Smart Client Extension for AutoCAD
Creating CAFM Drawings
Many sites have architectural floor plan drawings available to them from the building owner, architect, or builder. These drawings contain many useful architectural elements, such as walls, ceilings, columns, vertical jogs, and so on. However, in order for these drawings to be useful to facilities management, they must be converted from architectural drawings to CAFM drawings -- that is, they must store basic area information. These drawings can be imported into the project and prepared to store CAFM information.
If you don't have an existing set of drawings to work from, you can create the drawings from scratch in the Archibus Smart Client Extension for AutoCAD, using the tools designed for this purpose.
In this section:
- Bringing Drawings into Archibus Projects
- Creating New Floor Plan Drawings
- Converting Drawings between Metric and Imperial Projects
- Drawing Boundaries Accurately
- Adding Areas with Rectangles and Polylines
- Resizing Areas with Grip-Editing
- Checking Drawings in and out with the Document Management for Drawings System
- Special Situations with Document Management for Drawings
Videos
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