Detail Drawings
Click where the detail is and a circle marks it on the plan. Its drawing, a 1:5 cut through the wall it stands on and the floors it meets, is in the Views list, drawn from the model, so it follows the wall's build up.
Every property, and what it does
Select the detail circle on the plan or open its drawing, and these are its rows.
The marker on the plan
Select the detail circle on the plan and these are its rows.
| Field | What it does | Values |
|---|---|---|
| Mark | What the drawing calls it. Empty, it is numbered on its own. | Any name, or numbered |
| Radius | Half the width the detail draws, either side of the wall's line. | Millimetres |
The view
Open the view from the Views list and these are its rows.
| Field | What it does | Values |
|---|---|---|
| Storeys | The storeys the view draws. | Every storey, or the ones it covers |
| Scale | The size the detail letters and prints at. A detail opens at 1:5. | 1:5 by default, 1:10 to 1:500 |
Working in the view
A side view is a drawing of the model you can work in, not a picture of it.
| Field | What it does | Values |
|---|---|---|
| What it shows | Walls cut or seen, floors and roofs, doors and windows with their tags, stairs, furniture, services and the ground line. | Read from the model |
| Select and move | Click or box select, then drag along the view or up and down: a window's sill, a wall's base, a beam's drop. A typed figure moves it exactly. | The plan and the model follow |
| Place | Walls, doors, windows, levels and services runs and fittings can be placed on the cut or on a wall face. | From the view's own tools |
| Annotate | Dimensions, text, leaders, lines and hatches drawn in the view belong to it. | Kept with the view |
| Export | Settings, Exports has a sheet of the open view as PDF, and each view gets a sheet in the default sheet set. | PDF, or on a sheet |
How the Detail tool works
Open the Detail tool
In the editor, open CAD tools, then Annotate, and choose Detail, or type DETAIL (DET).
Click on a wall
Click where the detail is. A circle marks it on the plan.
Open the drawing
Its drawing, at 1:5 through the wall it stands on, is in the Views list.
Annotate it
Add dimensions, text and leaders in the detail; they belong to it and print with it.
Detail questions, answered.
What does a detail show?
A cut through the wall the circle stands on, with the floors and ground it meets, at 1:5, drawn from the model.
Does the detail show the wall's layers?
It is cut from the model, so a wall with a build up of layers is drawn with them.
Can I put a detail on a sheet?
Yes. It is in the Views list, and the default sheet set lays it out on a sheet.
Read on
- Walls: Build ups, heights and finishes.
- Sections: Cut the whole building.
- Sections and elevations docs: Cutting, viewing and editing the building from the side.