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0:00welcome to Lesson Four in this lesson
0:01we're going to explore the site's unique
0:04conditions and we're going to look at it
0:06from a very broad contextual Insight all
0:09the way to a very immediate condition of
0:12the site in order to do this we'll
0:13examine the site at two scales the first
0:16scale at 1 to 2,500 and then we'll be
0:18zooming into 1 to 500 this will be to
0:21capture both the immediate surroundings
0:23and the broader context highlighting the
0:25project constraints and opportunities
0:27that will influence the design I will
0:29then take you through the step by-step
0:30process of stylizing the site plans
0:32turning layers on and off adjusting lme
0:35weights hatches and fills uh adjusting
0:38the colors in order to make sure that
0:40you're showing the correct information
0:42the relevant information at each
0:47scale so looking at the site at a 1 to
0:502500 scale as you can see here I've put
0:53together a bit of a kind of graphic
0:56drawing that breaks down the information
0:58um into the relevant and important
1:01information that we want to show at the
1:02scale as I've discussed the site is
1:05located in a prominent location close by
1:07to the local town of of PR Sands with a
1:10beautiful beach and we've got very good
1:13access for the site via these main road
1:16so you got the packet lane and then
1:18you've got the
1:19a394 linking the site making it a really
1:22great location and a really accessible
1:25location by vehicle to the local town
1:28prand and in this drawing I've also
1:30indicated where these uh precedence or
1:33not precedence but the local vernacular
1:36is um located and where these
1:38architecture features are located um
1:41just as a graphic tool to kind of
1:42highlight and and call out some of these
1:44features of the drawing and now in this
1:47drawing we've got a couple key features
1:49that I wanted to express so of course
1:52the location is a significant feature
1:55showing the the kind of proximity of the
1:58site to prand and it's relationship also
2:01the access of course indicating with
2:03this red dotted line and then the
2:06Contours is a significant feature of
2:09this drawing indicating that this is
2:11quite a severe slope there's a strong uh
2:15change in levels and that this is
2:17sloping down towards the beach and we
2:20didn't want to overwhelm the drawing
2:21with too much information and so this is
2:23a kind of a good level of information
2:25required for this drawing now let me
2:27show you how you can import a d
2:30into rayon and break it down to this
2:33level of detail so the first thing that
2:35we're going to do is head up to the
2:37leftand corner and click the menu tab
2:40we're going to click import and then
2:42DWG and then we're going to head down to
2:45our site model so the 1 to
2:482,500 and what it's going to do is it's
2:50going to process the model and import it
2:52at the exact scale of that drawing and
2:55then it'll appear with this set scale
2:57tool and this is essentially trying to
2:59help you Define the correct scale and to
3:02kind of help the software pick up on the
3:04right scale so what it would do is it
3:06will highlight a certain area with this
3:08blue line and it'll give you a few
3:09options to make sure that you are
3:11defining the correct scale for the
3:13drawing so for example we can estimate
3:15that this is about 100 m and then it
3:18will instantly assign the right scale to
3:20the drawing so we're going to click 100
3:22m we're going to click import and then
3:24it will come up with a pick insertion
3:26point which we're going to select and
3:30then simply drop into the model now this
3:32is just a process of breaking this
3:34drawing down into the relevant
3:36information as you can see this has a
3:38lot of detail that we won't require at 1
3:41to 2500 scale especially at the kind of
3:44graphic level and the clarity that we
3:46want to show in our site analysis so
3:48things like this with the kind of
3:50Contour tags all of these tags that we
3:53have even the colors we want to make
3:54sure we have a consistent color scheme
3:56now when you come over to the left hand
3:58side you will see this layer is Tab and
4:00as you can see you've got the import
4:02here which is essentially the DWG that
4:04we've just imported and if you click the
4:06drop down you will see that all of these
4:08layers are broken down so every item in
4:10your model will live on a layer and
4:12whatever layer that you draw on or
4:15active layer that you draw on will be
4:17the the kind of layer that your object
4:20or polyline or shape or whatever it is
4:24that will be assigned to the active
4:26layer now what I'm going to start doing
4:27is I'm literally going to start
4:29switching off some of these layers so
4:31got building text we don't want uh we
4:34want General text turn off uh we've got
4:38water text so any real text we don't
4:40really need they're not relevant and
4:43then what we're going to start doing is
4:44maybe a land form line we can turn off
4:47we don't really need that I would also
4:48spend some time just kind of deleting
4:50some of the geometry that I don't
4:52believe required um a lot of this
4:55landfill area or general lines we we
4:58don't really need so now I'm going to
5:00start styling the drawing by changing
5:02the line weights changing the color
5:03fills changing the line fills and this
5:06is a process of selecting the geometry
5:09heading over to the style section on the
5:11right hand side where you can affect
5:13pretty much any aspect of your canvas
5:15the line weight color fill Etc this is
5:18where you'll have a list of styles that
5:20are assigned to uh the polyline or
5:23geometry or shape that you have selected
5:25in your model so let's go ahead on this
5:27right hand side we're going to select
5:29edit St
5:30we're going to change the stroke to
5:33let's say gray and as you can see all of
5:35the contour lines that also have that
5:37same style have also changed to that
5:40light gray and to be honest we're going
5:41to make it even lighter because we don't
5:43want it to be too prominent in the
5:44drawing so let's drop that maybe like so
5:48so you now got a nice subtle contour
5:50line on the drawing I'm now going to
5:53apply the same principles throughout so
5:55for the hatch color for the landfill
5:58we're going to maybe also change this to
6:00quite a light gray as you can see I'm
6:03then going to change the water to maybe
6:06a hatch so we're going to head down to
6:08the fill option we're going to select uh
6:10so you've got solid texture hatch or
6:12image uh the texture is something that
6:14we'll go into a little bit more detail
6:16further down the line when you're adding
6:18certain textures to your kind of floor
6:21plans and giving it a realistic tone as
6:24you can see here you can make your way
6:26through all of the textures but for this
6:28instance we're going to go over to hat
6:30um and I really enjoy adding hatches to
6:32my drawings adds a real kind of graphic
6:35element to the drawing so I'm going to
6:36head down scroll down to maybe
6:38oblique uh we're going to then change
6:41the scale of the hatch so you can come
6:43down click edit head over to scale we're
6:46going to bump that up to maybe
6:4810 and voila you now have a hatched
6:51water but it looks a little bit too
6:53strong it's a little bit too dominant in
6:55the drawing so we're going to select it
6:57we're going to change it once again head
6:59into the Hat and we're going to change
7:00the stroke to a light gray once again so
7:03it's a little bit more subtle so I think
7:05at this stage the drawing is getting
7:07there but it's still a little bit too
7:08dense it's far too much information uh
7:11especially these building lines or or
7:13these kind of just general lines they're
7:15a little bit too heavy and I think to be
7:16honest let's just turn them off so then
7:18the roads are a little bit more
7:19prominent we can then obviously change
7:21the style of those roads to a bit more
7:23of a lighter gray the next step is to
7:26trim some of the edges crop it down so
7:28that we've got a nice knee Edge and in
7:30this instance you can use a poly line
7:33you can use any shape uh that you wish
7:36but I'm going to use the circle I'm
7:38going to place the circle so that we
7:41have our site located and the town
7:44center located in View and then we're
7:48going to come down to the editing tools
7:49we're going to first make sure that the
7:51shape is selected so the shape that we
7:53want to trim to come down and we're
7:55going to select trim so the shortcut is
7:57TR and this would just be the case of
7:59trimming the image down and anything any
8:02lines that are intersecting with that
8:04shape it will trim it and this will just
8:08be spend a bit of time doing this and
8:11you'll come to something like this which
8:12just looks a lot neater now the final
8:14few bits I'm going to add to this
8:16drawing is going to be highlighting the
8:18main access roads uh so this is just
8:21going to be a simple case of using the
8:22polyline tracing over these main access
8:25roads trying to be as accurate as
8:28possible with then to come down to the
8:30stroke we're going to change it to quite
8:32a thick stroke so maybe even 25 mil
8:36maybe even bigger let's go 50 I'm going
8:39to go with a red and we're going to
8:41change it to a dash so if you select at
8:44the bottom here you can select the
8:46different line types so you've got all
8:48of these different options and I'm
8:50actually going to do maybe let's do a
8:53DOT and then we're going to add an arrow
8:55head to it so we're just going to draw
8:57our own Arrow Head and you'll arrive at
9:00something like this where we have the
9:02kind of main roads highlighted got a
9:04punch of red in there so it's a nice
9:06graphic tool so everything's obviously
9:08black and white a nice kind of soft gray
9:10and then we've got a nice kind of bold
9:12Touch of red if you've seen a lot of my
9:15work you'll notice that I do like a
9:16punch of red in my
9:18drawings and the final thing to add to
9:21this drawing is going to be some
9:23annotation um highlighting these areas
9:26but also doing the call outs for the
9:28local vernacular and some of the
9:29architectural features that I've picked
9:31up in the local area so what I'm going
9:32to do is I'm going to find the building
9:34on the map I'm going to come down here
9:36I'm going to
9:38draw a kind of point that is pointing
9:41to that part of the map so we'll do it
9:44as like a dark gray we're then going to
9:46draw a call out using the polyline so
9:48we'll do something fairly rough like so
9:51click enter change that also to a
9:54lighter
9:56gray and then we're going to draw a
9:58square which we're going to drop the
10:00image in so if you hold down shift
10:02you'll get an
10:04even we might want to scale that up
10:07that'll be a case of importing the image
10:10and going through this process as I've
10:12discussed you then want to scale that
10:15down to the
10:20square position it so it's fairly
10:22centered double click into it using this
10:25toggle bring it into the square so we're
10:27kind of cropping it down and you
10:29eventually end up with something like
10:31this once you spend some time cleaning
10:32up the drawings and this is our one 12
10:352500 drawing that indicates the relevant
10:38information at the scale and highlights
10:40the key features that we want to show so
10:42now let's dive into 1 to 500 now at 1 to
10:45500 we want to show a much more kind of
10:48local site analysis the more local site
10:51conditions opportunities and constraints
10:54and how we're going to respond to the
10:57immediate site conditions and the
10:58immediate kind of neighboring existing
11:01buildings Etc so this is the drawing
11:03that we're kind of going to end up with
11:05uh as you can see here you got the site
11:07with the site boundary uh we've got some
11:09kind of symbols and hatches that are
11:11indicating some textures and areas of
11:15kind of grassland or kind of farmyard uh
11:18we've got all our site analysis looking
11:20at the Sun Path the prevailing wind and
11:22then obviously some of the key site
11:24conditions such as views towards the sea
11:27um and then going in a little bit more
11:28detail looking at the public and private
11:31zones and so with the site analysis the
11:33main things that we want to focus on the
11:35Sun Path prevailing wind basic kind of
11:38environmental features but then views
11:40plot access and public versus private so
11:43I'm now going to take you through the
11:44process of how we can put together a
11:46drawing like this so once again it's
11:48going to be a process of importing the
11:50DWG and it'll be exactly the same
11:52process of breaking the drawing down
11:55into the key elements and features that
11:57we want to show making sure we have some
11:58of the tags turned off and essentially
12:01get to a point like this and now I want
12:03to show you two things that's going to
12:04add much more detail and make the draw
12:07is much more rich and layered so the two
12:10things I'm going to add is first is
12:12going to be trees and I'm going to show
12:13you how you can create your own symbol
12:15which you can then group and then
12:17populate throughout your drawing and
12:19then we're going to add hatches to show
12:20how you can show those those areas of
12:23farmland or grass or whatever those
12:25zones are but it also just adds that
12:27graphic element to your drawing and adds
12:28a bit more more
12:29detail so the first thing that we're
12:31going to do is once again head over to
12:33the layers and we're going to create a
12:35new layer called
12:39trees and now as you can see by having
12:42this button here highlighted this will
12:45indicate that it's the active layer and
12:47we want to make sure that whenever
12:48you're drawing anything and if you want
12:50it on a specific layer make sure that
12:52you have the active layer selected now
12:55this is just going to be a very simple
12:57case of me drawing a kind of symbol for
12:59a tree uh so we're going to make sure
13:02it's got no hatch we're going to do it
13:05as a light gray and then what I'm going
13:08to do is I'm going to find the center
13:09point which I can do like
13:13so by clicking and it will obviously
13:16snip to uh the edges of the circle and
13:19I'm now going to scale this down by
13:21heading down to the editing tools once
13:23again finding the scale tool which is s
13:26on the shortcut selecting the middle
13:29dragging it down so then we have a kind
13:31of Center Point for the tree and this is
13:34simply going to be my symbol for trees
13:36and usually when I'm applying vegetation
13:38to my drawings I like to keep them this
13:40simple so what I'm going to do now is
13:41I'm going to highlight those elements
13:43I'm going to come down to the bottom and
13:44I'm going to select group and what this
13:47has done now is you can change that to
13:50tree at the top right hand corner and
13:52then if you hold down alt you can then
13:54drag this across and populate across
13:56your drawings and you'll get something
13:58like this as you can see the tree is
14:00distributed across the drawing at
14:02different scales scaling up and down
14:05changing the line weight color uh to a
14:08nice light gray so it's not too
14:10dominating but it just gives a nice
14:12level of detail and an an extra kind of
14:15layer to the drawing now once again we
14:17want to make sure that we create a new
14:19layer called hatches we want to make
14:23sure that it's active we're then going
14:25to come down here and what I'm going to
14:27use is the polyline tool now I want this
14:29to be quite sketchy I don't want this to
14:30be too kind of specific and so I'm
14:33literally going to start drawing around
14:35these areas that I believe are a
14:39particular kind of Zone whether it's
14:41kind of farmyard or whether it's trees
14:43and I'm just going to very quickly and
14:47crudely kind of go around the edge and
14:49the idea of reason why I'm kind of doing
14:51this so sketchy is as you see when you
14:54add the hatch it will give it a nice
14:56layered look and it won't look too kind
14:58of precise but instead it will look like
15:00a more of a kind of diagram so now once
15:02we've closed the poly lines that's a
15:04really important thing to note you want
15:06to make sure the poly line is closed you
15:08come down here to the fill once again
15:10you got your four options you got solid
15:12color which you could do a solid red
15:14you've got texture or you've got hatch
15:16and the hatch that we're going to use is
15:19going to be this dashed oblique and I
15:21think this is a really nice hatch to use
15:23I'm going to head down to edit I'm going
15:25to scale this up to maybe five or maybe
15:28a little bit more we go seven and I'm
15:31also going to change this color to a
15:32nice light color so it's not too
15:34dominating and one thing we're going to
15:36do is we're going to turn off the stroke
15:38because we don't want to see that and
15:39there you go You' got a nice area
15:43outlined and what I'm going to do is I'm
15:45going to distribute this across the
15:46drawing once again so do a very similar
15:49thing where I'm filling some of these
15:51zones once again super
15:53sketchy and then going to use the same
15:57hatch as before
15:59but I'm going to change the scale so
16:01that one was I believe seven I'm now
16:04going to change this to 10 so then
16:06you've got a
16:07variety in the scales in the tones make
16:11sure the hatch is turned off uh the
16:13stroke is turned off and you can see
16:15that it starts just adding a bit more
16:17layer to the drawing it adds a bit more
16:19information bit more detail and texture
16:22and we're going to populate this across
16:24the drawing as part of this lesson and
16:26the course in general you will have
16:28access to templates to blocks that you
16:31can use for your drawings the templates
16:33will help you as you make your way
16:35through the course but also the blocks
16:37will help when you're creating your own
16:38drawings you can drop them into your own
16:40drawings um and use them as you please
16:43so as part of this lesson we have some
16:45blocks some site symbols that we're
16:47going to use for our site analysis and
16:49to annotate our drawings and so I
16:51already have a load of blocks ready for
16:55you guys to use and I'm going to show
16:57you here over on this left hand side we
16:59have if we open the layers tab you will
17:02see that we have something called
17:03canvases and this is something that I
17:04haven't discussed yet um and this is a
17:07really useful feature of rayon uh when
17:10you're building your drawings and adding
17:12this this kind of amount of detail and
17:13layers so canvases is a space in a model
17:16where things can be drawn so this here
17:19is a canvas and you can create multiple
17:22canvases within a model so you can see
17:24here we've got one canvas here and then
17:26another canvas are these site symbols
17:29canvas essentially carries its own
17:30settings units uh Styles line scales
17:35display settings Etc and you can create
17:37canvases by coming up to the top here
17:39clicking the plus button and doing model
17:42Canvas OR paper canvas and in this case
17:44I have these site symbol canvases and
17:47you can simply come into here you can
17:49select whatever features that you want
17:51to bring over into your model um you can
17:54right click them click copy and just
17:56drop them into your model so it's a
17:57really nice way of setting setting up
17:59multiple kind of workspaces in the same
18:01model now for this site analysis we have
18:03a range of site symbols that you might
18:06find really useful to add to your
18:07drawings so we have Public Access
18:09pession access we've got Legend symbols
18:11we've got height symbols North Arrow
18:13symbols scale symbols so we got scale
18:16bars we've got terrain symbols view
18:18range Etc we've got all of them in here
18:20so if you want to use any of these
18:22symbols you're welcome to so if I simply
18:25select it click copy bring it over into
18:27my model
18:29and you can see that it will paste into
18:32the canvas now with a bit of time
18:34annotating the drawings these are the
18:36key features that I've picked up on uh
18:38so we've got the site location we've got
18:40the site boundary of course we' got
18:41views we've got these kind of Trail
18:43markers indicating that there could
18:45potentially be a trail around here that
18:47we need to be sensitive of we've
18:49obviously got the Sun Path we've got
18:51prevailing wind and on this right hand
18:54side we have a slightly more zoomed site
18:56analysis to show a little bit more
18:58detail tell that is more relevant to the
19:00immediate analysis and the immediate
19:02existing buildings that surround so this
19:05is just a case of selecting this area
19:08cropping it down scaling it up and then
19:10the site entrance of course and then
19:12this really important relationship with
19:14public and private making sure that
19:16we're respecting our neighboring
19:17properties now this gives us a good base
19:20for us to move forward with the scheme

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