WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:04.840 Now we're going to take a look at some things we can do to help clean up our floor plan 00:04.840 --> 00:06.000 a bit. 00:06.000 --> 00:10.960 So one of the things I want to do is I want to go in and I want to remove anything that 00:10.960 --> 00:12.880 we're not really using anymore. 00:12.880 --> 00:18.600 So a good example of that is we win in and we added these three foot dimensions and reference 00:18.600 --> 00:19.600 planes. 00:19.600 --> 00:22.640 Well, the windows have been placed and we no longer need those. 00:22.640 --> 00:27.160 So I can select these elements and I can delete them. 00:27.160 --> 00:34.120 The next thing I can do is I can see that when I look at my section, it's an okay place 00:34.120 --> 00:38.160 to cut a section, but it's not exactly the most exciting location. 00:38.160 --> 00:41.360 I'd rather go through maybe the lobby here or something like that. 00:41.360 --> 00:47.600 So I'm going to move this section down through so that it's going to cut through my stair 00:47.600 --> 00:51.240 and through this lobby portion because it's got a little bit more going on and it's 00:51.240 --> 00:54.160 a lot more interesting to look at. 00:54.160 --> 01:01.200 Because I did that, I'm going to go ahead and move my room tag for the stair over and 01:01.200 --> 01:05.360 just kind of tighten that up a bit so it looks good and then I'll do the same thing with 01:05.360 --> 01:06.360 the section. 01:06.360 --> 01:09.960 It doesn't need to go out as far as it's shown there. 01:09.960 --> 01:16.480 Okay, now that I'm looking at it, I can see that there's a few things that I should probably 01:16.480 --> 01:17.480 update. 01:17.480 --> 01:20.000 I think this is a little tight with those room tags. 01:20.000 --> 01:26.320 So it's probably not a bad idea to move these guys out and then adjust the leader and 01:26.320 --> 01:34.920 a lot of that's already taken care of because we added the tag, got to add the leader first 01:34.920 --> 01:41.560 because we added the type to the tag and so we should be able to move these pretty quickly. 01:41.560 --> 01:47.080 I do notice that it's a little tricky with keeping that tag horizontal so I've noticed 01:47.160 --> 01:54.560 that if I move it just a little bit beyond the horizontal line and then I can move the 01:54.560 --> 01:57.520 actual dot back to where it needs to be. 01:57.520 --> 02:01.160 So just doing those two things kind of makes it look a little better. 02:01.160 --> 02:07.200 The other thing I can do is I can take my furniture and if I go into my object style setting, 02:07.200 --> 02:11.760 so if you remember from one of our earlier lessons, object style is going to be the baseline 02:11.760 --> 02:15.480 for how we determine our line weights on these objects. 02:15.480 --> 02:20.640 So I can go into object styles, which is going to be from our managed tab, object styles 02:20.640 --> 02:27.480 and I can find furniture and instead of using a black color, I could tone that down to 02:27.480 --> 02:32.480 like a medium or even like a medium light gray color and that'll give it the appearance 02:32.480 --> 02:38.640 of half tone so it's not as bold on the plan. 02:38.640 --> 02:40.960 You can see it lightened it up quite a bit. 02:40.960 --> 02:47.120 The other thing I can do is I have the option with my color fill legend or color fill scheme 02:47.120 --> 02:51.200 that I can set it either to be in the background, which is what it's doing now, which is why 02:51.200 --> 02:57.040 we're seeing these white spaces here and I can change that to foreground and now this 02:57.040 --> 02:58.720 is a personal preference thing. 02:58.720 --> 03:03.560 So if you wanted to have it this way or the other way, that's totally up to you. 03:03.560 --> 03:07.080 Personally, I think it's weird how it cuts into the walls. 03:07.080 --> 03:11.120 So I prefer to use background because I prefer to have the walls stand out a little bit 03:11.120 --> 03:14.080 more. 03:14.080 --> 03:18.280 The next thing we're going to look at here is the graphics of the stairs. 03:18.280 --> 03:22.640 So stairs contain a lot of different components and there's multiple different ways that we 03:22.640 --> 03:25.720 can go through and update the way they look. 03:25.720 --> 03:29.080 This is all going to be from visibility and graphic overrides. 03:29.080 --> 03:36.760 So if I were to go to visibility graphic overrides or the keyboard shortcut VV on my keyboard, 03:36.760 --> 03:41.760 the VV Victor Victor, then I can go in and I can find there's two things that we have 03:41.760 --> 03:42.760 to mess with. 03:42.760 --> 03:43.760 The stairs. 03:43.760 --> 03:48.000 So I just hit S on the keyboard to advance to the S section here. 03:48.000 --> 03:51.560 And if I expand it, you can see there's quite a bit going on. 03:51.560 --> 03:56.800 And what we're seeing here is these are all the lines above the cut line. 03:56.800 --> 04:01.800 So all these above lines here are what we're seeing across. 04:01.800 --> 04:04.400 And sometimes it helps to maybe knock a few of those back. 04:04.400 --> 04:14.640 So if we were to say above, and I said, OK, well, let's turn off the supports for stairs. 04:14.640 --> 04:19.400 And then maybe we can turn off the riser lines. 04:19.400 --> 04:26.280 So if I turn off both of those and hit OK, it takes down quite a bit of the information 04:26.280 --> 04:28.720 that we're seeing there and it's less cluttered. 04:28.720 --> 04:34.840 So if I go back in there and do the same thing, but for railings and for this one, what 04:34.840 --> 04:39.160 I'll do is I'll just turn all of those off, meaning it won't show the railing beyond 04:39.160 --> 04:40.160 the cut line. 04:40.160 --> 04:43.120 So I'll hit OK. 04:43.120 --> 04:48.160 And you can see it takes out even more of the lines and cleans up the plan considerably. 04:48.160 --> 04:54.920 And that took place on both of our stairs because they're both part of the same plan. 04:54.920 --> 05:00.160 Another thing we can do is with our department legend, you may notice that we're stuck 05:00.160 --> 05:03.160 with these kind of square shapes here. 05:03.160 --> 05:04.360 And that's simply not the case. 05:04.360 --> 05:12.720 So we do have options to where we can actually adjust the shape of our color swatch here. 05:12.720 --> 05:17.800 So that's going to be through edit type after you select your color fill legend. 05:17.800 --> 05:23.600 And you can see the swatch width and the swatch height are going to be the same here. 05:23.600 --> 05:27.680 And so if I wanted to make the width a little bit wider or narrow up the height, I can 05:27.680 --> 05:29.480 do all those things here. 05:29.480 --> 05:34.320 The other things that we can do is we can go in and we can adjust the text that you're 05:34.320 --> 05:35.320 seeing. 05:35.320 --> 05:42.280 So when you look at the text here, the 316th text, that's what you're seeing is administration, 05:42.280 --> 05:43.680 assembly and core. 05:43.680 --> 05:48.600 And then you have the title text, which is the quarter inch for department legend. 05:48.600 --> 05:52.280 And those can be those can be updated through this window here. 05:52.280 --> 05:58.920 So if I wanted to adjust my swatch width to be more of a rectangle, I can make it more 05:58.920 --> 06:00.880 of like a two to one ratio. 06:00.880 --> 06:05.600 So I can set that to three quarter inch and hit OK. 06:05.600 --> 06:10.240 And you can see it makes it a little bit of a larger swatch. 06:10.240 --> 06:13.680 But if you're looking at it and you're like, oh man, that's a little too heavy now, well, 06:13.680 --> 06:19.680 we can go in and we can easily adjust the height of that swatch to be a little bit smaller. 06:19.680 --> 06:28.440 So instead of three eighths, maybe we go down to a quarter inch. 06:28.440 --> 06:30.280 And that narrows it up a bit. 06:30.280 --> 06:33.360 It's more in line with the height of the text. 06:33.360 --> 06:38.160 And that's just a way we can make these things look a little better. 06:38.160 --> 06:42.720 Also depending on where you place this originally, you might want to shift it around to get 06:42.720 --> 06:46.760 it to look a little cleaner. 06:46.760 --> 06:50.720 And those are some of the things we can do to the floor plan to tighten it up a bit.