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Chapter 10 Generating Elevations

Now that you have created all the building components that will be in the floor plan, it’s a good time to draw the exterior elevations. Elevations are horizontal views of a building, seen as if you were standing facing the building instead of looking down at it, as you do with a floor plan—the plan view you’ve been working in until now. An elevation view shows you how windows and doors fit into the walls and gives you an idea of how the building will look from the outside. In most architectural design projects, the drawings include at least four exterior elevations: front, back, and one for each side.

I’ll go over how to create the south elevation of your cabin first. Then I’ll discuss some of the considerations ...