase of the text "TERRACE TO MUMTY" give the text angle as 90 degree and then type the text.
- After entering the text,right click and select the properties - and then the list of properties will be displayed on the screen.
- Ensure that the text height should be 8" and justify as left.
- To change the style of text, type ST in the command box a dialouge box appears on the screen and from there select the text style. For this drawing we are using the text named as "romans.shx".
- Then insert the text that are just created and edit it into the required text in the respective rows and the columns.
- Now give the heading as Column Schedule.
How to draw the column sections:
(a) Drawing the column section C1 :
Given data from the table :
Columns of size 9" X 24". Having 20mm diameter reinforcement at 4 corners and 12mm diameter. 6 reinforcement bars connected with 8mm diameter stirrups.
- Firstly draw a rectangular using the rectangle tool.
- Type Rec or rectangle in the command line and then press Enter.
- Draw a rectangle of size 9" X 24". Specify a point click on the dimension in the command line or just type d in the command box. Then enter the length of the rectangle as 9" and width as 24".
- Draw the column outline after a cover of 40mm i.e, give the rectangle outer line a offset of 0.5" by using offset command.
- For using offset command type O or Offset in the command box and then press Enter.
- Now give the rectangle an offset of 0.5".
- Now explode the inner rectangle. For explode use explode command by typing Explode in the command line and press Enter.
- Now explode the inner rectangle so the the line can be selected seperately.
Drawing the reinforcement :
- Using circle command we can draw the reinforcement.
- For this type C or circle in the command line and then press Enter.
- Click on the tan tan radius option in the command line.
- Now select the left line as its one of its tangent and the top line as the another tangent.
- Give the radius as 10mm i.e, 0.4".
- Now using the mirror command create the reinforcement on the bottom of the left side of the column.
- For using mirror command type MI or Mirror in the command box and then press Enter.
- Now select the object.
- Give the mirror plane as the midpoint of the 2' line by object snap, midpoint ON. And click on NO for erase the source object.
- Divide the line containing the reinforcement by command Divide.
- For using the divide command, type DIV or divide in the command line and then press Enter.
- Select the object number of segments to be divided i.e, 4, and the line is divided into 4 equal segments using divide command.
- To make the point of division visible,type command "DDPTYPE" in the command line and then press Enter.
- A dialouge box appears on the screen and select the suitable point type apply.
- For the reinforcement of 12mm diameter,6bars.
- Create a circle by using circle command.
- To invoke the circle command,type C or Circle in the command line and then press Enter.
- Now specify the centre point for the circle.
- And enter the radius of the circle as 6mm i.e, 0.2".
- Now use copy command to copy the circle.
- To invoke the copy command type CO or Copy in the command line and then press Enter.
- Now select the base point as top point on the circle and placed it in the centre point of the point which is created by object snap.
- Put 3 circles on each divided point by using the copy command and then delete the point created.
- Create similar circle on the other side or we can say that on the right side of the column.And for doing that we have to use the mirror command to mirroring the objects which are present on the left side of the column.
- So to invoke the mirror command we type MI or Mirror in the command box and then press Enter.
- Select all the five circles which we had created.
- Specify the mirror plane from the middle of the 9" line and erase the source object.
- Now the mirror image is created.
Steps to draw stirrups:
- Connect the reinforcement of radius 6mm,1st row from the top,2nd row from the top and bottom and 3rd row from the bottom.
- Connect the lines as the top tangent of the two circles.
- Draw the rings by using arc tool by 3 point method and use mirror command for mirroring the objects.
- Use fillet command to fillet the corners of the column.
- Type fillet in the command line and then press Enter.
- Fillet tool has been invoked. Now use this tool to fillet the corners of the column and use radius as 0.5".
- Corners of the column has been filleted and then press Enter.
- Use Donut command to fill the circle.
- To invoke the donut command type DO or Donut in the command line and then press Enter.
- Now specify the inner diameter as 0.8" for 4 corner reinforcement and 0.5" for inside reinforcement.
- Now specify the centre for the donut, after given the centre point circles are filled.
(b) Drawing the column section C1a :
Given data from the table:
Column of size 9" X 24" having 16mm diameter 12 bars which are connected by 8mm diameter stirrups:
- Firstly draw a rectangular using the rectangle tool.
- Type Rec or rectangle in the command line and then press Enter.
- Draw a rectangle of size 9" X 24". Specify a point click on the dimension in the command line or just type d in the command box. Then enter the length of the rectangle as 9" and width as 24".
- Draw the column outline after a cover of 40mm i.e,0.5", give the rectangle outer line a offset of 0.5" by using offset command.
- For using offset command type O or Offset in the command box and then press Enter.
- Now give the rectangle an offset of 0.5".
- Now explode the inner rectangle. For explode use explode command by typing Explode in the command line and press Enter.
- Now explode the inner rectangle so the the line can be selected seperately.
Drawing the reinforcement :
- Using circle command we can draw the reinforcement.
- For this type C or circle in the command line and then press Enter.
- Click on the tan tan radius option in the command line.
- Now select the left line as its one of its tangent and the top line as the another tangent.
- Give the radius as 8mm i.e, 0.3".
- Now using the mirror command create the reinforcement on the bottom of the left side of the column.
- For using mirror command type MI or Mirror in the command box and then press Enter.
- Now select the object.
- Give the mirror plane as the midpoint of the 2' line by object snap, midpoint ON. And click on NO for erase the source object.
- Divide the line containing the reinforcement by command Divide.
- For using the divide command, type DIV or divide in the command line and then press Enter.
- Select the object number of segments to be divided i.e, 5, and the line is divided into 5 equal segments using divide command.
- Copy the reinforcement or circle and place it in the centre of the 4 points as here all the reinforcement are of same size.
- Mirror the circles to the right side by using mirror command.
- To invoke the mirror command type MI or Mirror in the comment box and then press Enter.
- Now select the all 6 circles or reinforcement,then draw the mirror plane as midpoint of the 9" line.
- And click on "NO" when they ask erase the source object.
Drawing stirrups:
- With the help of the line tool or we can say that the line command draw lines in the top and bottom of reinforcements to show the stirrups .
- To invoke the line command or tool type L or Line in the command line and then press Enter.
- Using Arc 3 point tool we can draw rings wherever is required.
- Now fillet the corners using fillet tool and give the radius for fillet as 0.3".
- With the help of "DO" command we can create donut.
- Just type DO or donut in the command line and then press Enter.
- Later on give the inner diameter as 0 and the outer diameter as 0.62".
(c) Drawing the column section C2 :
Given data from the table:
Column of size 9" X 24" having 20mm diameter bars and rest 12mm diameter 4 bars with 8mm diameter stirrups.
- Firstly draw a rectangular using the rectangle tool.
- Type Rec or rectangle in the command line and then press Enter.
- Draw a rectangle of size 9" X 24". Specify a point click on the dimension in the command line or just type d in the command box. Then enter the length of the rectangle as 9" and width as 24".
- Draw the column outline after a cover of 40mm i.e, give the rectangle outer line a offset of 0.5" by using offset command.
- For using offset command type O or Offset in the command box and then press Enter.
- Now give the rectangle an offset of 0.5".
- Now explode the inner rectangle. For explode use explode command by typing Explode in the command line and press Enter.
- Now explode the inner rectangle so the the line can be selected seperately.
Drawing reinforcement:
- Using circle command we can draw the 20mm reinforcement on the left corner.
- For this type C or circle in the command line and then press Enter.
- Click on the tan tan radius option in the command line.
- Select the circle and create mirror in the bottom left corner.
- Divide the line by Using divide tool.
- To invoke the divide command just type DIV or divide in the command line and then press Enter.
- Select the line which we have to divide in to equal parts and then press Enter.
- Now the line is divided into 5 segments and from this 4 points are created.
- Copy the reinforcement to the third and the fourth row.
- For copying the object we have to use copy command.
- And to invoke the copy command type CO or copy in the command line and then press Enter.
- Select the circle and place it in desired place.
- Mirror the copied circle and the top and the bottom circle to the right side.
- And for mirroring the object we need to use the mirror command.
- So to invoke the mirror command or tool we have to type MI or Mirror in the command line and just press Enter.
- Now they are asking for selection of the object.
- Select the object i.e, circle and the draw the mirror line towards the mid point.
- Create the circle of radius 0.23" and place it in the centre rest of the points created and mirror it as done in previous step.
Drawing stirrups:
- With the help of the line tool or we can say that the line command draw lines in the top and bottom of reinforcements to show the stirrups .
- To invoke the line command or tool type L or Line in the command line and then press Enter.
- Using Arc 3 point tool we can draw rings wherever is required.
- Now fillet the corners using fillet tool and give the radius for fillet as 0.4".
- With the help of "DO" command we can create donut.
- Just type DO or donut in the command line and then press Enter.
- Later on give the inner diameter as 0 and the outer diameter as 0.7" and 0.4" respectively.
- Mark "a" with single line text on side of 20mm diameter reinforcement for identification.
(d) Drawing the column section C2a :
- Firstly draw a rectangular using the rectangle tool.
- Type Rec or rectangle in the command line and then press Enter.
- Draw a rectangle of size 9" X 10". Specify a point click on the dimension in the command line or just type d in the command box. Then enter the length of the rectangle as 9" and width as 10".
- Draw the column outline after a cover of 40mm i.e, give the rectangle outer line a offset of 0.5" by using offset command.
- For using offset command type O or Offset in the command box and then press Enter.
- Now give the rectangle an offset of 0.5".
- Now explode the inner rectangle. For explode use explode command by typing Explode in the command line and press Enter.
- Now explode the inner rectangle so the the line can be selected seperately.
Draw the reinforcement step-by-step:
- Using circle command we can draw the reinforcement.
- For this type C or circle in the command line and then press Enter.
- Click on the tan tan radius option in the command line and press Enter.
- Select the two corners and give the radius as 8mm i.e, 0.3"
- Using mirror tool, mirror these to the other sides.
- To invoke the mirror tool type MI or Mirror in the command line and then press Enter.
- Then draw the lines joining the midpoint of each side, then with the help of the circle command.
- And to invoke the circle command type C or circle in the command line and then press Enter.
- After that click on the option tan tan radius.
- Now select the two sides as tangents and dive 0.3" as radius.
- Mirror these circles on the opposite side using the mirror command.
- Type MI or Mirror in the command line and then press Enter.
- Again draw the other side reinforcement as we done above.
- Using Arc 3 point tool we can draw rings wherever is required.
- Now fillet the corners using fillet tool and give the radius for fillet as 0.4".
- With the help of "DO" command we can create donut.
- Just type DO or donut in the command line and then press Enter.
- Later on give the inner diameter as 0 and the outer diameter as 0.6".
(e) Drawing the column section C3 :
Given data from the table:
Column of size 9" X 21" reinforcement of 16mm diameter 12 numbers and stirrups 8mm diameter.
Drawing column step-by-step:
- Firstly draw a rectangular using the rectangle tool.
- Type Rec or rectangle in the command line and then press Enter.
- Draw a rectangle of size 9" X 21". Specify a point click on the dimension in the command line or just type d in the command box. Then enter the length of the rectangle as 9" and width as 21".
- Draw the column outline after a cover of 40mm i.e, give the rectangle outer line a offset of 0.5" by using offset command.
- For using offset command type O or Offset in the command box and then press Enter.
- Now give the rectangle an offset of 0.5".
- Now explode the inner rectangle. For explode use explode command by typing Explode in the command line and press Enter.
- Now explode the inner rectangle so the the line can be selected seperately.
Drawing reinforcement step-by-step:
- Using circle command we can draw the 16mm reinforcement on the left corner.
- For this type C or circle in the command line and then press Enter.
- Click on the tan tan radius option in the command line.
- Select the two corner lines and give them a radius of 0.3".
- Mirror the circle to the 4 corners of the column.
- Using mirror command we can mirror the objects.
- For this we have to just type MI or Mirror in the command line and then press Enter.
- Select the circle,draw the mirror plane at the mid point of both the sides of the column.
- Divide the line by Using divide tool.
- To invoke the divide command just type DIV or divide in the command line and then press Enter.
- Select the line which we have to divide in to equal parts and then press Enter.
- Now the line is divided into 5 segments and from this 4 points are created.
- Copy the reinforcement to the third and the fourth row.
- For copying the object we have to use copy command.
- And to invoke the copy command type CO or copy in the command line and then press Enter.
- Select the circle and place it in desired place.
- Mirror the copied circle and the top and the bottom circle to the right side.
- And for mirroring the object we need to use the mirror command.
- So to invoke the mirror command or tool we have to type MI or Mirror in the command line and just press Enter.
- Now they are asking for selection of the object.
- Select the object i.e, circle and the draw the mirror line towards the mid point.
- Delete the points.
Drawing the stirrups step-bystep:
- With the help of the line tool or we can say that the line command draw lines in the top and bottom of reinforcements to show the stirrups .
- To invoke the line command or tool type L or Line in the command line and then press Enter.
- Now fillet the corners using fillet tool and give the radius for fillet as 0.3".
- With the help of "DO" command we can create donut.
- Just type DO or donut in the command line and then press Enter.
- Later on give the inner diameter as 0 and the outer diameter as 0.6".
Placing it in the column or table:
- Place each of the drawn columns in the respective table whic we create above.
- Use scale command. Type SC or Scale in the command line and then press Enter.
- Select the o bject.
- Select the base point and give it a scale factor as 4".
RESULT:
2. AIM: To create a window schedule using different AutoCAD tools.
INTRODUCTION: This drawing can be prepared by using different tools present in the AutoCAD like line,rectangle,text commands while specifying the desired length and the angle of the drawing which is given in the figure.
PROCEDURE:
Creating the table step-by-step:
- By using line command draw a rectangle of length 50' and width 12'.
- To invoke line command type L or Line in the command line and then press Enter.
- Ortho ON.
- Draw a line of 12' in vertically upward direction and then 50' in the positive X direction, and 12' in the vertically downward direction and then close and press enter.
- For using the divide command just type DIV or Divide in the command line and then press Enter.
- Doing this will invoke the divide command.
- Divide the 50' line into 5 equal parts i.e, 10' each.
- Now use offset command. For this type O or Offset in the command line and then press Enter.
- Now give the offset distance as 10' horizontally in the positive x-direction.
- Again using the divide tool,divide the 12' line into equal parts.
- Type DIV or divide in the command line and then press Enter.
- Divide the 12' line into 6 equal parts i.e, 2' each.
- Give the offset command, type O or offset in the command line and then press Enter.
- And give the offset distance as 2' downwards.
INSERTING TEXT:
- Select the single line text from the text drop down menu or just type DT in the command line and then press Enter.
- Now specify the start point of the text.
- Specify the point where we need to start the text.
- Now specify the text height as 8".
- Specify the rotation angle as 0 degree,because we need the text in the horizontal direction.
- Type the text which we need to insert and the press Enter.
- If we want to change the style of the text then just use command ST.
- And to invoke this command just type ST in the command line and then press Enter.
- Now select the font from the box here we are using the font style "romans.shx"
- If we want to change the property of the text then select the text and press the right click then the click on the properties option and from there we can change the or edit the properties according to our need.
- Enter "TYPE" , "WIDTH", "SILL" , "NOS" , "LOCATION" , in the first column and "W1A" , "W2" in the rows.
- We can copy the text and use the edit option to change the text by using copy command.
- Just type CO or Copy in the command line and then press Enter.
- Enter the given values which are given in the table, for fractional numbers enter the multiline text option.
- Select multiline from the drop down menu of the text, create a rectangular box to type the text.
- Now type the number in the first row 2'-5 1/2" then enter a space, the fraction will be stacked horizontally.
- In the location row text should be multiline and the size of the text needs to be changed. For this select the text and then right-click and then the properties- text height and change it to 6".
- Use grips to adjust the text box width and height to fit in the column.
RESULT:
3. AIM: To create the drawing template.
INTRODUCTION: This drawing can be prepared by using different tools present in the AutoCAD like line,rectangle,text commands while specifying the desired length and the angle of the drawing which is given in the figure.
PROCEDURE:
Create a table step-by-step:
- Create the left side of the table by using the line command.
- Type L or Line in the command line and then press Enter.
- Draw a line of 15' vertically in upward direction and 40' in positive X-direction.
- And again 15' in the downward direction and then close the command.
- Copy this rectangle and place it next to it and then copy both of them.
- Using copy commnd we can copy the rectangle, so just type CO or Copy in the command line and then press Enter.
- Now select the object and then select the base point and then select the point where we need to place the rectangle.
- Divide the 2nd column of table into two and 3rd column into 5 equal parts.
- For doing this we need to use the offset command, and for using the offset command we need to just simply write O or Offset in the command box and then press Enter.
- Now give offset distance as 3' and select the object and press the enter and then the line is divided into 2 parts.
- Also divide the 3rd column into 4 each of 10' by using the command offset.
- And to provoke the command just type O or Offset in the command line and then press Enter.
- After that trim the all unwanted lines by using the trim command.
- Type TR or Trim in the command line and then press Enter.
- This will invoke the trim tool and we can use this tool to trim the all unwanted lines.
- And now the table is created.
Inserting text step-by-step:
- Select multiline from the drop down pannel of text.
- Create the rectangular text box in which the text has to be written.
- After that just type the given data.
- Give the text height as 8".
RESULT:
4. AIM: To create list of drawing schedule.
INTRODUCTION: This drawing can be prepared by using different tools present in the AutoCAD like line,rectangle,text commands while specifying the desired length and the angle of the drawing which is given in the figure.
PROCEDURE:
Creating table step-by-step:
- Using the line tool we can draw the rectangular box as shown in the figure.
- For using line tool just type L or Line in the command line and then press Enter.
- Draw a rectangle of 102' X 83' dimension.
- Specify the first point.
- And then draw a line of 83' in positive y-direction and another line of 102' in the positive x-direction. And again draw a line of 83' in the downward direction and then close the command.
- Rectangle of dimension 102' X 83' is done.
- Draw the columns by using the offset command.
- And to invoke the offset command type O or Offset in the command line and then press Enter.
- Give the offset distance as 10', 32' and 60' respectively from the left side.
- Now create the row by again using the offset command by giving the distance of 3' , 5' and 3' from the top line of the rectangle.
- Now trim the all unwanted lines by using offset command.
- Type O or Offset in the command line and then press Enter.
- Now trim the all unwanted lines.
Inserting the text step-by-step:
- With multiline option from the text drop down menu.
- Create a rectangular box in the first row and type "Project" with the text height 1'-8" and use romans.shx as font style.
- In the 2nd row,using the multiline text type "LIST OF ARCHITECTURAL DRAWING" with text height as 2'-1" and use romans.shx as font style.
- In 3rd row type "NO", "DRAWING NO" AND "DESCRIPTION",in the respective columns with multiline text with the height of 1'-8" and as for the font style use the same as above.
Creating the rows:
- Using offset command we can create the rows.
- Type O or offset in the command line and then press Enter.
- Create rows of height 3' so give the offset distance as 3' and create 24 rows.
Inserting text:
- Select multiline text and create the text box,with the text height as 1'-8".
- Type the data in each row and column which are given in the table.
- In the NO column, type the numbers from 1 to 24.
RESULT:
5. AIM: To create the beam detail.
INTRODUCTION: This drawing can be prepared by using different tools present in the AutoCAD like line,rectangle,text commands while specifying the desired length and the angle of the drawing which is given in the figure.
PROCEDURE:
- Draw cross section of with height 4' in thickness 9'(wall thickness).
- By using line tool we can draw the line.
- Type L or line in the command line and press Enter.
- Draw a line of 4' in the positive y-direction and 9' in the positive x-direction and 4' in the downward direction and then close the command
- From the top line give an offset of 9",which marks the ground level.
- Type O or offset in the command line and then press Enter.
- Give the offset distance as 9".
- Then give the offset from the 9" line of 3".
- For this type O or offset in the command line and then press Enter.
- Give the offset distance as 3".
- Select the 9" line to give the offset.
- Hatch the portion of brick and concrete and trim off the line of ground level from the c/s of the beam.
Inserting of text:
- Select multi leader from the drop down pannel and write the tect with the text height as 2".
- Now type the text "TOP LEVEL +9" at the top of the 9" line,type "GROUND LEVEL +/00" at the 3" ground line.
- Type "BRICKWORK" using multileader.
- Type "SECTION 1" at the bottom of the figure using multiline text with text height 2".
RESULT:
