Details for Beginners

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• Intro/TOC
• Overview of the Land F/X Detail System
• Overview of Basic Land F/X Detail Tools
• Exploring the Detail Explorer
• Adding Details to a Project
• Basic Sheet Setup
• Placing Details
• Detail Creation Tools
• Saving Details into the Library

0:00 – 4:10: Intro/TOC

4:11 – 4:48: Overview of the Land F/X Detail System

Add, edit, organize, and place details from the library without leaving CAD.

4:49 – 16:56: Overview of Basic Land F/X Detail Tools

Detail Explorer for navigating your collection of details (5:13)

Detail Manager for adding details to projects, placing them on sheets, and more (6:26)

Detail Templates (7:13)

• Template sizes (7:38)
• Detail scale, units, and extensions (8:01)
• Detail Template overview (8:27)
• Placing a Detail Template around detail linework before annotating or placing hatches or anything else that needs to be scaled (9:05)
• Examples of different detail scales (9:23)

Save Detail tool for saving your details into our system (10:05)

Saving a detail (10:30)

Edit Detail (11:33)

Editing a detail you've already placed on a sheet (11:33)

Update Details tool for applying the edits you've made to details you've already placed (11:50)

Detail builder tools (12:06)

• Detail Hatch tool (12:10)
• Detail Graphics (Detail Blocks, Plan Graphics, Elevation Graphics, and Discipline Graphics) (12:30)

Bubble Callouts (13:23)

Detail Annotation tools (Leaders with text, Leaders without text, Detail Text, and multi-line text, or MText) (13:53)

Detail Dimension tools (14:42)

Detail Callout tools (15:05)

• Detail Callout tool, which allows you to call out a placed detail in a plan or another detail, and consists of the detail title, the detail number as it's placed on a sheet, and the sheet number where it resides (15:09)
• Placeholder tool, which places a dummy callout with no number or page number for a detail you know you'll need to call out but you don't know where it will be yet (15:37)
• Associate Callout tool, which allows you to assign a Placeholder Callout to a detail when you're ready, turning it into a regular Detail Callout (16:03)

16:57 – 21:14: Exploring the Detail Explorer

The default Land F/X detail libraries (17:00)

Navigating to and selecting a detail (18:08)

Creating a new detail category (18:26)

21:15 – 26:26: Adding Details to a Project

Creating a new project (if necessary (21:25)

Option to create a detail folder when creating a new project, which will house copies of the details you use in that project (22:03)

You can also create this folder from within the Detail Explorer or the Detail Manager.

Our recommendations for organizing your details (23:39)

Adding details to a project using the Detail Manager (24:53)

Viewing a preview of a detail (25:30)

Why we recommend selecting the option to Copy to detail folder (25:33)

26:27 – 27:30: Basic Sheet Setup

Opening an AutoCAD drawing template and selecting a sheet size (26:35)

Placing a title block (27:06)

27:31 – 33:36: Placing Details

Placing a detail from the Detail Manager (27:31)

Assigning a layout to a sheet to allow the project to recognize the sheet (27:49)

Numbering the detail (28:28)

Placing a Sheet Template to make it easier to place details on a sheet (29:16)

The Sheet Index (available in the Detail Manager) (30:28)

Creating a sheet and assigning it to a layout using the Sheet Index (31:04)

Copying a detail into a project-specific detail folder from within the Detail Explorer (31:32)

Refreshing a detail that's locked open from within the Detail Manager (33:01)

33:37 – 47:39: Detail Creation Tools

Brief discussion on customizing details (33:37)

For detailed information on customizing details, see our documentation section on customizing details to your standards.

The importance of scaling detail drawings at 1 to 1 (35:29)

Selecting the drawing units when creating a detail and verifying that the units are set correctly using the Distance command (36:01)

Placing a Detail Template around the detail linework to allow the detail to be saved into the Land F/X detail library (37:20)

Keyboard commands to size a Detail Template appropriately when placing it (38:23):

• Q and E keys make the scale large or smaller.
• W, S, A, and D keys adjust the Template size.
• Z and C keys adjust the width extension of the Template.

Using the Land F/X Detail Annotation and Detail Builder tools in conjunction with the Match Properties tool to ensure your scaled objects, including hatches and annotations, are scaled correctly in your detail (39:42):

• Detail Leader with Text (40:37)
• Dimensions (44:42)
• Multiline text (MText) (45:06)
• Hatches (45:52)
• Layers (Layer States) (47:21)

47:40 – end: Saving Details into the Library

Saving a detail into the Land F/X detail library using our Save Detail tool (47:40)

Editing a detail from a sheet using our Edit Detail tool (50:33)

Updating the changes made to an edited detail on a sheet using our Update Detail tool (51:27)

Detail Callouts (52:07)

Changing the Detail Callout style (54:32)

Placeholder Callouts and Associate Callout (55:21)

Detail Viewport (56:40)