Demo project 3D, architecture & engineering

Pine House: working drawings as a DXF for AutoCAD

A set of architectural drawings for the demo house, delivered the way a designer expects it: a 1:1 model in millimetres, A3 sheets with a frame and a title block, layers split by discipline, real dimensions and material hatches. A print-ready PDF comes with it.

5: A3 sheets
39: layers
80: dimensions
DXF + PDF: for CAD and for print

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Pine House: working drawings as a DXF for AutoCAD — Sheets, layers and zoom, as in AutoCAD. Drag the drawing; zoom with the wheel after a click, or pinch. “CAD screen” shows the layer colours on a dark background. Hover over a layer in the list to see it on the sheet.

The task

Show drawings delivered as a working file rather than a picture: one you can open in CAD, measure, switch layers off, keep drawing in and print straight away.

What I did

A 1:1 model in millimetres: plan, two elevations, a section and a site plan from one geometry of the house
39 layers for architecture, site and sheet graphics: colour, linetype and lineweight come from the layer
80 dimensions as real dimension objects in a Russian-standard style with oblique ticks, not lines plus text
Five A3 sheets: frame, title block (form 3), viewports at 1:50, 1:100 and 1:200
Material hatches: concrete, sand, gravel, soil, insulation, board cladding
An on-page viewer: sheets, layers, the CAD screen and cursor coordinates in model millimetres

Proof

The DXF is checked by software: the audit finds no errors, and all five sheets are redrawn from the file itself and compared with the PDF
The drawings, the DXF and the PDF come from the same geometry as the Pine House 3D model, so the dimensions agree