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0:00Hi everyone, I'm Chris, an architect and
0:02educator based in the UK. In this
0:04tutorial, I'll be showing you how to
0:06create architectural drawings two times
0:08faster with Rayon Design. We'll start by
0:10importing a basic floor plan and then
0:12layer on information like walls, zones,
0:15and blocks. We'll create a distinctive
0:17stylized drawing, completing your
0:19drawing set in an incredibly streamlined
0:20way. You can follow along by signing up
0:23for free and using the drawing linked in
0:25the video description. So, let's get
0:27started.
0:29So you can create a free Rayon account
0:31at rayon.design and get started from
0:33there.
0:35So starting in the workspace, this is
0:37where you can import your DWG PDF or
0:40even an image file to trace over. So
0:42we'll go to import. We'll find our DWG
0:46that's been provided. Hopefully that
0:48sits on my desktop. We'll go to open.
0:51So it takes a little minute just to
0:52convert the model and then import it
0:54into a temporary space.
0:58And there we've got it, our site plan
1:00and our building model. So the next step
1:03is to pick two known lengths. So I'm
1:05going to zoom into the floor plan. And
1:08for example,
1:10at the moment the drawing is coming in
1:11saying that door is 90 m, which I know
1:15is probably not quite correct. So I'm
1:17going to click on the first point, click
1:18on the next point, and say actually that
1:20should be 90 cm, which makes a lot more
1:23sense. So we do that. We'll press
1:25continue. And then that will rescale the
1:27drawing.
1:29Import that into our model space. And
1:32there we have a 90 cm door. And I'll
1:34just double check that with our
1:36dimension tool. Ding ding. And that's
1:40coming up as 90 cm. So that's imported
1:42perfectly. Okay. So now that our DWG has
1:45been imported, we need to lock that. And
1:48then we can trace over it with our rayon
1:50wall tool. So we'll we can see the DWG
1:54here. So all these lines are on
1:56different layers. So we can go over to
1:58the left hand side, go to the layer tab.
2:00The zero layer is where our drawn
2:03information will be. So all of these
2:04layers below are what came in as part of
2:07the DWG import. So we can highlight all
2:09of those and press lock. That means that
2:13when I move over them, I don't start to
2:15interact with them. The other helpful
2:17thing that I can do
2:20is hide them if I want. So, we'll just
2:23undo that. And then we can start to use
2:25our wall tool. So, I'll create a new
2:28layer. Call that walls
2:33and get started. Okay. So, we can get
2:35started with the wall tool. So, one
2:38thing I just want to do to start with is
2:40flick our cm to millimeters because
2:44that's the way my brain works. Um, and
2:47we'll zoom into the floor plan. And we
2:49can see here that there are two types of
2:51wall. There's an external wall and then
2:53there's an internal wall. So, our
2:57external walls are 300 mm, very
3:00sensible, and our internal walls are 100
3:03mm. So, the really great thing that we
3:06can do in Rayon is set up wall types.
3:09So, their types of styles. So, I can
3:12draw a wall here. I'll just draw two
3:15walls to start with.
3:17Here we go.
3:19So, we'll call this wall
3:21[Music]
3:23number one. We'll change our thickness
3:25to 300.
3:27And just for the sake of clarity, I'm
3:29going to make that red.
3:31Um, and on the second wall that's
3:34already at 100. And I'm just going to
3:37make that green for clarity.
3:42[Music]
3:45And we can save that as a style. So if
3:48we go to the plus sign and we then call
3:50that external
3:52wall. Press enter. And the same thing
3:55with this one. Save the style. We call
3:57that internal
4:00wall. Here we go. Then we have these two
4:04wall types set up. And then we can just
4:07go over to styles
4:10and we can see them here in our wall
4:13styles. And that means that whenever I
4:15draw a new wall
4:19[Music]
4:20here, for example, I can then switch
4:23between the styles and say actually I
4:25wanted that as an external wall or
4:27actually I wanted that as an internal
4:28wall.
4:30So you don't have to mess about changing
4:31your lines. You just need to change your
4:33styles. So let's just clean that up and
4:38we'll start to trace our external walls.
4:57There we go.
5:00And then we can start drawing our other
5:02walls. So I actually want that as a
5:06internal wall. There we go.
5:20Then we can draw our internals.
5:29These obviously snap nicely
5:32to each other.
5:37Perfect. Oh, we actually have three
5:39types of walls. Very interesting. So,
5:44let's just say we draw that as an
5:46example in our internal wall type.
5:53Now, we're going to detach the style
5:55from that because otherwise that would
5:57change the um internal wall type. And
6:00I'm going to say actually I want a 600
6:03mil wall. And I'll change the color to
6:07blue for example.
6:09Um and I'll create a new style. You see
6:12that pop up there. And we'll call that
6:15fireplace
6:18wall for example.
6:20And then if you wanted to apply that
6:22one, we just click on the wall, go to
6:24the little swatch tool, click on that.
6:26There we go.
6:31So, you can see there all the walls have
6:34been drawn. They're all nice and neat.
6:39Um,
6:41and as I said before, we can then go
6:43back into our layers and then just hide
6:47the background just to check what we've
6:48drawn.
6:51Okay, so now I've got these walls drawn.
6:53I want to go back in and have a look at
6:56the styles. Try to make a uh a bit more
6:59of an aesthetically pleasing drawing. So
7:01I can see my three wall styles here. And
7:04I can say actually I want to edit those
7:06styles. I don't really want a solid red
7:09wall. So I can go into texture or hatch.
7:12So I'm going to go into hatch. And you
7:14can see it immediately swaps out um the
7:18hatch for that. So, I could change this
7:20to a hatch pattern or a cross-hatch
7:23pattern. Maybe let's let's do a
7:25cross-hatch pattern. Um, you can change
7:27the opacity. Um, and you can change the
7:31scale
7:32um of what you're doing. So, at the
7:34moment it's a one scale. So, maybe at
7:382 for example,
7:41we go that and that obviously
7:42automatically affects all of those
7:44walls. So, we'll go into internal wall
7:47again. We'll change the style. Go to
7:49hatch. Maybe I want that as just a
7:53hatch. And then again, let's change the
7:56size.
7:58You can see that there.
8:04Maybe the
8:06fireplace one for the last time.
8:09[Music]
8:11Maybe that wants to be a concrete thing.
8:14So again, just change the scale of that.
8:19So there we've got our sort of three
8:22styles and they obviously get saved into
8:25the um into the system and we can use
8:29those throughout so we have some level
8:30of consistency as we're drawing. Okay.
8:33So now I've got the walls drawn. Let's
8:36have a look at the zones. So zones are
8:38really about creating a space or a room
8:41um which is bounded by the walls. So we
8:44can go into our zone tool which is just
8:47down the bottom here. Actually maybe
8:48let's just hide our back layers. So
8:52we've got a bit of clarity. So here we
8:55go. So this is all that drawn
8:57information.
8:59We can create a zone very easily by just
9:01hovering over a space and it will
9:03automatically register what's being
9:05bounded by um walls. So we can say a
9:11zone here
9:13and create one here.
9:20So those are all our spaces which have
9:22been formed into zones and you'll see
9:24the little t um the little text note
9:28which automatically calculates the area.
9:33Okay. So with those zones, we can do the
9:35same thing that we did with the walls
9:37and create um a style. So we can click
9:40on one of them, maybe let's say on the
9:42living space, for example. We can change
9:46we can create a new style. We'll call
9:48that um timber floor for example.
9:53We'll change the hatch on there. maybe
9:58change it to
10:00um
10:02let's give it a nice herring bone
10:04pattern. We'll probably knock back the
10:06opacity a little bit so it's not quite
10:08as in your face.
10:19There we go.
10:22And that is saved as a style again. So,
10:25for example, I could pick a style,
10:29swatch that one, and again, it will copy
10:31that style across. But, in fact, I
10:33probably want um these uh what look like
10:38bathrooms and um utility spaces to be a
10:41separate style. So, again, we can create
10:43a new style. We'll call that uh tiled
10:45floor.
10:47Again, we'll change our hatch, change
10:50the opacity down,
10:54and then we can pick a swatch,
11:00go from there.
11:02So, the next thing to do is to start
11:04naming your zones, which kind of helps
11:06when you're tagging things out. So,
11:10think about the label as a tag, which is
11:12reading from this space. So if I click
11:14on this actual zone, I can change the
11:16name of the zone to garage
11:20and that will come out in the tag.
11:23Similarly, office
11:29call this one utility
11:33WC.
11:36Now what about if I wanted to swap this
11:40very large zone into kind of two spaces?
11:43So there isn't a wall there, but I can
11:45put in something called a zone divider.
11:47So this allows me to kind of create a
11:50break between two areas. And you'll see
11:54there the minute that line is put in,
11:59it sees that as a separate space. So
12:02this is now tagging this room as one
12:05space and I've lost the zone on the
12:06other. So I can again create a new zone
12:09there. And I want to call that one um
12:12lobby for example. And maybe that has a
12:16completely different style. So call that
12:19one um timber floor two.
12:26So we can change the opacity again. We
12:29have a nice horizontal floor in there.
12:34So again, just like before, we can go
12:36into our style window and we can find
12:38those styles that we've just created. So
12:40they're just here, timber floor, timber
12:42floor 2, tiled floor. And we can go into
12:45any of those and say, actually, not sure
12:48about that herring bone pattern.
12:51Um,
12:54want to something a bit jazzier. So here
12:56we go. And then that automatically
12:57changes to any of those zones that are
12:59tagged like that. And
13:03if we forget to do that, we can just add
13:06a note. Um, and there we have it. All
13:10the areas easily calculated and all the
13:13zones patterned as we like. This is a
13:16really kind of helpful thing that we can
13:18change those styles on a different type
13:19of drawing. So I could color code those
13:22zones if I wanted um to indicate
13:24different things like different ceiling
13:26types, different floor types um all just
13:30through the sort of tagging and the
13:31styles.
13:33So we've drawn out our basic walls um
13:35and now we'll put in some doors and
13:36windows just to illustrate how you do
13:38that. So we can go to our library. We
13:40can search for door.
13:43Um let's say we'll have this one. Select
13:47that. That just loads it. And then my
13:49little tool here, which is the insertion
13:51tool, allows me to populate doors
13:54wherever I want. So I'll click to um
13:56place it. And then it will give me the
13:58selection of which way I want it to
14:00turn. Inward, outward, left hand, right
14:02hand. Um so we can just populate
14:08like that. And we can do exactly the
14:10same thing with windows. So we go to our
14:11opening. Um
14:16we can change our block.
14:20So again go to window
14:25basic window. We can select and again
14:28that will insert it as we like. So we
14:32can just go around and uh populate the
14:35model um with all the uh required
14:37elements. I've just spent some time
14:40refining the drawing down and populating
14:41it with all the windows and doors. With
14:43the structure in place, we're now going
14:45to add blocks and annotations to the
14:47drawing to make it much more
14:48informative. Rayon's block library
14:50includes more than 4,000 top, side, and
14:53front view symbols. And you can even
14:55import DWG blocks, create your own, or
14:58curate libraries for easy access. Let's
15:01drop in some key elements and annotate
15:03them with dimensions and labels. So,
15:05let's get started with annotations. So,
15:08we'll create a new layer. Go over to the
15:11layer tab. Add new layer. Call it
15:15annotations. Make sure that one's um on
15:18the top so it can be read the most
15:20clearly. So, and you can see that it's
15:22selected by this little um tick. We'll
15:25go down to the tab down here. So,
15:27dimensions, this one in the middle.
15:30Click on it. Um, and just in basic
15:32terms, we can click one end, click the
15:36next, and we have this annotation line.
15:39So, this is in millimeters, which is
15:41what I like to see. Um, and you can see
15:44again here on the right hand side, we
15:47have a styles tab. So, we can edit that
15:49style
15:54[Music]
15:56that called dimensions. We've got it in
15:59a red color.
16:02We can change the type of arrow. Um
16:07[Music]
16:08on here,
16:10change the size of that. Um
16:15can even change the font if we felt like
16:16it.
16:20And then that's our dimension style. So
16:22again, that can be swapped out later if
16:23we choose to. Um, the other helpful
16:25thing with dimensions is that we can
16:28obviously do it as part of a chain. So,
16:32you will have a series of dimensions
16:33that you select as you go. So, let's
16:35click on chain. Um, and actually, I'd
16:38want to dimension
16:40where this door sits. So,
16:47without coming out of the tool, you can
16:50do your series of dimensions there.
16:54And then if I actually decide that I'm
16:56not quite sure about that end style, I
16:58can just go back in and
17:03change it for a simple arrow.
17:05So again, nice and easy, nice and quick.
17:10So with the dimensions already in place,
17:12we can now add a few blocks.
17:14So we'll go to the block tab, which is
17:16just under the layer tab on the left
17:17hand side. We can go to libraries. So
17:20there's a huge array of um different
17:22standard blocks that are included. Let's
17:24just have a look at the basic blocks
17:26which is this one here. So each of them
17:28come with um a series of different
17:30views. So we could drag in this dining
17:32table for example um
17:36[Music]
17:39and you can see there
17:41on this other side we also have um
17:44elevation views. So with and without
17:47furniture. So, I'll just add those just
17:48to show you how they look. But these
17:50obviously all correlate in terms of
17:52dimensions um with the top view.
17:56[Music]
17:57Similarly,
17:59there's a whole array of different um
18:02pieces of furniture that we can put in.
18:05Um so, we could start to populate the
18:07kitchen if we wanted to.
18:09[Music]
18:12And again, you can see if you click on
18:14this little purple button, there are
18:16side front section views.
18:22With the furniture in place, we can also
18:24add in things like annotations. So, if
18:27we just scroll down here,
18:30there's a tab called title blocks and
18:33annotations. This has things like scale
18:35bars, north arrows,
18:38um grid lines,
18:40section lines, elevation marks, all the
18:42sort of things that you would expect on
18:44an architectural drawing. So, we can
18:46obviously populate the drawing with
18:48furniture, but we can also add in
18:49helpful annotations. Um, so we just
18:52scroll down to title blocks and
18:55annotations, which is here. And this
18:58folder includes lots of different
18:59symbols um that you would typically find
19:02on an architectural drawing set. So
19:06example, let's find the window tag.
19:08Again, we can just drag and drop.
19:12Obviously, depending on the size of the
19:14drawing,
19:16we can adjust that to suit.
19:21And just like every other element within
19:23Rome, we can adjust um the style of
19:26that. So I can change the type of line.
19:36[Music]
19:39Can you say that wants to be red? Um
19:43maybe a little bit thicker.
19:49And similarly I can change the text. So
19:52again I can swap that for red example.
19:57Um and then I can copy and paste that
20:02and tag each window
20:05as I go.
20:10Similarly, we can add a north arrow
20:19[Music]
20:26to our drawing. And again, we just edit.
20:37We can just edit that down
20:43with our zones that we created
20:44previously. We can also edit the zone
20:46tags themselves. So if I click on the
20:48zone tag, I can create a new style
20:53called zone for example. And again I can
20:57change the color of the font.
20:59I can
21:02call my room living
21:05room.
21:09And for example, say I wanted that to be
21:12slightly larger. I can change
21:15the size of the font as well. And that
21:18obviously still reads um the overall
21:20area of the space.
21:23And you can really go as far as you
21:25like. If you look at the library um
21:27that's included, there's a whole array
21:29of different things um from, you know,
21:32electrical symbols for, you know,
21:34setting out your light sockets um and
21:37switches, um gym symbols, there's uh
21:41mechanical MEP symbols, things for
21:44kitchens, light fittings,
21:46um yeah, even stuff down to medical
21:48equipment and musical instruments.
21:55The really helpful aspect of the block
21:58library is that it's also searchable. So
22:00I can go to block, I can go to library,
22:02and then if I can't find what I want, I
22:04just search for it. So let's search for
22:06car.
22:07Even got a car charger.
22:10And I can drag and drop
22:12my car into the space.
22:15Similarly, if I wanted to add some
22:17vegetation around the house, I can just
22:18search for some trees.
22:22And just as before, it's a drag and drop
22:24feature. And we also have multiple views
22:28for our elevations if we choose to.
22:45If you keep going with the annotations
22:47and the blocks, your plan will start to
22:49look like this. So, lots of useful
22:51information. Windows are tagged,
22:53dimensions, labels on the rooms, areas,
22:57and even floor heights.
23:00And then once you've added all the
23:03blocks, you have a sort of fully
23:05furnished space which really comes to
23:07life um when people are looking at it.
23:09So, we've got an array of furniture.
23:11We've got all the sort of kitchen
23:12fittings, the stairs, vehicles, and the
23:14landscape.
23:17So, I've just spent a little bit of time
23:19finalizing the drawing and adding a
23:21title sheet. If you want to export the
23:23drawing, we need to create a page. So,
23:26we'll go to the little symbol on the
23:28left hand side of here, pages, we'll add
23:31a page, and then on the right side, we
23:33can adjust that size. So, we'll say it's
23:36an A Z page, and we'll call the scale 1
23:38to 50.
23:41And we'll drag that around our frame.
23:43And then that sets that drawing scale.
23:48With that page set up, we can then
23:50export the drawing. So, we'll just go
23:52over to here, the three little lines,
23:53menu, export, and we can export that as
23:57an image, a DWG or a PDF, which is what
23:59we want to do. And then you can see
24:01there, model canvas, page one. So, that
24:05will then create um our drawing.
24:09We can name it. So, we would call it
24:11drawing export.
24:15And we can even adjust the size.
24:19[Music]
24:20We'll go to export
24:22and then we'll choose a location. We'll
24:24just pop it on the desktop.
24:26Go from there.
24:30So, it doesn't take long to export. And
24:32we'll just check it's there. Drawing.
24:34Export. There we go.
24:38I've given you an overview of how quick
24:40the drawing and documentation process is
24:42in Brayon, but my favorite aspect is the
24:45ability to share. You can invite your
24:47teammates into the model to collaborate
24:49in real time. You can use the share
24:51button to grant access, add canvas
24:55comments or annotations to guide
24:57viewers, or even ask for feedback. It's
25:00a really great feature for working with
25:02clients, contractors, or other team
25:04members. So to share, there's a big blue
25:07share button up in the top right hand
25:09corner and we can literally just add our
25:13colleagues and connections using their
25:15email. If they don't already have a
25:16login, it will prompt them to sign up.
25:19Um, and similarly, we can publish these
25:22files for a presentation.
25:28When you're granted access to a drawing,
25:30you can go to the comment section, which
25:32is over on the left hand side, and you
25:34can add a comment. So, we can click
25:37somewhere on the canvas. So, say I was
25:40reviewing this drawing and I wasn't
25:41quite sure about that corner junction.
25:45Not sure about this corner junction.
25:51Do we need a structural support? Yeah.
25:56Question mark.
25:58post
26:00and then obviously when I go into that
26:02drawing um I'm alerted to that and we
26:04can have a conversation and collaborate
26:05on the design.
26:07Imagine how much that speeds up the
26:09process having a realtime commenting
26:11process on your drawings. So that's how
26:14you can create a comprehensive drawing
26:16set incredibly quickly using Rayon
26:18Design. If you've got any questions,
26:19drop them in the comments and we'd be
26:21happy to help. You can try it out for
26:23yourself using the free template linked
26:24in the description. If this tutorial was
26:27helpful, please like the video and
26:28subscribe to the channel. Thanks for
26:30watching. I'll see you in the next one.

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