Challenge Exercise: Architectural

In this exercise, you use what you learned about

altering objects to modify the floor plan.

1. Open the drawing you saved from the previous

challenge exercise, or open M_ARCH-
Challenge-CHP05.dwg.
2. Create the geometry to represent a wall 189 mm
thick, working on the basis that the original lines
you created represented the outside of the
exterior and structural walls. The image shows
the bottom stairwell. Note that the lines you drew
for the stairwell in the Chapter 2 challenge
exercise were dimensioned from the outside wall
to the leading, or inside, edge of the wall.
Add the door opening to the lower staircase to
match the opening in the upper staircase.

5. Add six window openings that are 610 mm wide

and positioned as dimensioned.

3. Add a 915 mm door opening in the right wall,

positioned as shown in the image.

4. Add 15 window openings that are 914 mm wide

and positioned as dimensioned. In the wall
sections that jog out to the left toward the
corners with the dimensions of 500, center the
openings along that inside wall.

6. Create the interior walls 124 mm wide on the

Wall-Interior layer. The 3 thicker walls are 336
mm. All interior door openings are 915 mm wide.
Position the walls based on the dimensions
shown in the image. For any geometry not
specifically dimensioned, estimate its position
and draw it as shown in the image.

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  Press ENTER after the last line.

6. To change the text height and enter the phone

and fax numbers:

 In the Text Height list, enter 3.

 Press ENTER.

Note: You can enter values or select values in this

list.

 Enter the text for the telephone and fax

numbers as shown.
7. Save and close the drawing.  Click on the Close Text Editor on the Close
panel or double-click outside the Text Editor.

Exercise: Create Multiline Text

In this exercise, you use the Multiline Text command
to create multiline text in the drawing.
1. Open C_Create-Mtext.dwg.
2. Zoom into the upper-right corner of the title block.
3. On the status bar, click Object Snap to turn it off.
4. To place an address on the title block:

 Start the Multiline Text command.

 Click two points to define the multiline text
box as shown.

7. Zoom to the extents of the drawing.

8. Zoom a window around the view label text.
9. Repeat the Multiline Text command. Click two
points to define the multiline text box as shown.

5. To set the text height and enter the address:

 On the Style panel, enter 6 in the text size

list.
 Enter the text as shown. 10. On the Style panel, select ViewLabel from the

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