Cartooning
LAY OUT NECESSARY DRAWINGS
Get the drawing set all laid out and sheets set up as to what views and sheets are necessary to document the project. Reference similar past projects to see what might be necessary for this project.
If there is enough space on sheets to consolidate the drawing set in a logical way, please do so. We don't want a ton of white space in our drawing sets and a larger sheet count than we need.
This effort is to lay out the set only. Getting sheets set up, views created, etc. We are not annotating or finishing the design, etc. We are only getting the sheet set strategy figured out at this point.
COVER SHEET & GENERAL INFORMATION AND DETAILS
Determine General sheet notes, schedules, views, and details needed for project and sheet necessary such as mounting height diagrams, etc. Determine the number of general sheets needed for this stuff.
FIRE LIFE SAFETY PLANS
Determine if we are going to split out Egress, Fire Ratings, and Accessibility onto their own plans or keep them all together on one plan.
SPECIFICATIONS
Take a guess as to how many Spec Sheets the project will need (They will remain blank). Also make sure we have a Spec document started for the project.
3D VIEWS
Get 3D Views from Enscape Set up, Sheeted and ready for updates.
ARCHITECTURAL SITE PLAN
Determine the strategy for what we plan to document on our Architectural site plan vs. Civil & Landscape Site Plans. Lay out site details that will be necessary for us to document with Detail References. (Don't detail items covered by others) Set scale for these drawings - Reference past drawings to see what might be required.
EDGE OF SLAB OR FOUNDATION PLANS
Determine Strategy and which levels need to be documented. Work out view ranges and what is going to be shown on which plans. Set scale for these drawings - Reference past drawings to see what might be required. Lay out details that will be necessary with Detail References, there should be one for each condition at the edge of the slab at all locations. When necessary the same detail may be referenced in a few locations to add clarity to design intent. Use (TYP) to give reference to most common detail, or (TYP @ ____) for common details in an area if there are any.
FLOOR PLANS
Determine Strategy. Set scale for these plans - Reference past drawings to see what might be required. Do we need overall and sector plans or will the entire plan fit in one drawing? Do we need to split out plans to show dimensions on their own plan vs tags, etc or do we have space to keep it all together? Do we need furniture plans? Which levels do we need plans for? Are there floors that are exact duplicates of each other or at least very close? Set view depths for different plans as necessary. Determine where you are going to need enlarged plans and place callouts for them. Lay out any details that will be necessary with Detail References. Fire proofing details seem to come up a lot on floor plans.
ROOF PLANS
Set scale for roof plan(s) Can we make the roof plan a smaller scale to fit entire plan on one sheet even if floor plans are broken into sectors? Reference past drawings to see what might be required. Lay out details that will be necessary with Detail References, there should be one for each condition at the edge of roof and any openings or penetrations through at all locations. When necessary the same detail may be referenced in a few locations to add clarity to design intent. Use (TYP) to give reference to most common detail, or (TYP @ ____) for common details in an area if there are any.
EXT ELEVATIONS
Create and Sheet All Ext Elevations that will be necessary to document the project. Set scale for these drawings - Reference past drawings to see what might be required. Lay out any details that will be necessary with Detail References. If condition is covered in a section view, do not tag on elevation unless needed for clarity in a given condition.
SECTIONS
Cut and sheet all Building Sections first then Wall Sections that will be necessary to document the project. Set scale for these drawings - Reference past drawings to see what might be required. Lay out any details that will be necessary with Detail References, this will basically be at any material transition or floor to wall condition in a section view. For door and window details use judgment for how many of each to show in a given section. If there are many different details on the same project it is probably more important to show at almost all locations, but if there is only one head detail for all windows on the project, just showing it once would probably suffice. Or if there are clear distinctions in the sections between siding types being illustrated, one at each siding type or something would probably work, etc.
VERTICAL CIRCULATION & SHAFTS
Create and Sheet all drawings (Plans & Sections) necessary to document vertical circulation. Set scale for these drawings - Reference past drawings to see what might be required. Lay out any details that will be necessary with Detail References.
RCPs
Determine if RCPs are necessary for the project (Sometimes if we are doing an electrical plan we will just use that plan instead, or if a project has nothing to really document about the ceilings we wouldn't need them for that project. For example on storage projects we only do select enlarged RCPs of certain areas.) Lay out any details that will be necessary with Detail References. Often there are very few or no details on RCP plans depending on the complexity of the design.
INT ELEVATIONS
Determine Int Elevation strategy. If there is nothing that will be documented that isn't already documented by the plans and schedules, don't elevate the wall. A lot of times we elevate kitchens and restrooms and then any other specific interior design items that need an elevation to document the design. Do not elevate all walls of a restroom or any other room for that matter unless you have good reason. Often interior elevations will get grouped onto other sheets with other drawings in a logical manner. Sometimes there will be enough of them to dedicate their own sheets to. Lay out any details that will be necessary with Detail References. (often no details are necessary)
ASSEMBLIES
Decide on and sheet the assembly details we think we are going to utilize on our project (see next step). You will have to clean up the assemblies and reduce them down to what is applicable to this project in order to do so. You don't need to figure everything out and remove the magenta lines just yet, but we should get them all sheeted.
Schedules
We need to start thinking about what columns in the schedules we are going to utilize for the project, as well as how we are going to filter our schedules appropriately for the project. It may be too early to make that official determinization but we could reference other similar projects and at least start giving this some thought and maybe trying some things out.
LAY OUT DETAILING
TRANSFER STANDARD DETAILS TO THE PROJECT
There will be a video training link for this item (coming soon?)
PROJECT DETAILS LAYOUT
As you cartoon the set and lay out the drawings, Lay out all details that will be necessary on the drawings. This is noted on many of the items below. Do this by either Reference an existing detail if we have one that applies to the condition, otherwise reference the "Detail Layout - DO NOT SHEET" view to mark the detail work that needs to be done.
DELETE ANY SHEETS THAT WILL NO BE NEEDED FOR THE PROJECT
Keep the signage sheets for storage projects or any other projects we may need to do some later signage drawings, but delete any of the sheets that were set up in the template that don't apply to your project. Also start thinking about the sheet index strategy as well.
TRAINING
Documentation must be tailored to your project and the design of it.
Project manager - Coordinating the drawings & documentation systems.
What is Cartooning?
Sheet Numbering
Sheeting Views
Creating New Sheets & proper sew up
Delete or re-purpose unnecessary sheets
When to finalize the Set Layout
Finalize Sheeting of Drawings while keeping clarity
