Learn the process of setting up a level one floor plan, making adjustments for optimal graphics, and adding room numbers and tags. This detailed guide discusses the importance of visual elements such as site plans, building elevations, and room separators for an effective floor plan visualization.
Key Insights
- The graphics on a level one floor plan should be adjusted to ensure they appear correctly on the sheet. This includes overriding graphics to highlight the halftone portion and adjusting the visibility of elements on the floor plan.
- Building elevations and grid line locations need to be positioned carefully to avoid overlap with the building structure. A scope box may need to be expanded to fit all elements.
- Rooms and room tags are integral parts of a floor plan. After deciding the scale, rooms are added along with their numbers and names, and room separations are drawn for distinct areas. For consistency and clarity, it's also important to add appropriate leader arrowheads to the room type.
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The next thing I'm going to do here is I'm going to go to my actual Level 1 floor plan. This is the view that I'm going to have on a sheet. So I want to make sure that the graphics look the way that I want them to on my sheet.
And so I can go in and I can adjust anything that I want to here. And so the first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to select my site plan and I'm going to go to Override Graphics in View. And I'm actually going to highlight this halftone portion.
I want to check that so that those elements are going to be screened back a bit. It's still nice to see them on my floor plan, but it doesn't mean that they need to be as prominent as they have been showing up. The next thing I'm going to do is I'm going to take a look at where my building elevations are located and see if I need to move those around a bit.
And it looks like this one here is going to be a little iffy. And so we might want to adjust either our grid line locations or the elevation. And the problem is the elevation, if it comes out too far, then we're going to be into the building there.
So it's something we want to look at. We might need to pull the scope box out to get everything to fit. The next thing we'll do is add our rooms and our room tags.
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And so we're at an eighth inch equals a foot here. We're going to want to make sure that we can get everything to fit the way we want it to. And then I also noticed when I looked at the scale that I'm still in that wireframe set.
So I'm going to change that back to hidden line. And then we're going to start adding some rooms in here. And so I'll start with my lobby, which is going to be this space here and nothing past that point.
And so I need to draw a room separator to close off these two areas here. Say this one right here. And then this one right here, because those are going to be separate rooms.
And so I'll start off just by adding rooms. I could use the tool here from the Architecture tab, or I could use the keyboard shortcut RM. And I'll set my first room.
This is going to be room number 101 because it's my lobby on the first floor. And I'll call it Lobby. And then we'll move into our next room, which is going to be a vestibule here.
And then we'll start adding the rooms for the restrooms. And so this is a workflow thing, but it's totally up to you. You can go in and you can add the leader at this point and move it outside if you want.
One of the things that you definitely want to make sure you do if you are going to use the leader is make sure you go back into this room type and add the appropriate leader arrowhead. In our case, it's that dot-filled 1/16". So whether you go in, add all the rooms, come back later, and then adjust it, or if you do it as you go, that's totally up to you.
I don't like homework, so I'm going to do it as I go here. And this will be the Men's Room. Again, adjusting that location.
Try to get it lined up with the one below here just so it looks nice. And then these two are going to be electrical and telecom rooms. And this will be our elevator.
And I'll just give it the number E1. It's going to mess up my numbering here as we go through, but that's okay. And then we have our shell space, which is our big future office here.
It will not be E2. We'll call it 107 because that's the next number in sequence. And then we have our stair over here on the right.
Or rather, let's start with this one. Stair One. And then Stair Two.
And now that we've got all of Level 1 set up, we can go in and add some door tags and get all of the rooms sorted out for Level 2.
