Learn to create an organized rentable area plan using the architecture tab and the area boundary tool. Through this article, understand how to use the pick lines tool to add boundary lines, adjust their placement, trim them for a cleaner appearance, and add areas for specific locations like stairs and restrooms.
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- The article instructs on creating a rentable area plan, starting with the architecture tab and employing the area boundary tool. This tool can be used to draw lines to represent areas and spaces within the architecture design.
- Instead of the draw lines tool, the pick lines tool can be used for a different approach to creating boundaries. However, the pick lines tool can sometimes cause odd changes with area lines bouncing around, creating potential downsides.
- The article emphasizes the need for trimming the boundary lines for creating a cleaner appearance and also for adding areas for specific spaces like stairs, restrooms, and office areas. It also discusses the importance of designating different area types and getting the space set up for scheduling.
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I'm going to go ahead and jump to level two of my rentable area plan, and we're going to follow those same steps. We're going to go to our architecture tab, and we're going to add our area boundary, which will represent the area for this space here. And so instead of using the draw lines tool, which I think is the best way to go, we're going to use the pick lines just so we can expose ourselves to another system.
And you can see how as I go through and select it, it's giving me different options, and it's kind of placing it at the middle of the wall. And so what I'll want to do is go through and change that. And you can see by picking the wall, what it's done is using the inside face of the glass and actually counting that area.
And so if we were not using an area method that was using that process, then we'd have a big problem here. And so for our purposes of the class, we're going to go ahead and leave it that way. But it is something that you'll want to consider if you're doing this for another assignment or another type of assignment.
So this needs to be cleaned up a bit. We don't want to have boundary lines sitting way out here like that. So I'll go in and I can go ahead and trim these back so that we don't have it.
And you'll notice as I'm doing that, I'm getting some kind of odd changes and the area lines will bounce around and kind of do their own thing. And that's one of the downsides to using the pick lines option is it's they kind of have a mind of their own as they're going through it. And another thing we'll need to do is on level one, I'd neglected to add that, but we'll need to capture this exterior area as well, because that's part of the drip line calculation here.
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But for now, we're going to go ahead and add the boundary lines to the space that we're actually going to be computing the area. So it's going to be similar to what we did on level one. So I'm going to go through and I'm going to add the lines in to represent the stair areas.
We also have a space here that's completely open. And so that will not want to get counted twice. And if you remember, I was saying how area plans can be kind of fast and loose with their calculations.
So you'll see a lot of these are going to be open and not necessarily fully closed loops. And we're going to be okay with that. So continuing on with adding the boundary lines, we'll capture the restroom and the stair.
And then those are going to be two different things. We'll want to divide them up. And then we'll just double check that we've got the stair, the restrooms, and the other stair.
And then we don't want anything in this lobby area here. So I'll go ahead and add my areas now. And we'll use the same process.
So I'm already set on office area. So I can place that in the office area. And then I can change this to building common and grab the restroom.
And then I'll change it to major vertical penetration and add it to the stairs. So all the same processes that we went through on level one, we'll need to go through on level two, because we want to make sure everything schedules the way we want it to. So this will be a stairwell.
Using that leader option, I'll go ahead and move it outside of the building, just like we did on level one. I'm also not a big fan if it's like really close to the lines for the stair, because then it's hard to see the leader. So you want to move that around as well.
And then we've got our restroom. This is the office area. And then last one will be the stairwell here.
And just make sure we've got these set up graphically in a way that looks nice. Same thing with the restroom here. And you'll notice the order that you do these things in doesn't really matter.
You just want to make sure that it gets done. If you want to add all the names and then move everything later, or move it as you go, doesn't matter. That's totally up to you.
Okay, and then we just need to apply the view template, picking that rentable area plan. And you can see we get the look that we're going for here. The only thing we're missing is the color fill legend.
And I think we can just leave that on our level one plan, because we will have it on the same sheet together. We won't need to show the same information twice. So like I mentioned before, we want to make sure we capture this exterior area as well.
And that's as simple as drawing a new boundary. So I'm over on level one now. And I'm just going to draw a boundary that is going to represent that area.
And then I'll add a new area to that space. And we'll kind of push the limits here on what it'll do for that enclosed, unenclosed space. And you can see there's too big of a gap at this location.
We'll need to adjust the lines a little bit to get that to close in. So I can kind of pull these over. And that'll pick up that exterior space.
And looks like we'll need to do a little bit more to get that to work. So I'll go ahead and add the area boundary here again. And you can see sometimes when you try to do it the easy way, it ends up being more work.
So a lot of times it's just easier to just trace it out exactly as you need it. Like we've done here. And then adding the area to the space.
So you can see we've got that 138 square feet that we're going to add here. And this area needs to be designated as exterior area. And we'll go ahead and just call it exterior.
And just like before, we'll move it off to the side. And there we go. We've got our all the different area types that we're going to work with.
And then we can go ahead and get this set up and put on a sheet and get the schedule going as well.
