- Architosh Staff ([email protected])
- 15 Sep 2002
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Special Feature:
BOA In-Depth - Part 2
Continued from page 3.
Laying Out Drawings in a Layout File
In BOA you create actual drawings which you print in a separate
file called a Layout Sheet. To create a layout sheet you go to File
> New > Layout Sheet. A blank sheet appears. To change the
size of your paper print area, go to File > Page Setup. Out pops
the Print Setup palette on the Utilities window.
At this point we set up the Layout Sheet by setting a page scale
for the drawing elements. Then we open up the Composition palette.
Expand the palette by double-clicking the far left tool button.
Three drop down menus appear. You must select a BOA file from the
Project File menu to begin placing drawings in the layout file.
(see image 011)
Selecting New allows you to navigate to a BOA project file.
Once a file is selected the drawings that are currently saved
in that BOA project file will appear in the Drawings drop
down menu. You select one and then click on the far left tool
button, the Cropping Frame tool, and drag a rectangle on the
layout sheet to place your drawing within. If the drawing
is larger than your first frame you can use the second tool
from the left, the Reframe tool, to resize it.
You can purposely make a frame smaller than a drawing in
order to simply print just a section of it. In that instance
the frame acts like a masks, masking out everything that runs
under its invisible borders. For those Quark XPress users
out there, this process will fill very familiar and natural.
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Layout Sheets
Once your drawings are located on the layout page you can continue
to embellish them with notation, for example. Why one would do that
notation on the layout page rather than in the model would depend
on various circumstances. In any case, we explored the notation
text tool and placed a series of callouts on the enlarged executive
office plan. (See image 012 below)
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Image 012 |
Working with text is one area BOA needs more refinement. Rather
than just picking a font size from a menu and creating a text block
in which to start typing, in BOA you first define your text style.
From a drop down menu you select New and then name and define the
text style. That part is not particularly unusual or painful; what
is painful is the sizing of text because BOA makes you define
it in inches. But does anybody know exactly how tall in fractions
of an inch, 28 point size is in Helvetica? BOA regulars will likely
tell you that one gets used to and knowledgeable of point sizes
and their inch equivalents, but the reality is that having regular
point sizes to choose from is the norm in most software applications.
We hope in a future BOA version this limitation is eliminated and
replaced with real font point size menus.
Having gotten past this -- defining text styles -- it is really
straight forward to place additional notation on the drawing, whether
it be callouts or drawing titles. Likewise, the notation text tool
makes easy work of placing notes with leader lines, with a variety
of arrow choices. Looking at our work, we have a completed layout
sheet (not shown) in which various BOA drawings were embedded (or
placed with) in frames of our sizing.
Closing Comments
This brings us to the end of our indepth BOA series. Hopefully,
if you have read this far, you have taken it upon yourself to visit
the BOA site and learn more. BOA is an excellent visualization
CAD package targeting the architectural audience. For some users,
especially those already equipped with 3D modeling experience, BOA
will be a quick study, while others more familiar with 2D drafting-oriented
CAD packages (Autocad included), the program will be harder to learn
but not impossible.
It should be said that BOA is programmed very well. It hardly ever
crashed. And even on an aging Power Mac G4 350, the program was
extremely snappy and agile. For a more well rounded review of BOA,
read our
major review here.
We would love to hear from
readers about this two part "indepth" series, to learn
whether this type of format is satisfactory or if it is too protracted.
We have also thought about doing a type of visual indepth series
where we spend less time walking folks through particular steps
and more time just visually exploring the application's many facets.
What we ultimately wish to get is feedback
that justifies us spending this amount of time (which is a huge
amount!) on a review of this nature. So
please give us some constructive feedback.
If you are a product vendor and would love to see your product
reviewed to this depth, please email
us and let us know.
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