Creating a Title Block & Border Using Chief Architect. Architectural Design & Residential Construction Penncrest High School

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1 Creating a Title Block & Border Using Chief Architect Architectural Design & Residential Construction Penncrest High School

2 Select New Layout to begin designing your Title Block. Note: Once the Title Block & Border is complete & has been saved, use Open Layout to access the document.

3 1. A previously used Title Block (layout) will appear. This will need to be deleted to create a new blank sheet to work on. 2. To delete the current Title Block (layout), change the level on the drawing layer tool to 0 by clicking on the arrow to the left of the layer identification number.

4 3. Use the Select Tool (standard pointer cursor), to click, drag and surround all of the lines and text on the page. These items should now be highlighted in grey. 4. Use the delete key to eliminate the selected unwanted lines and text. 5. You may need to select and delete multiple times before all items are gone. 6. The page should now be blank.

5 7. From the main menu, select; File, Print, and Drawing Sheet Setup. 8. In the Drawing Sheet Setup dialogue box, set the parameters as shown to the right.

6 9. The correct size (B, 11 x 17 ) page will now appear on the desktop. 10. To adjust its size so that it will fill the screen, select the Full Window (F6) icon on the right side of the desktop.

7 11. With the sheet at the full screen size, it is time to begin drawing the title block and border using the 2 dimensional, vector based drawing tools. 12. Select the Rectangular Polyline or Box tool, then drag and draw a rectangle on the sheet, almost filling the entire page. Note: The blue rectangle indicates the area of the sheet where drawn items will be printed. Anything drawn outside of that are will not print! There are also vertical and horizontal blue lines that continually move with the cursor.

8 13. Using the Select Object tool (standard pointer cursor), click on any of the lines of the rectangle to make the object active. It will become highlighted in grey and its handles will appear indicating that it is active and ready for any modifications.

9 14. The active rectangle will have a series of dimensions located on and around it. They will be either vertically or horizontally aligned based on whether you clicked on a horizontal line (dimensions located vertically) or a vertical line (dimensions located horizontally). 15. Select one of the dimensions on the outside perimeter of the rectangle and a pop-up dialogue box will appear. Enter.5 or ½ to create a distance of ½ from the edge of the sheet to the line that is drawn. 16. Do the same thing for all of the dimensions that occur on the perimeter of the rectangle.

10 17. There should now be a rectangular border on the page spaced exactly ½ from the edges of the sheet.

11 18. The tile block and border lines should be distinguished from any other lines drawn on the page, including the dimension and object lines. 19. The weight of the title block and border lines will, therefore, need to be adjusted so that they appear heavier than the other lines. 20. To do this, select the rectangle by double clicking on it. 21. The Polyline Specification dialogue box will appear. 22. Select Line Style from the menu and then change the Weight to 75.

12 23. If the line weight still appears to be the same as before, select the Line Weights icon on the right side of the desktop to toggle between the standard line weight and the heavier weight you have selected.

13 24. Continue to draw the remaining lines for your title block and border using the Title Block & Border Instructions shown below.

14 25. The only specifications for line size and location are the ½ border to edge distance and the 1 3/8 x 1 3/8 space that is to be left blank for the Chief Architect logo. A line weight of 75 is to assigned to all lines. 26. Use this sample to help you roughly size your layout so that the necessary text items will easily fit the rectangular spaces you create. The title block may be on the right side or along the bottom of the page. 27. There are to be 9 small text blocks. Remember you will need to create the blocks so that the associated text items appear next to each other. Use the sample drawings provided in class or search for sample drawings on the internet to produce your individually designed template. The 1 3/8 x 1 3/8 box in the lower right hand corner of the page is required.

15 28. Your title block and border will now have a series of rectangles drawn on the page that will be used to place text items in. The text will identify important information regarding the drawings that will eventually be placed on this page.

16 29. Text boxes will now need to be created. Start by producing the labels that will be used to identify the type of information is that is to be placed in the box. 30. From the main menu, select the Leader Line icon and then the Text icon.

17 31. Click on the sheet and the Text Specification dialogue box will appear. 32. Type the letters of the text that you ll need in the space provided. In this case, Sheet #. 33. Select Text Style from the menu. 34. From Source of Text Style, select; Use Text Style, Layout Text Style as then, and then Define. 35. With Layout Text Style highlighted, select Edit.

18 36. In the Font section of the Edit menu, select a simple and easy to read font style. 37.Temporarily set the Character Height to 1/ And set the Text Color to black. 39.Select OK on each of the Text dialogue boxes and your text will appear on the page (it may be small so you will need to zoom in on it). Text placed may be extremely small. Use the Zoom tool to click and surround for better viewing.

19 40. By clicking on the text, it will become an active object. It will be able to be resized, moved and rotated with its handles. Shrink the text box to the smallest size possible by using the Resize handles. Resize handles Rotate handle Drag handle 41. Move the text box identification label ti its location on the title block. Secure its corner to the intersection of the lines.

20 42. Select the Text tool again. 43. The Text Specification dialogue box will appear. 44. If you set this up correctly before, enter the text you need in the space provided and select OK. 45. Move that text to its proper location and place its corner handle at the intersection of two lines. 46. Continue to do this until all of the labels have been placed.

21 47. To place the actual drawing data in place you will need to increase the font size for easier reading. 48. Select the Text tool again and enter the new information to be placed on the page. 49. Select Use Text Style, Layout Text style, & Define. 50. Select Copy. 51. In the pop-up dialogue box that appears, type Layout Text Style # You now have a 2 nd Layout Text Style all you need to do is adjust its Character Height

22 50. The text boxes should appear as something similar to that at the right of this page. 51. Notice the small text for box titles and the larger text for drawing information. 52. Multiple text sizes may be used, and larger sizes are encouraged for the Sheet # and Scale: boxes. 53. Use the information in the sample (but, use your name) to produce your individual template. 54. Your own logo will be designed and inserted after this template has been completed. Text boxes for the drawing information should be stretched so that the text box entirely fills the space it is intended for. Centering of the text can be done by selecting the text, selecting Attributes from the Text Specification dialogue box, and then selecting Centered as the Alignment option.

23 55. The last step is to return the layout page to layer 1 by clicking on the Page up/page down arrows. 56. Save this Layout in your folder on the H:\ drive. (Save a second copy under another name, as a back-up)