Learn how to effectively create floor plans and organize them for optimal viewing and future use. This article offers step-by-step instructions on setting up graphics, adding room separations and tags, and finalizing plans for presentation.
Key Insights
- The article provides instructions on how to set up floor plan graphics, specifically focusing on the importance of turning off the underlay and ensuring that the scope box is set correctly.
- Adding rooms involves a similar process across different levels of the building. It is also essential to add room separators around openings and to avoid totaling area more than needed.
- The final steps involve organizing and adding tags to rooms and doors, adjusting the roof plan, and preparing the whole project for presentation. This preparation includes necessary corrections and cleanup work to ensure accuracy and coherence.
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I'm going to jump over to my level two floor plan here and make sure that I've got the graphics the way I want. So you can see here, the underlay is still on because we turned it off in that other one there. So I need to make sure I get that turned off and then double-check to make sure that the scope box is set correctly.
And it is, that's good. And now we can go ahead and we can add our rooms in, and it's going to be the same process that we did on level one, just slightly different here. We'll start with our first room here, and that's just going to be our future office space, which will take up pretty much the whole thing.
This will be 201. And then that room right there is a little misleading because it's going to cover up this area, which is open to below.
So to correct that a bit, we'll add room separators around that opening, and this does not have to be a super exact science, but it's good to get that in because we don't want to be totaling area here more than we need to. And then I'll add the rooms for the restrooms for the women’s and men’s.
And then for the elevator, what I could do is if I go into my section here, since this is just one piece and we do the same thing kind of with our stairs as well, I could take this and have it go all the way up into level two because the room is a 3D object itself. And so you can see now if I go in and I actually add a room tag in here, it'll grab that same tag and now I've got the same elevator tag in here and we could really do the same thing with our stairs. And when you look at the room itself, see, I have it selected here.
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It has a limit offset. If I were to set that up to like 28 feet there, um, I could really just set the upper limit. Then I can go in and I'll just remember these here.
So they make sense on level two. Um, but essentially that allows me to use the same room for the one entire space because it's really just one space, but I can add the tags now into those rooms. Next thing we got to do is add the door tags. We're at 202,203.
So these will be, they could be riffs off of the 201 there, A and B or however we want to do it. Um, and so I'll go in and I can do the same thing with the door tags that we did on level one. We can use that tag all, and then we can go in and renumber them.
And so we did leave ourselves a little homework here with the men’s and women’s restrooms. So got to clean that up a bit, including giving them the right names here. But it's one of those things where, you know, we're kind of doing all the cleanup work after we do the tags.
So no big deal. So I'll call the stair door 204, and then I'll make this one 205. And now our plans are all set.
We'll take a look at the roof plan real quick because we are going to go in and adjust that one so that it can go on a sheet. So I'm going to turn off that underlay, make sure it's set to the scope box, which it is, and now we're ready to start putting these on a sheet and getting our midterm ready to go.
