Set Up

DOCUMENTATION
Written By Brynlee Butler

PREREQUISITES

  • Software Competencies Trainings: Setup | Modeling Ground Work | Views | ASG’s Setup

OBJECT STYLES

  • What are they and how are they used to control graphics in the set?

    • How do you change default materials or global control for elements of model?

  • What are their relationship to families and what happens to object styles that are created within families when they are loaded into a project?

    • Exact matching names and unused object styles

  • What custom object styles do we have set up and what is the logic?

    • How can you quickly use these settings when editing families?

  • In what template file are object styles managed for the practice? How do they become available for use on a project?

LINE STYLES

  • What is our setup and what lines do you use where?

    • Should you add new line styles to a project? How do you do so?

FILLED REGIONS

  • What is our setup and when do you use these?

    • What filled regions would you tag and when might those get used?

  • How do we use filled regions to get area calculations?

DETAIL COMPONETS

  • What is a detail component and how do you find our collection of them?

    • ASG’s custom object styles for detail components, what are they and why do we have them?

  • What is a plan related detail component, where do you find them and when to use those?

TEXT TYPES

  • What text types do we have and where do we use each type?

    • Why do we have so few? Why shouldn’t we usually make new types?

SYMBOLS

  • What are each of the symbols that we have set up and what is each one used for?

DIMENSION TYPES

GENERAL DIMENSION TYPES

  • What are the three “categories” of dimensions we have set up and what is the logic?

    • What are the different types within each category? Why do we have them and where do you use them?

    • Are new categories or types usually necessary?

  • Why to we want to try for clean dimensions? What does clean dimensions mean?

SPOT ELEVATIONS

  • What are they and how do you use them? How do you control top/bottom?

  • Why do we have so many types set up and where do you use each type?

  • Why is it important to understand what the elevation value is and verify that it is correct? How can it be wrong? Why might using them in section be better than plan if possible?

SPOT SLOPES

  • What are the types we have and how do you use them?

    • Elevation/Section types vs Plan types

SHEET NOTES

TAGS & TAG TYPES

  • Why do certain elements from the template tag as DNT?

ASSEMBLY TAGS (TG)

  • Why is it important to understand what the tag value is? What does it tie to? How can it be wrong?

ROOF TAGS

  • What are the different types we have set up and when do you use them?

FLOOR TAGS

  • What are the different types we have set up and when do you use them?

CEILING TAGS

  • What are the different types we have set up and when do you use them? What are the dangers of a ceiling tag type that shows an elevation?

WALL TAGS

  • What are the different types we have set up and when do you use them?

DOOR TAGS (TG)

  • Why is it important to understand what the tag value is? What does it tie to? How can it be wrong?

  • What are the different types we have set up throughout the different templates? Where would you use each type and why?

WINDOW TAGS (TG)

  • Why is it important to understand what the tag value is? What does it tie to? How can it be wrong?

  • What are the different types we have set up throughout the different templates? Where would you use each type and why?

CURTIN WALL/STOREFRONT “TAGS”

  • How do we fake in tags for curtain wall and/or storefront and why do we do it this way?

  • Why is it important to understand what the tag value is? What does it tie to? How can it be wrong?

DETAIL COMPONET TAGS (TG)

  • What are they and how do we use them? Why do we have 8 types set up and where do you use each one?

ROOM TAGS (RT)

  • What are the different types we have set up throughout the different templates?

    • When do you want to show room areas?

    • When do you want to show room numbers? What does this tie to?

    • When do you want to show unit types? What does this tie to?

    • How should rooms be named? When do you want to show the name?

AREA TAGS

  • What are the different types we have/will have set up and where to use what type?

MATERIAL TAGS (TM)

  • When do we use Material tags & what do they tie to?

TRAINING

Documentation is a system that needs designed for each project

Brynlee Butler
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