WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:04.460 So, now we want to start placing the blocks we have in our model. 00:04.460 --> 00:10.840 If we take a look at our handout, we see that going left to right, we have the major blocks, 00:10.840 --> 00:18.140 which are windows, shutters, and the front door and the garage doors, and then some minor 00:18.140 --> 00:19.140 blocks. 00:19.140 --> 00:25.080 We have the downspouts in the gutters, we have the lights at the front entry, we have a 00:25.080 --> 00:30.560 little sign for our house number, and we have on the top of the roof the vents. 00:30.560 --> 00:34.800 And in this elevation, we actually only have vents that are facing to the left and to 00:34.800 --> 00:35.800 the right. 00:35.800 --> 00:39.080 We don't have any vents facing straight at us. 00:39.080 --> 00:42.480 So let's start with the major blocks for this model. 00:42.480 --> 00:48.000 In order to place the windows and the shutters, we actually need to offset the head height, 00:48.000 --> 00:51.440 which we can see is 6 foot 8 from the finished floor. 00:51.440 --> 00:57.920 So let's go o enter for offset, 6 feet 8 enter, I'll grab that finished floor line, not 00:57.920 --> 01:03.480 the ground line, it's the finished floor line, and go up and click, escape escape, and 01:03.480 --> 01:07.560 just so that I can understand it's the line we're looking for, I'm going to migrate it 01:07.560 --> 01:08.960 to medium. 01:08.960 --> 01:13.880 So we can see that this intersection and this intersection will be where our window meets 01:13.880 --> 01:16.440 at the top left and top right. 01:16.440 --> 01:21.400 So I'll hit i enter, and we can see that we don't have anything in our current drawing. 01:21.400 --> 01:22.920 Except for that no plot view. 01:22.920 --> 01:26.000 In this case, I want to add the elevation blocks as a library. 01:26.000 --> 01:33.320 I'll go to the libraries tab, browse, and see we already have our plan blocks open in 01:33.320 --> 01:34.320 our last library. 01:34.320 --> 01:41.520 I'm going to select the elevation blocks folder and hit open. 01:41.520 --> 01:46.280 Now we have in our drop down the plan box library and the elevation blocks library. 01:46.280 --> 01:50.320 If you don't have these libraries or you want to reload them, just remember at any time, 01:50.320 --> 01:57.720 you can hit the browse button here and select the folder where your blocks are hosted. 01:57.720 --> 01:59.240 I'll hit cancel. 01:59.240 --> 02:03.880 And here we see all of the blocks we're going to need to be placed on our elevation. 02:03.880 --> 02:07.760 Now all of these blocks are going to be placed on the A medium layer, which is our current 02:07.760 --> 02:13.800 layer, and we can see that they are white, which implies to me that these are all on layer 02:13.800 --> 02:14.800 zero. 02:14.800 --> 02:18.200 So we're going to start with this window over here, and I don't know the size of this 02:18.280 --> 02:22.000 window, but what I can do is scroll down to my windows. 02:22.000 --> 02:27.720 I see that I have a two feet six inch window, which is five feet tall, and a three feet 02:27.720 --> 02:30.120 zero inch window, which is five feet tall. 02:30.120 --> 02:31.120 Let's use quick measure. 02:31.120 --> 02:33.520 I'll check the space between. 02:33.520 --> 02:38.320 I see that this is a five foot window wide, which means that it is two, two and a half 02:38.320 --> 02:40.240 feet window side by side. 02:40.240 --> 02:44.840 So I know that this window is going to be this one, two six five zero. 02:44.840 --> 02:48.480 Before I click this window to place, we need to change the scale factor. 02:48.480 --> 02:50.000 Right now it's set to 48. 02:50.000 --> 02:52.600 We need to change that back to a scale factor of one. 02:52.600 --> 02:56.360 And now we can click and bring this block into our model. 02:56.360 --> 03:00.360 I can see that the insertion point is set to the top left. 03:00.360 --> 03:04.880 We have that snap right here, but I'm going to go to my running object snaps and turn 03:04.880 --> 03:07.640 on intersection. 03:07.640 --> 03:13.040 And now I'll be able to choose the intersection here, click to place. 03:13.040 --> 03:16.120 And we can continue placing our doors and windows. 03:16.120 --> 03:18.120 Let's use quick measure again. 03:18.120 --> 03:21.160 This opening is six feet wide for the window. 03:21.160 --> 03:26.520 So I'll choose this block instead, three feet and three feet is six feet. 03:26.520 --> 03:28.520 I'll place it at the intersection. 03:28.520 --> 03:29.520 Excellent. 03:29.520 --> 03:31.960 We'll come back and do the shutters at the end. 03:31.960 --> 03:34.360 Let's continue with our major elements. 03:34.360 --> 03:38.680 Here's my front door, which is the three feet by six feet eight. 03:38.680 --> 03:41.600 And again, this is two doors, so it's six feet wide. 03:41.600 --> 03:42.680 I'll click. 03:42.720 --> 03:46.560 I can again see this is going to be set at head height. 03:46.560 --> 03:48.080 Excellent. 03:48.080 --> 03:50.040 The garage doors are a little different. 03:50.040 --> 03:52.720 They need to go down all the way to the ground line. 03:52.720 --> 03:56.560 There can't be a big curb at the front of the garage or the cars couldn't get in. 03:56.560 --> 04:02.120 So when I click the door, 8070, I'll see that this is also at head height. 04:02.120 --> 04:05.240 Let's click up the head height and see if it fits. 04:05.240 --> 04:09.360 In this case, it did because we knew we had a six inch difference, 04:09.360 --> 04:12.400 but you might have to grab this block and move it up and down 04:12.400 --> 04:15.560 if you were working on a different project. 04:15.560 --> 04:19.000 I can copy this block or click here to bring in a new option. 04:19.000 --> 04:25.920 I'll do that, click to place and I'll zoom out, control us to save. 04:25.920 --> 04:28.240 We don't need our construction geometry anymore. 04:28.240 --> 04:30.920 We can actually remove it before we place the shutters. 04:30.920 --> 04:35.200 So I'm going to select this horizontal line and then go across making sure I get 04:35.200 --> 04:46.080 two lines at every block and then I'm going to delete them. 04:46.080 --> 04:49.440 All right, I'll just zoom out to make sure I see two lines at every block. 04:49.440 --> 04:53.320 I'll hit the delete key and control us to save. 04:53.320 --> 04:55.560 Now we can go in and do our next round of blocks. 04:55.560 --> 04:59.040 In this case, I'm going to start with the window shutters and then I'm going to 04:59.040 --> 05:03.280 move on to the gutter and the roof elements. 05:03.360 --> 05:05.320 Let's zoom in over here. 05:05.320 --> 05:10.000 By scroll down, I see I have a window shutter and of course, 05:10.000 --> 05:14.200 the objects we've given here are the exact objects you'll need for this drawing. 05:14.200 --> 05:17.960 If you're working in an office, you might have many shutters to choose from, 05:17.960 --> 05:20.440 but hopefully you have a blocks library like this, 05:20.440 --> 05:25.200 where you can choose one or more options that fit your project. 05:25.200 --> 05:28.360 If they don't fit your project, you might need to create a new block, 05:28.360 --> 05:33.520 which we've done before in our earlier courses and add to your blocks library. 05:33.520 --> 05:36.680 In this case, we've given the blocks, so we're going to keep going forward. 05:36.680 --> 05:40.520 But I encourage you to understand that these are not complicated blocks. 05:40.520 --> 05:44.560 You could be making them or downloading them from websites like bimobject.com 05:44.560 --> 05:47.480 in case you need to insert specific geometry. 05:47.480 --> 05:49.400 All right, let's grab this window shutter. 05:49.400 --> 05:53.840 Once again, I can see the insertion point is at the top left. 05:53.840 --> 05:56.680 So I'm going to come up and choose on the right side of this window, 05:56.680 --> 05:59.000 click the place. 05:59.000 --> 06:03.960 And in this case, you can see our window shutter is not the exact right size. 06:03.960 --> 06:10.080 In fact, it comes down to the bottom of the brick, not to the bottom of the window. 06:10.080 --> 06:12.960 So this block is too big. 06:12.960 --> 06:17.240 Now, if I was doing something quick, I could use a reference scale. 06:17.240 --> 06:18.480 I'll just show that as an example. 06:18.480 --> 06:19.640 You don't need to do this. 06:19.640 --> 06:21.720 Scale is SC. 06:21.720 --> 06:23.720 I'll pick this top corner. 06:23.720 --> 06:26.240 And then I'll do our enter for reference. 06:26.240 --> 06:29.000 This lets me pick the top and bottom of the window. 06:29.000 --> 06:33.480 And now my next click point is going to be the exact height of the window. 06:33.480 --> 06:36.640 So I can choose here on top of the brick, click, 06:36.640 --> 06:38.920 and now it appears to be the right size. 06:38.920 --> 06:43.200 But it's actually about an inch too short on this side. 06:43.200 --> 06:45.640 That's not going to make a huge difference in the field 06:45.640 --> 06:48.480 or when we're presenting our construction documents. 06:48.480 --> 06:49.640 I'll hit undo. 06:49.640 --> 06:53.280 And now I actually want to fix this the right way with you following along. 06:53.280 --> 06:55.240 I'm going to go and measure the difference, 06:55.240 --> 06:59.960 which is going to be the distance of the height of this brick. 06:59.960 --> 07:03.600 And I can see that's going to be four inches. 07:03.600 --> 07:07.240 In order to edit this block, we could open this family, 07:07.240 --> 07:09.320 edit the family, and reinsert. 07:09.320 --> 07:12.920 Or in this case, I want to edit this block in my drawing. 07:12.920 --> 07:18.240 So I'll select my block, do BE for block edit. 07:18.240 --> 07:22.000 And if I had the block selected, it will pre-select here. 07:22.000 --> 07:23.560 And that's exactly what I want. 07:23.560 --> 07:25.640 I'll hit OK. 07:25.640 --> 07:27.720 And now I want to stretch. 07:27.720 --> 07:29.640 Remember that this is the insertion point. 07:29.640 --> 07:33.400 I want to stretch the bottom of the window up four inches. 07:33.400 --> 07:36.240 So I'll go S, Enter for Stretch. 07:36.240 --> 07:39.440 I'll grab the full bottom of the window, Enter to Sam Done. 07:39.440 --> 07:42.040 And I'll go up for Enter. 07:42.040 --> 07:45.680 Now that has placed these objects slightly below the midpoint. 07:45.680 --> 07:48.480 So I'll do another stretch, S, Enter. 07:48.480 --> 07:51.360 I'll grab all of the objects in the middle of my window. 07:51.360 --> 07:53.000 And I'll go up half the distance. 07:53.000 --> 07:57.400 I'll click anywhere, show my 90 degree angle, to Enter. 07:57.400 --> 07:59.760 So now I've gone up four inches from the bottom 07:59.760 --> 08:01.960 and two inches on the middle geometry 08:01.960 --> 08:04.480 so that the window is still symmetrical. 08:04.480 --> 08:06.600 I'll hit close the block editor. 08:06.600 --> 08:08.640 And I can choose to save or discard. 08:08.640 --> 08:11.520 In this case, I do want to save the changes. 08:11.520 --> 08:14.040 And now we see the block is the right height. 08:14.040 --> 08:17.080 And we didn't compromise the width. 08:17.080 --> 08:18.240 Excellent. 08:18.240 --> 08:21.480 I'm going to mirror this across to the other side. 08:21.480 --> 08:25.080 I could copy this. 08:25.080 --> 08:27.800 I'll show that as an example. 08:27.800 --> 08:29.440 But now let's take a look and see what happens 08:29.440 --> 08:32.040 if I change the size of the window again. 08:32.040 --> 08:34.080 I'm going to go BE. 08:34.080 --> 08:34.960 And you don't need to do this. 08:34.960 --> 08:36.520 You can just watch. 08:36.520 --> 08:41.280 And I'm going to stretch this to be two inches wider, to Enter. 08:41.280 --> 08:44.200 I'll close my block editor, save the changes. 08:44.200 --> 08:47.000 And now we see because I didn't mirror this object, 08:47.000 --> 08:48.560 I copied it over. 08:48.560 --> 08:52.120 The change happened and stretched this one to the right 08:52.120 --> 08:54.400 and this one to the right. 08:54.400 --> 08:56.120 It's always safest to make sure that you're 08:56.120 --> 08:59.120 using the right insertion point connected 08:59.120 --> 09:00.480 to your geometry. 09:00.480 --> 09:02.360 And if this had been mirrored, it would have 09:02.360 --> 09:05.360 extended to the left, which is exactly what we want. 09:05.360 --> 09:09.520 I'm going to edit this block one more time 09:09.520 --> 09:16.200 and fix that stretch back two inches, 09:16.200 --> 09:18.720 close my block editor, and save. 09:18.720 --> 09:22.920 And now let's mirror this shutter over to the left. 09:22.920 --> 09:26.240 I'll select my shutter, choose mirror. 09:26.240 --> 09:28.800 I'll pick the midpoint at the top of the window, 09:28.800 --> 09:33.760 show up in the 90 degrees, click, and enter. 09:33.760 --> 09:36.160 And now we have a shutter on the left and right of our window. 09:38.920 --> 09:40.720 In order to place it on this window, 09:40.720 --> 09:42.960 we can do some grip edits. 09:42.960 --> 09:44.280 I'll click the grip to make it hot. 09:44.280 --> 09:47.400 Right-click copy. 09:47.400 --> 09:50.400 And I'll place the copy of this one here. 09:50.400 --> 09:52.000 And I'll do the same with this. 09:52.000 --> 09:52.960 Click the grip to make it hot. 09:52.960 --> 09:56.720 Right-click copy and place it here. 09:56.720 --> 10:02.680 Escape, escape, zoom out, and control us to save. 10:02.680 --> 10:05.440 In the next video, we'll work on the other blocks 10:05.440 --> 10:09.800 for the model, including the roof, gutters, and additional blocks.