Overview
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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.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- What you should know before watching this course
- Using the exercise files
- What is facilities management?
- Using occupancy in AutoCAD
- Managing your occupancy
- Using a proprietary title block
- Working with the structural drawing (FP)
- Creating your facilities drawing (FM)
- Referencing in the structural drawing
- Managing XREF layers
- Drawing units
- Drawing limits
- Layer naming strategy
- Setting gradient fills
- Setting hatch patterns
- Why use blocks and polylines?
- Using defined layers
- Using object snaps
- Creating occupancy blocks and polylines
- Using different occupancy types
- 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
- Text styles
- Using text fields
- Text field settings
- Using attributes
- Organizing occupancy text on the drawing
- 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
- Locating block data
- Finding occupancy atttribute data
- Linking polyline areas to table fields
- Using appropriate unit annotation in the table
- Exporting occupancy table data to Excel
- Editing exported occupancy table data in Excel
- Next steps
