AutoCAD Facilities Management: Occupancy

Use AutoCAD for computer-aided facilities management (CAFM). Learn how to specify the people and equipment that will occupy spaces, and use the data to annotate drawings.

Introduction

• Welcome
• What you should know before watching this course
• Using the exercise files

1. Introduction to FM

• What is facilities management?
• Using occupancy in AutoCAD
• Managing your occupancy

2. Setting Up a Facilities Drawing

• Using a proprietary title block
• Working with the structural drawing (FP)
• Creating your facilities drawing (FM)
• 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. Blocks and Polylines

• Why use blocks and polylines?
• Using defined layers
• Using object snaps
• Creating occupancy blocks and polylines
• Using different occupancy types

5. Defining Occupancy Areas

• Methods of measurement
• Using object snaps and centerlines
• Using draw order
• Using lineweight (LWT)
• Using hatches and gradient fills
• Creating an occupancy legend on your drawing

6. Annotating Occupancy

• Text styles
• Using text fields
• Text field settings
• Using attributes
• Organizing occupancy text on the drawing

7. Setting Up an Occupancy Table Style

• Setting up the occupancy table style
• Setting up the table title
• Setting up the table headers
• Setting up the table data
• Inserting the occupancy table

8. Using the Occupancy Table

• Locating block data
• Finding occupancy atttribute data
• Linking polyline areas to table fields
• Using appropriate unit annotation in the table

9. Exporting the Occupancy Table Data

• Exporting occupancy table data to Excel
• Editing exported occupancy table data in Excel

Conclusion

• Next steps