AutoCAD Facilities Management: Areas

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.

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