Create and control detail and drafting views

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in this video,

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you'll learn how to create detailed views and

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place various detailed components in the detailed views.

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You'll also see how to use detailed views from one project in another project.

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When creating details, you first need to decide what type of view you want to use.

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You can use detailed views that are associated

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with the model or you can use drafting views

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that are independent of the model.

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For example,

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here we have a detailed view and you can see the model elements here in the view,

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detailed views can be section views or call out views.

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Additionally,

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you can create a drafting view by switching to

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the view tab and then in the create panel,

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click drafting view.

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When creating a drafting view,

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you can specify the name and then choose the scale and then click OK.

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And now you have a drafting view and as you can see it's blank and you

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can switch to the annotate tab and use the various tools to create a detail.

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So once again, are you going to create a detail that's based on the model?

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Then you use a detail view. If you want an independent, then you use a drafting view.

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Additionally, when you create a section or a call out

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for example, I'll start the section tool,

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you can choose to reference another view and this

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could be a drafting view or a detailed view.

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So be aware of that functionality and rev it

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also, it's important that you know how to configure various detail elements.

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When I switched to the

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manage tab and in the settings, panel, expand the additional settings button,

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you can see several options here.

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Let's start by looking at line styles.

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When you click line styles,

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it opens the line styles dialog and here you

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actually see the lines category and then various subcategories.

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So when you create a new line style,

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you actually create a subcategory of lines

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under modify subcategories, click new

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and this opens the new subcategory dialogue

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for this example,

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let's enter red

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dash five

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and then click OK.

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Now we have a new subcategory

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and will change the line weight to five

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and then we'll change the line color to red

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and now we have a thick red line.

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Let's click OK to close the line styles dialog and

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then go back to the additional settings options here,

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click fill patterns to open the fill patterns. Dialogue.

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You can create drafting patterns or model patterns.

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When you take a look at the differences,

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you can see that drafting patterns are more symbolic,

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whereas model patterns represent actual sizes of

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something that would indicate a model element.

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They're not actually model elements, but for example with 4" tile,

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it's a pattern that will represent 4" tile.

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You can create new fill patterns,

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edit fill patterns and even duplicate fill patterns.

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For example, I'll duplicate the four inch tile

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and

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let's name it six inch tile.

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When you create a model fill pattern,

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it can be a basic pattern or a custom pattern and

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when it's basic it can have crosshatch lines or parallel lines

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and then you simply control the line angle and the spacing

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of each line depending on how many lines you have.

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So we'll change this to

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and then click. Ok.

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Similarly, when you create a drafting pattern,

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you can create a basic pattern or a custom pattern.

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When you use a custom pattern, you can then import a P a T file.

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I'll click cancel for now and click cancel to close

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the fill patterns. Dialogue.

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Let's take a look at how to use some of these tools.

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I'll switch to the drafting view

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and then on the annotate tab in the detail panel.

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I'll click detail line

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and then on the contextual ribbon tab. I'll expand the line style.

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Drop down and select red dash five

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the line style we just created

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and I'll use the rectangle option and simply sketch a rectangle

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and then I'll click modify to end the command

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at this point we could use the various tools to place filled regions

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or detailed components or repeating details and

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create a detail inside of our rectangle

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for this example.

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We'll go back to the detail view and take a look at a few other things here that we can do

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to begin.

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We'll look back at the detail panel and I'll

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expand the component split button and click detail component

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and when I look in the type selector,

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you can see that there are several detailed

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components that have been loaded into this project

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for now I'm going to click modify to end the command

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and then I'll go back and activate the repeating detail component tool.

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And before we create a repeating detail component let's

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click edit type to open the type properties dialog

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and then we can see all of the type parameters that make up a repeating detail type.

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When I expand the detailed drop down we can see

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all of the same detailed components that were available.

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When we were looking at the detailed component types that were available.

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So the point here is that when you create

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a repeating detail it's based on a specific detail component

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and then you can control the layout method and there are several options there

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such as fixed distance or fixed number and depending on which option you choose,

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you can then control the spacing.

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Just a quick note there.

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If you choose fixed number,

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the spacing becomes unavailable and then you control

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the number of the actual repeating detail element.

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But for the other options here you can

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control the spacing here in the type properties dialog

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and you can even add a rotation to the repeating detailed component.

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I'll click okay?

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And then I will click here at the base of this wall

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and create a repeating detailed component

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and then click modify to end the command

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and now you can see the brick repeating detail

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and I'll change it to the brick with mortar,

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repeating detail and we can see a little

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bit more detailed repeating detail component there.

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Let's go back and look at another tool.

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I'm going to activate the filled region tool and then let's change the type to Earth.

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And I'm gonna use the

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line option

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and I will sketch a

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region

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and if we need to do a little cleanup here

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make sure we create a

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closed loop and then I'll click finish edit mode

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and now we have a filled region

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if you want you can switch to the final version here and see

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several more detailed components placed.

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But once again there are several tools available on

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the annotate tab that you can use to create

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a detail

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lastly

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on the insert tab in the load. From library panel,

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expand the insert from file tool

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and you can see

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that there are two options here,

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insert views from file

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and insert to the elements from file.

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So once you have a detail created in one project or even a project template

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you could insert it into another project.

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The insert views from file will copy a specific view and as you can see

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there in the tool tip it will allow you to copy a drafting view.

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Whereas insert to the elements from file

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that will allow you to copy 2D elements from a detail view.

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So just like what we have right here in this current view,

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we have all of these detailed components.

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And so we could use the insert two d elements from file,

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and we could open up another project and then use

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that tool to copy those from this specific project.

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So be aware that those tools are available,

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so you don't have to recreate those details in every single project.