Millwork Draftsman

You got me there. Florida beaches are among the best. I love it there.

I edited in a picture of Cocoa just for you.

Stunning!! My wife and I are going to Destin later this year.

On a good day I can here the surf from here at home, on a real quite night you can tell when its big. My blue view is a bit grey right now about to rain. End of the street so just walk.

Stunning!! My wife and I are going to Destin later this year.

You'll love it there, as long as it's still warm, but that shouldn't be a problem since summer lasts until Christmas up there. My in-laws used to vacation near Panama City, just East of Destin until they passed. It's a great part of the state. According to Trip Advisor dot com, there are only 169 things to do in Destin, but most of them involve beer, bikinis and sea food, so it should be fun.

On a good day I can here the surf from here at home, on a real quite night you can tell when its big. My blue view is a bit grey right now about to rain. End of the street so just walk.

Apparently it does get big there. The picture is Bell's Beach, South of Geelong.

 

Around the central part of Florida the Atlantic standard for big is anything over 3 feet, and even then its usually driven by wind with a name.

You'll love it there, as long as it's still warm, but that shouldn't be a problem since summer lasts until Christmas up there. My in-laws used to vacation near Panama City, just East of Destin until they passed. It's a great part of the state. According to Trip Advisor dot com, there are only 169 things to do in Destin, but most of them involve beer, bikinis and sea food, so it should be fun.

I've been to Panama City many times when I was younger, for Spring Break. Me and a group of guys went four years in a row. Fun times!! This was before marriage, of course....

 

Never been to Destin but it's the same beach line so should be the same. Beer and sea food are a great thing but bikini's.... it'll be hard to let that one slide with my wife around, haha. She could easily give the other girls a run for their money in a bikini but she's very modest so I don't see that happening. And I've also been to Daytona Beach, and Ft. Lauderdale a couple of times. I think Florida is my most visited state to be honest!!

 

It's funny, this part of Florida, about 19 miles Northeast of Orlando, reminds me of the small part of Texas that I've seen around El Paso, except El Paso has mountains. The highest point in Florida is nearly 500 miles from us, and it's only 423 feet above sea level. We're at 58 feet, 35 miles from the ocean. It's fairly green in the Spring and Summer here, but in the Winter central Florida is bone dry for months, everything turns brown and often catches fire. We also have Cactus, Armadillo's, Coyotes, Puma, Deer, and Black Bear. Our yard is all coral and limestone sand, in fact the whole state is. Substitute some prickly pear and Saguaro for a couple species of Palmetto and it's almost Texas.

 

Of course I know Texas is more than desert, cowboys, and cactus, but it surprised me how much like the near desert areas of texas Florida is away from the beaches and the Everglades.

This is also my primary Discipline.

The M in my forum handle is for Millwork.

Attached are some handy dynamic blocks to help you out. Just a heads up, these are metric.

 

But as discussed, Dyanmic blocks are the way to go for both creation and revision. Architects seem to be red line happy these days and everything is coming back R&R.

DYN BLOCKS.dwg

I see job openings posted for CAD techs in the millwork field and I'm just wondering about the nature of the work you do. Is it mostly 2D or some 3D involved? What would a typical drawing look like? Just curious....not trying to steal your job. LoL

This is also my primary Discipline.

The M in my forum handle is for Millwork.

Attached are some handy dynamic blocks to help you out. Just a heads up, these are metric.

 

But as discussed, Dyanmic blocks are the way to go for both creation and revision. Architects seem to be red line happy these days and everything is coming back R&R.

Those are really pretty good. I am keeping this drawing, too. The ones I posted earlier were from the first year after dynamic blocks came into being. Since then, I have been doing mostly one off custom stuff. I have not found many occasions to get into dyn blocks for cabinets more deeply, so I never figured out how to make the stuff in the middle stay in the middle when stretching. I am going to reverse engineer these, especially to see how to get those multiple shelves to maintain their varying but equal spacing.

 

Thanks so much for posting these. They will even help those of us who have been at this for a while.

 

Right now. I am helping a buddy with a future house build, and teaching myself some new (to me) building product usage for residential architectural drafting at the same time. I am trying to develop a stretch/array dyn block for using ICF (Insulated Concrete Forms) pre-fab foundation wall forms in plan view. It would be nice to be able to stretch one out and get a reasonable count of the rebar support frames and things like that. The mfg site has awesome CAD files and information, but I can't use the Revit or 3D stuff at the moment. Being able to use the same block for 1:1 details, and 1/4" = 1-0" plans would be nice.

 

One huge advantage to blocks, dynamic or otherwise, is that one can pack a huge amount of detail into a block and repeat the block all over the drawing without increasing the size of the drawing file all that much.

 

For instance, the image attached is a plan view detail for Anderson 400 series windows in stucco'ed Nudura 6" ICF walls, with 2x4 interior furring. All this seems like overkill until you know that the house is going to be built in an equatorial earthquake zone. The window and forms details are available on the mfg sites. If I were to draw the whole house like this without blocks, it would be in the 30 to 40 meg range. With blocks, it would be probably around 2 meg.

 

The ICF block is only 3 feet to either side of one window block and one exterior door block. But I still have to do a foundation plan with prefab "T" and "L" corners, brick and slab ledges, the whole nine yards.

I like the level of detail Dana. Nice job.

I like the level of detail Dana. Nice job.

Appreciate it, but actually the drafters at Andersen and Nudura drew those. I just used my layers instead of theirs and changed their blocks to my blocks. If I could get those cells in the 2 1/4" insulation panels to array properly, I'd dynamically alter the ICF forms blocks.

 

I still have to deal with Metwood and Quad-Deck floor systems, and Red Steel roof framing, and plastic replica Spanish terracotta roof tiles.

I see job openings posted for CAD techs in the millwork field and I'm just wondering about the nature of the work you do. Is it mostly 2D or some 3D involved? What would a typical drawing look like? Just curious....not trying to steal your job. LoL

 

It can be tricky if you don't have experience in the industry, much like any other discipline.

Drawings vary greatly. Typical cabinets (called box jobs) are pretty easy since you can just use dynamic blocks. But anything like a restaurant, casino, reception desk, anything none standard your pretty much stuck detailing from scratch.

 

Typically it's 2D. If anything you would do a 3d or an iso for presentation only.

 

I've come across some guys that will do it all in 3D, but in my experience they've been much slower and even slower with revisions.

 

Attached are some samples. A box job and custom.

custom sample.pdf

box sample.pdf

... If I could get those cells in the 2 1/4" insulation panels to array properly, I'd dynamically alter the ICF forms blocks.

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Is the attached what you're looking for?

For function I mean.

BLOCK ARRAY.dwg

Edited January 30, 2015 by MDrawings
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It can be tricky if you don't have experience in the industry, much like any other discipline.

Drawings vary greatly. Typical cabinets (called box jobs) are pretty easy since you can just use dynamic blocks. But anything like a restaurant, casino, reception desk, anything none standard your pretty much stuck detailing from scratch.

 

Typically it's 2D. If anything you would do a 3d or an iso for presentation only.

 

I've come across some guys that will do it all in 3D, but in my experience they've been much slower and even slower with revisions.

 

Attached are some samples. A box job and custom.

 

Thanks for providing those PDFs. Any chance you could post a sample detail sheet from one of your jobs?

Is the attached what you're looking for?

For function I mean.

Well yeah, that's the basis for it. I am just at the point today where I recognized the need for the dyn array block. I don't have issues with the array part, just getting my head around trying it. I have to get all that hoodoo inside that concrete form plan view I posted to array on the pattern repeat, whatever that is. I've already included the end cap of the form units in my window and door jambs since a jamb without one doesn't exist in the house, so I'm thinking 20 minutes to get it working. Unfortunately, it will need to finish on a random length partial pattern, so I will probably use two blocks. I'll see what happens tomorrow.

It can be tricky if you don't have experience in the industry, much like any other discipline.

Drawings vary greatly. Typical cabinets (called box jobs) are pretty easy since you can just use dynamic blocks. But anything like a restaurant, casino, reception desk, anything none standard your pretty much stuck detailing from scratch.

 

Typically it's 2D. If anything you would do a 3d or an iso for presentation only.

 

I've come across some guys that will do it all in 3D, but in my experience they've been much slower and even slower with revisions.

 

Attached are some samples. A box job and custom.

Oh Emm Gee, does that stuff look familiar.

 

You know what's really Ironic, After 3 years here in Florida as a sub-contractor millwork drafter, one of my responses to a Craigslist (of all places) add got me a call back for an interview today. I go see them on Monday. It'd be nice getting a paycheck on a regular basis for a change.

Is the attached what you're looking for?

For function I mean.

Here it is. Simple. The hardest part was finding the pattern break. Seven minutes instead of twenty.

 

Saved in 2010.

DYN 6 INCH ICF PLAN.dwg

Dana W that's awesome news, hope things workout in your favor. I have been getting right back into the swing of things with AC. I'm surprised with how it just seems to be coming right back to me. I'm enjoying my time here so far, and you guys have been great being able to look at some examples of what you guys are doing/ have done is a help as well. Keep us up to par Dana W.

Dana W that's awesome news, hope things workout in your favor. I have been getting right back into the swing of things with AC. I'm surprised with how it just seems to be coming right back to me. I'm enjoying my time here so far, and you guys have been great being able to look at some examples of what you guys are doing/ have done is a help as well. Keep us up to par Dana W.

The interview went very well. In fact the guy seemed very enthusiastic. He told me he'd know by the end of the day on Monday. I didn't hear anything by COB Tuesday. I called him on Wednesday morning. He says the Boss had not had a chance to review his recommendations. He's supposed to call me today.