Creation of Column Schedule and Drawing Template using AutoCad

CREATION OF COLUMN SCHEDULE AND DRAWING TEMPLATE USING AUTOCAD 

Introduction of Tools:  

                     To create a Column schedule and to draw Template, the main tools used in AutoCAD are Line, Text, Annotations etc., 

LINE: 

• Command used is ‘L’ or line. It can be easily evoked from ribbon, tool bar and menu bar 
• It is the most common and widely used command 
• It is drawn by specify the starting point and endpoint using the cursor on the workspace or drawing area 

ANNOTATION OBJECTS: 

• Annotation objects include dimensions, notes, and other types of explanatory symbols or objects commonly used to add information to your drawing.  

• Annotation objects provide information about a feature, such as the length of a wall, the diameter of a fastener, or a detail callout. Typically, annotation objects are scaled differently than the views of the drawing, and depend on the scale of how they should appear when plotted.  
• You can control the method that an annotation object is scaled by defining the object either as non-annotative or annotative.  
• Non-annotative objects, require a fixed size or scale that is calculated based on the scale used to plot the drawing.  
• Annotative objects automatically adjust to display uniformly at the same size or scale regardless of the scale of the view. 

ANNOTATION SCALES: 

• Annotation scale is used to determine text height or the overall scale of an annotation object.  
• The approach used to calculate an annotation scale depends on whether the object is placed in model space or on a layout.  
• When annotation objects are created in model space, the following must be considered:  
• Drawing or plot scale if plotting from model space.  
• Viewport scale of a layout viewport if plotting from a paper space layout.  

• The text height or scale of an annotation object in model space can be set to a fixed text height or be controlled by assigning the object an annotation scale. Annotation objects assigned a fixed text height or object scale remain proportionate in size to the current plot or viewport scale.  
• If the annotative property of an annotation object is enabled, the text height or scale of the annotation object adjusts based on the current drawing annotation or layout viewport scale with the result that it will remain at the same size automatically.  
• Annotation objects created in paper space on a layout should be created at full size because layouts are commonly plotted at a 1:1 scale. For example, text created with a height of 1/8” in paper space will be output at 1/8” unless a scale other than 1:1 is used to plot the layout. 

TEXT: 

• There are two types of Text – Single line and Multiline Text 

Single line Text:  

• You can use single-line text to create one or more lines of text, where each text line is an independent object that you can move, format, or otherwise modify.  
• Right-click in the text box to select options on the shortcut menu. While you are in the TEXT command:  
• Click elsewhere in a drawing to start a new set of rows of single-line text  
• Press Tab or Shift+Tab to move forward and back between the sets of single-line text  

• Press Alt and click a text object to edit a set of text lines  
• Once you leave the TEXT command, these actions are no longer available. 

Multiline Text:  

• For longer notes and labels with internal formatting, use multiline text.  
• Click Home tab-Annotation panel-Multiline Text.  

• Specify opposite corners of a bounding box to define the width of the multiline text object.  
• If the ribbon is active, the Text Editor contextual tab displays.  
• If the ribbon is not active, the Text Formatting toolbar displays.  
• Note: The MTEXTTOOLBAR system variable controls the display of the Text Formatting toolbar.  
• Specify the initial formatting.  

• To indent the first line of each paragraph, drag the first-line indent slider on the ruler. To indent the other lines of each paragraph, drag the hanging indent slider.  
• To set tabs, click the ruler where you want a tab stop.  
• To change the current text style, select the desired text style from the drop-down list.  
• Enter the text.  
• Note: While typing, the text may be displayed horizontally and at a legible size.  

• To change individual characters, words, or paragraphs, highlight the text and specify the formatting changes.  
• Note: SHX fonts do not support boldface or italics.  
• To save your changes and exit the editor, use one of the following methods: On the Text Editor ribbon contextual tab, in the Close panel, click Close Text Editor.  

1. AIM: 

                    To create a column schedule using AutoCAD as shown in the figure.   

Procedure: 

• Initially set the units as Engineering (feet and inches) 
• There are five columns as shown in figure i.e. is C1, C1a, C2, C2a, C3 
• The column C1 contains 4 no's of 20mm dia bars and 6 no.s of 12mm dia bars; column C1a contains 12 no's of 16mm dia bars; column C2 contains 8 no's of 20mm dia bars; column C2a contains 8 no's of 16mm dia bars; column C3 contains 12 no's of 16mm dia bars;
• Stirrups are having bar dia of 8mm placed at a c/c spacing of 3” near the ends and 8” at the middle 

• First, we create a table by drawing a rectangle of 60’x20’ and then explode it 
• By using offset command: offset the 20’ line by taking offset at a distance of 5’ and then offset the 60’ line at a distance of 4’ from the bottom and 2’ from the top 
• Trim off the extra line using trim command 
• Now we enter the text line in the table by using single line text from the text drop down menu 
• Specify the point of text 8” and text angle as 0 degree 
• After entering the text, right click and select properties then list of properties will be shown and ensure that the text height is 8” and make justify as left 
• By using ‘ST’ command we can change the style of the text and select the font name a “romans.shx” 
• Insert all the text on the respective rows and columns 
• Give the heading as column schedule 

A) For column C1 to draw a rectangle of 9”x24” having 20mm dia reinforcement at 4 corners and 12mm dia 6 reinforcement bars in between connected by 8mm stirrup 

• Now we draw a rectangle using rectangle command with dimensions in the command box 
• By using offset command: give an offset distance of 0.5” which will be the cover of concrete 
• Explode the inner rectangle using explode command 
• Now we draw the reinforcements 
• By using circle command: selecting tan tan radius and give radius of 0.4” 
• Using the mirror command create the reinforcement on the bottom left side of column by giving plane as the midpoint of the 2’ line and click on NO for erase source object 
• Now for the reinforcement of 12mm dia bars 6 in numbers 
• Create a circle of radius of 0.2” using circle command 
• Now copy the circle using the top of the circle as the base point and place it on the points created by object snap 
• Place all the 3 circles on each divided point and then delete the points created by object snap 
• Create the similar circles on the right side by using the mirror command 
• Now we draw the stirrups: 
• Connect the reinforcement 6mm with 1st row and 2nd row from top and bottom and the 3rd row from the bottom 
• Connect them as tangents of two circles  
• Now fillet the corners of the column with radius as 0.5” 
• Now using the donut command fill the circles 
• Specify the inner dia as 0 and outer dia as 0.8” for the corner reinforcement and 0.5” for the inside reinforcement 
• Specify the center of donut and fill the circles 
• Mark “a” for in between reinforcement to indicate it as 12mm diameter 

 B) Now for drawing column C1a  of 9”x24” having 16mm dia of 12 reinforcement bars in between connected by 8mm stirrup 

• Now we draw a rectangle using rectangle command with dimensions in the command box 
• By using offset command: give an offset distance of 0.5” which will be the cover of concrete 
• Explode the inner rectangle using explode command 
• Now we draw the reinforcements 
• By using circle command: selecting tan tan radius and give radius of 0.3” 
• Using the mirror command create the reinforcement on the bottom left side of column by giving plane as the midpoint of the 2’ line and click on NO for erase source object 
• Now by using the divide command: divide the 2’ line into 5 segments 
• To make the points visible type “DDTYPE” in the command box and apply a suitable point 
• Now copy the circle using the top of the circle as the base point and place it on the points created by object snap 
• Place all the 4 circles on each divided point and then delete the points created by object snap 
• Create the similar circles on the right side by using the mirror command 
• Now we draw the stirrups: 
• Connect the reinforcement by using line command for the 2nd and 4th row on top and 3rd and 5th row on bottom 
• Connect them as tangents of two circles  
• Now fillet the corners of the column with radius as 0.3” 
• Now using the donut command fill the circles 
• Specify the inner dia as 0 and outer dia as 0.62”  
• Specify the center of donut and fill the circles 

 C) Now for drawing column C2  of 9”x24” having 20mm dia of 8 reinforcement bars as shown in figure “a” and rest 12mm dia 4 bars with 8mm dia stirrup in between connected by 8mm stirrup 

• Now we draw a rectangle using rectangle command with dimensions in the command box 
• By using offset command: give an offset distance of 0.5” which will be the cover of concrete 
• Explode the inner rectangle using explode command 
• Now we draw the reinforcements 
• By using circle command: selecting tan tan radius and give radius of 0.35” 
• Using the mirror command create the reinforcement on the bottom left side of column by giving plane as the midpoint of the 2’ line and click on NO for erase source object 
• Now by using the divide command: divide the 2’ line into 5 segments 
• To make the points visible type “DDTYPE” in the command box and apply a suitable point 
• Create a circle of radius of 0.23” using circle command 
• Now copy the circle using the top of the circle as the base point and place it on the points created by object snap 
• Place all the 4 circles on each divided point and then delete the points created by object snap 
• Create the similar circles on the right side by using the mirror command 
• Now we draw the stirrups: 
• Connect the reinforcement by using line command for the 2nd and 4th row on top and 3rd and 5th row on bottom 
• Connect them as tangents of two circles  
• Now fillet the corners of the column with radius as 0.4” 
• Now using the donut command fill the circles 
• Specify the inner dia as 0 and outer dia as 0.7” and 0.4”  
• Specify the center of donut and fill the circles 
• Mark “a” for in between reinforcement to indicate it as 20mm diameter 

 D)Drawing column C2a: 

• Draw a rectangle of 9”x10” and give offset of 0.5” and then explode the offsetted rectangle 
• Now we draw the reinforcements 
• By using circle command: selecting tan tan radius and give radius of 0.3” 
• Mirror these to the corners of the rectangle 
• Draw lines joining the midpoint of each side then by circle command give radius of circle 0.3” 
• Mirror the circles on opposite side using mirror command 
• Fill the reinforcement by donut command give inner diameter as 0 and outer as 0.6” 

 E) Now for drawing column C3 of 9”x21” having 16mm dia of 12 reinforcement bars and 8mm dia stirrups 

• Now we draw a rectangle using rectangle command with dimensions in the command box 
• By using offset command: give an offset distance of 0.5” which will be the cover of concrete 
• Explode the inner rectangle using explode command 
• Now we draw the reinforcements 
• By using circle command: selecting tan tan radius and give radius of 0.3” 
• Using the mirror command create the reinforcement on the bottom left side of column by giving plane as the midpoint of the 21” line and click on NO for erase source object 
• Now by using the divide command: divide the 21” line into 5 segments and 4 points are created 
• To make the points visible type “DDTYPE” in the command box and apply a suitable point 
• Create a circle of radius of 0.23” using circle command 
• Now copy the circle using the top of the circle as the base point and place it on the points created by object snap 
• Place all the 4 circles on each divided point and then delete the points created by object snap 
• Create the similar circles on the right side by using the mirror command 
• Now we draw the stirrups: 
• Connect the reinforcement by using line command for the 2nd and 4th row on top and 3rd and 5th row on bottom 
• Connect them as tangents of two circles  
• Now fillet the corners of the column with radius as 0.3” 
• Now using the donut command fill the circles 
• Specify the inner dia as 0 and outer dia as 0.7” and 0.4”  
• Specify the center of donut and fill the circles 
• Place each of the drawn columns in the respective table making it to a scale of 4” 
• Using “SC” command select the object select the base point and give scale factor as 4” 

RESULT: THE COLUMN SCHEDULE 

2.WINDOW SCHEDULE 

AIM:  

To draw the window schedule as given in figure 

PROCEDURE: 

• First, we create a table of length 50’ and width 12’ by using rectangle command 
• Divide the 50’ line into 5 equal parts of 10’ each 
• By using offset command, we create 6 rows 
• Divide the 12’ line into 6 equal parts of 2’ each 
• By using offset command, we create 5 columns 
• Now we enter the text line in the table by using single line text from the text drop down menu 
• Specify the point of text 8” and text angle as 0 degree 
• After entering the text, right click and select properties then list of properties will be shown and ensure that the text height is 8” and make justify as left 
• By using ‘ST’ command we can change the style of the text and select the font name a “romans.shx” 
• Enter ‘TYPE’, ‘WIDTH’, ‘SILL’, ‘NO’, ‘LOCATION’ in the first column and W1A, W2 in the rows 
• We can copy the text and use edit option to change the text by ‘CO’ command 
• Enter the values given in the table for fractional numbers enter the multiline option 
• Use grips to adjust the text box width and height to fit in the column 

3. Creating Template 

AIM:  

To draw a Template as given in figure 

PROCEDURE: 

• First, we create a table of length 40’ and width 15’ by using rectangle command 
• Copy this rectangle and place it next to it with snap on and copy 2 of them 
• Using the copy command select the object and select the base point and select the point where we need to place the rectangle 
• Divide the second column of table into two and 3rd column into 5 
• By using offset command: offset distance 3’ select the object and create the rows 
• Divide the 3rd column into 4 each of 10’ by offset command and trim off the extra lines 
• Now insert the text 
• Select the multi-line from drop down list of text to create the text box and type the given data 
• Give text height as 8”  and adjust the text as required
  

RESULT: The template drawn is shown 

4.Drawing Schedule 

AIM:  

To create a drawing schedule as given in the figure 

PROCEDURE: 

• Initially set the units as Engineering (feet and inches) 
• Create the table using the table command with 32 rows and 3 columns 
• The table created is as follows 
• Now insert the contents in the table with ‘MTEXT’ 

5. Beam detail 

AIM:  

To draw beam detail as given in the figure 

PROCEDURE: 

• Initially set the units as Engineering (feet and inches) 
• Select line command and draw a line of 4’ distance in positive y direction 
• Select offset and give offset distance of 9” and give an offset 
• Now, using breakline command put breakline at top and bottom 
• Using line command draw lines as required in the figure 
• Give dimensions according to the drawing 
• Select hatch and hatch the concrete and brickwork portion 

RESULT:

The Column Schedule is

The Window Scheduel is

The Template is

The drawing Schedule is

The Beam detail