411 — Blueprint to shop drawing book¶
Give it the job’s drawing set; get a project and a book of panel drawings back.
Note
This lesson also exists in the browser. Work it in ConstructiVision on the web — same steps, same values, so you can follow either and end up with the same panel.
Where it is¶
File → Blueprint → Book…
What it is for¶
Every other lesson in this library starts from a project that already exists. This one starts from the drawings somebody sent you, and builds the project from them.
The dialog is specific about what it wants, and it is worth reading before you drag anything in:
Drop the job’s complete construction drawing set (PDF) — the issued plans, panel schedules and site layout.
Not a single sheet. It reads the set as a set: the schedules tell it what the panels are, the plans tell it where they go. Give it one elevation and you have given it a fraction of the job.
Reading all of that off by hand and typing it in is the work this replaces.
It costs tokens¶
Generating consumes tokens, like the panel book and the DXF exports. Read what the dialog tells you before generating, not after.
What to do with the result¶
Treat the generated project as a first draft that read your drawing, not a finished one. Open the panels, walk the Program Options grid, and check what it found against what you know is there.
The corpus review earns more here than anywhere else in the product: it flags values outside what the corpus has seen, and a mis-read dimension is exactly the kind of thing that lands outside.
What to take away¶
It reads the drawing so you do not retype it. Check its work with the review and the Program Options grid — extraction is a starting point, not an answer.