Creating Area Asset Symbols: Topic and Video List

CAD and Revit users will find the following topics helpful in developing their floor plans and Revit models:

• Outsourcing Drawing Development

Area Concepts

• External Gross Area
• External Wall Area
• Internal Gross Area
• Vertical Penetration Area
• Service Area
• Occupiable Area
• Common Area
• Rentable Area
• Usable Area
• Secondary Circulation Area
• Remaining Area
• Open Plans with Workstations
• Floor Plans for a Team Space Inventory
• Mapping IFMA and BOMA Conventions to an Archibus Space Inventory

CAD help topics

• Draw Boundaries Accurately
• Draw Buildings on a Site Plan
  
• Draw Gross Areas
• Draw Vertical Penetrations
• Draw Service Areas
• Draw Rooms

Revit help topics

• Creating Internal Gross Areas
• Creating a Room Area
• BIM Execution Plan: Space Inventory 
• Standards for Area Accuracy
• Drawing Room Areas Accurately
• Modeling Workstations and Rooms within Rooms
• Using Area Elements to Model Rooms

CAD videos

• Prepare CAD floor plan drawings for Archibus (video - 8:06)
• Draw new gross and room polylines (video - 14:06)
• Use existing gross and room polylines (video - 5:17)
• Register the polylines in Archibus and publish the floor plan (video - 6:28)
• Start from a scanned floor plan drawing (video - 13:54)

Revit videos

• Register buildings, floors, and rooms (video - 9:30)
• Register the internal gross area (video - 2:50)

• Prepare the model (video 5:15)
• Draw rooms within rooms (video 9:43)
• Create a Revit model from a scanned drawing and connect to Archibus (video 17:00)