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Define Furniture Standards

Before you create a furniture standards inventory or a tagged furniture inventory, you can establish the types of furniture at your company -- the furniture standards. Typically, a company will purchase multiple quantities of like furniture items. For example, it is likely that your company has purchased the same type of chair for all administrative personnel. Archibus defines this type of chair as a furniture standard. Furniture standards make it easier to track and update your furniture inventory.

Using the Define Furniture Standards task, you can review, add, and edit furniture standards. You can then associate these furniture standards with the tagged furniture records or with furniture standards records that track individual furniture items by their standard. See Choosing a Furniture Inventory Method.

The Define Furniture Standards task uses a grid view that is an efficient way to do bulk data entry,

To define furniture standards

  1. Select the Define Furniture Standards task.
  2. Click in the first row of the grid to enter a new record.
  3. Identify the first furniture standard by completing the following required field: 
    4. Field Description
    Furniture Standard Code Enter a unique code, such as "2DR" for a 2-drawer lateral file cabinet
    Description

    Enter a description for this furniture standard, such as "2 drawer lateral file cabinet."
    Manufacturer Enter the company that produces this furniture. This is useful for tracking warranty information.
    Catalog Number Enter the manufacturer's catalog number.
    Product Line Enter the manufacturer's product line for this type of furniture.
    Standard Finish Enter the finish of the item, that is. whether it is stained, painted, or metal.
    Standard Color Enter the color of the item.
    Standard Price Enter the price you typically pay for this type of furniture.
    Standard Weight Enter the weight of the item.
    Standard Width/Standard Depth Store the dimensions for the type of furniture; used to asset insert or populate furniture in drawings. Define a depth and width only if the block defined in the Drawing Block field is a unit block.
    Standard Height Complete this field if you intend to bring your drawings into AutoCAD and display them three-dimensionally; Archibus does not use this field for asset inserting or populating.
    Furn. Standard Graphic Use this document field to hold a picture of the furniture standard. This field is used in the Furniture Standards Book report to show an image of this furniture standard.
    Drawing Block Enter the name of the block that represents the furniture standard, and is used to asset insert or populate furniture in drawings. The block you reference can be either a unit block or a full scale block.
    Furniture Std. Block Graphic Complete this field with the name of the block stored in the Drawing Block field; be sure to include the .DWG extension. This field is used in the Furniture Standards Book report to show the drawing block that represents this standard.
  4. Click Save.
  5. Repeat for all your furniture standards.