Cad Details

[Denzil]

Does anyone have an idea of how the selected cad detail was populated or made in the sample plan? I have scoured the net and the manuals, watched the videos that were relevant and still confused.

[Denzil]

This is how far ive gotten on my own

[joey_martin]

I don't see a CAD detail on that page. Are you referring to the window & door elevations?

 

Take elevation view and use the CAD FROM VIEW tool to create the 2D elevation versions of those and send them to layout once you delete all the stuff around them you don't want. This is a 100% manual process, no easy button.

 

[joey_martin]

And honestly...you don't even have to make them 2D CAD if you don't want to, simply send elevations to layout and crop the layout box down to just the doors and windows.

 

[robdyck]

It looks like you've downloaded the "Nashville" sample plan. If not, you should, because it comes with the layout and plan files. Open the correct layout page and double click those layout boxes to see what type of drawing was used.

[Denzil]

 

 

 

Yes, the 2d door and window elevations are in a cad detail. Thanks for the info on how to do the actual pictures.  In the sample layout, when you click on the actual images inside the cad detail this box opens. It refers to their cadblock properties or specifications. On this custom window it shows its cadblock  "id" as block 63. So what I am wondering and maybe you are correct, is ...if my windows currently do not show up un the manage cad block dialog with numbers attached like these, how do you populate the block info? The CAD should exist already in this list since I already have several elevation views if the outside. Or maybe not.