AutoCAD Facilities Management: Occupancy

Course Overview

Use AutoCAD for computer-aided facilities management (CAFM). Learn how to specify the people and equipment that will occupy spaces, and use the data to annotate drawings.

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 occupancy in AutoCAD
Managing your occupancy

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. Blocks and Polylines

Why use blocks and polylines?
Using defined layers
Using object snaps
Creating occupancy blocks and polylines
Using different occupancy types

5. Defining Occupancy Areas

Methods of measurement
Using object snaps and centerlines
Using draw order
Using lineweight (LWT)
Using hatches and gradient fills
Creating an occupancy legend on your drawing

6. Annotating Occupancy

Text styles
Using text fields
Text field settings
Using attributes
Organizing occupancy text on the drawing

7. Setting Up an Occupancy Table Style

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

8. Using the Occupancy Table

Locating block data
Finding occupancy atttribute data
Linking polyline areas to table fields
Using appropriate unit annotation in the table

9. Exporting the Occupancy Table Data

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

Conclusion

Next steps

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