Interior Elevations

[kevin b]

I am trying to find out how the power users out there are doing interior elevations. Over the last few years (and versions of AC) we have tried a variety of methods, none of which seem perfect, and maybe there is no perfect answer yet.

In a perfect world, it would seem to me that you should be able to model something, (to keep it simple lets say a room that has a piece of casework along one wall base cabinet with sink and an open upper cabinet with shelves) apply materials to those objects so the model renders correctly, the lineweights and fills should all appear correctly in plan view (with that view linked/ imported directly to plotmaker), an interior elevation marker of some sort could be placed in the plan view which is linked to a generated elevation, the lineweights in that generated elevation would be correct (ie. edges of casework bolder than lines on face and so on) that elevation view is imported to plotmaker and moving its location in the layout book updates the plan symbols. You should also be able to place a section or detail marker on that elevation, wich generates a section detail through the cabinets, again with all the lineweights being correct, imported into plotmaker, with symbols linked, etc etc.

Maybe I am doing something wrong, maybe I was taught the wrong way and am missing something in newest version, maybe it just can't be done yet, but I can't get all of these things to happen at once without faking it. Some markers aren't linked and have to be tracked and updated manually, and/or lineweights of elevations are all the same, either have to trace over lines, redraw manually, place interior elevation generated lines in another window and change weights, etc., independent details are used but are linked to markers, etc etc etc.

I'd like to hear how everyone else is doing it, the results they get, pros and cons, etc.

Thanks in advance.

[Anonymous]

Here's the actual part.

The default is to use the ID for the drawing number (or letter, as is my preference). It picks up the room number from the zone, and the sheet number is automatic. It won't suit everyone, but I like it.

BTW: It only uses the last character of the ID, so I can use INT101A, etc... as the ID. This way they keep to themselves in the long list of sections in the Navigator.

[Andy Thomson]

While you are sharing your goodies Matthew A tired, old, wrinkly-faced senior here asked if we can have detail drawing labels that reference both ways, so the detail will show you what page it came from, as well as the detail on the source page telling you where the detail is.

I suspect it is a simple hack, and I am just about to start it, but wondered if you have made one already??

BTW - A while back you gave me your window/door labels that show in section/elevation, I seem to have misplaced them......

Thanks!

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[Andy Thomson]

I like your INt Elev part! But why does one of the pens insist on changing to pen 7 (the background fill of the body of the label part) when I open in PM??

I tried changing the pens in the object script to no avail, our white pen is pen 20 - where is Pen 7 being set from in the script??

Thanks...

Andy

[Andy Thomson]

I tried to modify an old MSA title object, the stuff PM reads works fine, PmDrNo, but PmAShNo seems trickier, can you help? What I am after is something like this:

Thanks

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