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Plot Plans and Plan Footprints
Plot Plans and Plan Footprints
Using the CAD Tools and conventional print Specification Dialog” on page
survey information, you can create an 336.
accurate plot plan in floor plan view or a
CAD Detail. See “Site Plans” on page 451 of To insert a plan footprint in a CAD Detail
the User’s Guide.
1. Open the CAD Detail in which you want
A plot plan can be sent to layout and to insert a Plan Footprint.
included in working drawings. See
“Dynamic Views” on page 1295. 2. Select CAD> Plan Footprint .
A plot plan can also be converted into a 3. Select the floor to use from the drop-
terrain perimeter, allowing you to add down list and click OK.
elevation data and accurately position
buildings for 3D modeling of home and lot.
Plan Footprint
Select CAD> Plan Footprint to
create a CAD object representing the 4. The floor plan appears in the CAD
building footprint in a CAD Detail window. Detail window. Select Window> Fill
Once the Plan Footprint appears in the detail Window to center the footprint on
window, you can control what information screen.
displays.
5. The footprint can be rotated and moved
To create a Plan Footprint anywhere in the window.
If the model consists of several buildings, a
1. Open the floor plan view of the plan you footprint is created for each. Moving one
want to create a plan footprint from.
footprint automatically adjusts all the
2. Select CAD> Plan Footprint . The footprints in order to maintain their
program creates a new CAD Detail with relationship.
the footprint of the current floor.
• By default, this new CAD Detail uses If you edit a plan using Reverse Plan or
the Plan Footprint layer set. You can the Edit Area tools, the plan footprint
control what displays in the footprint updates automatically.
using the Layer Display Options dia- Dimension lines can be drawn to locate the
log. See “Layer Sets” on page 187. edges of a plan footprint polyline. Note that
• You can also control the appearance of if changes to the plan cause the plan footprint
a Plan Footprint in the Plan Footprint polyline to update, any dimension lines that
Specification dialog. See “Plan Foot-
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