Discover how to add a tenant suite into a building design project, applying knowledge of phases and modeling techniques for walls, doors, storefront, and furniture components. Learn how to set up the right types of views and phases for your project to ensure a smooth workflow.
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- The article provides a comprehensive guide on adding a tenant suite to a building design project, reinforcing skills learned in previous classes such as the application of phases and modeling techniques.
- Setting up the right views and phases is critical in creating the tenant suite. The article demonstrates how to properly manage phases and assign each phase a name and description that makes sense for the project.
- Besides creating a new phase, other steps include duplicating the existing plan, changing the phase to the newly created one, and renaming it for easy identification. These steps help to keep the project organized and ensure that new additions do not get mistaken for elements of the original plan.
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Now that we've gotten all the area plans done and most of the items related to the core and shell of this project, we're going to jump in and take a look at adding a tenant suite into this space here. And so part of this is going to be some reinforcing of skills that we've learned in previous classes, specifically applying our knowledge of phases and how phasing works to this type of a project where we already have developed the building. It may not be existing like our other one was, but it's new and then another phase on top of that.
And then we're also going to take a look at some modeling techniques for using walls, doors, storefront, and placing some furniture components and just seeing how we could expand that into a new type of project. So the first thing that we want to do is get ourselves set up to have the right types of views set up properly and also make sure we have the right phases set up. So the first thing I want to do here is I want to make sure I have my phases set up properly, so as I'm creating the views that I need to use, they're going to be set up and ready to go.
So I'm going to jump over to my Manage tab and then go to phases. And just like the projects we've worked on before, we have an Existing and a New Construction phase. And we're not going to mess with these at all, but we are going to just tack on to the ones that we already have.
We didn't use Existing at all because this project was brand new ground up from the beginning, but we did build everything in the New Construction phase. If we were to say insert one after, we can go ahead and pop that in there. And what you name this is totally up to you.
It could be an unknown future phase, it could just be Future Phase One, Phase One, Two, Three, Four, Five—whatever it is, you give it the name that makes sense for you. For us, we're going to call it Tenant One TI. And you can give it a description if it's not obvious in the name already, like in our case here, that was obvious.
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But I can pop back in here and say that this was our site, site, core, and shell. So that represents the items that were on that phase. The Existing was not used, so you can go in and just say like not applicable.
So you know that that's not being used for this phase of the project. And then this would be the tenant improvement for Suite One or Tenant One to be consistent. So Tenant One.
So that's what that phase would represent. And then any phases after that, we could do the same thing where we give it a good name, give it a description, because you never know, this project could be moving right along today, and then stop, and then a year from now comes back, and then you pop back into the model, and you can see what it is. So not only that, but also if other people start working on it, they have a good idea of what's happening.
So these are little steps that just take a few minutes to do, but they also help you out in the future. We're going to hit OK. That new phase is created.
And so what I'll do is I'll jump over to my floor plans here. And the view that we've been using is our Level One plan. And we want to create a new version of this.
If I take this plan here, our Level One Floor Plan, and I right-click, I can say Duplicate View. And if I want all of the annotations that we've done, all the dimensions, keynotes, and all that stuff on here, I will say Duplicate with Detailing. If I want just the view without any of the tags, annotations, dimensions, etc., then I will say Duplicate.
And in this case, all the extra information is relevant to the core and shell, and not necessary for the TI. Anything new that we need to add, we can go ahead and do that. So I'll say Duplicate.
Now I've got this new layout here. And the first thing that I'm going to do is I'm going to go ahead and change the phase from New Construction to my new Tenant One TI. And the reason I do that is because now anything that I draw is going to be on that new Tenant One TI phase.
So it's just one of those, I made the view, now I need to change the phase. The next thing I'll do is I'll rename it. And so I can call it Level One Floor Plan.
And then I'll just put TI at the end of it so that I know that it's different. Kind of like that. And then to take it a whole nother step further, and this is an optional step, but it does help organize your views.
You can definitely make a new Floor Plan type. So I could say Duplicate. And then instead of just calling it Floor Plans like the other one, I can call it Tenant Improvement.
And then I'll have another category like we did for the enlarged Floor Plans. So then it moves it into its own thing. And now I've got this view in its own category, and it's not going to get mistaken for any of the ones that are part of the Core and Shell plan.
So just those few steps to get us started, and then we're going to dive in and take a look at the modifications that we need to make to the shell as part of this TI phase.
