Learn about adding sprinklers to your cafeteria and kitchen areas in your architectural design using a Level 1 Reflective Ceiling Plan and adjusting the view range. Understand how different ceiling elevations and correct sprinkler placements ensure safety and functionality.
Key Insights
- View ranges can be adjusted to see different elevations and set up spot elevations effectively. For example, in this case, the offset to the top and depth was set to 2 feet revealing different areas of the ceiling.
- Sprinklers placement involves careful measurement and replication. In this application, sprinklers were first placed at intersections and then copied at specific distances, ensuring even coverage.
- Hosting sprinklers to the correct elevations is crucial for functionality. The example shows how changes in ceiling heights between the cafeteria, kitchen, and corridor areas required careful placement of sprinklers at those specific elevations.
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Let's start adding sprinklers to our cafeteria and kitchen areas. So please go to the Level 1 Reflective Ceiling Plan. The first thing I want to look at here is I know there's a ceiling in the cafeteria, but I'm currently unable to see it.
This has to do with our view range. But if we check our properties and our view range, it's grayed out. This is because we have our view template that we created earlier in this course.
So what we're going to have to do is let's select that, and let's go on ahead and put None. Now this will retain all of the properties we already created, but now we can change our view range. So in this case, right now the offset to the top and depth is set to 0. Let's change that to 2 feet.
Now we can see our ceiling area. They're also at different elevations, so it will be useful for us to do a spot elevation so that we can make sure our sprinklers are hosted to the correct elevations. We'll go to Annotate, Spot Elevation.
Turn off the leader, and let's begin here. We can see we're at 10 feet. You can choose which other side you'd like.
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This is at 14 feet. We couldn't see this before because our view range was too low. Kitchen is at 12 feet.
Here we're at 9 feet. 9 feet in the corridor. 9 feet.
Okay, so let's go on ahead and start doing some sprinklers. Let's start with the cafeteria. Now I'm going to go to this right here.
I think I'd like to move this out of the way. That's good. Okay, let's move this from the intersection 1 foot.
That's a good starting place. Now let's copy that over. We will go 10 feet and 12 feet and 10 feet.
Now let's take this row and copy them down. Let's go all the way to the bottom here. And now let's go 14 feet, 14 feet, 14 feet, 12 feet, and 10 feet.
Okay, our cafeteria is populated. Let's select all of the sprinklers. Okay, and they are at 14 feet.
Let's move on to the kitchen area. We can move this somewhere right there. We'll go to this type of sprinkler and create similar.
Let's start at this intersection. Now we'll move over 1 foot and up 1 foot. Let's go on ahead and copy this 10 feet.
Let's select both of them. Copy selection. Go down to the end.
And let's go 12,12,12, and 12. This one might be a little close to the wall. It's arguable.
We can move them back. We'll go 2 feet. Okay, now let's get them hosted to the ceiling.
Drag over. Deselect the elevation. Schedule level 1. So here it says they're at 12 feet.
And we know the ceiling is at 12 feet. We should be good. Let's go on to the kitchen storage area.
Create similar. Let's go to this intersection. Let's copy this one over 2,4, 6,8, 10 feet.
And copy them down 12 feet. That looks good. Okay, now for the corridor.
I'm going to move this out of the way over here. Create similar. And I will copy over 14 feet.
Okay, we only need 2 sprinklers in here. That looks pretty good. We've got the ceiling tile areas done.
Now we have just some of the hard lid ceilings to do.
