These videos follow the PlansXpress Getting Started Guide and show you exactly how to complete each section of the tutorial. It is recommended that you watch these videos whilst looking at a copy of the plans from the project from the Getting Started Guide. These can be downloaded from here.
Adding construction lines
How to add construction lines to your plan in order to define the location of the external walls of your building.
Drawing External Walls from Construction Lines
This topic highlights the 'Justification' and 'External Side' dropdowns in drawing the house's external walls.
Internal Block Walls
Drawing the internal block walls of Mr Oliver's house. Particular focus is paid to the use of Snap mode, X-Y mode & the 'R' key to accurately place the walls.
Windows
How to place windows in a building. Explanation of the tools available to enable you to place windows accurately using distances in milimetres or in bricks.
Adding Doors Ground floor
How to place doors into a plan. This topic shows you how to use 'Mid' snap points and how to set the door handing.
Placing the Staircase
Discussion of the different options available for staircases, how to include winders and vary the number of steps in each flight.
Creating the First Floor
How to copy a ground floor plan to create your first floor including removing doors/windows and re-setting wall heights.
Suspended Floor
Placing each section of the suspended floor to indicates the direction of joists, drawing on the trimmers and placing the end straps where required.
House Slab
How to place a house slab (for estimating purposes). Placing perimeter insulation and how to hide the slab and suspended floor items from view also feature.
1st Floor Walls, Windows & Doors
How to ammend a floor plan after copying a lower floor including ammends to the internal walls, windows and doors.
Structural Opening
How to place a structural opening into a wall between the dining room and kitchen and the difference between the structural opening options in PlansXpress.
Adding Bathroom & Kitchen Furniture to a Plan
How to place bathroom & kitchen furniture on you plan including placing estimated and non-estimated symbols.
Drawing the roof
How to draw the main roof of Mr Oliver's house. This covers teeing in roofs to form a valley, placing flat ceiling areas, binders, purline & downpipes.
Drainage Layouts
Pricing drainage items including drain runs, drainage plant and a shallow access manhole. Explains how to change the location of an existing worksheet.
Creating an elevation
How to create a front and side elevation of a double storey property and then develop them to add symbols from the libraries.
Hatching an elevation
How to use the auto-hatch feature. Also how to add in your own custom pens & layers and how to associate a pen with a layer.
Adding dimensions on a plan
How to add auto-dimension walls, add dimensions manually and how to use the prefix & suffix boxes to control where they appear.
Printing drainage layouts
Saving Views, using 'Layout Explorer' & setting up the different print options to print a section of a drawing onto the required page size.