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

0. Introduction

01 - Welcome
02 - What you should know before watching this course
03 - Using the exercise files

1. Introduction to FM

04 - What is facilities management
05 - Using areas in AutoCAD
06 - Managing your areas

2. Setting Up a Facilities Drawing

07 - Using a proprietary title block
08 - Working with the structural drawing (FP)
09 - Referencing in the structural drawing
10 - Managing XREF layers

3. Getting Your FM Settings Right

11 - Drawing units
12 - Drawing limits
13 - Layer naming strategy
14 - Setting gradient fills
15 - Setting hatch patterns

4. Areas and Polylines

16 - Why use polylines
17 - Using a defined polyline layer
18 - Using object snaps
19 - Creating area outlines
20 - Gross external area (GEA)
21 - Gross internal area (GIA)

5. Defining Areas

22 - Methods of measurement
23 - Using object snaps and centerlines
24 - Using draw order
25 - Using lineweight (LWT)

6. Annotating Areas

26 - Text styles
27 - Annotative scaling
28 - Using text fields
29 - Text field settings
30 - Using text symbols

7. Setting Up an Area Table Style

31 - Setting up the area table style
32 - Setting up the table title
33 - Setting up the table headers
34 - Setting up the table data
35 - Inserting the area table

8. Using the Area Table

36 - Locating polyline area data
37 - Linking polyline areas to table fields

9. Exporting the Area Table Data

38 - Exporting table data to Excel
39 - Editing exported area table data in Excel

Conclusion

40 - Next steps