CalqLearn Calq: a building from A to Z / Part 9 Drawings and sheets
Tags, notes and the key
Show and hide the tags, write a note, point a callout at the stair, read a level, and let the key explain the plan.
On the sample house's ground floor plan you will take the tags off and back, add a note, a callout and a spot level, and read the key.
01Tags
Every door and window carries its tag (D101, W102), drawn by the plan at its scale. Open Show on the view strip and turn Tags off: the plan is drawn without them. Turn them on again.
Tag, in the Annotate toolset, numbers and tags every door and window that has no tag yet.
02A note
Choose Text (TX), click where the note starts, type it and press Enter. A note is paper text: it keeps its size on the printed sheet at any scale. A height typed on the cursor line letters it in the model instead.
03A callout and a spot level
Choose Callout, click what it points at (the stair), then where its words sit, type them and press Enter: a note on a leader, whose tip stays put while the words are moved. Then choose Spot level and click a floor: it reads the elevation of the storey, live.
Every leader of Calq, a callout's, a tag's or a dimension's, is drawn by the same rule, so a plan reads as one drawing.
04The key
The key card explains the plan: its lines (walls, doors and their swings, windows, room names, dimensions), each with its switch, and the rooms numbered when they are too small for their names. Hold it to a corner, fold it, or close it; Key in Show brings it back.
On a sheet, the key of a plan is a frame of its own, laid in the drawing's margin.
