Learn how to assign departments to varying spaces and color code them for easy identification. This article provides a detailed walkthrough of how to create a schedule, define departments, and set a color scheme to ensure clear and efficient visualization of different areas in a building plan.
Key Insights
- The article provides an elaborate procedure of creating a schedule to represent different rooms in a space layout. A schedule simplifies the process of assigning departments to the spaces and aids in the categorization of the spaces by name, area, and department.
- Once departments have been assigned, a color scheme is set to differentiate the spaces. This scheme can be adjusted to ensure the colors are easy on the eyes and don't overpower the plan. The choice of colors is subjective and can be changed at any time to fit the user's preference.
- The article also highlights the importance of ensuring that all elements of a plan are correctly displayed. It points out that sometimes elements downloaded from the internet may not behave appropriately, requiring users to adjust their visibility settings manually.
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Now we're going to go ahead and assign our departments to these different spaces, and doing that is going to give us the ability to color them differently. So the first thing that I want to do is to make this as easy as possible on me, is I'll make a schedule. So I'll make a schedule that will represent the rooms that we have in here.
And so I'm going to find rooms in the schedule list here. And this is going to be our tenant one. And so we're going to use this tenant one phase because rooms are phase specific, and so it will only show those rooms.
And so if I hit OK, then we can create our different categories. And so I'm going to go with name, I'm going to go with area, and then I'm going to go ahead and pick department. And those are the three that we'll use for right now.
And I'm just going to go ahead and hit OK here. Because I want to see all of these rooms located within the schedule, I'm just going to expand this out so I can see everything. The area definitely does not need to be that big.
But now we can go through and we can give the different types of spaces their departments. And so these are user driven, so we can go ahead and give them their name. So our lobby, we can call circulation.
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The open office is going to be called open office. Conference rooms, I'm just going to call conference. And then our offices will be defined as private office.
And so all of those are going to be defined as private office. So I can go through and just use the drop down here to define each one of those spaces. And keep in mind, this is something that you could do in the plan view if you find it easier, but I just filling out the spreadsheet seems to be the easy way for us to get through this.
And it also allows us to make sure we're not making any mistakes because we can see all of the different departments right in front of us here. The server room, I'm going to call service. And then the phone rooms are going to be conference as well.
And then open office. And you can see we've kind of gotten the ones that we've already created here. The break room, not yet.
So and then the conference rooms, as expected, will be conference space. Now all departments have been established, we can pop back over to our TI plan. And we can go ahead and we can set a color scheme.
And we can set it based on rooms, and then department. And it's going to give us a color. And we can go ahead and use that and hit OK.
And now it's gone in and created colors. And they've definitely changed their preference and scheme because this is pretty bad. So what we'll do now is we can go in and we can adjust those colors to something that's a little easier on the eyes.
And so again, you know, we've talked about this many, many times, but this is very subjective. And so you can pick the colors that that you think work best for your use. But I typically try to pick more muted colors so that they don't take over the plan.
Because it can get a little intense real quick. And so it's really I'm just trying to stay within kind of the same value here. And then just adjusting it throughout.
Okay, and then our service room, those always get like a gray color. And there we go. Our office and different spaces have been assigned colors.
And again, probably not my favorite choice here. But you can definitely go through and make these changes. It's not a one time pass at it to get it perfect.
It's something that in our office, we've gone through and done and redone and done and redone over and over again, to make sure that they are the colors that we want for, for our work. And then just the private office here. And then the server, actually, just going to have it be a gray color.
And the last one I'll change here is the lobby, which is our circulation space. And then the break room, it's a little too muddy. Okay, and then the conference room, I think we'll adjust that one as well.
Okay, that is definitely much better. And so now we've got it set up with the different colors, so we can easily see things. And this is where you kind of want to take a look to make sure everything is showing up correctly.
And I can see there's one thing that's pretty odd here. And so this happens sometimes when you get families from the internet, they don't behave properly. So you can see our booth seating is not showing up correctly.
And I have a feeling it's because there's elements within this family that are just not visible in the plan view. And so if we go to edit family here, you can see that there are 3D elements that are represented here. But if I were to select them, and go to this visibility settings, I would bet that plan in RCP is unchecked, like you see here.
And so if we just check that and hit OK, we can load it back into our project and override the parameters. And you can see now it shows up the way we were expecting it to. And so now that we've got this all set up, we can get this view ready to go on to a sheet, and then clean up some of our tags as needed, like especially this one.
And then take a better look at the graphics and see because I feel like the furniture might be a little strong in this view.
