Finishing the Kitchenette

Finishing the Kitchenette
Before you save and close the Kitchen file, you need to do one more thing. You’ll be using this
drawing as a symbol and inserting it into the overall plan of the studio apartment unit. To facilitate
accurate placement of the kitchen, you’ll change the location of the base point of this drawing to the
upper-left corner of the kitchen. This will then be the drawing’s grip:
1. Complete the kitchenette as indicated in the bottom panel of Figure 6.7, shown earlier in this
chapter. As the figure indicates, make sure you put the kitchenette on the Fixture layer. This will
help you control the visibility of the kitchenette in future edits of this file. Draw the sink roughly
as shown in the figure.
2. Choose Draw  Block  Base from the drop-down menu.
3. At the Enter base point: prompt, pick the upper-left corner of the kitchen, as indicated
in the bottom image of Figure 6.7. The kitchen drawing is complete.
4. Choose File  Save, and exit the file.

Developing Your Drawing
As mentioned briefly in Chapter 3, when you’re using AutoCAD, you first create the basic geometric
forms used in your drawing; and then you refine them. In this section, you’ll create two drawings—
the studio apartment unit and the lobby—that demonstrate this process in more detail.
First, you’ll construct a typical studio apartment unit by using the drawings you’ve created thus
far. In the process, you’ll explore the use of lines as reference objects.
You’ll also further examine how to use existing files as blocks. In Chapter 4, you inserted a file
into another file. The size and number of files you can insert are limitless. As you may already have
guessed, you can also nest files and blocks; that is, you can insert blocks or files in other blocks or
files. Nesting can help reduce your drawing time by enabling you to build one block out of smaller
blocks. For example, you can insert your door drawing into the bathroom plan. In turn, you can
insert the bathroom plan into the studio unit plan, which also contains doors. Finally, you can insert
the unit plan into the overall floor plan for the studio apartment building.