Learn how to make final adjustments, such as modifying room tags and halftoning select categories, for an architectural floor plan before adding it to a new sheet. This comprehensive guide also covers how to create a tenant suite sheet featuring a department legend and a sorted schedule of areas.
Key Insights
- Adjustments such as modifying room tags, creating new types, and adjusting furniture systems can greatly enhance the clarity of an architectural floor plan.
- Creating a new sheet for the adjusted floor plan involves selecting the correct title block, naming the sheet, and adding relevant floor plans and legends.
- Additional refinements to the sheet may involve editing the schedule to sort by department, hiding unnecessary fields, and justifying areas to the right to improve readability of numerical values.
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Now that we're ready to put this on a sheet, I want to go ahead and take a look at some of my graphic items here. Specifically, you know, Room Tags not behaving the way that we want them to. So I'm going to go ahead and make some adjustments there.
And you can see because we created a new type that we'll need to make sure we add the leader to that one. So I'll go ahead and do Edit Type and then set the leader arrowhead to be the Dot Filled 1/16". And now anytime I move those around, we shouldn't have a problem.
And so Break Room definitely needs to be moved out of there, so that it looks nicer. And then these Conference Rooms, we can probably finagle a little bit. And what we're going to do with the furniture is really going to help with that because the furniture is a little too bold in this view, furniture and furniture systems.
And so we're going to halftone those categories. If I go to my Visibility Graphic Overrides and find furniture, I can go ahead and check halftone here for both furniture and furniture systems. And you can see it'll dial those back a little bit.
If you wanted to do the same thing for the casework, that is definitely an option as well. And so now our plan looks a little bit better. I am seeing one thing that we forgot to do here, and it would be nice to have a door to get into the bathroom area.
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We're going to go ahead and add a door and it'll just be our typical 36 × 84. And I'll have it at this location here and swinging in the direction of travel. And then now we can go ahead and create our sheet.
We're going to go to our View tab and then do New Sheet. Picking the correct title block here. And I'll go ahead and give it a number.
And this isn't really part of our set here. So I'm going to call it TI-100. And then we'll call it Tenant Suite.
And then we can go ahead and put some of our elements on this sheet. So I have my TI floor plan that we can put on the sheet. And this should be at eighth inch equals foot.
And it is. And then as part of the TI floor plan, I'm going to add the Department Legend. So I'll go to my Annotate tab and add the Color Fill Legend.
And I'll kind of set that over here. So I have my Department Legend. And then we'll have our schedule, which had our Tenant 1 list here of areas.
And make sure you deactivate the view first. But then you can grab it and drag that in here. And we'll have those two elements on this sheet.
And this schedule needs a little bit of work. We're going to go ahead and edit that schedule. And the goal here would be able to sort by our department.
So I'm going to go to Sorting and Grouping. And I want to go ahead and sort by department. And I'll give it a header and a footer.
And so we'll say Title and Totals here and then give it a blank line. And that's—we've done that pretty typically on a lot of our different spaces. And then at the bottom, we'll go ahead and have it be Title and Totals for the grand total as well.
And in order for this to calculate the way we want it to, we need to go to our Formatting tab and make sure that Area is calculating. And then since we have the heading for the department, we no longer need to have that as a visible field. So I'll go ahead and say Hidden Field on that one.
And then the last thing that we want to do is Area. It's always justified to the left, but we want it to the right because it's calculating numbers for us. And that should be it.
So I'll hit OK. And then we'll take a look at our schedule. We've got our room names and the titles and everything's looking pretty good here.
So I'm going to go ahead and jump back over to our Tenant Suite sheet. And if we need to, we can kind of move this around and make some adjustments as needed because it was kind of spilling off the bottom of the sheet there. And you can see that our actual usable area for that space is 6,822.
But when we look at our Rentable Area sheet here that has our space for it, it's actually a total of 7,088 square feet. So you can see how much we are giving up in that plan just from walls and things like that. So I'm going to jump back over to my TI-100 sheet, just kind of double check it and save.
And then we're going to get ourselves set up in the next lesson for finishing up both the shell plans and any adjustments we need to make to the tenant plan so that we can get ready for our final submission.
