Starting an ADU Renovation: From Brief to Drawing Setup — Transcript

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1. 0:00I have this ADU renovation project in
2. 0:02California where we're basically trying
3. 0:04to keep the core of the structure.
4. 0:06There's an existing patio that we're
5. 0:07looking to infill to establish a new
6. 0:09primary suite as well as re-clad the
7. 0:12exterior and renovate the kitchen. So,
8. 0:14over the course of the next eight
9. 0:15episodes, I'm going to take you through
10. 0:17each [music] step of this process
11. 0:19uh from the very first conversations
12. 0:21with the client all the way through to
13. 0:22the final [music] drawing set. Every
14. 0:24stage, every decision, the whole thing.
15. 0:26All of this is visualized, drafted, and
16. 0:29documented here in [music] Rhyno. A
17. 0:31browser-based design tool built for
18. 0:32interior designers and design teams.
19. 0:36>> [music]
20. 0:37>> Renovation projects are always special
21. 0:39because you really have to respect the
22. 0:40existing structure and you don't
23. 0:42necessarily always have that full design
24. 0:44freedom that you might want. [music] The
25. 0:46small scale of this project also allows
26. 0:48us to really get into the details and
27. 0:50see how things are put together.
28. 0:52I didn't want to cover just the finished
29. 0:53drawings and the beautiful final
30. 0:55presentation. I really wanted to get
31. 0:57into how we put it all together um and
32. 1:00how Rhyno is really used to streamline
33. 1:02my workflow. Eight episodes, eight
34. 1:04stages of the same project. So, we'll
35. 1:06start with the project setup and the
36. 1:08client goals for the project and we'll
37. 1:10get into documenting the existing
38. 1:12structure so we can draft our existing
39. 1:15floor plans and then from there derive
40. 1:17our demo plans and then start to
41. 1:19establish our proposed new design.
42. 1:21[music]
43. 1:21Before we get into all of that, we'll
44. 1:23also do some client mood boards as well
45. 1:25as design sketches and how to get those
46. 1:28presented directly from Rhyno. And then
47. 1:31we'll get into all of the detailing,
48. 1:33project data,
49. 1:34um and even our drawing aesthetics and
50. 1:36and presentation styles as well.
51. 1:39Finally, we'll have the complete drawing
52. 1:41package ready to deliver. All of this is
53. 1:43done in Rhyno from the very first file
54. 1:45through the last sheet. If you want to
55. 1:47follow along with your own project,
56. 1:49there's a link in the description to
57. 1:50create a Rhyno account. Episode one is
58. 1:53the project setup and client brief.
59. 1:55Let's get into it.
60. 1:57>> [music]
61. 1:58>> Welcome to episode one, the project
62. 1:59setup. Here, we're going to walk you
63. 2:01through how to start a new project,
64. 2:03whether that's from scratch or by using
65. 2:04one of our built-in templates.
66. 2:06Eventually, we'll show you how to create
67. 2:08your own template as well.
68. 2:09We'll go through the basics of
69. 2:11everything that you need to organize and
70. 2:12create a project here in Rian. Let's get
71. 2:15started. When you first open Rian,
72. 2:17you'll start out with your personal
73. 2:18account. So, you can see here I'm on my
74. 2:21own space, and if I open this up, I've
75. 2:23actually got my own professional pro
76. 2:25account. And so, I can always go here
77. 2:27where I've actually got all of my
78. 2:28workspaces beyond just that personal my
79. 2:31models. So, here I can actually organize
80. 2:33into workspaces, which if I had
81. 2:36employees or collaborators, I could use
82. 2:38this to organize who has access to what.
83. 2:41For example, maybe I want the entire
84. 2:43team to have access to the active
85. 2:45projects, but maybe the libraries and
86. 2:47templates, you know, the intern doesn't
87. 2:49need access to this where they can go in
88. 2:51and make changes. And so, here I can
89. 2:53just make sure that the right people
90. 2:55have access to the right information.
91. 2:57That being said, once somebody has
92. 2:59access to a project, then it's true
93. 3:01collaboration. So, much more like what
94. 3:03you would expect out of Google Docs
95. 3:05versus AutoCAD or Revit or ArchiCAD. So,
96. 3:08everyone can actually work at the same
97. 3:10time in the same project. True
98. 3:11collaboration in that way, you actually
99. 3:13see each other's cursors moving around
100. 3:14the screen.
101. 3:16So, coming back to my personal space,
102. 3:19starting from scratch, I can of course
103. 3:21open a new model, which that's actually
104. 3:23going to be completely blank. So, I'll
105. 3:25go ahead and start a new project, and
106. 3:27we'll see just how, you know, wide open
107. 3:30and empty this is. So,
108. 3:32if I go over to my canvases, which I'll
109. 3:34introduce in a minute, here we've got a
110. 3:36model canvas and a paper canvas, both
111. 3:38completely empty. Our layers list is
112. 3:40completely empty. You can see here we
113. 3:42have no pages. So, this is just a
114. 3:44completely blank slate that I'm able to
115. 3:46get started on a new project. However,
116. 3:48that seems a little daunting, you can
117. 3:50always start a new project based on a
118. 3:52template. So, I can come down here and
119. 3:55open up the templates. And this is
120. 3:57basically some simple projects that the
121. 3:59team has put together. And so, you can
122. 4:01use this as a starting point. You can
123. 4:02pull pieces from any of these, whatever
124. 4:04you want to do. But also, one really
125. 4:06important aspect of this is that you can
126. 4:07actually create your own templates. And
127. 4:09so, we'll walk through how to go about
128. 4:11doing that and what the benefits are
129. 4:12towards the end of this video. So, I'm
130. 4:14going to go ahead and open up one of
131. 4:16these templates. So, let's maybe take
132. 4:17this beach house drawings.
133. 4:20Um and so, as this opens up, it's going
134. 4:22to prompt me to duplicate this project.
135. 4:25And so, here, start drawing from this
136. 4:27template, go ahead and duplicate. And
137. 4:29you can see up in the tabs, this is
138. 4:31actually opening up another version of
139. 4:33this project. And so, here's the
140. 4:35original template, and then here's that
141. 4:36copy that I just made. And if I go back
142. 4:39into my home screen, this is going to
143. 4:42show up under the my models. So, here we
144. 4:44can see that new project that we
145. 4:45started, as well as that beach house uh
146. 4:48project that we took from the template.
147. 4:50Um so, now this is my own project. I can
148. 4:52do with it as I want. Um and so, I can
149. 4:56you know, move the pages around, I can
150. 4:57make any edits, I can go into the
151. 4:59canvases and make some actual changes,
152. 5:03uh and really take this and create my
153. 5:04own project off of it. Um and so, next
154. 5:06we'll go into how to organize a project,
155. 5:09what the canvases um might look like,
156. 5:11how the layer structure works, and all
157. 5:13of that.
158. 5:14But before we get there, I do want to go
159. 5:16over the benefits of creating your own
160. 5:17templates. So, here as we looked at
161. 5:20before, if I start a new project just
162. 5:22with the new model button, it comes out
163. 5:23with a totally blank, empty project. But
164. 5:26I can also, once I've saved a project as
165. 5:28a template, I can go to the drop-down
166. 5:30menu, and this is going to give me any
167. 5:32project that I have personally saved.
168. 5:34And so, this could be a template that
169. 5:35I've already used that's built in from
170. 5:37Renga, or it could be something I built
171. 5:39myself. So, here I'm going to go to the
172. 5:41CD set project template. This is
173. 5:43something I built myself, which you will
174. 5:44have access to. And we can go over how I
175. 5:48organize projects and how I can use this
176. 5:50as a starting point on any new project.
177. 5:53So, now I want to go over how to
178. 5:54actually set up a project. So, this is
179. 5:56my own project template that I've built
180. 5:58for myself. Um and as you can see
181. 5:59already, it's not just that totally
182. 6:01blank empty canvas. We're actually
183. 6:03seeing my presentation sheet that I've
184. 6:05set up with a title block and and all of
185. 6:07that. So, just kind of basic stuff, but
186. 6:10as we open up our canvases up here on
187. 6:12the left, here you can see that this is
188. 6:14already populated not just with that
189. 6:16single paper and model canvas, but with
190. 6:18all of the canvases that I need to
191. 6:20really get started on a project. And I
192. 6:21can always add from here or you know,
193. 6:23make edits, whatever needs to happen,
194. 6:25but this is always a good starting
195. 6:26point. So, getting into what canvases
196. 6:29are and how we use them, this is really
197. 6:31how we organize projects. And so, I wind
198. 6:33up with generally one, sometimes two
199. 6:36paper canvases and this is basically
200. 6:38where we've got our sheet setups, right?
201. 6:40So, I've got one canvas with all of my
202. 6:43plot sheets and I wind up laying them
203. 6:45out in a grid like this so I can see
204. 6:47everything all in one place and really
205. 6:48make sure that my presentation is
206. 6:50cohesive across the board. And then like
207. 6:52this, sometimes I might have
208. 6:55a second paper canvas for presentation
209. 6:57sheets that are maybe for like early
210. 6:59schematics, things like that. Um not
211. 7:01necessarily part of the full CD set, but
212. 7:03just depending on how you like to work.
213. 7:05And then I wind up with a model canvas
214. 7:07for all of my different drawing types.
215. 7:08And so, here we get into our floor
216. 7:11plans. And so, I wind up with putting,
217. 7:13you know, all of my different floor plan
218. 7:15types all in one canvas. So, here I've
219. 7:17got an existing floor plan, proposed
220. 7:19floor plan,
221. 7:20proposed RCP or lighting plan. I also
222. 7:23wind up doing electrical plans or
223. 7:25furniture plans, uh plans. And also for
224. 7:28projects where I have multiple stories,
225. 7:30very similar to how I've got the roof
226. 7:31plan here, I just wind up stacking my
227. 7:33floor plans in this way. So,
228. 7:36everyone might work a little bit
229. 7:37differently, but that's the way I like
230. 7:38to do things.
231. 7:40Same thing here, going on to exterior
232. 7:41elevations and building sections. Here
233. 7:44I've got my elevations, my building
234. 7:45sections, I've got my my elevation
235. 7:48datums all set up and so everything is
236. 7:50consistent and easy to read. And then
237. 7:53even getting into interior elevations,
238. 7:55which can always start to look a little
239. 7:57messy, but I'm sure if you're coming
240. 7:59from AutoCAD or something like that,
241. 8:01this looks pretty familiar to you.
242. 8:03And then even getting into details, I
243. 8:05can do all of my my construction
244. 8:07documentation, all of my detailing,
245. 8:10floor types, wall types, wall section
246. 8:12details, all of this stuff can be done
247. 8:14right here in Revit. So everything, you
248. 8:17know, is all in one place. And lastly,
249. 8:19getting into interior details, here I've
250. 8:21got all of my, you know, shower details
251. 8:23and trim and everything. So you can
252. 8:25really do everything here. Um and as I
253. 8:28start to add on to this, I might have a
254. 8:30site plan, you know, a model canvas for
255. 8:32a site plan, I might have cabinet
256. 8:34details. So really just can start to
257. 8:36grow as you get more familiar with the
258. 8:39platform. Before we get too far along, I
259. 8:41do want to talk about object snapping,
260. 8:43units, and stroke scales. So first for
261. 8:45object snapping, we've got this little
262. 8:47magnet icon in the bottom right. So if I
263. 8:50toggle that off, now as I go to draw a
264. 8:52line, I'm not able to snap to anything,
265. 8:54right? But if I toggle that back on, now
266. 8:58I'm snapping to my perpendicular, to my
267. 9:00end points, my center points, along the
268. 9:03edge, anything that I might want set.
269. 9:05And so to set those criteria, I just
270. 9:07open up the menu and I can check any of
271. 9:09these off. So that should be pretty
272. 9:12familiar if you're coming from AutoCAD
273. 9:13or other platforms, really just making
274. 9:15sure that you know where that is and how
275. 9:17to use it.
276. 9:18So now let's talk about units. So units
277. 9:20exist in the right side under the
278. 9:22properties panel, and I can change this
279. 9:24per canvas. And so whether I'm working
280. 9:26in metric or imperial, doesn't matter,
281. 9:28it's really up to me. And so because I'm
282. 9:30on a floor plan right now, feet and
283. 9:31inches seems most appropriate. That way
284. 9:34you can see with my dimensions, I've got
285. 9:35this, you know, 24'2" 2 and everything
286. 9:38kind of works appropriately. It's just
287. 9:39what I'm used to using in a floor plan
288. 9:41setting. Same thing with exterior
289. 9:43elevations, interior elevations, all of
290. 9:45that. Feet and inches just makes the
291. 9:46most sense. Same thing if I was working
292. 9:49in metric, then working in meters would
293. 9:51probably be appropriate. Um but then
294. 9:52getting into interior details, here I've
295. 9:55got my unit set to inches just because
296. 9:57of the scale of these details. And one
297. 9:59way that that comes out is in my
298. 10:01dimensions. Here, instead of seeing 0 ft
299. 10:04and 4 and 1/2 in and having this massive
300. 10:06text within my dimension, I'm just
301. 10:08seeing the inches. And same thing, you
302. 10:10know, even if I was seeing a 24-in uh
303. 10:13and I would see I would want to see that
304. 10:15as 24 in instead of 2 ft, right? So,
305. 10:17just depends on on the type of drawing
306. 10:19you're working on and that's one reason
307. 10:22or one method that you might use to
308. 10:24organize your canvases is depending on
309. 10:27the scale of the drawing, depending on
310. 10:28the unit that you want to use in that
311. 10:30type of drawing, you might categorize
312. 10:32your your canvases in that way as well.
313. 10:34Now, let's take a minute to talk about
314. 10:35stroke scale and how that relates to our
315. 10:37final output. So, I'm working on a floor
316. 10:40plan here, working in a model canvas.
317. 10:43And so, because it's a model canvas, I'm
318. 10:44working on everything at full scale. And
319. 10:47so, what I'm looking for is really kind
320. 10:49of a preview of the scale of the drawing
321. 10:52that my output is going to be. And so,
322. 10:54to do that, I've got my stroke scale
323. 10:56preemptively set to a quarter inch
324. 10:57equals a foot because that's typically
325. 10:59how I wind up exporting my floor plans.
326. 11:01And so, this is basically going to set
327. 11:04my line weights, my dash scale, all of
328. 11:06that is going to be anticipating what
329. 11:09that output scale is going to be. And
330. 11:11so, if I go to my plot sheets
331. 11:14and I zoom into my floor plan here,
332. 11:16I've got this view set to a quarter
333. 11:18inch.
334. 11:19And so, you can see all of my dash
335. 11:21scales, my line weights, all of that
336. 11:23matches what I was seeing in the model
337. 11:24canvas.
338. 11:26Same thing, if I were to
339. 11:29go back over to my floor plan and let's
340. 11:32change this to an eighth inch.
341. 11:34And so, what's happening, you look at
342. 11:35this and you see that the line weights
343. 11:37all doubled in thickness, our dash scale
344. 11:40doubled in size, and the reason for that
345. 11:42is because the scale of the the
346. 11:44anticipated scale of the drawing is half
347. 11:46of what it was. Um, and so, it's trying
348. 11:48to maintain the same line weights for
349. 11:50that final output at half the scale. Um,
350. 11:53and so, it's basically doubling those
351. 11:54line weights in the visualization here.
352. 11:57So, just something to keep in mind as
353. 11:58you're kind of working through different
354. 12:00scale drawings, and as you as you start
355. 12:02to draft your drawings, keep in mind,
356. 12:04you know, preemptively think about what
357. 12:06scale your final output is going to be,
358. 12:08then you won't have any surprises down
359. 12:09the road. One last thing that I want to
360. 12:11bring up because people oftentimes are
361. 12:12confused by this or ask questions, is as
362. 12:15I'm in my paper canvas and I select a
363. 12:17view, so here I select this view of my
364. 12:19floor plan. Now, when I go over to my
365. 12:21scale, I've got this set up to quarter
366. 12:23inch equals a foot, which is exactly
367. 12:25what we've been talking about this whole
368. 12:26time. So, that all matches, but say this
369. 12:29looked foreign or looked incorrect for
370. 12:31some reason, oftentimes that's going to
371. 12:33be because of the units. And so, if I
372. 12:36deselect that, here I've got my units
373. 12:38set inches, which is what I want, so
374. 12:41that's why I'm seeing quarter inch
375. 12:42equals a foot. But, say I've changed
376. 12:45this to centimeters, now when I select
377. 12:47that view, I'm going to see more of a
378. 12:49metric style scale. So, 1 to 48, that's
379. 12:52still the same scale, right? Quarter
380. 12:54inch equals a foot, 1 to 48. But, as I
381. 12:57go to the drop-down menu, this is going
382. 12:59to show me different options. So, now I
383. 13:02I have 1 to 40 and and all of that. Um,
384. 13:04and so, if I'm seeing something funny,
385. 13:06and I'm going to undo that just for a
386. 13:07second, then I can always just go to my
387. 13:09units, change that to inches, and now as
388. 13:12I select that view, now I've got more
389. 13:15familiar scales showing here. So, just
390. 13:17something to keep in mind as you're
391. 13:19setting up your drawings, if something
392. 13:21looks funny, always check your units. It
393. 13:23could be different per canvas again, so
394. 13:25just make sure you're aware of of where
395. 13:27things are.
396. 13:29Now, let's take a look at the layers
397. 13:30list. So, this exists just here under
398. 13:32the canvases, and if you're coming from
399. 13:35other design platforms or CAD platforms,
400. 13:37this should look pretty familiar. Um a
401. 13:39couple things that I always tell people
402. 13:40is this actually functions a little bit
403. 13:42more like Adobe Suite and less like
404. 13:44AutoCAD. So, what I mean by that is in
405. 13:46two ways. So, one any object on the
406. 13:49drawing is present on the layers list.
407. 13:51So, as I select this couch, for example,
408. 13:54that's going to highlight the furniture
409. 13:55layer that I've placed it on. And as I
410. 13:57open up that layer, you can see that
411. 13:59we've got that object highlighted. Um
412. 14:01and we could even have subfolders or
413. 14:03sublayers, and so you can really get
414. 14:04granular on keeping things organized. Um
415. 14:07depends on how well you like to to
416. 14:09organize your drawing sets. The other
417. 14:11way that this is similar to Adobe is
418. 14:12where a layer is on the list impacts its
419. 14:15hierarchy in space. And so, if I take a
420. 14:17look again at that furniture layer, and
421. 14:19if we compare to the zones, which again,
422. 14:21you know, zones is what we have our
423. 14:23flooring on. So, that's the zones layer.
424. 14:25Um and so, if I take my furniture and I
425. 14:26drop it below the zones layer, then you
426. 14:29can see it all disappears because it's
427. 14:31under that floor material. Um and so, I
428. 14:33want to make sure that that stays above.
429. 14:35But this is also where, you know, I've
430. 14:37got separate layers for my countertop
431. 14:39and and cabinetry. And so, if, for
432. 14:41example, I've got stools at the kitchen
433. 14:44island, then you can see that this will
434. 14:46actually
435. 14:47tuck underneath that countertop. So, you
436. 14:49can always, just using the layer layers
437. 14:52list, make sure that everything is
438. 14:53stacking correctly, that everything is
439. 14:55doing the correct thing in the
440. 14:56hierarchy. And so, you don't have to go
441. 14:58through that whole process of send it
442. 15:00back, bring forward, bring forward,
443. 15:02using those key commands again and
444. 15:03again. You can really just use the
445. 15:05layers list to make sure that everything
446. 15:06is showing correctly. So, now let's take
447. 15:08a step back and take an overview of the
448. 15:10project. And say I wrapped this project
449. 15:13up, and I really like the way I had
450. 15:14everything organized. I've got my plot
451. 15:16sheets kind of organized the way I like
452. 15:18it. I've got my canvases set up. And
453. 15:20getting into my floor plans here, maybe
454. 15:22I've got all of my my wall types and my
455. 15:24line types and all of my furniture and
456. 15:27appliance blocks, everything that I like
457. 15:29to use. I really just want to use this
458. 15:31same kind of method on future projects.
459. 15:34And again, you know, for the layers list
460. 15:36as well that everything here is
461. 15:38organized the way I like with everything
462. 15:40kind of stacking appropriately. So, what
463. 15:42I can actually do, I can actually go
464. 15:44ahead and share this project as a
465. 15:47template. So, I've already done it on
466. 15:49this project. I'm already using this as
467. 15:50a template, but once I check that box,
468. 15:53now as I go to start a new project,
469. 15:56that's going to be available on that
470. 15:57drop-down menu. So, I can basically use
471. 16:00that as a starting point on every
472. 16:02project moving forward. So, I don't have
473. 16:04to reinvent the wheel with rebuilding my
474. 16:06plot sheets, rebuilding all of my
475. 16:07canvases, my layer structure, my styles,
476. 16:10my blocks, everything's just already
477. 16:12here. And so, I can really just jump
478. 16:15straight in, start designing, bring in
479. 16:17any initial sketches or notes, and just
480. 16:20be off to the races and ready to go. So,
481. 16:23that's it for episode 1, the project
482. 16:25setup. In episode 2, we're going to get
483. 16:26into documenting an existing site and
484. 16:29using Round to draft our as-built
485. 16:31drawings.
486. 16:31>> [music]
487. 16:32>> I hope this was helpful and I'm looking
488. 16:33forward to seeing you in the next one.
489. 16:35Don't forget to like and subscribe to
490. 16:36catch that one it drops. Thanks.