Defining and managing sections for large construction drawings

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eronlloyd
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Defining and managing sections for large construction drawings

Post by eronlloyd » Sun Jun 20, 2021 2:57 pm

Hi! I'm working on a construction drawing involving ~800 ft. of sidewalk, and there are key segments of the plan I need to produce detail sheets for. I know there are ways to define section markers and align them with the site plan, but I'm not clear on how best to proceed.

I believe AutoCAD automates some of this from what I'm reading, but I've never used that functionality and want to stick with QCAD. I have found plenty of section marker blocks, but how about the techniques to lay it out and produce plots properly? Any ideas?

Thanks!
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Re: Defining and managing sections for large construction drawings

Post by CVH » Sun Jun 20, 2021 3:14 pm

Hi,

Is this what you are looking for?
https://www.ribbonsoft.com/en/tutorial- ... -viewports

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Re: Defining and managing sections for large construction drawings

Post by eronlloyd » Sun Jun 20, 2021 10:16 pm

CVH wrote:
Sun Jun 20, 2021 3:14 pm
Hi,

Is this what you are looking for?
https://www.ribbonsoft.com/en/tutorial- ... -viewports

Regards,
CVH
Thanks CVH, viewports are definitely going to be useful, but I need to also better understand how to set up the overall plan view with a grid, then drill down with section detail views and maintain continuity.

Here's a video that does a good job of explaining the different aspects of such plans, but doesn't cover how to produce them. I'm sure QCAD can be used to create this, but I wish I could find a non-AutoCAD introduction to such technical drawing skills, even based on manual illustration, that covered such fundamentals.

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Re: Defining and managing sections for large construction drawings

Post by Husky » Mon Jun 21, 2021 7:59 am

Hallo ...
eronlloyd wrote:
Sun Jun 20, 2021 2:57 pm
I have found plenty of section marker blocks, but how about the techniques to lay it out and produce plots properly? Any ideas?
I would probably design the basic blocks for all common possible direction. A basic block could look like this one:

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I named this block "Section marker VL". VL stands for Vertical Left.
Based on this block I designed 3 additional blocks (...VR, ...HD, ...HU) so that I can cover 4 directions.

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Why not only 2 blocks and then flip them during the insertion? Because text in blocks will be mirrored when you flip them ... :(
https://www.qcad.org/bugtracker/index.p ... &closedto=



Here I covered two sections ...

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So much to your question: Any ideas? :wink:
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