Space Planning & Management / Space Inventory & Performance

Draw Buildings on a Site Plan

You may want to outline the footprints of your buildings on your site or property plans. This is useful for visualizing your holdings, and working with drill-down queries.

Drawing buildings on a site plan is also useful for working with the Space Book mobile app. With the Space Book mobile app, the user drills down from sites to buildings to floors. If a site plan is available, mobile users can select the Map View button to switch from viewing a list of Buildings to see the site plan and then select a building on the plan.

Graphically developing your sites is optional; you can classify your holdings by site without representing them in CAD.

When developing your buildings, note that:

Buildings are typically housed in site or property drawings and are represented with area asset symbols. If you are tracking both sites and properties, draw your properties on site drawings and your buildings on property drawings. If you are not tracking properties, draw your buildings on site drawings.
A building asset symbol is housed in the drawing of the higher entity. For example, in the sample HQ project, the HQ building asset symbol is located in the PROPHQ drawing.

To develop your buildings in CAD:

Load your drawing tool.
Open the site or campus plan drawing (such as, us-pa-campus.dwg) to which you want to add buildings. This drawing should be referenced in the Drawing Details field of the Sites table.
On the Process Navigator of your CAD tool, run the Space Planning & Management / Space Inventory & Performance / Building Performance / Set Buildings command to set the drawing to the Building (BL) layer.
Use polylines to draw the building outlines.
Data edit the building polylines to assign them intelligence and convert them to asset symbols. For more information on developing ARCHIBUS asset symbols, see: Asset Symbols: Overview.
So that site plans with can be viewed in Web Central, Smart Client, or with the Space Book mobile app, publish your drawing as an ARCHIBUS Enterprise Graphic file by using the Publish Enterprise Graphics command. This is located on the Process Navigator for your convenience.