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Tutorial: Design Review with Imported Plan Drawing

Architectural Studio provides a workspace and tools with which you can perform many of the complex everyday
tasks necessary to conceive and execute an architectural project. Whereas traditional CAD (Computer Aided
Design) programs focus on precise graphical representation and require sophisticated technical skills,
Architectural Studio expands computer support to encompass the complete cycle of a building project and uses
simple, direct manipulation tools.

This expansion represents a new generation of computer aided design, including support for site studies,
conceptual design, team communication, design review, formal presentation, and construction coordination. In
addition to computer supported design, Architectural Studio allows you to store information (in the form of
images), such as spreadsheet data and as-built conditions. This information aggregation capacity extends
computer support beyond design, into data storage for the complete cycle of a project.

This tutorial guides you through one of the architectural functions mentioned above: design review. During the
tutorial, you will use many Architectural Studio features, which are transferable to the other architectural functions.
The features presented in this tutorial include

z Using pencils for annotation, sketching, and hardline drawing,

z Using basic document features, such as moving, minimizing, zooming, and pinning them,

z Adding text for display,

z Inserting images,

z Importing drawings from Architectural Desktop and returning scaled annotations,

z Some basic 3D skills (viewing and image manipulation),

z Hosting a conference in order to confer on or present your ideas, and

z Printing your workspace.

These features represent a taste of what Architectural Studio can do. For more detail on the features presented
here and for information on features not included in this tutorial, see the online help. You can access the help
from the Architectural Studio main menu at Help > Contents and Index. You can also learn how to print out the
help from there. In addition, you can right click on any tool in the Drawing Tools, Modeling Tools, or Workspace
palette to get quick help.

You can use a mouse to accomplish this tutorial. If you decide to stay with Architectural Studio, you might decide
to get a pen input device in order to sketch or write with a pen. See the Hardware chapter of the Basic Tools
section in the online help for information on pen input devices.

Design Review for a San Francisco Townhouse

This tutorial is based on an actual project created for Pacific Development in collaboration with the San Francisco
office of Stanley Saitowitz/Natoma Architects, Inc. In this project, we are working on the design of a four-story
townhouse facing south on one of San Francisco's hilly streets.

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Preliminary concept sketched on a site image in Architectural Studio

It is to be set in an urban lot, 23 by 60 feet deep, and has a garage and deck. In this tutorial we'll be
demonstrating a design review of the facade. Please follow this tutorial in the order it is given, as each section
depends on the previous section.

Setting up the Workspace

We begin the tutorial in the middle of the project, with a design having already been proposed. The project files
contain an image of a model rendered in Autodesk VIZ and a model created in a 3D document in Architectural
Studio.

Before we begin annotating our design, we'll also bring in a plan drawing from Architectural Desktop or AutoCAD
and an image which will be placed as a backdrop to the model in the 3D document.

Opening the Workspace

We'll open the workspace with the model and the rendered image already in place. To open the workspace,

1. From the main menu, select Workspace > Open. The Open Workspace dialog box will open.

2. Open the ArchitecturalStudioTutorial folder (or the folder in which you stored the Architectural Studio
tutorial materials), and browse for SanFranciscoTownhouse.asw.

3. Click on the Open button. The workspace will open. It will contain the image of the VIZ rendering and a
model in the 3D document.

4. To see both images without the palettes overlapping them, click on the titlebar of each palette to close it.

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The workspace as you begin the tutorial: The image was rendered in Autodesk VIZ with a model created in VIZ, and is provided to
us courtesy of Stanley Saitowitz/Natoma Architects, Inc. The model to the right was created in Architectural Studio.

5. Before you begin working in the workspace, you might like to make a copy of the workspace, so that you
can feel free to experiment while still having a clean copy of the workspace. To do so, select
Workspace > Save As, and enter another name in the dialog box that opens.

As you continue with the tutorial, remember that Edit > Undo is available from the main menu for any
mistakes you may make while learning.

Bringing in a Plan Drawing from Architectural Desktop or AutoCAD

There are two ways to send a drawing to Architectural Studio:

z Directly from Architectural Desktop or AutoCAD (called publishing), or

z Exporting a drawing in DWF format from Architectural Desktop or AutoCAD to a file, and then importing
the DWF drawing into Architectural Studio.

To use the direct publishing method, you must have Architectural Desktop or AutoCAD on the same computer
as Architectural Studio. Direct publishing from Architectural Desktop is described below. Direct publishing from
AutoCAD involves downloading a plug-in. For now, you may want to simply import the DWF that we've
exported for you. See Importing the DWF Plan Drawing below to do so.

Note: If you would like to try publishing the drawing from AutoCAD directly (You'll need to download a plug-in
from our product resources Web site and then use the publishaas command), see the Architectural Studio Help
for more detail. To do so, select Help from the Architectural Studio main menu and then select Contents and
Index. Once in the help manual, click on the chapter entitled Interoperability with Other Programs, then click
on the following headings to find instructions for direct publishing from AutoCAD: Sharing with AutoCAD >
From AutoCAD to Architectural Studio > Direct Publishing to Architectural Studio.

Direct Publishing from Architectural Desktop

Open the drawing in Architectural Desktop:

1. Open Architectural Desktop. (Architectural Studio must also remain open.)

2. From the Architectural Desktop main menu, select File > Open. The Select File dialog box will open.

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3. Open the ArchitecturalStudioTutorial folder (or the folder in which you stored the Architectural Studio
tutorial materials), and browse for the SFTownhousePlan.dwg.

4. Select Open. The drawing will open in Architectural Desktop.

The plan of the four floors of the townhouse in Architectural Desktop

Plan drawings courtesy of Stanley Saitowitz/Natoma Architects, Inc.

5. From the Architectural Desktop main menu, select File > Page Setup.

6. Click on the Plot Device tab.

7. On the Plot Device tab, under Plotter configuration, select DWF55 ePlot (optimized for
plotting).pc3.

8. While still in the Page Setup dialog box, click the Layout Settings tab and set the Plot Area to Extents,
and the Plot Scale to Scaled to Fit (scroll upwards to find Scaled to Fit).

9. Click OK to accept these settings and exit the Page Setup dialog box.

10. For Architectural Desktop 3.3: From the Architectural Desktop main menu, select Desktop > Publish to
Architectural Studio . . . .

For Architectural Desktop 4.0: From the lower, left-hand side of Architectural Desktop, click on the menu
symbol to open the drawing menu and select Publish to Architectural Studio . . . .

The plot progress to Architectural Studio will be displayed, and the drawing will be in Architectural
Studio in a few moments.

11. Switch back to Architectural Studio to see the drawing there.

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The plan drawings as they appear in Architectural Studio

Importing the DWF Plan Drawing

If you've already successfully published the DWF plan drawing, you can skip this section. However, if you do
not have Architectural Desktop or AutoCAD on your computer, and therefore cannot use direct publishing,
follow these instructions instead. The DWG drawing would be exported by a colleague from Architectural
Desktop or AutoCAD on another computer as a DWF, so that you can import it. We've exported the drawing to
a file as your colleague or CAD professional would, so that you need only import it into Architectural Studio.

To import the drawing into Architectural Studio,

1. From the Architectural Studio main menu, select Insert > DWF.

2. Open the ArchitecturalStudioTutorial folder (or the folder in which you stored the Architectural Studio
tutorial materials), and browse for the SFTownhousePlan.dwf.

3. Select Open. The drawing will appear in the center of the workspace in Architectural Studio.

Zooming into the Plan and Resizing the Trace

In this tutorial, the changes we'll propose will be to the street-side facade including the garage door. Therefore,
we'll zoom into the garage level and then resize the trace document to show only that level.

1. Drag the drawing to the space in the bottom, right quarter of the workspace, so that it is not overlapping
the other documents.

2. To zoom into the garage level of the plan, select the zoom tool from the trace document's titltebar
and drag diagonally across the floor plan at the top of the drawing.

Zooming into the garage level of the plan

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The view of the plan will now fill the trace. Press the Esc button to return to using the selector tool .

3. Next, hover the cursor over the top edge of the trace until it becomes a double-sided arrow and drag the
edge to make the trace smaller. Do the same for the bottom edge. (If the bottom edge of the trace is
very close to the windows taskbar, you might like to use the selector tool to drag the trace away first.
This will help you avoid enlarging the taskbar instead of resizing the trace.)

Dragging the edge of the trace to view only the garage level of the plan

We'll be making annotations to all three documents, so we'll finish setting up the 3D model before we return to
annotating the plan.

Inserting an Image and Using it in the 3D Document

The 3D model could be made to look even more realistic by placing it in the context of the San Francisco wharf
at the bottom of the hill. To do so, we'll insert an image, copy it into the 3D document, and then adjust the
model and image to create a view as if looking down the hill.

Model of the townhouse created in Architectural Studio

Inserting the Image into Architectural Studio

Getting an image into a 3D document is done in two steps: First bring the image into Architectural Studio, then
into the 3D document. To bring it into Architectural Studio,

1. From the main menu, select Insert > Image. The Insert Image dialog box will open.

2. Open the ArchitecturalStudioTutorial folder (or the folder in which you stored the Architectural Studio
tutorial materials), and browse for SanFranciscoView.jpg.

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3. Click Open. The image will open in Architectural Studio.

View at the bottom of the hill

4. Click on the minimize tool on the image's titlebar to set it aside while you create a workplane in the
3D document. The image will become a small thumbnail at the bottom of the workspace.

Copying the Image onto a Workplane in the 3D Document

If we copy an image directly into the 3D document it will be placed on the 3D grid, which is on the ground
plane. The ground plane is a good place to insert a site plan image, but we want this image to create a realistic
background for our model. Therefore we will need a customized workplane on which to copy the image, so that
the image can be vertical.

Create a Vertical Workplane

1. Create more space for the workplane, by clicking on the document to see its titlebar, selecting the pan
tool , and dragging the view of the model to the left.

2. Click on the titlebar of the 3D palette to open it. You'll find it in the upper, right hand corner of the
workspace unless you have moved it.

3. Click on the workplane tool from the Modeling Tools palette.

4. You will be creating the workplane on the right side of the document. Click on the palette titlebar again
to close it, so that it isn't obscuring the 3D document.

5. It may seem that there is not enough room on the 3D grid to create the workplane. However, the grid will
expand as you create the workplane. To create the workplane, click and drag across the grid (The arrow
in the image below indicates the direction).

A workplane created on the grid. The arrow indicates which way to drag the workplane tool to create the workplane for this
particular situation.

The direction in which you drag will form the diagonal line through the rectangular shape of the

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workplane. Drag it large enough to contain the image with a little extra to work with. If the size or
location is a little off, you'll have handles to adjust that.

The workplane will appear, displaying its resizing, moving, and rotation handles. Any that are behind the
model will show through. Use a blue handle on one of the corners to resize the workplane if necessary.
Drag the workplane by the body of the workplane itself to move it. (Don't drag it by the center yellow
handle, as you will cause it to cruise over the shapes of the solid, if you move it in that direction.)

6. Click and drag the green rotation handle at the midpoint of the edge furthest from the model. Drag the
workplane to a vertical position nearly flush against the model. You will know it is vertical because red
marker lines will appear at the intersection of the grid and the workplane, indicating a vertical position.
As with the handles, the red indicators will show through if they are behind the model.

The arrow indicates the direction to drag the grid and the circles highlight the vertical indicators

Copy the image onto the Workplane

1. Click on the thumbnail of the image you imported, SanFranciscoView.jpg, to restore it to its full size.

2. Hold down the Ctrl key on your keyboard while you press the letter C to copy the image.

3. Click on the vertical workplane you just created to select it as your target for the image.

4. Hold down the Ctrl key while you press V to paste the image onto the workplane. The image will appear
on the workplane and be centered.

5. You will no longer need the image in the workspace, now that a copy is in the 3D document. Click on
the image in the workspace to show its titlebar, and then click on the trash can on the titlebar. Select
Yes to confirm that you want to delete it.

Stretch the Image

The image will appear centered on the workplane, and may not be in the location or at the size we want.

1. Click on the image to see its handles.

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The San Francisco view image copied onto a vertical workplane

2. Depending on how you have positioned the workplane, the image may need different adjustments. We
want the image to create the view as if looking down from the townhouse site. To do so, do one or
several of the following: Drag the red handle at the midpoint of an edge to stretch the image; drag a blue
handle at the corner to resize both the height and width at once, and/or drag the handle in the center of
the image to move it.

We have decided to stretch our image to the right.

The image creating a view from the hill

Dolly into the View

We'll try to get a view that appears as if we're looking down the hill.

3D view dollied into, rotated, and panned

1. Select the zoom tool from the 3D titlebar. Then zoom into the view by left clicking in the center of the
view about 2 times. (If you zoom in to far, select Edit > Undo or use the dolly tool by dragging its cursor
downwards. Right clicking will cause the zoom tool to zoom back out also, but it may increase the
foreshortening too much for this circumstance. See the online help for more detail on the differences
between dollying and zooming.)

2. Select the rotation tool from the 3D titlebar. Then rotate the view until it appears as if you are looking
down the hill towards the image.

3. Select the pan tool from the 3D document titlebar. Then drag the view to center it in the 3D document.

4. As you get used to these tools, you may not like the view you get at first. Select Edit > Undo from the main
menu until you get back to a view you want to start from.

5. If any of the workplane is still showing, you can delete it by selecting it and pressing the Delete key on your
keyboard.

6. If any of the 3D grid is still showing, you can hide it (it is still usable, even if it's invisible) by selecting the

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pop-up menu symbol from the 3D titlebar, selecting Document Properties, and clicking on 3D grid in
the display options (the check mark will disappear).

Your workspace should now appear similar to the following:

The VIZ rendering, the 3D model, and the DWF plan are now ready for markup and further design ideas

Making Design Changes

Markup
We'll add some annotations that relate to the VIZ rendering, the model, and the plan. The annotations will
suggest that we take a look at setting the garage doors deeper. They will also make a visual link between the
plan and the rendering. We'll add the annotations on a sheet of trace overlaid across the three documents.

To create a sheet of trace,

1. Click on the Drawing Tools palette titlebar to open the palette.

2. Click on the trace icon and release.

3. Click on the workspace and drag diagonally across all three documents. A new sheet of trace is created.

Note: If you would like to move the trace (or any document: trace, image, 3D document, imported image, or
snapshot), use the selector tool to grab it by the titlebar or the document's background and move it. Be
careful not to grab any drawing strokes, shapes, color fill, or 3D solids, or you will move those instead. If you
do move one of these design elements by mistake select Edit > Undo and try moving the document again
from the titlebar or a clear space on the document's background.

To add the annotations,

1. Select the red pencil from the Drawing Tools palette. We asked to have the garage doors
set more deeply:

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- Over the VIZ rendering, we've asked to "Increase setback at garage doors."

- Over the 3D model, we've emphasized the same point by noting "More depth."

- We've connected the VIZ rendering and the imported plan drawing with an arrow, showing how the
garage door would be moved.

2. With the pencil still selected, click on the green, shape Template palette (at the bottom, left of the
workspace) to make the pencil draw a geometric shape.

- To draw a line, select the line from the shape Template, and, in the workspace, click to create a
starting point, drag where you want to draw the line, and release.

-To draw a rectangle, select the rectangle from the shape Template, and, in the workspace, click,
drag along the diagonal of the rectangle you want to define, and release when the rectangle is the right
size.

3. If you would like to change an annotation you made, click on the eraser and drag it across what
you want to erase as if you were using a real eraser, or select the line and press the Delete key.

Markup for changing the depth of the garage door

Pinning and Minimizing the Trace to Set it Aside

Next, we'll create some design ideas for the facade. In order to do that we'll need to minimize the annotation
trace. However, we will want to be able to restore the trace later so that it lines up with the other three
documents.

To do so, select the pin tool from the trace's titlebar. The pin tool will change its appearance , indicating
that it is now active. With the pin tool active, the trace cannot be moved, except to be minimized. When it is
maximized again, it will return to the same location.

Once the trace is pinned, select the minimize tool , and the document will become a thumbnail at the bottom

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of the workspace. Later, you can just click on the thumbnail to restore it.

Pin the remaining three documents to the workspace as well, so that they are not inadvertently moved.

You can unpin a document at any time by selecting the pin tool again. You'll know the document is unpinned
when the pin icon returns to its original vertical position .

Facade Ideas
To make changes to the facade of the building, add another sheet of trace over the VIZ rendering in the image.
You might like to select the black pencil this time.

Choose among the line , polyline/polygon , or freehand stroke from the Template palette before
or after you select a pencil, and switch among them as you draw. To create a polyline, click to create the start
point, drag it to draw each segment of the line, and click to create a corner. Double click to end the polyline. To
create an enclosed polygon, click when you see the red snap cursor as you approach the origin of the shape.

Snapping a polyline closed to create a polygon

Try several ideas by minimizing each idea and creating a new trace for the next one. Remember to pin each
trace before you minimize it.

A design idea sketched on trace overlaid on the image

Taking Snapshots of Ideas

Once you have several ideas, you might like to save them as a snapshot. For example, you might have reason
to unpin the image with the VIZ rendering or make other changes to the workspace. Taking a snapshot allows
you to have quick access to the design lined up with the image.

Before taking the snapshot, you will want to make the trace completely transparent, so that the image is clear.
To do so, click on the pop-up menu symbol on the trace's titlebar and select Document Properties. In the
Document Properties dialog box that opens, drag the Background Transparency slider (a downward pointing,
white triangle) all the way to the right until the display says 100%.

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To take a snapshot of the design, click on the snapshot tool in the Drawing Tools palette. Then drag
diagonally across the trace and the image to capture the design idea. A snapshot of the area you defined will
be automatically created.

Snapshots are automatically labelled Snapshot 1, Snapshot 2, etc. You might like give each snapshot a more
meaningful title. To change the title of the snapshot, click on the pop-up menu symbol to open the pop-up
menu and select Document Properties. Type the name into the window labeled Title:. Press the Enter key.
(You must remember to press the Enter key or the title change will not be accepted.)

You can then minimize this snapshot.

A snapshot, effectively combining the rendered image and the drawing on trace

After you have minimized the snapshot, you can click on any of the other design ideas to take snapshots of
those as well.

Thumbnail Options
When you are finished creating your annotations, design ideas, and snapshots, the bottom of your workspace
will have numerous thumbnails. If the thumbnails are not organized the way you like, drag them to arrange
them. Moving the thumbnails will not change where they are positioned when they are restored.

At this point your workspace should look something like this:

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Thumbnails of design ideas, annotation, and snapshots at the bottom of the workspace ready for review

Conference: Synchronous Review with Remote Participants

You are now ready to share your ideas with others and to get feedback.

Initiating a Conference
In order to be in conference with someone, both you and your guest must be on the same network. To initiate a
conference,

1. From the main menu, select Workspace > Conference Settings and take note of your conference
passcode. Highlight the passcode and hold down the Ctrl key as you press C on the keyboard.

At this time you might also want to change your nickname. This name will appear on the conference
palette that opens while you are in conference. Your system supplies a name used by the system. You
might want a name that will be more meaningful to your conference participants.

2. E-mail your expected participants to set up a time and let them know your passcode. To enter the
passcode into the e-mail, hold down the Ctrl key as you press V on the keyboard.

3. Before your guests are expected to join, select Workspace > Host Conference from the main menu.
You must do this before any guests can join you.

4. Select OK.

5. Telephone your guests, to let them know you are ready for them to join and to keep verbal contact
during the graphic presentation.

Joining a Conference
The person to join you should

1. Open Architectural Studio.

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2. Select Workspace > Conference Settings and enter a new nickname, if desired.

3. Select Workspace > Join Conference from the main menu. A Join Conference dialog box will open.

4. Enter the passcode you gave them.

5. Select OK. (If the conference workspace does not open for the person trying to join, you (the host)
should double check your conference settings, as your computer's IP (Internet Protocol) address is
included in your passcode, and your IP address can be changed automatically if it conflicts with another
on the Internet. You may want to check also that your guest is on the same intranet as you.)

Conference Participation
You can proceed to present your design for review, pointing to the elements of the design you are discussing
with the selector tool and annotating the design with pencils. You might like to have each participant use a
different color pencil, so you know which idea came from whom.

To make more copies of pencils, each with different colors,

1. Right click on a pencil and select Copy Tool.

2. Double click on the copy to open the Tool Properties dialog box.

3. Select the hue in the window to the right by dragging the black triangle up or down, as shown below:

Selecting the hue

4. Fine tune the hue's saturation and brightness in the larger window to the left by dragging the circle.

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Fine tuning the hue (selecting its saturation and brightness)

5. If you want to change the thickness of the line drawn, click on the downward pointing triangle and select
a new width.

All participants will want to reselect the freehand stroke , if necessary.

All participants are free to annotate or sketch ideas as they wish and all of these annotations will be seen by all
participants. However, if an individual makes a change to a palette or a tool within it, it will only affect his or her
own workspace. All participants can print out a copy of the workspace, but only the host can save the
workspace in which you are in conference. (See Printing the Workspace, below.)

Annotations added during the conference. Each color represents the ideas of a different participant.

Our participant agreed to the increase in the setback, but noted the door that was intended to be inside the
garage would need to be relocated, and asked to reduce the width of the door with the following comments:

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- Over the VIZ rendering, marked "OK" below the request for more setback,

- Over the plan drawing, made a note to "Relocate door access" inside the garage, and

- Also over the plan drawing, noted that the relocation of the door was "OKAY HERE," but requested to reduce
its width to 10 feet (US measurements), "Make 10'," or 305 cm (metric).

Next, we'll show an example of how to send these changes back to your CAD specialists by annotating one of
the changes directly onto the plan drawing and sending it back to Architectural Desktop or AutoCAD.

Making Changes to the Plan in Scale

During our conference, we agreed that we would relocate the garage door and that we would also reduce the
width to 10 feet (US measurements) or 305 cm (metric) . To put this decision into effect, we'll put this annotation
directly on the imported DWF drawing. This way, we can create the annotation to scale and then insert it back into
Architectural Desktop or AutoCAD as a block.

Using Snap and Scale on a Drawing

When DWF drawings are imported into Architectural Studio, they behave much like images. In other words,
you cannot change any of the elements of the original drawing. The DWF was created this way so that the
integrity of the original drawing would be protected. However, you can write and draw on them directly, and,
unlike images, you can draw to scale and snap to the lines in the imported drawing.

When a DWF drawing comes in from Architectural Desktop it translates the dimensions to a 1:1 scale, which,
in the case of our drawing, would be too large to view on screen. In order to accommodate this size drawing,
Architectural Studio automatically zoomed out from it. When you use the scale ruler, it will recognize this zoom
and display the dimensions as they had been intended when the drawing was created in Architectural Desktop.

Before we begin drawing to scale, we'll need to make sure that we have activated snapping and the scale ruler.
You'll need to use hardline shapes (the shapes on the Template palette, as opposed to the freehand stroke) in
order to make snaps and the scale ruler available.

From the main menu, make sure that Edit > Snap to Geometry and View > Scale Ruler are selected. If
either of them does not have a check mark next to them click on it and a check mark will appear, indicating that
these tools are available when using hardline shapes. (You may also want to make sure that Edit > Snap to
Grid is NOT checked. Click on it to deselect it if it is. This way you won't mistakenly snap to a point on the grid
when you intend to snap to another line or shape.)

Annotating the DWF Drawing

To draw a 10 foot or 305 cm line,

1. Select a pencil to draw with and select the line from the Template palette.

2. If you want to zoom into the drawing closer, click on the zoom tool on the document's titlebar (NOT
the workspace zoom tool from the Workspace palette) and drag the cursor across the area you would
like to zoom into. Select Edit > Undo if you've zoomed in too far and select a larger area.

3. To keep the line perpendicular to the line from which you are drawing it, press the Shift key and hold it
down during the entire process.

4. Pass the crosshair cursor (+) over the line from which you want to begin drawing. Click when you see a
red snap cursor.

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Snap cursor to start drawing a line

5. After releasing the mouse, move the cursor towards the line above it. The ruler will appear.

The other line is about 11 feet away from the first (one foot more than we want it). When you get close
to the other line, click once to see the current dimension.

6. Still holding down the Shift key, adjust the dimension by moving the cursor up or down until the ruler
shows exactly 10 feet in US measurements or 305 cm in metric.

Double click when the dimension you want displays

7. Click to accept that length. (You can now release the Shift key.)

8. Select View > Scale Ruler to end using the scale ruler.

9. Sketch in the arrowheads.

10. Click on the freehand tool in the Template palette, so that you can sketch in the arrowheads and
the dimension. Select the pencil you were using.

11. Write the dimension.

The arrowheads and dimension sketched in

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12. Right click with the zoom tool to zoom back out. If you zoom out too far, drag with the zoom tool over the
garage level. Use the pan tool to center the view again.

Exporting the Annotation to Architectural Desktop or AutoCAD

In Architectural Studio
1. From the 3D document titlebar, open the pop-up menu and select Export > DXF Format.

2. Take note of the folder in which you store the drawing, so you can retrieve it again in Architectural
Desktop or AutoCAD.

3. Delete the .dwf extension, if necessary.

4. Select Save.

In Architectural Desktop 3.3 or AutoCAD

1. Open the original drawing in Architectural Desktop or AutoCAD as a DWG.

2. Insert the drawing into Architectural Desktop as a block. Select Insert > Block, and the Insert dialog box
will open.

3. When you Browse for the file, make sure the File type is DXF.

4. Make sure the Insertion Points for X, Y, and Z are 0, 0, 0. To do so, DESELECT Specify On-screen. (If
there is a check mark next to this option, click on it so that the check mark disappears.)

5. Click OK.

6. Zoom in on the garage area. The annotation will appear in the drawing in the correct location and scale
within the DWG drawing.

The arrows and the dimension were inserted into the original DWG

Printing the Workspace

Once a design is agreed on, you might like to print out the workspace to record the agreed upon design.

To print out the workspace,

1. Return to Architectural Studio.

2. Minimize anything you do not want to print. Thumbnails will not print.

3. Make sure the agreed upon design (or whatever you want to print out) is restored. Click on one of the
design thumbnails to restore it.

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4. From the main menu, select Workspace > Units and Size and make sure that 11 X 17 in Imperial (US
measurements) or 297 X 420 mm in metric is selected, so that it will accommodate our design. It will also
match the paper size to which we plan to print, so that the print out will be WYSIWYG (What You See Is
What You Get).

5. Select the workspace zoom tool from the Workspace palette.

6. If your workspace is at its default view of 100%, right click twice to zoom out to 50%, so you can see what
you are printing. (You would still get what you want printed even if you did not zoom out. We're zooming
out for your convenience, so you can see more easily that the workspace is arranged as you want to print
it.)

We'll print only the design work on the workspace.

7. From the main menu, select Workspace > Print. The Print dialog box will open.

The Print dialog box with the settings we'll use

8. Select the following settings:

- Print Device: The printer to which you want to print,

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- Paper Size: 11 X 17 paper for US measurements or ISO A3(297 X 420 mm) for metric,

- Orientation: Landscape,

- What to Print: Keep the Workspace setting as is. (Do not select Display or Active Document. The
Display setting will print whatever design work is visible on screen which does not include thumbnails,
menus, or palettes, but does include the gray space and whatever non-minimized design work has been
moved there. Active Document will print only the selected document.)

- If Fit to page is selected, click on it to deselect it (the check mark will disappear). Fit to page is not
appropriate for this situation, where the workspace size and the paper size already match.

Note: In the event that you are not printing the workspace onto the size paper recommended above, leave
the Fit to page option selected. The contents of the workspace (This includes the white space) will then
shrink or expand to fit the paper size.

- Number of Copies: Enter the number of copies you want to print.

9. Select OK. The workspace will print out showing the chosen design without the grid. The thumbnails that
were set aside will not print.

Adding Text for Presentation

Now that some of the design issues have been settled, you may want to prepare the workspace for a more formal
presentation. One element of a formal presentation is text. You can add text directly to the workspace, to trace, an
imported drawing, or to an image.

Adding Text
We'll add text to the bottom of the trace with the agreed upon facade design. We'll then clip the trace with the
design and text to the document, so that they stay together. We'll label the image "Phase One Project," as
follows:

Text on trace clipped to an image

To create text for your presentation,

1. Select the selector from the Workspace palette.

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2. Click on the thumbnail of the agreed upon design to restore it to its position over the image.

3. Hover the selector over the bottom edge of the trace until the selector becomes a double-sided arrow
. Drag the bottom edge of the trace to enlarge it and make space for text.

4. Select the text tool from the Drawing Tools palette.

5. Click and drag over the space created for the text on the trace. Allow approximately enough space for
the phrase "Phase One Project." The Text Editor will open.

6. Click on the downward pointing arrow in the first drop-down list to the right and select Haetenschweiller
for the type style.

7. In the next drop-down list to the right, select 36 for the type size.

8. In the next drop-down list, select gray.

9. Type in the phrase Phase One Project.

10. Select OK.

11. From the pop-up menu , open Document Properties and make the trace background completely
transparent, if you haven't already.

If you make a mistake, double click on the block of text to reopen the text editor. To edit the text, use the cursor
and edit the text as you would in a word processor. To correct the type format (style, size, color, etc.), highlight
the text first and select another type format.

Clipping the Trace and Image Together

1. Select the Document Clip from the Drawing Tools palette.

2. Click on an area where both documents intersect (or drag the document clip across both documents
being sure to include both entirely). The two documents will be highlighted with a red line around them
as long as the Document Clip is active.

3. You can now minimize and restore both documents together as a set. (If you unpin both, you can also
move them together.)

To unclip the documents, open either of the documents' pop-up menus by selecting the pop-up menu symbol
on one of the titlebars. Select Unclip Document or Unclip All from the menu that opens.

Where to Go from Here

There are many more tools you can use to enhance your presentation board. For example, you can hide the
workspace grid (View > Workspace Grid), you can add text or drawing directly to the workspace, images, or
drawings, or you can add color fill to any enclosed shape, the workspace, or document, using the color fill tool

To help you feel more comfortable experimenting, work on a copy of the workspace (Workspace > Save As), or,
be aware that you can select Edit > Undo to return to a former version of your workspace.

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To get quick help, right click on a tool in the Drawing Tools, Workspace, or Modeling Tools palette or click on the
pop-up symbol on a palette , and select Help.

To get more tools, click on the Tool Catalog at the bottom of the Drawing Tools palette and drag any tool
you would like to use into a palette. In addition to what is already in the palettes, the Tool Catalog contains a 2D
rotation tool and many more 3D tools.

Finally, for more detail on all of the tools used above and for many more features to help you with concept
development and presentation, see the online Help from the Architectural Studio main menu at Help > Contents
and Index .

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