About Creating the Project

Phase 1: Setting up the Project

In the first phase, you set up the project. In this phase you define the project-wide data and the overall structure. For example, you define the project name and number, set up drawing templates, and create subfolders within the main categories to organize your drawings. You also define the basic levels layout, defining the number of floors and their height.

• Create a new project and define its basic settings.

• Set up the levels of the project.

• Define categories for your drawing files.

Phase 2: Creating the Building Model

Next you create the actual geometry of the building model. This includes floor plans, framing, furniture layouts, and the building shell. All of these building components are contained in individual constructs. Optionally if you have repeating components, like a bathroom layout repeated on each floor, you can create an element for it and reference it into each construct it should appear in.

• Create Constructs for each individual portion of the building.

• Create elements for repeating and supporting components and referencing them into constructs.

Phase 3: Creating Plans and Views

In the third phase you assemble the building geometry into a number of composite view drawings, and add annotation to them. When a view and its annotation are completed, they can be xrefed into a sheet drawing to plot and publish them.

• Generate views of different parts of the building.

• Generate sections, elevations and details.
• Annotate the building model.
• Generate plotting and publishing sheets.