Discover how to incorporate systems furniture into your building plan using the workstation family created in BIM 201. Navigate the process with ease as we explore inserting, loading, rotating, mirroring, and setting up workstations in a detailed step-by-step guide.
Key Insights
- The article explains how to add systems furniture into a building plan, specifically focusing on workstations in an open office space. This is done using the workstation family created in the BIM 201 class.
- Key steps in this process include inserting and loading the workstation family, positioning it on the plan, rotating and mirroring it to create a group of workstations, and moving them relative to the grid for proper spacing. The use of a reference plane is also highlighted as a helpful tool in the positioning process.
- The article also emphasizes the importance of ensuring adequate space between workstations for functionality, with the recommended distance being about four feet. The workstations are also advised to be four and a half feet from the face of the offices for convenience.
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Now for our next step, we're going to go ahead and start adding some of the systems furniture that's going to take up the open office areas that we have on the top and the bottom of the plan. And the first thing we're going to want to do is load in the workstation family, and this is actually the same one that we created in our BIM 201 class. Now understanding that you may not have those files still, it was one of the ones that was provided in the BIM 303 zip, and so we can go ahead and load that in.
So I'll do insert, load family, and then I'm going to navigate to my folder, and you can see it's one of the families that was provided. It's that same workstation family like I mentioned that we did in BIM 201. So I'm going to click open to load that in.
It's going to update from the 2020 version, and now we have the component that we can place. And so we're going to create a like a four pack of workstations, and then we'll go through and place them. So I'm going to clean up the plan a little bit, delete and unconstrain these dimensions because we've got that set the way we want, and there's no need to keep going back and forth on that one.
And then if I go to the architecture tab, and then component, it'll have that workstation ready to go. And I'm just going to place say one of them here, and then I'm going to rotate it 90 degrees because I want the cabinet on that side, and then I'm just going to mirror it a couple times so that I have four of them in a box kind of like that. And then we're going to create the different areas by using this, and then placing it relative to the grid here.
So I'm going to go ahead and just move it over to say from this point here, and then I'll move it over to the right two feet because then when I mirror it, I'll have about four feet between the two of them, which is a fairly reasonable space between workstations. And then I'm going to set it so that it's four and a half feet from the face of the offices. So what I could do is just to make things easy on myself, I could draw a reference plane, and that's from the architecture tab, reference plane.
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And I've been using Revit a long time, and I can tell you I never use it that way. I always use the keyboard shortcut using RP for that. And with that reference plane, it's something that won't print, but it's a good reference in our model because we're going to use it for a little bit.
If I were to set this here, I can then go ahead and revise this dimension to four and a half feet, and then now I can move this workstation up vertically to put it into place. And so that gives me my starting point, and now it's just a matter of mirroring these. So I'm going to mirror all four of these to flip them this way, and then I can go ahead and select all of them here and use the grid line as my reflection point and mirror it across that way.
And I've got room for one more row, and to do that, I'll just select this second row here that we created and copy it from one to the next. And so I just need to pick a common point, say here to here, and then now I've got my bank of systems furniture for the workstations for this side of the plan, and then we can look at doing the same thing on this side here.
