Discover the process of creating a floor plan for fitness center equipment with Revit software, including duplicating views, organizing plans, and adding equipment. Learn how to navigate the work set and use the Autodesk family option to add components like exercise bikes to your design.
Key Insights
- The article details how to create a floor plan for fitness center equipment, starting with duplicating the finished plan view and detailing on Revit software. The duplicated plan is then renamed and organized under 'furniture plans,' and the view template associated with it.
- Adding equipment to the plan utilizes the 'load Autodesk family' option. In the case of this article, the author demonstrates adding exercise bikes to the plan. The component tool is used to place the bike into the plan.
- It's crucial to ensure the correct work set is active before placing anything. The article demonstrates how to change the work set to 'FFNE' to make the added component visible. The author also highlights how to dimension, copy, and mirror the equipment to achieve the desired layout in the plan.
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For this next series of videos here, we're going to focus on our fitness center equipment plan. And so the first thing that I'm going to want to do here is create that floor plan that we can work from. And then we're going to want to make sure we're set to the appropriate work set before we start adding equipment to the plan.
So what I'll do here is I'm going to go ahead and right click on my finish plan, duplicate view, and I'll go ahead and duplicate with detailing so I don't have to add any of the other annotation elements again. If I did duplicate only, then things like the room tags would not show up again. So I'll do duplicate with detailing.
And here's my plan that we just created. So I'll go ahead and rename that. And instead of finished plan, I'm gonna go ahead and delete that.
And I'll say equipment. And then I'm going to go to the end. I just hit end on the keyboard as it was typing.
And then I'll pop in and just delete where it says copy. Okay, and I'm going to go ahead and organize this under our furniture plans here because that's really what it is. And then I can associate the view template with it.
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We don't want finished plan, so I'll go to our equipment plan and let me go ahead and back that up there. I grabbed the wrong plan. I want the equipment plan to be under the furniture plan or furnitures and equipment.
And then I'll change the view template on this guy to be for furniture because that's essentially our equipment plan again. And you can see it gets rid of all the patterns here. And now we're ready to place our equipment.
We're not going to do anything too fancy here, but we are going to go ahead and take advantage of the families that we have available to us without doing a ton of research. But we can use this load Autodesk family option. And this dialog pops up and then you can just search what you're looking for here.
So I'm looking for exercise bikes. So I'm just going to make it easy and just search bike. And we get a bike rack and lo and behold, an exercise bike.
So I'll click load here to bring that in. It's been loaded into our project, so I'm going to go ahead and use my component tool. So architecture component, and that's the first one that pops up.
And you'll notice as I go to place it, I'm not getting a preview of it. And I'll give you five seconds here to decide why that is. If we look, I'm set with my work set to finishes as the active work set.
But if we look into our view template and our work sets, when I look at finishes, set to not visible. So what I need to do is before I place anything, I need to change my work set to FFNE. And now if I use that component tool, this time I use keyboard shortcut CM, I can add one of my bikes here.
And so what I'll do is I'll place one of them, say roughly here in the middle. And then I'm going to go ahead and do a dimension so I can make sure it's centered in the room. And then I'll go ahead and copy this one over.
We'll just say four and a half feet. And then I'm going to take these two, and I'll just copy them back in arbitrary distance. And I like the spacing between them, but they're, these guys are right on the wall.
We're going to just use our nudge key, slide those forward. And then I've got space here because there's no door. So I can just mirror this one using keyboard shortcut MM and the center line of this guy.
And so now I can just move my room tag over. And now I've got exercise bikes located in our classroom. So this would be kind of like a Peloton room.
The next thing I want to do is, this was a carryover from our last lesson, but we added these extra walls by using copy monitor to get them in. And you can see it's showing the panel here. We don't need the wall for our purposes here.
So I can actually hide in view and just show the linked view element. This prevents us from having to draw it twice because we really only needed it for the boundary element. So I can do the same thing for the front and by boundary element, I mean, the room bounding portion, see how it binds the room with the walls.
And so that just cleans us up a little bit. And now we've got our exercise bike room all set and ready to go.
