Delve into the specifics of creating a finish plan for an architectural design project. This includes identifying and assigning finishes to spaces such as restrooms and office spaces, and making changes as needed.
Key Insights
- The finish plan provides specific details about where finishes belong in a design, from floors and wall bases to wall paints and exterior walls.
- The process of creating finishes includes copying and updating existing ones, such as changing a floor finish from one type to another in an office space.
- Finish details can be found in a schedule on the schedules sheet, which is referenced later in the design process.
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With our furniture plan complete, let's move forward to sheet I-104. This is our finish plan. This plan shows exactly where the finishes belong.
What does that mean? Let's zoom into restroom 101. We notice that it has a floor, floor number four. It has a wall base, base number two.
It has a wall paint that wraps around this side, paint number two. And we also have this wall, which is our exterior wall. It's brick with the existing warehouse and it doesn't get any finish at all.
So let's create some finishes like this for our office space. Let's start by copying down these reception finishes. So let's double click, activate the view, and copy our floor one and base one down.
CO to copy. We'll go right to the bottom of this reception tag and go to the bottom of this office tag and hit escape. Now we can zoom in and update these finishes.
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So our office, instead of getting floor one, we'll get floor three. We just double click on the tag, change it to floor three, and we're good to go. The base is still base one, which is a vinyl base that runs around a big chunk of our office.
Now let's copy this over to office 108. We'll do CO to copy. We'll turn off ortho and just click right above the word office.
Right there looks good and it has the exact same finishes. Floor number three and base one. Where do we find what floor number three and base number one is? You got it.
It'll be in a schedule on our schedules sheet. We'll get back to that later. Now we need to add this to our open office.
We'll copy these again. CO enter and copy them right above our open office. Right there.
And I like to put these floor and base finish tags near the room tag because that way it's easily associated, especially in a plan like this with a lot of open spaces. Now in our open space we will change our floor three back to floor one. And we're good to go with our floor and base finishes.
