LESSON 03 – FLOOR PLANS IN AUTOCAD

In this short lesson, we will look at taking a floor plan from a sketch on grid paper to Autocad.

LIMITS

Your limits should be in millimeters. Your house is 16m by 12m, or 16000mm by 12000mm. We want to leave a large enough area around the house. So we will use the following limits:

Limits: 28000, 20000

The total procedure to set your limits is the following:

1-Type limits and hit enter.

2-Hit enter again to accept the 0,0 as a corner.

3-Specify limits: 28000, 20000

4-Type z to zoom

5-Type a for all.

STEPS

1- Start by drawing the bounding box of your house. It is 16000 wide by 12000 high.

2- Use offset and trim tools to add wall thickness (see below for numbers).

WALL THICKNESS

Interior wall – 150mm thick

External wall – 200 mm thick

Wall with plumbing – 200 mm thick