Project 1 _Creating an Architectural plan for the provided plot size and develop relevant basic structural drawings

Aim: To draft the floor plan of the house in a 60’x20’ East facing and draft its Elevation, Section and layout of Column , Beam and Footing using AutoCAD

Commands Used:

• LINE: Draw lines in AUTO CAD
• POLYCON: Draw polycons with three or more sides
• RECTANGLE: Used to draw rectangles.
• CIRCLE: Command used to draw circles
• ELLIPSE: Used to draw ellipse
• ERASE: Erase object in the drawing area.
• COPY: Used to copy one or more objects
• MIRROR: Command used to mirror an exact duplicate of an object.
• OFFSET: Used to offset one object from another a distance you specify
• EXTEND – Used to extend one line to another.
• ARRAY – Use to make a rectangular or polar array of an object.
• MOVE - Used to move objects around in the drawing area
• Rotate- Used to rotate an object around a base point.
• SCALE- Command used to make an object larger or smaller.
• TRIM: Command used to trim an object from another object.
• CHAMFER- Used to put a chamfer between two lines.
• FILLET – Used to put a fillet between two lines of a radius you specify.
• DIMSTYLE- Used to modify the dimensions.
• HATCH – for hatching the objects.
• STRETCH – Used to stretch the one point of object
• SCALE – Used to resize the model/drawing itself.

Procedure:

• Open AutoCad
• Selecting Imperial system 
• Command UN(units) and selecting Engineering with precision of 0’-0.0”
• Command LIMITS and having limit of (0’,0’) in lower left corner and (10000’,10000’) in upper right corner
• Command ZOOM and selecting All

1. Ground Floor Plan

• Open auto cad and enter UN(units command) in the command box and select type as engineering and set precision of decimal as 0'0".
• Select X line command and draw horizontal line and vertical line.
• Trim the unwanted lines.
• Now select offset command and give an offset of 9" to both horizontal and vertical line drawn by X line.
• Give the offsets as follows in the X direction.
• Offset 9' X 12' for bedroom1.
• Offset 4.5" for internal wall.
• Offset 9' X 9' for attached bath/ toilet.
• Offset 6" for partition wall.
• Offset 9' X 12' for bedroom2.
• Offset 6' X 6' for comman toilet.
• Give the offsets 7' X 8' for staircase.
• Offset 6' X 14' for bedroom3.
• Offset 6'-7" X 5'-8" for dinning area.
• Offset 5'-7" X 10'-5" for kitchen.
• Offset 6' X 6' for pooja room.
• Offset 11'-5" X 11'-1" for living room.
• Offset 6'-8" X 12'-5" for parking area.
• Offset 7'-7" X 7'-4.5"  for Garden area.

Result:

2. First Floor Plan

• Open auto cad and enter UN(units command) in the command box and select type as engineering and set precision of decimal as 0'0".
• Select X line command and draw horizontal line and vertical line.
• Trim the unwanted lines.
• Now select offset command and give an offset of 9" to both horizontal and vertical line drawn by X line.
• Give the offsets as follows in the X direction.
• Offset 9' X 12' for bedroom 4 and 5.
• Offset 4.5" for internal wall.
• Offset 6' X 6' for attached bath/ toilet.
• Offset 6" for partition wall.
• Offset 6' X 6' for comman toilet.
• Give the offsets 7' X 8' for staircase.
• Offset 6' X 14' for Study room.
• Offset 11'-6" X 17'-6" for living room.
• Offset 6'-8" X 12'-5" for parking area. / Family lounge area.
• Offset for Open terrace.

Result:

Ground floor drawing with column marking:

3. Section A-A

Commands used:

   Xline

• Xline horizontal and vertical is used to start the drawing initially

   Line

• Line is used to draw the line in the Window, Doors, Ventilators, Staircase and lines at required spaces 

   Offset

• Offset is used to offset the Floor height to 12’
• Offset is used to offset the Parapet Wall to 3’
• Offset is used to offset the GL line to 2’

 Pline

• Pline is used to draw the Chejjas above the windows and ventilators
• Pline is used to draw the staircase of the building
• Pline is used to draw the Over Head Tank

 Trim

• Trim is used to trim the unwanted lines

Result:

4. Front Elevation

Commands used:

   Xline

• Xline horizontal and vertical is used to start the drawing initially

   Line

• Lineis used to draw the line in the Window, Doors, Ventilators and lines at required spaces 

   Offset

• Offset is used to offset the Floor height to 12’
• Offset is used to offset the Parapet Wall to 3’
• Offset is used to offset the GL line to 2’

 Pline

• Pline is used to draw the Chejjas above the windows and ventilators

 Trim

• Trim is used to trim the unwanted lines

Result:

5. Layout of Column

PLINE

• PLINE is used to draw the Column of size 9"x12" and 9"x9" with appropriate orientation

LINE

• LINE is used to draw the Horizantal and Vertical line to the center of the Column .

LINETYPE

• LINETYPE is to change the Continuous line to Dash line and changing the scale to 10

TRIM

• TRIM is used to trim the unwanted lines

Annotate Tab

•  In Annotate Tab>Modify dimension style>Text and Style
• Changing the style from ISO25 to Swis 721> Set current>Apply

TEXT

• TEXT is used to write the number of Column

DIMLINEAR

• DIMLINEAR is used to dimension center to center distance of the Column

MLEADERSTYLE 

•  MLEADERSTYLE> content> mleader type> Block> source block>circle

MLEADER

• MLEADER is used to leader the horizontal lines as 1 to 5
• MLEADER is used to leader the vertical lines as A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H,I and J

HATCH

• HATCH is used to hatch the foundation to ANS137 for 9"x12" and 9"x9"

ERASE

• ERASE is used to erase the unwanted lines which cannot be trimmed using Trim Command

Result:

6. Layout of footing

PLINE

• PLINE is used to draw the Column of size 9"x12" and 9"x9"  with appropriate orientation

LINE

• LINE is used to draw the Horizantal and Vertical line to the center of the Column .

OFFSET

• OFFSET is used to offset the footing dimension to 2’-6”

LINETYPE

• LINETYPE is to change the Continuous line to Long dash - Short dash line and changing the scale to 10

TRIM

• TRIM is used to trim the unwanted lines

Annotate Tab

•  In Annotate Tab>Modify dimension style>Text and Style
• Changing the style from ISO25 to Swis 721> Set current->Apply

DIMLINEAR

• DIMLINEAR is used to dimension center to center distance of the Column

MLEADERSTYLE 

•  MLEADERSTYLE> content> mleader type> Block> source block>circle

MLEADER

• MLEADER is used to leader the horizontal lines as 1 to 5
• MLEADER is used to leader the vertical lines as A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H,I and J

HATCH

• HATCH is used to hatch the foundation to ANS137 for 9"x12" and 9"x9"

ERASE

• ERASE is used to erase the unwanted lines which cannot be trimmed using Trim Command

Result:

7. Layout of Beam

 PLINE

• PLINE is used to draw the Column of size 9"x12", 4.5"x9" and 9"x9" with appropriate orientation

 LINE

• LINE is used to draw the Horizantal and Vertical line to the center of the Column .
• LINE is used to draw the Lines of beam of size 9’x9’ 

 LINETYPE

• LINETYPE is to change the Continuous line to Long dash - Short dash line and changing the scale to 10

TRIM

• TRIM is used to trim the unwanted lines

 Annotate Tab

•  In Annotate Tab >Modify dimension style>Text and Style
• Changing the style from ISO25 to Swis 721> Set current>Apply

DIMLINEAR

• DIMLINEAR is used to dimension center to center distance of the Column

MLEADERSTYLE 

•  MLEADERSTYLE> content> mleader type> Block> source block>circle

MLEADER

• MLEADER is used to leader the horizontal lines as 1 to 5
• MLEADER is used to leader the vertical lines as A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H,I and J

 ERASE

• ERASE is used to erase the unwanted lines which cannot be trimmed using Trim Command

Result: