Generating Elevations - AutoCAD 2011 and AutoCAD LT 2011: No Experience Required - page 505

CHAPtER 10
Generating Elevations
Now that you have created all the building components that will be in the
floor plan, it's a good time to draw the exterior elevations. Elevations are hor-
izontal views of the building, seen as if you were standing facing the building
instead of looking down at it, as you do with a floor plan. An elevation view
shows you how windows and doors fit into the walls and gives you an idea
of how the building will look from the outside. In most architectural design
projects, the drawings include at least four exterior elevations: front, back,
and one for each side.
I'll go over how to create the south elevation first. Then I'll discuss some
of the considerations necessary to complete the other elevations, and you'll
have an opportunity to draw them on your own.
In mechanical drawing, the item being drawn is often a machine part
or a fixture. The drafter uses orthographic projection to illustrate various
views of the object and calls them front view, top view, side view , and so on,
instead of elevations and plans. An exercise later in this chapter will give you
practice with orthographic projection, but the procedure will be the same,
whether you're drawing buildings or mechanical objects.
Drawing an exterior elevation from a floor plan
Using grips to copy objects
Setting up, naming, and saving user coordinate systems and views
transferring lines from one elevation to another
Moving and rotating elevations