From an AutoCAD Architecture Class I was teaching a question came up on how to show existing plans, demolition and new plans.
In AutoCAD Architecture 2011 you can speed design and production of renovation projects with tools that enable you to graphically represent design changes to existing buildings as “existing, new, and demolished.” These tools help reduce the effort around coordinating the creation of renovation drawing views, enabling you to more quickly switch between existing, demolition, and revision plans because the design data is contained in one master drawing.
Creating a renovation plan:
1. Open ACA2011_Renovation.dwg
2. Go to the Manage tab of the ribbon and select Renovation Mode from the Style & Display Panel
3. When the Renovation Model dialog box appears, select the Options button.
4. The Display, Layers, and Style tabs that can be customized and automated.
5. Click OK twice to return to the design window.
The renovation tool comes with a variety of options to customize the appearance of your designs, including Display, Layer, and Material settings.
6. Select a series of walls and windows and delete them.
7. Pan to another area of the drawing and move a wall.
8. Now move a door and delete another one that’s nearby.
9. Highlight any modified element and show that its appearance and layer name has changed.
10. Click on the Demo Plan tool in the Renovation panel.
Moving a wall will automatically be tracked as both the demolition of an existing wall and the addition of a new wall. This change will automatically update layer names, adding another means to graphically control display.
Once all of your revisions have been made, you can easily create a demolition plan with the click of a button.
Renovation Mode
In Renovation mode, you can manually assign an object’s Renovation category to Existing, Demolished, or New. The display properties change according to the category. Manually categorizing objects may be necessary for 2D, multi-view block, or block objects because these objects are automatically assigned to the Existing category when you begin a Renovation session.
1. With the Renovation drawing open in an active Renovation mode, click the Assign (Existing, Demo, or New) tool on the Renovation panel.
2. Select the objects in the drawing to be assigned, and press ENTER.
The selected objects are now assigned to the category specified, and they display as the category is defined on the Display tab in the Renovation Options dialog.
In Renovation mode, you can use the Show/Hide tool to display or hide all objects by category. Depending on the current state of the objects, this tool turns the category on or off.
1. The show/hide status of objects is saved in the drawing and should be considered when closing and reopening a drawing. If you are not sure if objects are hidden, select the tool and watch what happens. With the Renovation drawing open in an active Renovation mode, click a Show/Hide tool.
Demolition Plans
Existing construction and those objects categorized as demolished (Demo) display on a demolition plan. All new objects are hidden.
By switching between renovation plan types, you can work in different “views” of the drawing, and avoid errors often incurred when editing multiple drawings. Display settings for the demolition plan type are located in the Renovation Options dialog. By default, yellow is assigned to demolished objects. For more information, see Customizing Renovation Design Rules. You must first activate Renovation mode before you can work with drawings using Renovation features.
With the Renovation drawing open in an active Renovation mode, click (Demolition Plan) on the Renovation panel.
The Activation of a Demolition Plan dialog displays.
New objects are turned off by default. To display the plan with new objects, click (New Show/Hide).
Revision Plans
New and existing construction objects display on a revision plan, and all demolition objects are hidden. By switching between renovation plan types, you can work in different “views” of the drawing, avoiding errors by editing Multiple drawings. Display settings for the revision plan type are located in the Renovation Options dialog.
You must first activate Renovation mode before you can work with drawings using Renovation features.
With the Renovation drawing open in an active Renovation mode, click (Revision Plan) on the Renovation panel.
The Activation of a Revision Plan dialog displays.
Demolished objects are turned off by default. To display the plan with demolished objects, click (Demo Show/Hide).
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Multiple layer suffix's ???
I am trying to use Renovation Mode for the first time. Looks good on practice samples. On a real project I became concerned about many confusing layers that it was adding. In layer manager I see:
A-Door
A-Door-D-D
A-Door-D-E
A-Door-E-D
A-Door-E-E
Does the program check to see if there is already a status in the layer name before adding another status???
The first time I noticed a couple dozen of these layer names with double status suffixes I became alarmed, could not undo far enough and reverted to an older saved file. Now as I am redrawing it, same thing happens.
How do I Demo a door, and keep the opening? When I demo the door it fills in the wall? and then I need to 'demo' the wall infill?
Posted by: Dan Heaton | 02/01/2011 at 05:25 PM
This is all and good on the base plan, but how about views to go onto sheets?
In the view mode, how do I get the demo plan and the renovation plans to be separated for notes, dims, etc.?
Posted by: KenKab | 02/09/2011 at 02:06 PM
Hello, anybody home?
Ok, I am talking to myself I guess.
Autocad Architecture 2011 Renovation mode
If you open a file that has been worked on in Renovation mode, and new construction objects are on layers without a status suffix (ie. 'A-Door' layer means ‘new door’) when you enter Renovation Mode again it will change those objects to existing (A-Door-E)…. Hours and hours days and days it took me redoing stuff to figure this out…
Posted by: Dan Heaton | 02/09/2011 at 02:52 PM
The first time I noticed a couple dozen of these layer names with double status suffixes I became alarmed, could not undo far enough and reverted to an older saved file. Now as I am redrawing it, same thing happens.
How do I Demo a door, and keep the opening? When I demo the door it fills in the wall?
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