Creating and managing callout views

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After completing this lesson, you will be able to understand called out views,

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create a called out view of the core walls and dimension the call walls.

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The objective domains covered are 3.1 a use dimensions

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and 4.1 E create and manage elevation and called out views.

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A called out creates a detail at a larger scale.

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A called out can be rectangular or polygonal to suit your geometry.

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A called out typically will then contain additional two

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D detailing to provide more information about construction details.

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Go ahead and open up the model 024, creating and managing call out views.

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The model opens in a 00 ground floor plan.

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Our first task is to create a call out of our core area.

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Let's go ahead and zoom in to the core area

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to create the call out view, select the view ribbon.

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And here you will find call outs

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note that there are two methods to create a

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call out for simple geometry as we have here,

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we can use a simple rectangular call out,

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but we also have the ability to sketch a polygonal shape for more complex geometry.

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This example here will go ahead and select rectangle.

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We can then construct a rectangle around our geometry.

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Once we've constructed this rectangle, we can select the called out fence

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and utilize the grips here to move the clip planes

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or reposition the call out head.

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Once this is done, we can then go ahead and open up the called out view.

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You'll notice by default that it's named 00 ground floor hyphen called out one.

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We'll begin by changing the scale factor

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on the view control toolbar.

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You can see the current scale is 1/8 of an inch is equal to 1 ft.

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We'll go ahead and change this to one quarter of an inch equals 1 ft.

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We can then rename the view.

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So here we'll call this one core details.

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We're now ready to detail our core walls.

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Let's begin by adding some aligned dimensions to detail the corals

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on the anoto ribbon

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select aligned dimension.

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When adding dimensions. By default, you can select each face of a wall

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and then place a dimension down

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to make her dimensioning more efficient

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rather than picking individual references.

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We can pick entire walls.

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We can then configure the options

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in here. I want to also detail openings,

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but I want to detail the width of the openings

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rather than from the center line of the opening.

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I also want to be able to obtain intersecting walls.

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But in this case, I don't want to get intersecting grids.

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So we can go ahead and select, OK.

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And here, now we can pick an entire wall and then place our dimensions down.

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We'll repeat that on the right hand side over here.

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When using this method to pick walls,

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you'll note that sometimes we get dimensions that we don't actually require.

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For example, here, I've got a dimension of zero inches.

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We can remove these dimensions by selecting a string of dimensions

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and then write mouse clicking over the witness line.

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So here we can delete the witness line

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and we can then repeat that in this area here.

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So we can locate the witness line,

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right mouse and delete the witness line

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to make the dimensions a little more readable. We can drag the text.

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So I'm going to select this string of dimensions here

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and then I can use the grip here to drag the text to a better location

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to further tidy up the dimensions.

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You'll notice here that we have witness lines

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which are projecting down to the elements.

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This means sometimes that the witness lines will travel through the object itself.

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Of course, I can manually edit these just by dragging these witness lines,

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but there's quite a few to do.

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So what I'm going to do now is create

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a new dimension style to suppress these witness lines

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to do this. I can select the string of dimensions

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and in the properties paddock here you can see.

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Currently, I'm using this linear dimension style arrow 3 30 seconds aerial.

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Let's select edit type.

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I'm going to duplicate this dimension style.

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And after the text aerial, I'm going to type in here

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no witness lines.

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If we have a look down through some of the properties here,

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you can see that we have witness line control.

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Currently, this is set to gap to element.

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I'm going to change this to fixed to dimension line

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and you can then see the fixed witness length line will be 3 30 seconds of an inch.

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Let's go ahead and select, OK.

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You can now see that all of our dimensions have

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changed and the witness lines are now a fixed length

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to apply that to other dimensions.

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For example, over here, I can select a string of dimensions,

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go to the properties pallet and in the type selector,

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you'll now notice that we have different styles.

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So here I can use my no witness line style

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and that quickly edits all of the witness lines to that fixed length.