Discover how to efficiently use Autodesk to arrange and adjust the layout of a gym space, focusing on placement and spacing of weight benches and treadmills. Learn to manipulate and measure dimensions to ensure safety and accessibility, while maintaining a clear path for circulation.
Key Insights
- The article demonstrates adding weight benches to a gym layout using Autodesk, utilizing search features to find the desired bench and keyboard shortcuts to place them strategically.
- Adjustments can be made post-placement, including rotating items to optimize space behind treadmills and repositioning to ensure clear pathways to other gym amenities like water fountains and locker rooms.
- Dimensioning is key in this process, helping to maintain consistency, ensure safety, and create an organized layout that is easy to modify. The article also highlights the creation of an equipment list as a subsequent step in this process.
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Now we're going to go ahead and add the weight benches in, and so I'll go ahead and do the same process. We'll use insert, load Autodesk Family, and the same thing we did before, we can just search. I'm just going to use bench this time, and then I'll see which ones we have available to us.
And we've got a lifting bench here. Click load, and then using that CM keyboard shortcut, we can kind of place these where we see fit. And so I'll put this one a little close to the wall, just knowing we can get sort of close to it, but not too close, right? So foot six there, and then I'll use that same, same spacing.
We want to make sure there's plenty of room behind the treadmill so somebody doesn't get hurt here. And so we'll stick with four feet. And then we could copy these over, and just kind of move them to space them out a little bit.
And this is where you can kind of look at it and say, you know, I don't think I like that. Or you can make adjustments to it. And so I think it'll actually be better if these were rotated 90 degrees.
So I'll go ahead and rotate that 90. It's going to mess up my dimension, which is fine because we didn't really need that anymore anyway. But it'll allow me to have more space behind the treadmills.
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So let's say I can have five feet there instead. And then I could push these closer to the wall. And so I think I think I had it 1.5 before, which seems pretty good.
And then that gives us our bench here. And then maybe we can sneak another one in right over here. And if you'll notice when I'm using the command to create it, I'm able to use spacebar to rotate.
But after I place it, say like that, and I click on it again, hitting spacebar is going to exercise these grips instead of using the rotate command. So just something to keep in mind. I'm just going to double check my dimensions here to make sure I've got them consistent.
And so I put that other one a foot and that looked fine. Do the same thing here. And then we can dimension them.
So that it's known kind of where these need to be placed. And the grid line is a good, good way to set them. We do have this one dimensioned off the back of the treadmill.
So what I'll do is I'll just make sure that my dimension line kind of shows where I want that one to be. And then this one, we just need to locate where we want this one to be. And ideally, I'd like them to be in a way that you still have a clear path back to the water fountain in the locker room.
And so we'll take a look at this one more time. So like this, this is pretty tight. See what we get here.
Three feet, it's our bare minimum. Pretty small gym area. We'll work, do the best we can with what we've got.
But I think we could probably move these guys down since nobody will go in front of the treadmill. So I'll pick up two feet there. And then I can grab two more feet here.
And you can kind of see the method of keeping these organized, makes it really easy to make changes as you go through here. And so what I'll do here is I'll go ahead and add, I'm gonna drop this down to four feet. And then I'll set another one next to it here.
And making sure we're staying out of this hatch line. But we do want to have enough space between weight benches. So I think we can go with two feet here.
And looks good to me. That way we can kind of keep this area clear for circulation. So this would be pretty heavily used pathway.
And whenever we're dimensioning to families like this, it can get frustrating because the extension line will just grab kind of random points. And you end up with no witness lines on your dimensions, which is not good. We want to go in and I'm just using my tab key to make sure I grab the right dot.
And then I can drag it in to place here. So that my dimension looks appropriate. Now we've got our equipment located on the plan.
And so the next natural thing here to do would be to create a equipment list. We'll go ahead and jump into that in the next video.
