Define a Room
The program will automatically form rooms based on the walls in
the floor plan when the Settings > Constraints and Automatic
Sketching > Automatic Rooms setting has been enabled.
Automatic
Rooms
If the settings is disabled, you can define the rooms by
clicking the limiting walls or lines.
Rooms can be defined either in the drawing or model window. The
room labels are displayed only in the drawing. The program
calculates the surface area of the floor, ceiling, walls and
windows and also the perimeter of the room. This information is
needed when the material report is created. The program will place
a label in the middle of the room, consisting of the name of the
room and its surface area data.
- Do either of the following:
- Select Rooms >
Room.
- Right-click to open the context-sensitive menu, and select
Room.
- Select the definition method from the contextual toolbar. You
can allow the program to recognize the rooms in the floor plan
automatically, or you can define a room by selecting its limiting
walls, or, if there are no walls, by selecting the border lines
limiting the room.
- Do one of the following:
- Select the walls or lines using the selected method of
specification.
- If you selected the automatic recognition of the rooms, the
program searches for the rooms in the floor plan
automatically.
- Do one of the following:
- Select the room data in the dialog box.
Room
Data
-
If you selected the automatic recognition of
the rooms, the program names the rooms automatically: Room 1, Room
2, ...
Note
- The room label data is defined in the keyword group BDSX with
the keyword room_label.
- The surface area of the balcony door glass panels will be
included in the room's window area if the balcony door glass panel
lines are on layer 30.
- The area information of a room defined with walls is updated
automatically, when walls are moved or windows are added, removed
or their size is changed. If the room has been defined with border
lines, you can update the window surface area data on the room
label with the Updating a Room
function.
- If the room you define overlaps with another room definition,
the program highlights the existing room definition in the floor
plan drawing, and gives you a warning: "New room is overlapping
with an existing room". If you want to define overlapping rooms,
for example, if you want to define an apartment consisting of
rooms, create a new drawing-model pair for the overlapping room
definition. Add the original floor plan drawing as a reference
drawing to the new drawing-model pair to be able to define the
rooms.
Structural Layer
Limiting a Room
Editing Room Data
Moving a Room Label
Defining the Default Color Fill And
Hatch
Editing Room Materials
Rooms
Editing
Keywords