Explore how fitness centers can optimize their use of space through careful layout planning and utilization of Autodesk tools. Learn step-by-step how to strategically place critical areas, such as reception desks and workout equipment, to ensure functionality and ease of movement.
Key Insights
- The article demonstrates the process of adding a reception desk to the fitness area layout, emphasizing the importance of precise positioning and optimal space utilization, which Autodesk tools facilitate.
- The placement of workout equipment, such as treadmills, is discussed in detail. The article highlights the value of maintaining a minimum of three feet of space around each equipment to ensure user convenience and safety. Tools like the array tool in Autodesk can aid in achieving this.
- The article also underscores the flexibility that Autodesk tools offer in making adjustments to the layout. Modifications can be made easily, such as changing the number of treadmills or shifting the reception desk's location to optimize space and functionality.
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Now let's go ahead and focus on the main fitness area. And so the first thing we wanna do is we want to jump in and add a reception desk. We can go ahead and say insert, load Autodesk Family.
And from our search here, if I go ahead and search reception, we can grab this desk and load that in. And I'll use the CM keyboard shortcut. And this isn't exactly how we want this to be placed, but we can use these grips to kind of start to flip it around.
And so this is the orientation I want, but I'm gonna flip it so that this side's against the wall here. And then we'll just take a dimension from the face of the wall to the door. And we'll give ourselves six feet to work with there and place the reception desk in that location.
Now we're gonna put a few treadmills here and then some weight benches in the back. And so we'll do the same process that we've been doing. I'll go in and do the load Autodesk Family, and we'll just go through and search different things.
So I'll search for a treadmill and we've got one here. Click load, and then I'll place the first one, say somewhere about here. And what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna place a dimension from each wall to the treadmill to make sure I've got at least three feet all the way around it.
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And I'll do the same thing on this side. So I've got three feet and three feet here. And now I wanna place a few going this way, but I don't really know how many.
And so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna draw a reference plane here. And again, I wanna hold to that same three foot dimension. And so if I say that I wanna have three feet between the treadmills, that might be a little bit too far away.
So I'm gonna go with two foot six. And I can use that as my basis for when I copy these over. And there's a way, if I don't know how many I want, there's a way we can use the array tool, knowing that this is where I want my second one to be to see how many we can put in there.
And so what I'll do is I'll go up and find the array tool. And then there's some options here. So you can do last, or you can do second.
And then this is the number that are gonna be placed. So a couple of things are happening. We're using a linear array.
So it's gonna array either horizontally or vertically. It's gonna group and associate these so that they're all associated with each other so we can make changes to them as we go. And then we're using the second as our constraint point.
And so that means we're moving one to the next. And then that spacing is gonna be copied as we go. If I pick from this point here for my second one, and you can see I'm constraining it along the line so it's horizontal.
And then if I hit that reference plane, that's where my second one's gonna go. I kind of missed it a little bit, and that's fine. But if I hit, say, four, it's gonna give me four along that line.
But if I were to move this one over, because that's where I really wanted it to be, you can see it's gonna adjust the spacing of all the treadmills that I've already placed. And let's say I went in and said, you know what? Two foot six, that's way too much. People can maneuver around a little better.
We can make it two feet. If I align it back to that reference plane, now I've got the same dimension between all of these all the way along, the line of treadmills that I've placed. But still looking at this, it's like, well, that's a little tight to the reception desk.
You know, we've only got ourselves, let's see, three feet or so from that, then that's gonna be too tight for a commercial space. We can go ahead and change that to three. And then it would go down.
But let's say we didn't have the reception desk or we pushed the desk further back, whatever the circumstance may be. And I was like, well, you know, I can really get five of these guys in here. By using that array tool, I have that option to be flexible with the number of elements that I'm placing.
If I went back down to four and decided, well, maybe I'll make this eight feet instead to kind of clear that up, then I can do that. So people can still come in, check in, and then go do their workout with the treadmills in this location here. And so now we can do the same thing, but going the other way.
If I wanted to add more going this way, I could do that as well. And so I'll go ahead and place another treadmill using the CM tool again. And I can line these up going this way.
And then I can do the same thing with the dimension. I wanna make sure that they're spaced adequately so people can still get around here. I can give myself free feet here.
And then we can copy them across. And so we could use array again to bring these all the way across here, or we can just copy them. So it's kind of at that point where it's like, if you've decided on your layout, array may not be the best tool, but if you're still trying to figure it out like we were, then using array gives you that option to say, you know what, since we've got four here, maybe I only need those three.
Give a little more open space if somebody's not right by the door. You have that option to go in and make those adjustments as you see fit while you're working on the layout.
