
Five Tips For Creating Depth in Your Elevation Drawings in AutoCAD
More complicated designs usually translate into more lines you need to draw in order to illustrate your design. Unfortunately in most cases more lines can make it harder to understand a drawing, especially when you throw in hatch patterns like bricks and roofing.
To avoid the frustration that a flat and busy elevation drawing may cause, this article will help you find five ways to help you add depth to your drawings and make them "pop".
Before you even begin drawing the first line of your elevation drawing, take just a few minutes to study your floor plan. Essentially what you want to do is imagine you have three different planes: a foreground, middle ground, and background. Determine which elements on your facade you want to lie in the foreground, middle ground, and background.
Be organized with your drawings. It's easy to forget to set a layer in your drawing so be proactive by setting the layers immediately and naming them accordingly. That way you'll start off thinking of layers from the beginning and you can simply select what layer you want to work on as you go.
Foreground, Middle Ground, Background

Set Layers
