Wednesday, May 18, 2016

Meanwhile, back in the real world.....

The boring details

Details. Yurgh!  Maybe there are some strange draftees love doing these.

What irritates me about architectural drafting is the endless details to be done.
Not only done, but cross referenced back to a plan/elevation or section.  Seems like the same
ones come up time after time, but each drawing is different.

How about details that are always on the same sheet every time?

So,then I had the usual rush of blood to the head: what if you kept a strict numbering system?
Such that you would always know that for instance, a concrete rib raft foundation with bricks is ALWAYS on tab 51?

How to get a drawing set up so it is ready to go?

Then, just to really amp things up, have a VB program that offers the person starting a drawing a series of choices: 1 storey or 2? Brick or Weatherboard? and so on, which would be used to generate an Autocad Script.

You start with a base drawing that has 0-Cover Sheet (list of all the drawings) 1-Site (because all drawings have a site plan) 2-Site notes (You always should have these!).

The VB program generates an Autocad script (we use LT here), to consult the godzilla drawing file that has around 60 tabs on it, and insert the relevant tab into the base drawing.

So there you have it:

1. Run the program, the user clicks on radio buttons, choosing what is relevant to the building he wants to draw.

2. Drag this script into a drawing that has only 3 tabs in it.

Job done!

As an added bonus, the drawing list shown below is generated automatically.


Not only that, but I have done proof of principle for the idea that if you choose say a concrete foundation with a brick wall, then the reference bubble is automatically put into the foundation plan, referencing the detail.
For simplicity, this goes in paperspace.

To do all the rest of the reference bubbles might take a while.  Depends if my work wants to use the idea. Or if anyone reading this wants to part with some dosh! 


This is the simple, single screen where the user gets to choose what he wants:



This is the listing of the template drawing that has all the possible tabs on it, (excuse the lousy formatting). It looks like there is room for more details, but I may be getting near the limit for the number of tabs.



Title
0 Cover
1 Site Plan
2 Site Notes
3 Earthworks Plan
4 Drainage Plan
5
6
7 Existing Site Plan 
8
9 Existing Ground Floor Plan
10 Existing First Floor Plan
11 Existing Elevations
12
13
14
15 Ground Floor Plan
16 First Floor Plan
17
18 Elevations
19 Elevations
20
21 Sections
22 Sections
23
24 Foundation Plan
25 First Floor Framing Plan 
26
27 Ground Floor Roof Plan
28 First Floor Roof Plan
29
30
31 Foundation Detail-Rib Raft + Brick
32 Foundation Detail-Rib Raft + Weatherboard
33 Foundation Detail-Rib Raft + Shiplap WB
34 Foundation Detail-Rib Raft + Rusticated WB
35 Foundation Detail-Rib Raft + Brick/Weatherboard
36 Foundation Detail-Slab + Brick
37 Foundation Detail-Slab +Weatherboard
38 Foundation Detail-Slab + Shiplap WB
39 Foundation Detail-Slab + Rusticated WB
40 Foundation Detail-Slab + Brick/Weatherboard
41 Foundation Detail-Timber + Weatherboard
42 Foundation Detail-Timber + Shiplap WB
43 Foundation Detail-Timber + Rusticated WB
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54 Window Detail-Bevel Backed WB+Corners
55 Window Detail-Shiplap WB
56 Window Detail-Rusticated WB
57 Window Detail-Brick
58 Window Detail-Brick/Bevel Backed WB
59 Eave/Verge Detail-Concrete Tile with Brick
60 Eave/Verge Detail-Concrete Tile with Bevel Backed WB
61 Eave/Verge Detail-Concrete Tile with Shiplap WB
62 Eave/Verge Detail-Concrete Tile with Rusticated WB
63 Eave/Verge Detail-Concrete Tile with Brick/ Bevel Backed WB
64 Eave/Verge Detail-Trapeziodal Tin with Brick
65 Eave/Verge Detail-Trapeziodal Tin with Bevel Backed WB
66 Eave/Verge Detail-Trapeziodal Tin with Shiplap WB
67 Eave/Verge Detail-Trapeziodal Tin with Rusticated WB
68 Eave/Verge Detail-Trapeziodal Tin with Brick/ Bevel Backed WB
69 Eave/Verge Detail-Metal Tile with Brick
70 Eave/Verge Detail-Metal Tile  with Bevel Backed WB
71 Eave/Verge Detail-Metal Tile  with Shiplap WB
72 Eave/Verge Detail-Metal Tile  with Rusticated WB
73 Eave/Verge Detail-Metal Tile with Brick/ Bevel Backed WB
74 Eave/Verge Detail-Shingles with Brick
75 Eave/Verge Detail-Shingles  with Bevel Backed WB
76 Eave/Verge Detail-Shingles  with Shiplap WB
77 Eave/Verge Detail-Shingles  with Rusticated WB
78 Eave/Verge Detail-Shingles with Brick/ Bevel Backed WB
79 Eave/Verge Detail-Flat Roof with Bevel Backed WB
80 Concrete Tile Detail - Ridge and Valley
81 Trapeziodal Roof Detail - Ridge and Valley
82 Metal Tile Detail - Ridge and Valley
83 Timber Floor Details
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
100 Durability Notes
101 Lumberlok Details 1
102 Lumberlok Details 2
103 GIB shower-Tiled Walls and Base/Bath Tiled Upstand
104 GIB shower-Acrylic Shower
105 Common Details
106
107
108
109
110