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AutoCAD Facilities Management: Areas

Offered By: LinkedIn Learning

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AutoCAD Courses Facilities Management Courses

Course Description

Overview

Use AutoCAD for computer-aided facilities management (CAFM). Learn about how to measure and define available area, and use that data to annotate drawings or export to Excel.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
  • What you should know before watching this course
  • Using the exercise files
1. Introduction to FM
  • What is facilities management?
  • Using areas in AutoCAD
  • Managing your areas
2. Setting Up a Facilities Drawing
  • Using a proprietary title block
  • Working with the structural drawing (FP)
  • Referencing in the structural drawing
  • Managing XREF layers
3. Getting Your FM Settings Right
  • Drawing units
  • Drawing limits
  • Layer naming strategy
  • Setting gradient fills
  • Setting hatch patterns
4. Areas and Polylines
  • Why use polylines?
  • Using a defined polyline layer
  • Using object snaps
  • Creating area outlines
  • Gross external area (GEA)
  • Gross internal area (GIA)
5. Defining Areas
  • Methods of measurement
  • Using object snaps and centerlines
  • Using draw order
  • Using lineweight (LWT)
6. Annotating Areas
  • Text styles
  • Annotative scaling
  • Using text fields
  • Text field settings
  • Using text symbols
7. Setting Up an Area Table Style
  • Setting up the area table style
  • Setting up the table title
  • Setting up the table headers
  • Setting up the table data
  • Inserting the area table
8. Using the Area Table
  • Locating polyline area data
  • Linking polyline areas to table fields
9. Exporting the Area Table Data
  • Exporting table data to Excel
  • Editing exported area table data in Excel
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Shaun Bryant

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