Cad Drawing of the Garage

Are You Ready For Drawing on CAD?

• At this point it is assumed that you have created a template in Vectorworks CAD which has a title and border and has a layer which has the correct scale and grid. If you have not completed this see;Setting up a Drawing Template on Vectorworks CAD
• It is also assumed that you have completed a sketch and computed the vertical heights of the major components that will be drawn. If you have not completed this see: Sketching the Garage on a Paper Grid.

If You are Ready then Complete the Following Steps

1. Transfer Sketch to CAD
2. Setting Up Layers
3. Drawing Footings
4. Drawing Foundation Wall
5. Drawing the Concrete Floor Slab
6. Drawing the Walls
7. Drawing the Roof
8. Cutting Holes for Doors and Garage Door
9. Rendering and 3-D Views
10. Drawing the Garage Door
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12. Inserting the Door
13. Inserting and Editing Window Symbols
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16. Landscape, Lawn and Driveway
17. Soffit & Ceiling

1.0Transfer Sketch to CAD

• Using the line tool only transfer the sketch from paper to the CAD drawing on the 'construction' layer. You should enable snap to grid on the constraints pallet.
• Draw only in lines. Do not include thickness for walls, or make the lines thicker to make them "look better". These lines will serve only as a guide for the rest of the drawing.
• Indicate the locations of windows and doors with small lines perpendicular to the walls as shown. Provide 1200 mm for the door. You may label the drawing with text or draw in a door symbol if you wish but this is not necerssary.
• See example below.

2.0Setting Up Layers

• You should have three layers.
  • The first layer is Title Block and Border and is a scale of 1:1
  • The second is 'Construction' and has a scale of 1:100
  • The thrid is 'Building' and has a scale of 1:100

3.0Drawing Footings

• Footings will be drawn on the 'building' layer with the wall tool (a very wide short wall). Be sure to have your layer options set to 'Show Snap Others'. (You can find this option under the organize menu.) The Wall Tool tool is accessed in the wall tool pallet. (If not available find it under the 'Pallet' menu) You must pick the tool called "Wall Tool" (by clicking down and holding when on "Wall Tool Straight").

• There is some setup required to correctly position the footing under the foundation wall.
  • To do this we must understand how the wall tool is able to snap to a control line. It has 4 different modes; snap to top of control line, snap to centre of control line, snap to bottom of control line, and custom snap to control line. The control line is the line in the sketch that you put into CAD.
  • For this project when we draw the foundation wall and the other walls we should allign them using the snap to top of control line (construction line) in such a way that the outside of the walls are all alligned to the construction line. ( This way the outside of the garage will not show differences in thickness of the walls from the outside.) If we centred the footing on the construction line, as shown below, then the footing would not be properly positioned under the foundation wall.

 

• To correct for this we would have to offset the footing by 100 mm to the right as shown below.

• The offset and width of the footing are set in the wall preferences window. For a foundation wall thickness of 200 mm and a width of 600 mm the offset should be 100 mm as shown above. Fill in the Separation and Offset in the wall preferences window. Click OK then select the Custom Control Line Module mode to draw the footings with the specified offset.

• In order to snap to the lines in your sketch you must select the layer option "Show/Snap Others" by pressing Cntrl+8 or picking this mode from the menu as shown below. If you are now drawing on the footing layer you are now ready to draw the footings.

 

• The footings should look like this when you are done. Notice that the top left corner is not connected. This can be corrected using the wall join tool.

•  To correct the walls select the wall join tool from the wall pallet then drag the curser from one wall to the otrher to be joined as shown below.

• You must now give the footings the correct depth and location vertically.
  • Select all the footings you just drew. Then open 'Object Info' pallet under the pallets menu. Often this pallet will take up the whole screen. You can move it to the left hand side if you wish to view your drawingat the same time.
  • In the 'Object Info' pallet fill in the 'Bot Z' with the vertical location of the bottom of the footings. To find this value look at the vertical dimensions on your sketch. In my example, I would use -2000 mm.
  • In the 'Object Info' pallet fill in the '+- Z' with the vertical thickness of the footings. To find this value look at the vertical dimensions on your sketch. In my example, I would use 200 mm.
• You can now check the location in three space using the rotate tool in the 3-D tool pallet. Be sure to go back to plan plan view before going onto the next step. (Cntrl+5)

4.0Drawing Foundation Wall

• Because you will not be able to see through the footings that you just drew, draw the foundation walls onthe "Construction' layer. 
• Choose the wall tool and choose a separation of 200 mm. Select snap to top of control line mode.

• Draw in the foundation such that the outside of the foundation wall snaps to the construction lines. Draw the foundation walls under the doors or garage doors, it should be continuous all the way around the building.

• If you look at your foundation wall in 3-d it should look like this.

• Select all the foundation walls and cut them fromthe 'Construction' layer. Go to the 'Building'layer and paste them in place. (from the menu or Ctrl+Alt+V)
• You must now give the foundation walls the correct depth and location vertically.
  • With the foundation walls still selected, open 'Object Info' pallet under the pallets menu.
  • In the 'Object Info' pallet fill in the 'Bot Z' with the vertical location of the bottom of the foundation wall. To find this value look at the vertical dimensions on your sketch. In my example, I would use -1800 mm.
  • In the 'Object Info' pallet fill in the '+- Z' with the vertical thickness of the foundation wall. To find this value look at the vertical dimensions on your sketch. In my example, I would use 2300 mm.
• You can now check the location in three space using the rotate tool in the 3-D tool pallet. Be sure to go back to plan plan view before going onto the next step. (Cntrl+5)

5.0Drawing the Concrete Floor Slab

• In the 'Building' layer, draw a rectangle that fits within the foundation wall as shown. Select Extrude under the Model menu and extrude 200 mm. ( under Model menu or ctrl+E) Click OK.

• Move the floor slab down by going to 3-D move and moving down the z axis by -200 mm. ( Tool menu, Move, Move 3D or Ctrl+Alt+M)

6.0Drawing the Walls

• Because you will not be able to see through the footings and foundation that you just drew, draw the walls onthe "Construction' layer.
• Choose the wall tool and choose a separation of 120 mm. Select snap to top of control line mode.

• Select all the walls and cut them fromthe 'Construction' layer. Go to the 'Building'layer and paste them in place. (from the menu or Ctrl+Alt+V)
• You must now give the walls the correct depth and location vertically.
  • With the walls still selected, open 'Object Info' pallet under the pallets menu.
  • In the 'Object Info' pallet fill in the 'Bot Z' with the vertical location of the bottom of the wall. To find this value look at the vertical dimensions on your sketch. In my example, I would use 500 mm.
  • In the 'Object Info' pallet fill in the '+- Z' with the vertical thickness of the walls. To find this value look at the vertical dimensions on your sketch. In my example, I would use 2100 mm.
• You can now check the location in three space using the rotate tool in the 3-D tool pallet. Be sure to go back to plan plan view before going onto the next step. (Cntrl+5)

7.0Drawing the Roof

• With walls still selected, choose create roof from wall. (under the Model menu)
• Specify the eave overhang that you want, typically between 300 and 1000 mm. The bearing height is the height ofthe top of the wall. To find this height refer to your vertical sketch. In my example it would be 2600 mm
• There is an error in the diagram below. Make sure that 'Create Roof in Layer' is not selected.

• (second image shown rendered with one wall transparent fill)

8.0Cutting Holes for Doors and Garage Door

• extrude a solid (rectangle) in the location where you wish to create the cut out. (you may need to nudge from the top view to move it to interfere with the wall that you wish to cut out. (tonudge use the Ctrl+ arrow keys)

• View the interfereing solids in a suitable view and select both the wall and the rectangle.

• Under the 'Model' menu select Subtract Solids. Toggle if necessary to select the remaining solid (in this case the wall),then click OK

9.0Rendering and 3-D Views

10.0Drawing the Garage Door

• easiest - in the corect view extrude a rectangle,then nudge it into place from the top view.
• medium - extrude 4 sections
• more difficult - create a pannel sectional door
• you may consider showing the door partially or fully open. 

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12.0Inserting the Door

• Open your door drawing and copy the door. Paste it into your garage drawing. 

13.0Inserting and Editing Window Symbols

• you may need to deit the height ofthe window in 'Object Info' pallet 

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16.0Landscape, Lawn and Driveway

17.0Soffit & Ceiling