House extensions, please help pointing me in the right direction

Hi, as you may have gathered I'm new here, great forum you got, I've been lurking and have read what feels like almost everything here.

I have a question that I can't seem to find the answer for anywhere, all I ask is to be pointed in roughly the right direction.

I want to be able to use Autocad to draw domestic house extensions and loft conversions, I have taught myself from information here, on the internet and from books. I can draw existing plans, proposed plans, floor plans, joist layouts, etc.

What I cannot work out is, how to put the various elements of the plans onto one drawing. So a drawing may have existing front elevation, existing side elevation, proposed front elevation, proposed side elevation, which would be drawn at 1:100 and then a floor plan at 1:50, so it all plots along with drawing notes, etc on one piece of paper.

I think maybe I am asking a lot of you good people and have no wish to take the p*ss, but if someone could please put me out of my misery, give me a hint, a shove in roughly the right direction, it would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Hi, as you may have gathered I'm new here, great forum you got, I've been lurking and have read what feels like almost everything here.

 

I have a question that I can't seem to find the answer for anywhere, all I ask is to be pointed in roughly the right direction.

 

I want to be able to use Autocad to draw domestic house extensions and loft conversions, I have taught myself from information here, on the internet and from books. I can draw existing plans, proposed plans, floor plans, joist layouts, etc.

 

What I cannot work out is, how to put the various elements of the plans onto one drawing. So a drawing may have existing front elevation, existing side elevation, proposed front elevation, proposed side elevation, which would be drawn at 1:100 and then a floor plan at 1:50, so it all plots along with drawing notes, etc on one piece of paper.

 

I think maybe I am asking a lot of you good people and have no wish to take the p*ss, but if someone could please put me out of my misery, give me a hint, a shove in roughly the right direction, it would be appreciated.

 

Thanks.

have you used xref's before? and set up viewports in paper space? I'm pretty sure thats what you want to do. Put all the drawing references in model space and then put your notes in paper space.

Thank you, that sounds like a good start, yes I have been making the drawings in model space. No idea what an xref is, will go and find out a bit more.

I think putting everything on one piece of paper is going to make for a very crowded drawing. It also means that quite likely you'll be unable to shown a lot of detail.

AutoCAD 2009? You might consider using Sheet Sets.

Thank you, that sounds like a good start, yes I have been making the drawings in model space. No idea what an xref is, will go and find out a bit more.

I'm guessing that you have all of your different views saved as separate drawings correct? xref is external reference, basically what it does is copy the referenced drawing file into the current drawing, so you could create a drawing called lets say.. master.dwg and xref all of your views that you want into the master drawing. then go to your layout and type vports on the command line. follow the prompts, you can create your own viewport and set the scale that you want to each vport. let me know how that goes for ya.

I think putting everything on one piece of paper is going to make for a very crowded drawing. It also means that quite likely you'll be unable to shown a lot of detail.

 

AutoCAD 2009? You might consider using Sheet Sets.

Thanks, I'm possibly not explaining myself very well, it is common practice to have all the existing and proposed house elevations, on one piece of A1 paper and the existing and proposed floor plans on another.

I will look into sheet sets.

I'm guessing that you have all of your different views saved as separate drawings correct? xref is external reference, basically what it does is copy the referenced drawing file into the current drawing, so you could create a drawing called lets say.. master.dwg and xref all of your views that you want into the master drawing. then go to your layout and type vports on the command line. follow the prompts, you can create your own viewport and set the scale that you want to each vport. let me know how that goes for ya.

That sounds hopeful, I will let you know it goes, might take me a couple of days to get my head round it.

I suppose it all depends on the size of the building and the scale you've chosen to depict the elevations and floor plan at. You follow the standard whatever it may be. No arguement here.

...assuming you talking about general arrangement drawings and you have the views, (plans and elevations) in one model space why not just open up appropriately scaled viewports on one paperspace layout with titleblock - as conventional layout.

Yes, you will need Xrefs if separate dwgs but sheet sets - Ohhhh! ?- good luck. (It must be just me, I cannot make them work:cry::cry:, wish I could...)

...assuming you talking about general arrangement drawings and you have the views, (plans and elevations) in one model space why not just open up appropriately scaled viewports on one paperspace layout with titleblock - as conventional layout.

Digging up an old thread here.

But this is exactly what I now do and it works a treat.

Thank you to everyone for your help.

Digging up an old thread here.

 

But this is exactly what I now do and it works a treat.

 

 

Thank you to everyone for your help.

Really pleased that you have cracked it. :D:D