Creating Area Asset Symbols: Topic and Video List
CAD and Revit users will find the following topics helpful in developing their floor plans and Revit models:
Area Concepts
- External Gross Area
- External Wall Area
- Internal Gross Area
- Vertical Penetration Area
- Service Area
- Occupiable Area
- Common Area
- Rentable Area
- Usable Area
- Secondary Circulation Area
- Remaining Area
- Open Plans with Workstations
- Floor Plans for a Team Space Inventory
- Mapping IFMA and BOMA Conventions to an Archibus Space Inventory
CAD help topics
- Draw Boundaries Accurately
- Draw Buildings on a Site Plan
- Draw Gross Areas
- Draw Vertical Penetrations
- Draw Service Areas
- Draw Rooms
Revit help topics
- Creating Internal Gross Areas
- Creating a Room Area
- BIM Execution Plan: Space Inventory
- Standards for Area Accuracy
- Drawing Room Areas Accurately
- Modeling Workstations and Rooms within Rooms
- Using Area Elements to Model Rooms
CAD videos
- Prepare CAD floor plan drawings for Archibus (video - 8:06)
- Draw new gross and room polylines (video - 14:06)
- Use existing gross and room polylines (video - 5:17)
- Register the polylines in Archibus and publish the floor plan (video - 6:28)
- Start from a scanned floor plan drawing (video - 13:54)
Revit videos
- Register buildings, floors, and rooms (video - 9:30)
- Register the internal gross area (video - 2:50)
- Prepare the model (video 5:15)
- Draw rooms within rooms (video 9:43)
- Create a Revit model from a scanned drawing and connect to Archibus (video 17:00)