Designing a virtual workspace requires several elements that need to be carefully chosen and positioned. This article guides you through the process of selecting and loading components, placing panels and desk elements, aligning tools, and arranging all the pieces to create your workstation model in a building information modeling (BIM) software.
Key Insights
- The process begins by loading all necessary components from the BIM 201 folder. This includes workstation brackets, partition panels, and transition posts which can be selected and loaded all at once.
- The placement of panels and desk elements starts with the cubicle panel for the post and other furniture system partition panels. These are aligned using the align tool or keyboard shortcuts and carefully positioned to create the workspace structure.
- Finally, the standing desk, stationary desk, chair and the rolling file are placed and adjusted to complete the workstation. Once all components are properly arranged, they are saved and loaded into the project to design the entire office space.
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Let's start by going in and loading all of the components that we don't have in yet, so we'll go insert Load family and from here. We want to make sure we navigate to our BIM 201 folder Revit families because that's where these elements are going to be located so we're looking for our workstation with bracket our Partition panel and Our partition transition post square, so I use control Every time I picked on one of those you'll notice when you open a file. You can't necessarily do that, but when you go in and Select the families that you want to load you're able to select multiple Which is nice because that would have been a lot of work to load in all of those independently so we'll go ahead and click open and it'll load these into our project and Now we can start by placing all of the different panels and Then placing our desk elements to fit so I'll start with the cubicle panel for the post which I want right here And this is all going to be from our create tab And then we're going to load in components so you can see we have the component option just like we do in our projects, so I can say component and Instead of starting with panels.
I'd like to use the post first We're looking for the post and you'll want to use the same height of all these things so you can see our Furniture system partition panels have a specific height as do our post here And so it really just depends on which one You prefer I think the 36 inch one is going to be just fine, so we'll have a nice open Workspace, so I'll just locate it, and it'll be kind of finicky, so if you're trying to Hit it exactly on the point you'll spend a lot of time You know doing this kind of thing I? Would prefer to just click it immediately and then move it into place because I know it'll be spot-on when I do that and Didn't get it that time, but that's okay. We can use the align tool to set it into place, so that's my first cubicle post and then I'm gonna need six feet of Cubicle panels going in one direction So I'll do the same thing and using keyboard shortcut CM. I can go in and I can grab my cubicle panels which are the 24 × 36 and using that spacebar option I can place this guy right where I need it and then the second one and This one's being a little difficult, so I'll just align them Using the align tool and you'll find sometimes.
That's just the best way to do it is to Place them like that and for this last one. I'll just copy it Into place and I want these to touch Because they're part of the same system, so there wouldn't be a gap and then we can put the same thing going along Horizontally here, so I'll just grab one of them and you may remember from previous lessons But we can use CS as the keyboard shortcut for create similar And it'll allow me to place another one and just like the other Options here. I'm gonna place it just off to the side and then using my align tool or the AL keyboard shortcut This option here.
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I can align it into place and now I'll go through and just copy it across Until I have the rest of the framework in Now that I have all of the pieces that I'm looking for here. I can go ahead and I can actually Place my standing desk which for this one, I'm going to use the 48 × 24 option and I'll go ahead and set this so that it aligns with the end of the panel here and of course we want it to align with the back of the panel and Then we'll put in our next piece which is going to be the actual Desk piece the stationary desk piece in here, and so I'll go back to my component Option and we're gonna look for furniture system work surface rectangular 72 × 24 this guy here, and it'll be that one and So this desk I want to rotate Using spacebar as we're placing it and then I can set it right into The location where we want it and so now we've got just about all the components for our cubicle I just need to put the chair into place and So I'll rotate that 45 and then I can just hit spacebar to have it face the corner and We could do that either way we can have it rotated At the standing desk because you might be sitting or standing here or if you like the 45 you can do that either way, that's Completely up to you there and the last piece will be moving into the rolling file and you can just place that however you'd like in the corner and Now we've got all the pieces that we need for our workstation family, so I'll go ahead and do a save and We'll go ahead and load that into our project, and it's giving me some options here and Mainly what it's asking is hey, you're loading in this chair family when it already exists Within the project and so it's asking me pretty much the same questions. We got when we reloaded in our casework It's just using a whole lot more words because now it says overwrite the shared subcomponent family with the workstation version Or do you want to overwrite the parameters, or do you want to use the existing one? We're gonna use the top option because we want to overwrite the shared Subcomponent family with the workstation version the workstation version is the one that we've created The parameter values did not change, but there are things like making it a shared parameter that we did so we'll use this top option Okay, and I'm getting the autosave option here, so I'll say yes to save that and Then we'll go ahead and place all of the furniture
