Module 1 of 7
The Drawing Set: Plans, Sections, Elevations
How a construction drawing set is organized - and how to extract what you need from any sheet in minutes.
After this module you can
You can pick up an unfamiliar sheet, orient yourself using the title block, key plan and legends, and read a floor plan methodically from revision row to area statement.
- 1.1 What Lives in a Construction Drawing SetOn day one you inherit a folder of two hundred PDFs with cryptic names. This lesson maps who issues which drawings, how a set is organized, and the one log that decides disputes about who knew what, when.7 min read
- 1.2 Plans, Sections and Elevations: Three Views, One BuildingA plan is a horizontal cut, a section is a vertical cut, an elevation is the outside face. This lesson follows one real staircase from its plan to SECTION Q-Q and shows the arithmetic check that catches level mistakes before concrete does.7 min read
- 1.3 Title Blocks, Sheet Numbers and Who Signed WhatTwo prints of the same sheet are lying on the site table and they disagree. The title block settles it in ten seconds - if you know how to read the revision table, the sheet number and the signature row.7 min read
- 1.4 General Notes and Legends: The Fine Print That GovernsThe smallest text on the sheet carries the biggest rules: units, the do-not-scale ban, and the clause that lets a one-line RFI reply override the whole drawing. This lesson decodes a real notes block, line by line.7 min read
- 1.5 Reading a Floor Plan End to EndA method beats a stare. This lesson gives you seven passes - revision, orientation, dimensions, levels, walls, annotations, areas - and runs them over two real Project A floor plans, from FFL markers to a 1275 sq.ft area statement.8 min read