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0:00welcome to lesson 11 this is the final
0:02and crucial step of documenting your
0:04drawings and turning them into a
0:06professional presentation in this lesson
0:08I will show you how to seamlessly
0:10collate your drawings using pages and
0:12Views and finalize your documentation
0:14for an architecture presentation using
0:17rayon's powerful tools whether you're
0:18documenting your drawings for a
0:20portfolio submission a design and access
0:22statement or some kind of reports I will
0:25guide you through the process of being
0:26able to find Clarity and consistency in
0:29your documentation
0:30and implementing your graphic style in
0:32order to produce a professional
0:34presentation so this is where it gets
0:36exciting so let's dive into
0:40it okay welcome to lesson 11 this is the
0:43penultimate lesson this is where we're
0:45going to show you how to document your
0:47drawings and put together a presentation
0:49to present to clients critiques
0:53Consultants team members and also to
0:55share your work across all of these
0:58different um stakeholders in the project
1:01so this is where the the whole course is
1:04going to be encapsulated and where we're
1:06going to finally demonstrate how you can
1:08go from a design to a drawing to a
1:11documentation in rayon and this is where
1:14rayon's ability to be able to document
1:18your drawings and to be able to put
1:20together an entire project from start to
1:21finish all in one software and I hope
1:23this final lesson gives you a good
1:25understanding of how you can begin to
1:26document your architecture projects now
1:28in the previous lesson we discussed
1:30styling your architecture drawings and
1:32how important graphic Styles can be and
1:35how a graphic style can drastically
1:37change the narrative and the story that
1:39you tell with your drawings you've
1:42you've seen with an inverted drawing it
1:43can be very powerful to indicate line
1:46weights and and detail a rendered plan
1:49is very useful to show a realistic
1:51interpretation of the drawing and the
1:54blue style was quite a subtle pastel
1:56color now styling your architecture
1:58drawings become even more important when
2:00you put together a document and you
2:02start collating your drawings in a
2:03presentation format because this is when
2:06your drawings will read as one as one
2:08pack and so you want to make sure
2:10there's a consistency throughout your
2:12drawings to make sure that your message
2:14is being consistently communicated
2:16throughout your drawing package and you
2:18will see as I scroll down here I have
2:21all of my drawings and Views set up and
2:24there is a consistency with the black
2:27and white tone that line weights with
2:30the touch of red and I will take you
2:33through this process of setting up this
2:35document and how you can create these
2:37canvases to be able to put together a
2:40documentation now first and foremost
2:42let's dive into canvases now there is
2:44two different types of canvases you've
2:47got a model canvas which if you come to
2:49the left hand side you select the layers
2:51tab you come to this plus button and you
2:54can create a model canvas now a model
2:57canvas is where you will be drawing your
2:59your drawings where you'll be drawing
3:01walls where you'll be adding Windows
3:03adding openings where you'll be adding
3:05all of your details to your
3:07architectural drawing and when you
3:08create a new model canvas the default
3:11line scale is 1 to 40 and you can also
3:14head down to the bottom right hand
3:16corner and you can change your unit type
3:19so we could change it to meters if we'd
3:21like and we can change the air is also 2
3:24square m so making sure that you are set
3:27up correctly to begin with now
3:29throughout this entire course I've been
3:31talking through the process of building
3:33your drawings and that has been done in
3:35model canvases so model canvases once
3:38again is where you've got your walls all
3:40of your details with the windows your
3:43furniture blocks hatches Etc and then a
3:46paper canvas is where the pages and
3:49Views come into play so when you create
3:51a paper canvas once again click in the
3:54plus button a paper canvas is where you
3:57begin to set up your pages and views and
4:00the line scale in this instance is one:
4:02one and once again you can come down to
4:05the bottom right hand corner and change
4:06your default units and area units now
4:10the way that paper canvases work is that
4:13you essentially will be creating views
4:15that are looking into or kind of given a
4:18viewport into your model canvases so for
4:21example if we select this plus button
4:24and we've got three options you can
4:25either create a new layer as we've
4:27demonstrated throughout the entire
4:28course you you can create a page which
4:30I'll come on to in a minute and then you
4:32can choose a view and what this is going
4:35to do is you can now choose one of your
4:37model canvases that you want to create a
4:39view into so for example for argument
4:43sake if we select drawings you will see
4:46that it's created this view here and
4:48when you come over to the right hand
4:49side you can choose the scale at which
4:51your view is going to be so if we wanted
4:54to change that to 1 to
4:57500 this drawing will now be coming in
5:00at 1 to 500 in this page and essentially
5:03the model canvas is the source canvas
5:06that you'll view porting into and
5:09another way to start positioning these
5:10views on your pages you can zoom in and
5:13out by scrolling and panning and if you
5:15want to stop your ability to be able to
5:17pan within the view you can select this
5:20mouse button at the bottom here and then
5:22you can't zoom in and out of the view
5:25instead you're zooming in and out of the
5:26page so you can then set this to 1 to
5:30250 and if you scroll in and out it
5:32won't change that scale which I think is
5:34a really useful tool to have now to show
5:36you how to override the visibility of
5:40your view you can select into the view
5:42by double clicking head over to the left
5:44hand side and you will see that you have
5:46all of your layers linked from your
5:48model canvas so you can then start
5:50turning some of these layers off for
5:52example we can change the level of
5:54information that we want to show in this
5:56drawing we can turn grid lines off for
5:59example we can turn the levels off you
6:02can really start filtering out some of
6:04the information that you don't
6:05necessarily want to show in your view
6:08and as you can see when you start
6:10adjusting the the visibility settings of
6:14your drawing you will see that the the
6:17tags will go purple and if you select
6:20the purple tag you can reset the
6:22overrides and it will reset back to the
6:25model canvas view Additionally you can
6:27select items Within in the view you can
6:30head over to the right hand side and
6:32start changing the style so you can
6:34change some of the line weights to Red
6:37you can change the line weights and as
6:40you will be able to see once again these
6:42items will then go purple which you can
6:44then reset by clicking the reset button
6:47so if you want to be able to change some
6:50of these Styles within the view you can
6:53change some of the hatches for example
6:56if you wanted to change particular item
7:00and this will only be specific to the
7:02view it won't change the model canvas
7:04and if you create a new view it will
7:06reset back to that model canvas settings
7:09so this is just a visibility override
7:12essentially within the view which is
7:14really useful if you want to show the
7:16same drawing with different levels of
7:18information at different scales and to
7:21quickly demonstrate how you can show
7:23your drawings at different scales with
7:24different levels of information you can
7:27select your view you can copy it over by
7:29by clicking CC so it's exactly the same
7:32view but they are not Linked In this
7:35particular view you could potentially
7:38double click in you could change this to
7:411 to 100 or maybe let's do 1 to
7:4550 or even one to
7:4820 and you can then position potentially
7:51a room maybe let's do the kitchen where
7:54we want to show some detail in that
7:56kitchen can then double click into that
7:58view and changing the visibility
8:01settings so this is essentially an
8:03override a visibility override so what
8:06you can do here is you can then begin to
8:08select some of these components for
8:09example we can change the style of the
8:12annotations or the dimensions we could
8:14change those Dimensions to Blue we could
8:17then change the color of the tags to
8:20Blue you can change the tags to
8:23different colors and you can also change
8:27fills Strokes Etc just as you would when
8:30you're changing any style in your
8:33drawings and as you can see you'll have
8:35two views at two different scales we've
8:37got 1 to 20 1 to 250 and you could even
8:41go into this more zoomed out View and
8:43for example if you want to say that you
8:45didn't need floor tags or some of these
8:48dimensions for example you can then
8:50start turning some of those items off
8:52when you have a zot more zoomed out plan
8:54where you don't necessarily need that
8:55level of information annotation and then
8:57when you have your zoom in plan you have
9:00that more detailed information with the
9:01dimensions Etc okay so if we now switch
9:04our attention to the presentation that I
9:06have built and I'm going to walk you
9:08through as you can see here on the left
9:11hand side in my layers tab I have all my
9:13canvases set up now this is the canvas
9:16that we've just created so I'm just
9:17going to right click that and delete it
9:19but here you can see that we have all of
9:21my drawings we've got all of the
9:23elevation sections plans so this is my
9:26model canvas for my drawings I then have
9:29the 1 to 500 site plan the 1 to 2500
9:34site plan we've got the precedent move
9:36board the project brief Etc all of the
9:40information that I have discussed and
9:43covered throughout the course I have
9:45them all here in model canvases within
9:48this model now this presentation
9:51document is a paper canvas as I've
9:53explained and this is simply where all
9:55my pages and Views are existing and I
9:58have some additional information in this
10:02canvas that are related to the
10:04presentation of the drawings and so we
10:07can see here as I quickly scroll through
10:11we have a project title so a it's called
10:15The Hill House simply because it's just
10:17a a house built into the hill um and
10:21we've put a kind of graphic touch to my
10:25presentation as you can see I've got the
10:27the very kind of bold contrast in black
10:30with the white text the inverted look so
10:33I got my got my inverted look in there
10:35somewhere with a touch of red and this
10:38is a consistent style throughout the
10:39presentation once again making sure that
10:42the drawings have a consistency and a
10:44relevancy to one another to make sure
10:46that they're reading is one as a
10:48presentation and I think that's really
10:50important for professionalism uh for
10:53people to really just be able to read
10:55the drawings really well and for that to
10:57be a narrative throughout I then have a
10:59contents page uh where we have the
11:02project brief precent study site
11:04analysis room requirements and then the
11:07drawings themselves and as you can see
11:08as I scroll through I have all of my
11:13views and
11:16models
11:18visible with the zoning taking you
11:21through the process of get to my final
11:24drawings and this is obviously very
11:27familiar if you are a architecture
11:30student we very often put together
11:32portfolios for presentations for
11:34critiques for portfolio submissions and
11:37then in practice we also put together
11:40design access statements we put together
11:42actual planning submission drawings so
11:45drawing set we put together all kinds of
11:47different reports at various stages of a
11:49project so putting together a
11:51documentation like this is really
11:53important at any stage of an
11:55architecture project so if I show a
11:57couple of examples of how to create this
11:58View Port into the model canvases once
12:01again select new do View and let's do
12:04the precedent mood board double click
12:06into the view you can scale in and out
12:08if you turn the toggle off so we can get
12:11that down to a scale that we're happy
12:13with position it fairly centrally you
12:15can then select the view edit the view
12:19edit the view clipping path and you can
12:22drag that in using the toggles in the
12:24corner or you could select the line
12:26itself hold down control and drag the
12:28view in and out like so and once again
12:31to show you how you can create a
12:32viewport into the same model canvas at
12:35different scales you can copy this view
12:38across for example and we're going to
12:41change this scale from 1 to 500 to 1 to
12:46250 we're going to click into the view
12:49turn off the toggle disabled and we're
12:52going to drag down to this site plan
12:56here which has slightly more detail in
12:58it I'm going to edit the view the
13:02edge drag it in and we now have the same
13:05view which we can
13:07position and align
13:10accordingly but with additional level of
13:14information and if you have any
13:15instances where you think the line
13:17weights are not quite right you can
13:19click into the view you can select the
13:21line weights you can change them to say
13:260.5 in this in this instance and you
13:29will see that they will change them in
13:31the view and therefore you can see here
13:33we've got 1 to 250 site drawing and a 1
13:36to 500 importing into the same model and
13:39one thing that you can see throughout is
13:40that I have my own kind of title page
13:43that I've created and dropped into the
13:46model now this is just an instance of me
13:48creating uh a title block myself and
13:51then turning it into a block which I've
13:52then duplicated throughout but once
13:55again you also have access to an entire
13:57library of title blocks which you can
14:00head over into the rayon libraries on
14:02the left hand side we can scroll down to
14:04library we've got title blocks and
14:06annotations and this is where you can
14:08begin to start dropping in either A3 or
14:11A1 title block A2 so for example in this
14:14instance I'm going to drop in an A2 so
14:17drag and drop or you can click three
14:19buttons and click import so in this
14:21instance where you want to create
14:23multiple sheets for different drawings
14:26with different drawing numbers uh but
14:28you want to use the same block you can
14:30copy the block across and for example
14:33say you have a set of four drawings but
14:37obviously if you click into the block
14:39and you change the number of the
14:42drawing it will also change the number
14:44of the drawing throughout all of the
14:46blocks which isn't ideal if you want to
14:49use the same block uh throughout your
14:51documentation so a really useful trick
14:54is to be able to edit the metadata of a
14:57block and so the way to to do this is to
15:00click into the block select the text and
15:03instead of having text you want to
15:06change the text to a tag so if you click
15:10add variable and you now come down to um
15:14your instance so you want to choose the
15:16block instance if we select instance and
15:19then we choose name we can then rename
15:23this block that title block 2 ao2 for
15:27example you will see that it will
15:30change the name and number on the sheet
15:33and as you can see throughout when we
15:35change the name of that block to A3 for
15:38example and then we could do
15:41A4 and the beauty of this now is that
15:43the block Still Remains a block and you
15:46can change the style and some of the
15:49graphics in the block for example if we
15:52change that logo to a blue logo you will
15:56see that it's replicated throughout the
15:57block but the text you can alter
16:00therefore you can have multiple drawings
16:03with the same block which have the same
16:05graphic style and consistency but you
16:07can change the name of the sheet without
16:10having to unblock it this makes it much
16:11more streamlined and efficient when
16:13trying to maintain consistency with your
16:15graphics throughout your drawings and an
16:17alternative is to create your own block
16:20so you can draw up any detail items
16:23within your sheet for example you can
16:24add a North Arrow I've added some
16:26information about what the drawing name
16:28name is uh the project name the
16:31documentation type the date and then a
16:34little branding here and there I've
16:36added a quite a bold number as a graphic
16:39piece to the drawing I've framed the
16:42drawing by adding some of these items to
16:44add a bit of a a bit of character and a
16:46bit of
16:48annotation and finally I've added a
16:51title in the corner and I can select all
16:54of these
16:56components right click and create a
16:59block and as you can see that block is
17:01now saved in my block Library where I
17:03can drag and drop it into my drawings to
17:06be able to populate it throughout now
17:09the final item to cover before I start
17:12exporting my drawings into a PDF or PNG
17:16format for example I'm now going to show
17:18you how to use pages so now that I have
17:20my title block set up I have my view
17:23ready at 1 to 100 I have all of my
17:26annotation and key ready I'm now going
17:29to create a page for me to be able to
17:31export this drawing to scale so I'm
17:33going to head over to the left hand side
17:35on once again I'm going to head down to
17:37the pages tab I'm going to click new and
17:40I'm going to select page now we're going
17:43to call this
17:44page ground floor plan and as you can
17:47see here this page has been inserted
17:49into the paper canvas you want to head
17:52over to the right hand side make sure
17:53that it's to scale one to one and then
17:56you have these format options of the
17:59size of the paper that you want to
18:00choose from so you've got all the
18:02different scales I'm going to choose a
18:04two I'm going to drag and drop the page
18:07into the position of my title block I'm
18:11just going to make sure it's accurate by
18:14clicking mm and aligning it properly and
18:17now we have a page set up called ground
18:20floor plan and if you do this throughout
18:22for example we could add a cover page
18:25which will change that to scale one to
18:27one again going to drop that down to A2
18:30I'm going to name that page drop that
18:32into place and depending on where your
18:35page is positioned on the layer tab if
18:38you drag it to the top for example you
18:41will notice that the cover page will
18:43turn to number one and if you drag it
18:46down to the bottom it will then be
18:48called number 11 so you want to make
18:50sure that your pages are ordered
18:51correctly on the left hand side in the
18:53layers Tab and then a quick way of
18:55copying this across your model is you
18:56can select the page type CC and just
19:00start copying them down then heading
19:02over to the left hand side renaming that
19:06to contents page so then we have page
19:09one cover page two contents page three
19:12project brief Etc as we go throughout
19:15all of the drawings and so now all my
19:17pages are set up from start to finish
19:20we're now going to head over to the left
19:21hand side and start exporting these
19:23pages so if you come over to the pages
19:25tab to the left you will see that you
19:28have all of the pages set up which if
19:32you
19:33click this export all button or you can
19:38export them individually by clicking the
19:39three dots and doing export or Zoom to
19:42page for example and it will take you to
19:45that page on the paper canvas uh if we
19:48do export all and the default export
19:51location of the file would be your
19:53downloads folder on your PC and at this
19:56point if you wanted to share your model
19:57with a colleague before you started
19:59exporting all of the drawings you could
20:01head over to the top right hand corner
20:04Click Share and you can share your model
20:07by doing a public link which you can
20:08share to them or you can invite someone
20:12a colleague into the project so they can
20:16edit admin or view the model and when
20:20you export your drawings you will see
20:22that they'll all export with all of
20:24their line details and quality all at
20:27the right scale
20:30A2 and a really powerful way to draw and
20:34document your projects and that there
20:36from start to finish is how to draw and
20:39document your architecture projects

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