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Autodesk 24108-051400-9000 - AutoCAD Revit Architecture Suite 2008 Getting Started Manual

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  • Page 1 AutoCAD Architecture 2008 Getting Started with AutoCAD Architecture March 2007...
  • Page 2 EXCEED THE PURCHASE PRICE OF THE MATERIALS DESCRIBED HEREIN. Autodesk, Inc., reserves the right to revise and improve its products as it sees fit. This publication describes the state of the product at the time of publication, and may not reflect the product at all times in the future.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Contents Chapter 1 Getting Started ......... 1 Using this Guide .
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  • Page 5: Chapter 1 Getting Started

    Getting Started ® Welcome to AutoCAD Architecture 2008! In this short tutorial, you learn how to use the features of AutoCAD Architecture to design and document a small office building. Working from a two-dimensional AutoCAD floor plan sketch, you quickly create a presentation plan, a floor plan layout, door and window schedules, a section, and a detail, all within a coordinated set of drawings.

  • Page 6: Using This Guide

    Using this Guide To complete the tutorial in this guide, you must have AutoCAD Architecture installed on your system. As you progress through the tutorial exercises, you access tutorial drawings and other content from the default installation directories. If you cannot locate a file in the location that this guide suggests, it may be installed in a different location. Contact your CAD Manager for more information.

  • Page 7: Managing Your Drawings

    In the left pane, click , and scroll up to view the current file path and folder. By default, the path and folder is C:\My Documents\Autodesk\My Projects. This is where the project file that you open and use for this tutorial is located.
  • Page 8 The 4 tabs on the side of the Project Navigator let you create, access, and organize the drawings in the current project. 2 If it does not already display, click the Project tab. The Project tab reports information that has already been added to the project: the project name and number, and the levels and divisions that it contains.
  • Page 9 The Views tab organizes view drawings in which constructs and elements are referenced to provide specific views of a building. Views allow you to tell AutoCAD Architecture in architectural terms what types of drawings you want to assemble, such as first floor plans, second floor framing plans, or building sections. Views may contain any number of constructs, which in turn, may reference elements.

  • Page 10: Creating Spaces To Calculate Floor Plan Area

    1 Open an AutoCAD drawing that contains the 2D floor plan sketch: Click File menu Open. Navigate to C:\My Documents\Autodesk\My Projects\Getting_Started_I [Getting_Started_M]. Select 01 Spaces Layout.dwg, and click Open. The sketch, complete with delineated rooms for the space plan layout, displays. Although the sketch is located in the project, it is not a project drawing (construct, element, view, or sheet).
  • Page 11 Under Assignments, for Level 1, select Division 1. This setting assigns the 01 Space Plan to the first floor (level) of the building, in division 1 of the building. By default, each building has a single division. Because this building does not have multiple wings or other horizontal segments, it contains only the single default division.
  • Page 12 A tagged space is created. 7 Autogenerate the remaining spaces on the plan: Right-click in the drawing, and click Generate all. Tagged spaces are created in the remaining rooms. Press to end the Space command. 8 Reposition 1 of the tags in the upper-left space: Zoom to the 5 spaces in the upper-left corner of the floor plan.
  • Page 13 A light blue Location grip displays on the tag. Select and move the Location grip to reposition the tag centrally on the space. Press to hide the grip. 9 If necessary, reposition the tags in the other spaces on the plan. The space tags on the floor plan report that all the rooms are the same type of space.
  • Page 14 TIP Make sure you select the space and not the tag. Press , and press ENTER The space tag now identifies each selected space as a corridor, and the space displays with a colored fill. Use the other space tools on the Getting_Started tool palette that correspond to the names in the plan shown below to redefine the remaining spaces on the plan.
  • Page 15 IMPORTANT Press after creating each space type to end the previous space command. 11 Create a preliminary room schedule that reports the name and area of each room: On the Getting_Started tool palette, click the Room Area Schedule tool. On the command line, enter all, and press twice.
  • Page 16 12 Modify the dimensions of a space on the plan, and observe changes in the schedule: Select the large conference room on the right side of the space plan to display editing grips. Press and hold , and select the 2 round bottom conference room grips so they display as red. SHIFT Release , and select and drag 1 of the red grips down to enlarge the room.

  • Page 17: Creating Color-Filled Presentation Plans

    14 On the Standard toolbar, click (Undo) until the space is restored to its original dimensions. 15 Update the schedule again. 16 On the Standard toolbar, click (Save). Creating Color-Filled Presentation Plans In this exercise, you use a feature in AutoCAD Architecture called a display theme to rapidly create 2 different graphic reports of the spaces on the floor plan.

  • Page 18: Laying Out A Floor Plan

    2 Create a different theme that identifies the spaces by size: On the Getting Started tool palette, click the Theme - Space Size tool. Specify a point to the left of the room schedule to place the upper-left corner of the legend. Press to place the legend.
  • Page 19 1 Open the AutoCAD drawing that contains a floor plan sketch: Click File menu Open. Navigate to C:\My Documents\Autodesk\My Projects\Getting_Started_I [Getting_Started_M]. Select 01 Walls Layout.dwg, and click Open. A sketch similar to the one that you used to create the space plan displays. To use it to create a floor plan, you need to assign it to the project as a logical piece of the building, the first floor construct.
  • Page 20 On the command line, enter y (Yes), and press ENTER The exterior linework is converted to walls that display editing grips. Press to hide the grips. The walls clean up automatically, and the software places them on the correct layer. Now that the exterior walls have been created, the height of the walls needs to be adjusted to accommodate the 10' [3300 mm] floor-to-floor heights in the building.
  • Page 21 Select the black linework that represents the interior partition walls, and press ENTER On the command line, enter y, and press ENTER On the Properties palette, under Dimensions, for Base height, enter 9' [3000 mm]. For Justify, select Center. Press to hide the interior wall grips.
  • Page 22 Because you selected Offset/Center for the Location property of the door, dynamic dimensions display the door as centered in the wall, or as offset an automatic distance from the end of the wall segment. Move the cursor horizontally. By moving the cursor horizontally, you can change the swing side of the door. When the door is centered in the wall, and the door swings into the interior of the corridor, click to place the door.
  • Page 23 When the door is centered in the exterior corridor wall between the left and right interior corridor walls, click to place the door. 9 Add an exterior door to each stairway: On the Getting_Started tool palette, click the Hinged - Single - Exterior door tool. On the Properties palette, under Dimensions, for Standard sizes, select 3'-0'' X 7'-0'' [900 mm X 2000 mm].
  • Page 24 10 Add interior doors: On the Getting_Started tool palette, click the Hinged - Single - Full Lite door tool. On the Properties palette, under Dimensions, for Standard sizes, select 3'-0'' X 7'-0'' [900 mm X 2000 mm]. Using a 6'' [150 mm] automatic offset and the center option, place the doors on the floor plan as shown: 11 Add exterior windows: On the Getting_Started tool palette, click the Window tool.
  • Page 25 Place windows on the floor plan as shown, using a 6'' [150 mm] automatic offset and the center option. When you finish placing the windows, press to end the command. 12 Place a stair in the stairway in the upper-left corner of the floor plan: Click Format menu Options.
  • Page 26 Press to end the stair command, and select the stair to display its grips. Select and move the square Location grip to adjust the position of the stair in the stairway. Press to hide the stair grips. 13 Use the same method, place another stair in the stairway in the upper-right portion of the building. Now that you have added walls, doors, and windows to the floor plan, apply different display configurations to the floor plan.

  • Page 27: Creating Schedules

    15 Add spaces to the floor plan: Click Format menu Options. On the AEC Setting tab, under Space Settings, verify that Automatically update associative spaces is selected, and click OK. On the Getting_Started tool palette, click the Reception space tool. On the Properties palette, under General, for Style, verify that Reception is selected.
  • Page 28 In the next exercise, you make revisions to the floor plan and learn how you can quickly update these schedules, keeping your drawing information up to date across the project. 1 Create a view drawing in which to dimension the floor plan: On the Project Navigator, click the Views tab.
  • Page 29 In the Edit Property Set Data dialog, click OK. 4 Verify that the door tags are numbered sequentially. If they are not, use the Renumber Data Tool on the Getting_Started tool palette to renumber the tags: Click the Renumber Data Tool. In the Data Renumber dialog, for Property Set, verify that DoorObjects is selected.
  • Page 30 Select the bottom window in the left exterior wall of the conference room on the lower-left corner of the plan, move the cursor slightly to the left of the wall, and click to place the tag. In the Edit Property Set Data dialog, click OK. On the command line, enter m, and tag the remaining windows.

  • Page 31: Making Floor Plan Revisions

    Making Floor Plan Revisions In this exercise, you make several revisions to the 01 Floor plan. You take advantage of the many features of AutoCAD Architecture that make it easy to adjust any of the objects in your design. To edit the objects on your floor plan, you can change object properties, use object grips, or use dynamic dimensions.
  • Page 32 Click the left arrow grip to flip the hinge side of the door. Press to hide the grips. Next, change the dimensions of the exterior wall of the conference room on the right side of the building to see how it affects the floor plan design. 5 Grip-edit the right exterior wall of the conference room on the right side of the building: Select the right vertical exterior wall of the conference room.
  • Page 33 Notice that the dynamic dimensions display the changing dimension of the wall. Click to place the wall, or enter a larger value in the dynamic dimension. The spaces are associative to the walls, so they update when you place the wall. The space tags also report the new area for the room affected by the change.
  • Page 34 Drag the grip down until the dynamic dimensions display a width of 6' [1800 mm], and click to resize the window. With the window still selected, on the Properties palette, for Height, enter 6' [1800 mm]. Press to hide the grips. 8 Change the size of the remaining windows: Select one of the other windows on the floor plan, right-click, and click Select Similar.

  • Page 35: Creating A Section

    11 View the changes in the 01 Plan view. Click Window menu 01 Plan. At the lower right corner of the screen, click the blue link in the yellow bubble that displays to reload the changes that you made in the 01 Floor construct to the current view. Notice the windows are resized, but the windows that you placed in both stairways are not tagged or added to the schedule, and the windows sizes are not updated in the schedule.
  • Page 36 Select 01 Floor (2), right-click, and click Rename. Enter 02 Floor, and press to rename the construct. ENTER Using the same method, rename the other copies 03 Floor and 04 Floor. 3 Place a callout in the 01 Plan view to define and generate a section view: On Project Navigator, click the Views tab.

  • Page 37: Detailing Your Design

    Notice the section view displays exterior doors on the second, third, and fourth floors, and a stair on the fourth floor. The exterior doors are only necessary on the first floor of the building, and the stairs to the roof are not needed. 5 Save and close the Building Section view.
  • Page 38 After you draw the detail components, you create another view for the detail, and add reference keynotes to the detail in this view. You use a smart keynoting tool to select the component, draw a leader line, and the reference key and related note automatically display.
  • Page 39 Zoom in around the top of the first floor window on the right exterior wall. 3 Begin detailing by adding a course of bricks to the view: On Getting_Started tool palette, click the Standard Brick - 3/8'' Jt [Standard Brick - 10mm] tool. On the application status bar, verify that ORTHO and OSNAP are on, and an endpoint osnap is selected.
  • Page 40 Press 5 Add a CMU course above the bond beam in the detail: On the Getting_Started tool palette, click the 6'' x 8'' x 8'' CMU [140 x 200 x 400mm Block] tool. On the command line, enter c (Count) to insert a CMU course. Enter 2 to specify the number of CMUs in the course, and press ENTER Select the upper-right endpoint of the bond beam, and click to place the lower right corner of the...
  • Page 41 Turn off OSNAP, move the cursor until the right side of window head aligns with the bottom right of the angle, and click to place it. Press 8 Add hat channels to the detail: On the Getting_Started tool palette, click the 7/8'' Hat Channel [22mm Hat Channel] tool. On the Properties palette, for View, select Elevation.
  • Page 42 Select the lower-left endpoint of the wall board that you just placed, enter y (Y flip), press , move ENTER the cursor up, and select the top left endpoint of the vertical hat channel. Press 10 Detach the section view that you referenced to create the detail. On the drawing window status bar, click On the External References palette, under File References, click Building Section.
  • Page 43 Select a point above the detail components to specify the cut line extents. The detail is now properly framed and is ready to be annotated. 13 Add keynotes to the detail components: On the Getting_Started tool palette, click the Keynote (Straight Leader) tool. Select the top brick in the brick course as the component to keynote, and select any point on the brick.
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  • Page 45: Index

    Index 41 | Index...
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