Overview
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Learn how to use AutoCAD to create a simple, prefabricated construction unit which can then be used as a template in other construction projects.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Prefabricated units in construction
- What you should know before watching this course
- Using the exercise files
- The new AutoCAD 2020 interface
- Setting up a local grid
- Adding a setting out point (SOP)
- Working to CAD standards
- Setting up prefab unit template drawing (DWT)
- Adding walls and structural openings
- Adding service connections
- Adding windows and doors in 2D only
- Using 2D blocks for indicative layout
- Setting out and checking local grid and setting out point (SOP)
- Moving from 2D to 3D in AutoCAD
- Utilizing model space viewports
- Developing finished floor level (FFL)
- Calculating finished ceiling level (FCL)
- Checking upper and lower opening levels
- Extruding structural openings
- Converting polylines to regions to create wall objects
- Extruding the unit walls and partitions to the FCL
- Subtracting the structural openings
- Adding the ceiling
- Adding the floor
- Adding the door and window
- Defining elevation values for services
- Adding 3D features for services
- Setting up your title block
- Setting up suitable named views
- Adding named views as viewports in the Layout tabs
- Setting text styles
- Setting an annotative dimension style
- Adding text labels
- Adding dimensions—make sure to scale vports
- Making sure that annotation only shows in the appropriate viewports
- Setting up a model in 3D
- Using the clipboard to copy and paste
- Setting the prefabricated unit as a DWG to be used as a block
- Checking that the unit is inserted accurately
- Next steps
