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0:00now we're at lesson 9 we're going to add
0:01a really crucial piece of detail to your
0:04drawings that's going to be annotations
0:07now annotations are great for two
0:08reasons the first is that they're really
0:10essential to show a level of detail such
0:13as Dimensions room tags area tags floor
0:16finishes Etc and these are really
0:19crucial to communicate to anyone with
0:22any level of understanding of
0:24architecture or your project in general
0:26so they can pick up the drawings pick up
0:28the design and be able to understand the
0:30with the level of annotation and
0:31information shown in the drawings the
0:33second reason why annotations are really
0:35powerful is that they're a great graphic
0:37touch and they add a layering and a
0:40professionalism to your drawings in this
0:42lesson I will walk you through the
0:43process of adding annotations within
0:45rayon some of these annotations will be
0:48not necessarily required at this level
0:50of detail but they will also show you
0:52the vast range and the variety of
0:55annotations that you can add using the
0:57rayon tools so annotations let's add
1:03them if you're familiar with my drawing
1:06style as an architectural designer you
1:08will know that I like my black and white
1:10drawings with a punch of color and
1:12normally that punch of color is red so
1:14in this annotation lesson I'm going to
1:16show you how you can Implement all your
1:18annotations with a punch of red and the
1:21reason why I add a color is because not
1:24only does it help just make your
1:25drawings pop because you're given
1:27something um that enhances the drawing
1:29dra and makes your drawings a bit more
1:31appealing and engaging but also
1:33differentiates the two levels of
1:35information you have the drawing itself
1:37which is in black and white and then you
1:39have the annotations which is in a
1:40separate color so you can kind of
1:42differentiate the the information
1:44between the two now this will be a fine
1:47Balancing Act of not overwhelming your
1:49drawings with too many annotations not
1:51having too much color Etc so there's a
1:53fine balance now when we head over to
1:55this left hand side here you can already
1:56see that I have a key and specifications
1:58that I want to start apply to the
2:00drawings so I have room names and tags I
2:03have floor finishes we've got Window and
2:05Door specifications we've got floor
2:08finish level section lines and grid
2:10lines now grid lines are a really great
2:12addition to help make sure that your
2:14drawings are properly positioned
2:16correctly and coordinated correctly on
2:18site to make sure that when you layer
2:21ground floor first floor roof plan all
2:23over the top they're easily read between
2:25them now the first item that I'm going
2:28to show you is going to be Dem
2:29dimensions and dimensions is a really
2:31great addition to drawing it's just to
2:33help someone get an indication of scale
2:35now dimensions are really easy to add in
2:37rayon and the first thing that we're
2:39going to do before we add the dimensions
2:41is head over to the left hand side and
2:43once again create a new layer for the
2:45dimensions now this is really important
2:47because when you are adding your
2:48Dimensions you want to make sure that
2:50they're on the top layer because you
2:51want them to be the top information on
2:53your drawings so when you create a new
2:56layer for your Dimensions make sure you
2:57drag it to the top so that the DI
2:59dimensions are going to sit on top of
3:01your drawings so now that we have the
3:03dimensions layer created I'm going to
3:05head down to the tab at the bottom here
3:07same as usual where we have the poly
3:09lines we have the wall tools Etc we also
3:12have annotation tools so the first one
3:15is going to be dimensions and as you can
3:17see when you select Dimensions you can
3:19choose how you want to have your
3:22Dimensions aligned so for example I'm
3:24going to have everything of my
3:25Dimensions parallel you could have them
3:27at an angle it could be
3:30rotated and you can also either do a
3:32single Dimension or chained so multiple
3:35Dimensions at once which is a really
3:37great way of populating your drawings
3:39very quickly now before we start drawing
3:42any Dimensions I'm going to head over to
3:44the right hand side here and you can see
3:46that I have the Styles tool which I'm
3:49going to start edit so I'm going to make
3:52sure that all my annotations is going to
3:53be red uh so that is correct I'm however
3:57going to drop the opacity slightly
4:00or more quite significantly actually
4:02because I don't want the dimensions to
4:03be too prominent on the drawings I don't
4:05want them to overwhelm the drawings so
4:07I'm going to have them as a low opacity
4:09so they kind of sit in the background
4:12now when we come to the next lesson
4:13where we go into graphic styling then we
4:16can really start playing with the layers
4:18and how they look uh graphically but for
4:22now I'm going to have them as quite a
4:23thin opacity quite a low opacity on the
4:27drawings so the text is going to be
4:28Roboto
4:30you can then change the text size I
4:32think 0.15 is okay you can change the
4:34line weight you can change the dash of
4:36course and you can change the Arrow Head
4:38so there's lots of different options
4:40this is probably a a preferable
4:44dimension for most but I'm going to use
4:46this Arrow Head like so now the way
4:49Dimensions work is all you have to do is
4:51select one component select the other
4:55end of your component and then drag it
4:57up and you have your dimension and then
5:00you could do a chained item so if we go
5:03to Dimensions we could do a chained item
5:06where we could select multiple keep
5:07selecting our items we can see that we
5:11can then do multiple at the same time
5:14and you can keep going so they they
5:16chain as one and just before I start
5:18populating the drawings with all of the
5:19dimensions you can also change the
5:22canvas units and suffix Etc so if you
5:26head over to the right hand side here
5:27you can change the units from meters to
5:30millimeters if you'd wanted to or inches
5:33I'm going to stick with meters for now
5:35you can then click the three but three
5:37dots you can then change the Precision
5:40uh I.E the decimal
5:42place um you can change the suffix so
5:44you can remove the meters and then you
5:46can also change the square area uh Etc
5:50and as you can see I've populated my
5:52drawings with Dimensions I haven't gone
5:54too over the top but I've kind of
5:55highlighted the main components the
5:57width of openings the some of the wall
5:59all components uh where we have doors
6:02and windows for example likewise with
6:04the Upper Floor and then if we head to
6:07the roof and in section and elevation
6:10I've added just some widths which I
6:14think are really nice addition and you
6:16could also do Heights if you wanted to
6:18now the next item is going to be grid
6:20lines and I think grid lines like I've
6:22mentioned are really crucial to help
6:25someone have a reference a kind of
6:27reference point when looking at your
6:29draw drawings uh between the levels to
6:31make sure that they can measure off
6:33those grid lines and position their
6:35drawings correctly so the way that I'm
6:36going to do my grids is I'm going to
6:38come over to this left hand side here
6:39I'm going to select my grid item that I
6:42have saved and also note that you will
6:44have access to all of these tags from
6:47this lesson so you are very welcome to
6:49use any of these tags and of of course
6:51all of the tags available in the block
6:54Library you've got pretty much every tag
6:57you can think
6:58of that you can drop into your drawings
7:01but in this instance I'm going to drag
7:02my grid line over to the top and what
7:05I'm going to do is I'm going to center
7:06it along this top line here and now for
7:09the grid I want it to be fairly logical
7:13of course we want a horizontal grid and
7:15we want a vertical grid and now because
7:16my drawing is at kind of slight angles
7:19um it makes it a little bit more tricky
7:21but the the logic is is that we'll
7:23probably have one grid along the top
7:25because that's the kind of main
7:26reference point to the page we then have
7:28a second grid grid through here which I
7:31will kind of just make a note of as we
7:33go through and we want to make sure
7:36they're always centered to the walls so
7:38you have one
7:40two and then
7:42potentially a third grid here and then a
7:46fourth grid and maybe a fifth one here
7:49and then vertically we could potentially
7:51have a
7:53b c maybe this one here could be a grid
7:56as well D and then e at the the end here
8:00so there we have a bit of logic to the
8:02drawing and we can copy them up to the
8:04upper levels and the way that I'm going
8:06to edit them is I'm going to select the
8:09line I'm going to change it to a dashed
8:12stroke so we're going to do a dash
8:14stroke and we'll change that to maybe do
8:17five of course we'll change that to red
8:19and then we'll use this header copy it
8:24down and then we can change this to two
8:28and as you can see we've now got a logic
8:30that you can refer to when you come to
8:32the upper floors you can see that we've
8:33got one grid one grid B and C aligned so
8:38when you're referring to certain
8:39components you could say grid C1 and
8:43it's also a nice graphic addition to the
8:46drawing I like having a number or a
8:48letter addition with the circle head I
8:51think it looks nice and it gives the
8:53drawing a bit of order now the next
8:54annotation is going to be levels so
8:56we're going to do floor finish levels so
8:58ffls so this floor plan is fairly flat
9:01we obviously have a patio area out the
9:03back and we have this driveway uh that
9:05slopes in from this upper level here um
9:08and then on the upper floors we will
9:10have in section we can show the
9:12different heights to also get an
9:13indication of floor to ceiling Heights
9:15and how tall some of the volumes are on
9:17the drawings so to start annotating
9:21these drawings with FFL levels I'm going
9:23to head over to my left hand side I have
9:26this block item which is a spot
9:27elevation item uh which we can copy over
9:30with the text so I'm just going to do
9:32copy and drop that over here and do this
9:35as paste and now we can scale this down
9:38a bit because we don't want it too
9:39prominent in the drawing and we're going
9:42to indicate that this is actually plus
9:440.15 so we're going to suggest that
9:47maybe we have a floor a kind of finished
9:49floor of a 15 mil buildup which would
9:53indicate then that we have an outdoor
9:57area like so copy and P this over and
10:00maybe this outside is going to
10:04be 0 0 and I'm going to copy this across
10:08the drawing I'm not going to go too
10:09crazy with it maybe indicate that this
10:11outdoor patio area is level 02 so we've
10:15got have a a slight step down from the
10:17out from the
10:18inside uh we can indicate that the
10:21garage is 0
10:230 we can maybe indicate that
10:26this level up here
10:30is
10:32potentially we could say 1.2 so it's got
10:36a 1.2 M
10:38full as you drive in and on the Upper
10:41Floor here we can add a level in and if
10:43we head down to the section we can check
10:46that height so we're going to use the
10:48dimension tool we can measure up to that
10:52point so we have a 3.3 m
10:593.3 likewise in section elevation we can
11:02do the same tool but kind of add grid
11:06lines and level lines instead so rather
11:08than showing a kind of spot elevation
11:09point on plan we can now show it in
11:12elevation now what we're going to do is
11:13a very similar thing to what we did with
11:15the grids we're going to draw a line to
11:17indicate this level I'm going to copy
11:20the elevation point and instead of
11:24having it in this configuration we're
11:25going to have an elevation a kind of a
11:28level marker
11:29here a level Market there and then we're
11:33going to change this to a
11:37dashed five dashed red again and we can
11:42do that throughout so we have our base
11:45level so our datum level which is going
11:47to be zero and then we have 3.3 M we
11:51have a a chimney for the fireplace at
11:564.33 and we have a pitched roof at 7 .7
11:59M so we got some nice floor to ceiling
12:01Heights in these upper floors likewise
12:04in section I also have a tag that you
12:06guys can drop in uh which will show a
12:08floor finish level so spot
12:11elevation in section now the next item
12:14is going to be room tags so there's two
12:16ways of doing this you can either tag
12:19the zone that you've applied to a
12:21particular room so for example if you
12:23were to drop a Zone
12:25into this room here you can see that the
12:28tag
12:29is applied to that zone automatically
12:32and we can come over to the right hand
12:33side make sure the zone is selected we
12:35can type
12:36in office for example or another way of
12:40doing it is if you already have a Zone
12:42applied you can come down to the bottom
12:44here you can select the tag annotation
12:47you can then select the Zone which will
12:50create a tag so we could say that is the
12:52Living Kitchen and we can click yes and
12:56then we can scale that down to 0.1 for
12:58example
12:59which is very small and then you can
13:01come down you can select edit tag you
13:04can select this add variable tool and
13:08you could add a area onto that tag you
13:12could add a length onto that tag and
13:16this way you can build your tag from the
13:18kind of from the ground up by tagging a
13:21Zone and it will give you the variables
13:23based on that zone now in this instance
13:25I want to indicate obviously the
13:27division of these spaces I want to
13:29indicate that there's a living space a
13:31dying space Etc so a useful tool if you
13:33wanted to actually break down these
13:35spaces is to use these Zone dividers so
13:38for example you could then potentially
13:40divide this space by indicating that
13:43that is the living Zone like so and
13:45we're just going to extend that up and
13:47then when you drop a Zone into the area
13:48you can then get an accurate calculation
13:50of the square meters Etc so that is one
13:52way of doing it but instead I'm going to
13:54I'm simply going to do it with some text
13:57so I'm going to head down to the bottom
13:59I'm going to select text and I'm going
14:01to call
14:03this entrance
14:07Lobby and I'm going to scale this down
14:10once
14:11again nice and small but still a little
14:15bit prominent we're going to change it
14:16to cooland because I like the kind of
14:19bold text it makes the drawings pop a
14:21bit more I'm going to change that to red
14:25and I'm also going to have a little tag
14:28so we're going to come over here
14:29to our tags I'm going to sel select the
14:32entrance hall tag copy it
14:35over paste it into place that is far too
14:39big so we're going to scale that down
14:42like so and there we
14:45have our entrance Lobby or entrance hall
14:48and we have something like this where we
14:50have the spaces identified using the
14:54text
14:56tool come to the Upper Floor we have
14:58bedroom three bedroom 2 family WC
15:00reading Nook so we've got a nice little
15:02reading Zone there now master bedroom
15:06and that's just a nice and easy way to
15:08be able to control the annotations that
15:10you add to your rooms and now we're
15:12going to get into some of the items that
15:13aren't probably necessarily required for
15:16drawing at this detail but I'm going to
15:17show you them anyway to give you an idea
15:19of the variety of annotations you can
15:21add so the next one is going to be
15:23adding floor finishes so indicating a
15:25floor finish now I already have over
15:27this left hand side the key with all the
15:29specifications of the floor finishes
15:31that have been applied so what I'm going
15:32to do is I'm going to copy over these
15:36Tags I'm going to drop them into the
15:39zones and I'm going to remove some of
15:41the specifications cuz we probably don't
15:43need those we'll make that
15:46smaller and now that we're happy with
15:48the size of the text we can then select
15:51the text and we can create a style for
15:53that text that we can Implement
15:55throughout the drawing and then to
15:57finish up this tag I'm going to draw a
15:59rectangle around it and the square
16:02rectangle is a little harsh so what
16:04we're going to do is we're going to use
16:05the filet tool so we're going to select
16:07the item going to head down to the
16:09bottom we're going to go to fet or filet
16:12fillet however you want to say it select
16:15filla and what you'll have is you'll
16:16have two options you either do a single
16:18or all what we're going to do in order
16:20to create a curve throughout the edge of
16:24the rectangle we're going to select all
16:25and as you can see here as you drag in
16:28you can can type the radius in but in
16:30this instance we're just going to drag
16:31it in slightly like so we're going to
16:35head to the right hand side again we're
16:36going to make that a solid
16:39white and drop the opacity slightly and
16:42then once again we're going to save that
16:43style as Flo
16:46finish rectangle and copy that
16:49throughout have a carpet floor cover for
16:51the office we
16:54have carpet on the upper levels so it's
16:56all carpet on the Upper Floor and next
16:59addition extra level of information that
17:00is always useful to add to a drawing and
17:03then just adding windows and door tags
17:05once again I have all the specifications
17:07lined out not going to bore you through
17:09the process of me adding all of these to
17:11all of the doors but for example we can
17:13copy this item over the front
17:16door and we'll just paste it like so and
17:21we'll place it kind of centrally to the
17:23door and the final annotation tool that
17:25I want to show you is going to be
17:27leaders and arrows so these are really
17:30great to add notes to your drawings and
17:32add some kind of commentary uh any kind
17:34of features or particular components
17:36that you think is slightly ambiguous and
17:38that you need to kind of explain a
17:40little bit in your drawings you can head
17:42down to the bottom here we could do a
17:45leader if you select one end for example
17:48if we want to highlight this kind of
17:50dual fireplace you select one component
17:53which gives you the first point so this
17:56is the Arrow Head of your annotation you
17:59select the next and then you get the
18:02leader where you can type let's call
18:04this a
18:07jewel
18:08fire
18:10place and you can then change the color
18:13of that once again to Red we can maybe
18:15make this a subtle annotation cuz we
18:18don't want it too heavy you can change
18:20the Arrow Head and once again this is
18:22just good to indicate some features that
18:25you want to add a bit more detail to and
18:27just add a note to in your drawings so
18:30custom made bookshelf for
18:33example uh in floor plan we also can add
18:37some kind of guttering notes we could
18:42add kitchen island the Dual sided
18:47fireplace and now we have a good level
18:49of annotation to the drawing once again
18:52it's not about overwhelming the drawing
18:54with too much annotation you have to be
18:56careful in not overwhelming the drawings
19:00and distracting the drawings once again
19:01as I mentioned earlier in the course by
19:04not adding too many hatches you don't
19:05want to add too many annotations

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