ProjectsA detached house, permit and working drawings

A building permit in Bavaria

A detached house of 11 × 9 m with a basement and a garage on the boundary, on a 429 m² plot. Eight sheets for the permit, then the same model carried on to working drawings at 1:50 and a detail at 1:20.

3D view in Linework: the house and garage on its plot, the neighbouring buildings around it as grey solids, and the street.

Still from the app

Plot: 429 m²
House: 11 × 9 m
Roof pitch: 38°
Permit sheets: 8
Working drawings: 7

A click opens the whole sheet for zooming. The sheets are labelled in German, as the project is.

Site plan with neighbours

The plot is made up; the neighbouring buildings come from OpenStreetMap. The site plan shows north arrow, setback areas, distances and the height above datum.

Plotted sheet “Site plan” from FrameMind Linework — 1Site planM 1:500A3

Plans, section, elevations

At 1:100, and the section labels itself: clear heights, the stair with its risers, wall height, roof pitch. The elevations name the materials of their faces. Plus a sheet of calculations and the building description.

Plotted sheet “Ground floor plan” from FrameMind Linework — 3Ground floor planM 1:100A3

Plotted sheet “Section A-A” from FrameMind Linework — 5Section A-AM 1:100A3

Plotted sheet “South and north elevations” from FrameMind Linework — 7South and north elevationsM 1:100A2

Plotted sheet “Calculations and building description” from FrameMind Linework — 8Calculations and building description–A3

On to working drawings

The same house at 1:50: structural dimensions, openings with sill heights, layers hatched by material, build-ups on leaders. The eaves detail is a cut-out of the model.

Plotted sheet “Working drawing, ground floor” from FrameMind Linework — A-02Working drawing, ground floorM 1:50A2

Plotted sheet “Working drawing, section A-A” from FrameMind Linework — A-10Working drawing, section A-AM 1:50A2

Plotted sheet “Eaves detail, south” from FrameMind Linework — D-01Eaves detail, southM 1:20A3

Plotted sheet “Window and door schedule, room book” from FrameMind Linework — L-01Window and door schedule, room book–A2

Built with

The project is a script of Linework commands. These are the main ones.

surroundingssetbacksmassinglevelplanssectionelevationdimwallsnortharrowpositionsscheduleplot

Command reference

What the project showed

A whole project finds errors that one example per command does not.

Found and closed

Sections and elevations showed the whole surroundings and fitted on no sheet. Now there is cropping.
The north arrow was missing, and elevations were named after the drawing’s axes instead of the compass.
On the round trip through IFC the neighbours’ houses sat on the ground floor as building parts. Now they are part of the site.

Open

Permit forms stay out on purpose. The building description exists as text with fields.
The official cadastral map is not free in Bavaria. It comes in as DXF or PDF from the surveying office.
The detail still lacks dimensions and labels.

Download the drawings

Plot, parcel number, development plan and client are made up. Neighbouring buildings and street: © OpenStreetMap contributors.

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Product: FrameMind Linework
Version: 0.19.2
Date: 13 November 2026
Platform: macOS, Apple silicon
Windows: in preparation
Price: free