Annotating Construction Documents

Create a Life Safety Plan by Lines and Symbols

Duplicate 1st Floor Plan 
Rename: 1st Floor Life Safety Plan
Activate First Floor Life Safety Plan
Change Scale to 1:200

Hide all elements except the actual building elements
Turn on Crop Region, adjust it to tight up against the building
Turn off the Crop Region

Input VG or V V to open the Visibility/Graphic Override dialog box
Model Categories tab
Toggle on Casework, Furniture, Furniture Systems
Select Half Tone for each items

Create New Line Pattern

Manage tab > Settings panel > Additional Steeings - Line Patterns

 

Create a new Line pattern: Center 6mm
Dash: 6mm
Space: 2mm
Dash: 2mm
Space: 2mm

Create another Line Pattern: Dash 3mm
Dash: 3mm
Space: 3mm

Create New Line Style

Manage tab > Settings panel > Additional Settings - Line Styles

 

Modify Subcategories - New

Name: Life Safety Diagonal

Create another Line Style

Name: Life Safety Travel Distance

Life Safety Diagonal: 8, Red, Center 6mm
Life Safety Travel Distance: 6, Red, Dash 3mm

Annotate tab > Detail panel > Detail Line
Line Styel panel > Line Style - Life Safety Diagonal
Options bar: Clear Chain

Draw the disgonal lines from Entrance to Entrance, Corner to corner

Options bar: Check Chain

Line Style panel > Line Style - Life Safety Travel Distance
Draw the safety exit lines

Zoom in to the front entrance
Annotate tab > Symbol panel > Symbol
Mode panel > Load Family
Class Library folder - M_Life-Safety-Line-Arrowhead.rfa

Insert arrowhead at the end of each travel lines and outside the door
Press spacebar to rotate the arrowhead

Create a Life Safety Plan - Text

Annotate tab > Text panel > Text
Properties palette - Edit Type - Duplicate

Name: 3mm Arial Narrow
Text Font: Arial
Text Size: 3mm
Width Factor: 0.9
Click Apply

Duplicate another text

Name: 3mm Arial Narrow Italic
Italic: Ö
Click OK

Zoom in to the front entrance

Add text for the 2 entrances

If text is not visible
View Control bar - Show Crop Region
Properties palette - Check Annotation Crop Region

Type Selector - 3mm Arial Narrow Italic
Place the text first, then use the rotate and move control on the text, to position the text on the diagonal line
The text automaticallu masks the line