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KEC architectural for AutoCAD
Below are the menu bars that are used by KEC in Autocad. Select Menu Bar to go to a fill list of the menu bars functions. There are six main menu bars. In addition to these there are Quick Keys and Pop Down menus for Brick measurement and Layer functions.
Main planning layout bar
Cavity wall functions
Single wall functions
Extra usefull utilities for plans
Sanitary ware
Drawing plot sheets
Quick keys
KEC ROOMS
KEC rooms is a function at allows a building plan to be built up very quickly simply be inputting the room sizes, these sizes are translated into drawn rooms placed on the drawing. These rooms are them moved to gather to form the building layout. When this is finished an external cavity wall can be place around the whole. The door and window functions on the other icon bars can then be used to finish off the plan. To use simply work you way down the icon bar from left to right, in six stage
 STAGE ONE - Open Base drawing ready to start inputting rooms. This opens a base drawing that has all the setting ready for inputting the rooms. This must be saved under a new separate name on completion. All you have to do on this Icon is click on it then move to stage two.
STAGE TWO - Input rooms one by one on base. Simply enter the room names and sizes at the command prompt. This will placed on the drawing in a long row room outlines ready for moving into there final positions at stage three.
STAGE THREE - Move rooms into the building shape required. Using the small yellow crosses (points) just off the corner of the rooms, 'point snap' sets automatically', drag the rooms to gather using the connection crosses. these when linked set the correct wall thickness. When this stage is completed you will be ready to place the cavity wall around the building. (if it has got one of course)
STAGE FOUR - Indicate where the external walls will be. This function is used to draw a dashed polyline around the building, this is done on top of the outside room wall lines. You may have to use perpendicular and other snaps to do this as you work your way around the building. This line MUST be done on one continuous operation. CLOSE the polyline on finishing you will now have a thick dashed line where the cavity wall will be. This is put on at stage five.
STAGE FIVE - Creating the external cavity walls. To complete the layout this function collects the dashed polyline and converts it into a cavity wall. Your will be ask to enter the thickness of each par of the wall, inner wall, cavity and external wall. Now you will be prompted to select a point just outside the building. Select a point midway along a long flat peace of wall and about five wall thicknesses out side the polyline. Then you will be ask to pick a point on the dashed polyline. (This snaps to perpendicular, it simply shows the system which side of the poly line the outside of the building is.) The external cavity wall will be automatically drawn, magic.
STAGE SIX - Making rooms ready for door and window insertions. After stage five all the lines on you drawing are in polyline, the insert functions will not work on polylines so the whole drawing need converting into plain line format. This is what this button does, simply click on it and you have finished KEC rooms.
HELP - See what can KEC rooms do with this quick reference slide that shows you all the stages in using KEC rooms.
CAVITY WALLS
1. Cavity walls - Places a cavity wall on drawing with user specifying the thickness of walls and cavity, on any one continuos single input the function cleans up the junctions. This function places the lines on separate layers: wallexternal - wallextcavity - wallintcavity - wallinternal. See note about layers below. the wall is inserted from the internal face.
2. Opening in cavity wall. - This cuts an opening in the cavity wall created above and puts the reveals and closes cavity in the cut opening of the walls. This function will only work if the walls lines are on the layers created by the cavity wall function above. The reason behind this is that it has to know which is the external face of the wall.
3. Window in cavity wall. - This cuts an opening in the cavity wall created above and puts a new window in the opening, it closes the reveals and cavity in the cut opening of the walls. This function will only work if the walls lines are on the layers created by the cavity wall function above.
4. Door in cavity wall. - This cuts an opening in the cavity wall created above and puts a new door in the opening, it closes the reveals and cavity in the cut opening of the walls. The user picks the side the door is hung and then the side of the wall the door swings. This function will only work if the walls lines are on the layers created by the cavity wall function above.
5. Cuts Double Door in cavity wall. - As above but with a double door in the opening.
6. Help - See what can KEC cavity walls can do with this quick reference slide that shows you all elements in KEC cavity walls.
7. WIindows KEC help. - Bring a full windows help file.
SINGLE WALLS
Walls is designed to allow the placing of single walls and openings for doors and windows in these walls with the minimum of drawing. With an AEC type function it is also possible to clean up junctions and create a simple staircase between walls.
1. Single double wall lines. - Draws single parallel lines on the internalwall layer these lines can be any spacing apart and fillet the corners as the line is continued in any single command run.
2. Opening in single walls. - This cuts an opening and puts the reveals in the cut opening of the above walls
3. Existing Frame in single wall. - This cuts an opening and places sill lines then puts a frame at each jamb.
4. Existing Window in single wall. - This is as the opening function but puts a glass line between the jambs, this is to allow for a different type of window from the full window functions where you have existing and new parts to a building.
5. New Window in single wall. - This cuts an opening and puts the full drawn window in the opening.
6. Door in single wall. - This cut an opening in a wall and places a single door in the opening, the users selects the side of the door hung and then the side the door is to swing.
7. Double Door in single wall. - As above with single door but places single swing double door on opening.
8. Cleans up junction single walls. - This takes crossing wall lines and cleans up the junction where the junction is a 'T' formation, the all four lines have to be crossing for the to work. This function may fail of the walls are too small on the screen. If this happens undo and zoom in closer the junction.
9. Cleans up corners of single walls - This function is the same as the above but works on corners. The same rules apply about crossing and distance. See the help slide for examples.
10. Staircase between walls. - Places a simple staircase and break line between two parallel walls, user specifies the going and number of treads to be drawn.
11. Help - See what can KEC walls can do with this quick reference slide that shows you all elements in KEC walls.
BONUS 1
1. Entrance frame 2 door 2 side lights. - Inserts a door and window frame between two walls using near to and perpendicular snap. This function places DOUBLE doors with a side light on each side. User enters size of door and opening side. Make sure the door is narrower than the opening, this function does not check this.
2. Entrance frame 1 door 2 side lights. - Inserts a door and window frame between two walls using near to and perpendicular snap. This function places SINGLE doors with a side light on each side. User enters size of door, hanging and opening side.
3. Entrance frame 1 door 1 side light. - Inserts a door and window frame between two walls using near to and perpendicular snap. This function places SINGLE doors with a SINGLE light. User enters size of door, hanging and opening side. First pick is the door side.
4. Timber folding door. - Inserts a timber folding door between two walls using near to and perpendicular snap. This places the door folded at a selected point against the first select wall.
5. Soft folding door. - Inserts a fabric acoustic type folding door between two walls using near to and perpendicular snap. This places the door folded at a selected point against the first select wall.
6. Area Calculator. - To calculate an area in meters. Draw a ployline line around the area to be calculated and then select the line and inserts the resulting text into the drawing, using the current text height. The text is the area bounded by the polyline in meters.
7. Wall Hatch at 45 deg. - Simple hatching between parallel lines. places at 45 degrees to the lines and at a user specified spacing.
8. Rising numbers with prefix. - Useful for door, window or room numbering. This function places numbers on the drawing, using the current text height, adding one to the number each time. The user can specify a prefix, and a starting number.
9. Insulation. - Inserts a row of insulation type hatching on the drawing using any thickness and allowing for density to be selected by adjusting the width of the hatching.
10. Help - See what can KEC bonus-1 tools can do with this quick reference slide that shows you all elements in KEC bonus-1.
SANITARY FITTINGS
Sanitary Fitting. - Inserts standard sanitary fitting symbols on the drawing, places them on the san layer. These fitting are meant as generic, but are in fact Armitage shanks fittings, as listed below.
Each button inserts one of the following: - WC (standard size)
:- WASHBASIN (small) :- WASHBASIN (standard) :- WALL HUNG URINAL :- BATH (standard) :- SHOWER TRAY :- DOUBLE SINK UNIT :- SINGLE SINK UNIT :- INSET SINK UNIT :- CLEANERS SINK :- DISABLED WC FACILITY :- TOILET CUBICLES
Help - See what is on KEC Fittings with this quick reference slide that shows you all elements in KEC Fittings.
A1 SHEETS
This is used to insert a Standard Drawing sheet border around a drawing. As allot of people only use model space for drawing in this utility automatically scales the border to the correct plot scale. The box an be edited using the Attedit function on the 8th button. The base drawing sheet can be customized for you own office requirements.
QUICK KEYS
In the days of tablet input devices the one function I used the most was the directional input pad, this is where you select a point the @ symbol then the distance and hit the arrow showing the direction you want the line to go in. You can set up your keyboard to do this but as you already have you hand on the mouse this is a screen version of the arrow direction pointer. Useful if you use the pop down brick distance menu. select the @ symbol, enter the distance then select the arrow for direction. NOTE this assumes that zero degrees is pointing to three-o-clock and angle is anti-clockwise.
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