From the course: Construction Management: Reading Drawings and Specifications
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From the course: Construction Management: Reading Drawings and Specifications
Plan view
- [Instructor] We're going to start with the basic plan view of in this case, the first floor of this house which is shown on sheet A-105. Now, when I say plan view, many people will think floor plan, but that's not actually a complete description. So yes, a floor plan like we're showing here is an example of a plan view, but there are many sheets in this set of drawings that are not floor plans that are also examples of a plan view. So really a more accurate description of the term plan view would be a top-down view, or a view looking at the project from overhead. The classic definition of a plan view is just that the plan view can be thought of as taking the building and making a horizontal cut through it. And then when you look down at the result from the top, that's a plan view. So let's take a look at some examples. So again, we're already on our first floor plan, sheet A-105, and like I said, this is…
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