Course Overview

Use AutoCAD for computer-aided facilities management (CAFM). Learn about how to measure and define available area, and use that data to annotate drawings or export to Excel.

Course Circullum

Introduction

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

1. Introduction to FM

What is facilities management?
Using areas in AutoCAD
Managing your areas

2. Setting Up a Facilities Drawing

Using a proprietary title block
Working with the structural drawing (FP)
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. Areas and Polylines

Why use polylines?
Using a defined polyline layer
Using object snaps
Creating area outlines
Gross external area (GEA)
Gross internal area (GIA)

5. Defining Areas

Methods of measurement
Using object snaps and centerlines
Using draw order
Using lineweight (LWT)

6. Annotating Areas

Text styles
Annotative scaling
Using text fields
Text field settings
Using text symbols

7. Setting Up an Area Table Style

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

8. Using the Area Table

Locating polyline area data
Linking polyline areas to table fields

9. Exporting the Area Table Data

Exporting table data to Excel
Editing exported area table data in Excel

Conclusion

Next steps

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