AutoCAD Facilities Management: Areas

2h 26mIntermediate2016-08-19

Authors

Shaun Bryant

Autodesk Certified Instructor in both AutoCAD and Revit Architecture

Course details

High-quality facility drawings give organizations the information they need to assign, redesign, and reallocate space, whether it's for manufacturing or offices. When it comes to computer-aided facilities management (CAFM), there is one tool: AutoCAD, Autodesk's flagship CAD platform for Windows and OS X. Get the skills you need to use AutoCAD to calculate available area, understand which percentage is usable space, and export drawings and data for analysis and presentation. Concentrating on the basics, this course guides you step-by-step through a realistic CAFM project, allowing you to learn at your own pace and develop your skills as you go. Author Shaun Bryant shows how to set up drawings, define and measure areas, set up facilities area tables, and annotate drawings. By the end of the course, you'll be able to export the information to applications such as Microsoft Excel, so you can analyze the data in a tabular format.

Learning objectives
Setting up a facilities drawing
Managing XREF layers
Adjusting drawing units and limits
Using polylines
Defining areas
Annotating areas
Setting up area table styles
Finding and linking area data
Exporting area table data

Skills covered

AutoCAD2D Drafting and DrawingBIMAutodesk3D ModelingVisualization and Real-TimeAECProduct and ManufacturingAnimation and IllustrationDeep Dive (X:Y)

Concepts

Introduction

Welcome
What you should know before watching this course
Using the exercise files

Introduction to FM

What is facilities management
Using areas in AutoCAD
Managing your areas

Setting Up a Facilities Drawing

Using a proprietary title block
Working with the structural drawing (FP)
Referencing in the structural drawing
Managing XREF layers

Getting Your FM Settings Right

Drawing units
Drawing limits
Layer naming strategy
Setting gradient fills
Setting hatch patterns

Areas and Polylines

Why use polylines
Using a defined polyline layer
Using object snaps
Creating area outlines
Gross external area (GEA)
Gross internal area (GIA)

Defining Areas

Methods of measurement
Using object snaps and centerlines
Using draw order
Using lineweight (LWT)

Annotating Areas

Text styles
Annotative scaling
Using text fields
Text field settings
Using text symbols

Setting Up an Area Table Style

Setting up the area table style
Setting up the table title
Setting up the table headers
Setting up the table data
Inserting the area table

Using the Area Table

Locating polyline area data
Linking polyline areas to table fields

Exporting the Area Table Data

Exporting table data to Excel
Editing exported area table data in Excel

Conclusion

Next steps