BEFORE THE ARCHITECT – BUILDER DRAWINGS – CROSS-SECTION
Carpentry Plans, Coffer Ceiling
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The basement remodeling offers something in the drawing business that's neither fish nor fowl. It's both. It's both a Cross-Section Drawing of sorts and it's a Detail Drawing of sorts. It does both jobs and keeps on giving.
You can see this basement remodeling variously in —
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It would also further your understanding of basement remodeling to read the AG's selective overview on the subject —
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It would also further your understanding of basement remodeling to read the AG's selective overview on the subject —
Model Drawing, Basement Tutorial.
The coffer ceiling for this basement is borne of need — need to cover up the forced air conduit of the HVAC system. This architectural element works well in concealing pipes and the like, too. We have developed various configurations of coffer ceilings to get the job done, often starting with what seems to be overwhelming difficulties and ending amazed at the successful outcome. This study is about the largest of the coffers, the ones usually running along the edges of a room's ceiling, the ones containing the largest conduit. Thereafter, we design and apply patterns of one sort or another in step-down sizes, crisscrossing a given ceiling more or less symmetrically. These coffers provide excellent means by which to dress up a room with varying clads and surface treatments, create intimacy with the lowered ceiling area, and permit space definition of themselves and, particularly, with the lighting used within and between coffer sections.
This basement remodeling drawing – and others like it – naturally arise out of working with Autocad 2006 in 3d design. In so doing, you have to draw every line or copy ones you've already drawn, in order to make more of the same. Therefore, a 2"x4" starts with four lines at each end and four more lines connecting the ends: 16 lines. Lines. Lines. Everywhere lines. Rooms full of lines.
Well, with all these lines defining all these things you're drawing, you can get up really, really close and look at the minutia of how things fit together. Clearly and without distortions, without smudges and runs and blurs. Sure, you can draw way back, too, and only look at the big picture — a room, a house front, etc. But here, we're getting up close.
Here, we're getting up close in 3 dimensions. That's the kicker. And that's what makes this shot special. You will see, up close on the coffer ceiling frame you can see all it takes to build it. Conventionally, a draftsman must do three different draftings of carpentry plans to get everything across to a carpenter: 1) a plan view; 2) an elevation; and 3) a cross-section. Maybe even throw in a detail or a lot of words of explanation. We do all three in one.
Take a look.
And this 3d design drawing keeps on giving. It keeps on giving a 3d design perspective that is visually more than the sum of its cross-sectional abutments and detail specifications. The drawing shows us how the framing ought to look like when the carpenter is done with his work.
The Autocad Granddad thinks this is akin to magic.
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