Plan Outline

[billras46]

I can't remember how, but isn't there an easy way to generate a plan outline to be used on a site drawing?

[Allen42acj]

Cad
Plan foot print..

[David J. Potter]

There are several ways.
I commonly just create a "Site Plan" set of layers and use the house model for that purpose with the layers set the way I want.

Or if you have X2 and the SSA go here.

DJP

[Tommy Blair]

IMO, David's way is the best if he's meaning a "Site Plan" layerset with layers for that layerset.

[builderlfd]

David,

Are you able to make a plan footprint outline (or polyline) on your layerset? I thought that was only available in a cad detail window.

[Tommy Blair]

David,

Are you able to make a plan footprint outline (or polyline) on your layerset? I thought that was only available in a cad detail window.

Read David's post a little closer.

[builderlfd]

OK, I re-read now a few times. Maybe I'm slow. I'm not finding the answer to my question. And I watched two of the videos he linked.

The original post asked for "an easy way to generate a plan outline to be used on a site drawing?"

David responded, "There are several ways.
I commonly just create a "Site Plan" set of layers"

Are there several ways to do a plan outline? Can it be done on a layer for a site plan layerset? I only know of how to do that on a cad detail, and that is what the video leads me to believe.

[Tommy Blair]

You missed a little bit in David's reply. He says that he's using a "house model" for the outline which is what you would be doing if you're doing a site plan from a layerset. If you're okay with using a footprint in a cad detail, that's okay too.

[Allen42acj]

Len
I believe they are saying to use the Terrain as your plot plan rather than just cad lines.

Then the model will look like it should in real life.

Depends how much time you want to spend on it.
First few might take longer.

[Tommy Blair]

Len
I believe they are saying to use the Terrain as your plot plan rather than just cad lines.

Then the model will look like it should in real life.

Depends how much time you want to spend on it.
First few might take longer.

Allen, that's not really what I'm trying to say and I don't use the terrain as the plot plan, but, some people do and yes it will work. He's talking about the outline of the house I thought in a site plan. I'm talking about using the model as the outline of the house. I don't know how else to describe it but for example, go to the electrical layerset and see what the walls look like. The same will apply in a plot plan layerset or siteplan layerset or whatever you wish to call it. I have a siteplan layerset that I use. The house is there because it's in the plan right? I do the siteplan around the house. I do send it to a cad detail before I send it to layout depending on the siteplan (survey) but that applies most of the time. If you're showing elevations of the property in the model, then yes you obviously need to have the terrain match the survey.

[Allen42acj]

Tommy
It sounds like your doing every thing except converting the outline to a terrain perimeter..

[Tommy Blair]

If need be, I'll post an example. Our siteplans are basically the survey with our house (model) positioned on it. A siteplan.

[Tommy Blair]

Tommy
It sounds like your doing every thing except converting the outline to a terrain perimeter..

You can do that too. I have everything in the siteplan, except for the model of course, on one layer so I can turn it on and off very fast.

David, where are you?

[Allen42acj]

I am still sticking with my first answer for what he was asking for..

I do like the site plan layer..

[Tommy Blair]

Very good dude.