Overview
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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.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- What you should know before watching this course
- Using the exercise files
- What is facilities management?
- Using areas in AutoCAD
- Managing your areas
- Using a proprietary title block
- Working with the structural drawing (FP)
- Referencing in the structural drawing
- Managing XREF layers
- Drawing units
- Drawing limits
- Layer naming strategy
- Setting gradient fills
- Setting hatch patterns
- Why use polylines?
- Using a defined polyline layer
- Using object snaps
- Creating area outlines
- Gross external area (GEA)
- Gross internal area (GIA)
- Methods of measurement
- Using object snaps and centerlines
- Using draw order
- Using lineweight (LWT)
- Text styles
- Annotative scaling
- Using text fields
- Text field settings
- Using text symbols
- 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
- Locating polyline area data
- Linking polyline areas to table fields
- Exporting table data to Excel
- Editing exported area table data in Excel
- Next steps
