Day 6

In today’s class, drill instructor Angie Levinsky taught the bootcampers how to create and modify drawing sheets and title blocks. She also went over how to create renderings and walkthrough, which will be overviewed on the next blog in detail.

The drawing views are found in the project browser and control which view you are working with. Drawing sheets are project views which you place different drawing views into, such as floor plans, elevations, sections, 3D views, schedules, and legends.

It is very important to set up a consistent naming convention for drawing sheets as an organizational model, thus the reason for the GCNA standardized template.

In order to manipulate any of the elements once placed into the drawing sheet, right click the drawing view and select activate view. Once activated, you will be able to manipulate any of the elements shown in the view.

The drawings views are numbered in the drawing sheet based upon the order in which they are placed and can be edited under element properties.

Once you have a view selected, you can go into element properties and advanced model graphics in order to set up solar studies to demonstrate the effect of the sun upon a structure at different points in time on a specific location.

Titleblocks are created in drawing sheets and can be edited by clicking the edit family button on the options bar. To edit the project information, go to settings at the top off the page and edit project information. When updating project information, all of the sheets’ project information will change accordingly. The energy analysis tab in this box is information for transferring the building model into energy analysis programs like IES and Green Buildings Studio in order to analyze the energy consumption of a building.