enlarged plans

[cherie]

what is the best way to do enlarged plans? is it copy/cut/paste or is there a way to link this?

cherie

vw architect 10.1/osX.2.6

[Kristen]

You can layer link your plan to a layer at a larger scale.

If you use class attributes for lineweights, you can workgroup reference the original plan to a new file and change the lineweights for the larger plan.

[cherie]

can i then clip out portions of the plan that i do not need?

[Kristen]

If you only want to show a portion of the plan, you would have to draw polygons to mask out the rest of the plan. Or you could have that part of the plan that will be sort of trimmed out in the original plan and on its own layer.

If the plan is not likely to be changing much, you might be better off cutting and pasting it into a layer with a larger scale. You'd lose the link, but it's simpler.

There may be some other way to do this. Hopefully someone else will post a better tip -- I'd love to learn an easier way!

[cherie]

thanks for replying kristen. i'll try that.

[Robert Anderson]

A second way to do enlarged plans is to create the portion of the plan you want enlarged in a symbol. When you want to work on that portion of a plan (typically an area with much millwork and/or fixtures, e.g. bath, kitchen, etc.) you select it, enter the symbol and proceed. Then you can put an instance of the symbol on a larger-scale layer and detail it further.

[jnr]

Robert:

This would be a good suggestion for the newsletter.

[Robert Anderson]

Antone, this is a good point. Sometimes it makes more sense to have the enlarged plan be the "original" instead of a symbol definition. Thanks for the input.

[acepernich]

I've done this both by the symbol method (pre- workgroup reference), and by the clipping-the-plan-to-be-enlarged-and-putting-it-on-its-own-layer-and-linking-it method.

An inconvenience with the symbol method is that when editing the symbol, the rest of the plan isn't available to refer/snap to, so it makes coordination of changes to the symbol plan and the main plan somewhat difficult.

[ 06-02-2003, 12:53 PM: Message edited by: Antone Cepernich ]