In this video, I'll cover how to place a plan footprint on a site plan.
Two most common ways are to show the walls or the roof layers on your plot
plan or a simple outline of the building footprint.
A third method is to use the plan footprint tool.
Let's begin with a sample plan with an existing terrain parameter.
The first method I'll show are where the walls are with the terrain perimeter.
I'm going to begin by switching my saved plan view to the plot plan view.
This view switches my layer set to the plot plan.
I'm going to come down inside of all of the layers in the active layer display
option, I'm going to find the wall normal layers.
I'm going to turn that layer on so we can see the walls and how that projects
onto the site plan. The other thing, I'm going to do is turn on the roof layer.
So I come down, find the roof planes and turn that layer on.
You may notice that some of my colors are muted.
If you want to change the color,
you can change the color of any of the layers that you want to turn on.
It's a good practice to move your terrain around the floor plan.
This is an easier method and less complex than moving your walls and other
architectural objects. If you need to reposition the house on the terrain,
it's easier to move the terrain objects.
Another approach you can use for placing your plan footprint on a site plan is
to show the outline of the building without all the walls and roof planes.
First thing I'm going to do is I'm going to turn off the roof plane layer.
Then I'm going to come over into the design,
I'm going to click very near the outside of the house.
You may need to press the tab key a couple of times,
then you'll see a gray outline that will surround the outside perimeter of your
structure. In my lower edit menu,
is a tool that is called make room polyline. Using this tool,
it will generate a polyline that follows the outside structure of your
house. You can then turn off the wall layer.
I'll tap on one of the walls. I'll come over, turn off the wall layer,
press the space bar and now I have a very simple look with the footprint of the
house being displayed. You can use the text tools at this point,
come in and if I just type in the proposed
residence,
then I have the text that I need for the structure and now I can send this view
out to the layout sheet. If your footprint or your walls change,
you may need to move a wall out a few feet.
Simply turn the layers on for your walls,
regenerate the footprint to update for your plot plan and site plan.
If you need to move the footprint for the site plan after you've maybe added a
couple of dimensions, if I just come in here and I use the end to end dimension,
and we pick up the footprint edge it's easier in
my experience to use the terrain.
The same would be true if you're going to be using the other approach where
you're showing the walls or roof, you can come in, grab the dimension.
Let me just pull that over to the edge of the house.
Then what you can do is simply click on the two terrain
items in the setback and the terrain perimeter.
You can come over here and type in the dimension that you want to position
the house and that way it's an easy process for your site plans.
A final way to place your plan footprint on a site plan is to take a screen
capture of your building outline and use the plan footprint tool.
This method keeps your terrain in a separate CAD drawing in a CAD detail,
and then does a screen overlay of the plan footprint.
Let me show you the steps and how this works.
The first thing I'm going to do is switch my saved plan view back to the floor
plan shell.
And the next thing I'm going to do is check our default settings underneath the
layer sets and for your plan footprint,
I'm going to make sure that it is using the floor plan shell view. That way,
when I use the plan footprint, it will take advantage of using this layer set.
Underneath your CAD tools, is a plan footprint tool.
When you use this tool, it looks a lot like we just had on the screen.
You'll notice a second tab actually opens up and this is a screen capture
so to speak of that layer set,
and you can click on this and you can move it around.
See the move handle right in here.
So you can move this around anywhere you want. In this CAD detail,
it assumes that you will draw just using the CAD tools,
the terrain perimeter.
I'm going to simulate that process by using just a CAD rectangle
box and drawing in what would be considered the terrain.
At this point,
just click on the house plan and then you can move this around.
If you hold your command key down on a Mac or your control key on a PC,
you can move this around. If I use the dimension tool and we come over here,
we pick up the dimension and we drag this over to the edge of the line,
may need to turn that dimension layer on and when I click on the footprint and I
move it around just a little bit, you could see that the dimension is updating.
This is a simpler approach.
It uses a separate CAD detail and also keeps your terrain in a
separate object.
This is the final way to create your footprint on a site plan,
That wraps up this video on placing a plan footprint on a site plan.
To learn more, please see the built-in help files as well as our other videos.
Thanks for watching.