Understanding the nuances of dimensioning furniture in interior designing can make a significant difference in your projects. This article elaborates on how dimensioning is not just about measuring furniture sizes, but also about determining clearances, location, and spacing between furniture.
Key Insights
- Dimensioning furniture does not involve giving the sizes of the furniture, but rather it focuses on the space between furniture, crucial clearances, location of furniture, and modular spacing for modular furniture.
- Creating dimensions for furniture involves changing the layer to one suitable for furniture, such as IanoDimsFurn, and then performing linear dimensioning. This might include determining the space behind the desk or the distance from the front of the desk to the door.
- It's essential to provide accurate dimensions for open office spaces, like the flow around cubicles or the distance from the corner of the desk to the wall. These dimensions help in ensuring proper furniture placement and sufficient space for movement around the office.
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Now let's dimension our furniture. Dimensioning furniture is a little bit different from dimensioning other things. When I say dimension furniture, we aren't giving the sizes of the furniture.
We leave that for the furniture schedule. Instead, we dimension things like the space between furniture, important clearances, location of furniture, and modular spacing if we have modular furniture. So let's first go ahead and go to layer.
And we're going to change our layer. And we want to change it to IanoDims. IanoDims and IanoDimsFurn.
For furniture, double click, make that the current layer. IanoDimsFurn. With that active, we can do our linear dimensioning.
So dim, linear. And let's start in the office. What might be important to dimension about this executive desk? In this case, maybe the space behind the desk is the driving factor, the most critical.
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So from this wall point to this desk point, we can place a dimension to show that we have five feet of clear space behind the desk. In this office, we wanted to make sure the desk was pushed back away from the clear space of the door. We might dimension this one the opposite.
We'll do dim, linear. And dimension the front of the desk. So from this front corner to the front corner of this door here, that's where we want the five feet in this junior office.
Now, what might be important in this open office? I think maybe the space to flow around the cubicles. And we mentioned before, we might want a minimum of four feet there. We can do a dim, linear.
And dimension, for example, from the corner of this desk to the wall. That would be four feet. And we'll repeat that on the other side, this right corner to the right wall.
And we'll get this to line up by clicking on the original dimension. And let's do the same from the corner of this desk to the corner of this wall. And show that it also is four feet.
And that's about it. If you look around, you'll notice that the remainder of the dimensions show things like spacing between furniture, spacing to, you know, separate the furniture how far. And this will help the furniture installer make sure they set everything in the correct location and make their priorities your priorities, which separations are most important.
And those are the ones that we dimension.
