AutoCAD Facilities Management: Space Management

Use AutoCAD for computer-aided facilities management (CAFM). Learn about how to turn available areas into defined spaces and use the data to annotate drawings or analyze in Excel.

Introduction

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

1. Introduction to FM

• What is facilities management?
• Using space management in AutoCAD
• Managing your spaces

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. Spaces and Polylines

• Why use polylines?
• Using object snaps
• Creating space polylines
• Using different space types

5. Defining Space Areas

• Methods of measurement
• Using object snaps and centerlines
• Using draw order
• Using lineweight (LWT)
• Creating a space legend on your drawing

6. Annotating Spaces

• Text styles
• Annotative scaling
• Using text fields
• Text field settings
• Using blocks and attributes
• Setting up space text on the drawing
• Using text symbols

7. Setting Up a Space Table Style

• Setting up the space table style
• Setting up the table title
• Setting up the table headers
• Setting up the table data
• Inserting the area table

8. Using the Space Table

• Locating polyline area data
• Adding space area attribute data

9. Exporting the Space Table Data

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

Conclusion

• Next steps