1. Space Planning with Blocks in AutoCADMaking furniture blocks| 00:02 |
In this lesson you will create a number
of furniture blocks in preparation for
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planning the eventual arrangement in an
office space.
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Open the Furniture 1 project file to
begin.
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Zoom in on this sofa, and as you move the
cursor over the objects you see them
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highlight indivicually Indicating that
they're made of arcs and lines.
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By unifying this geometry in a block, it
makes it much easier to manage in a
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larger project.
I'll make an enclosing window to select
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all of the items that make up that sofa,
then click, Create Block, type the name Sofa.
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Pick a base point by snapping right here.
I'll choose to delete the objects and we
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don't need to open it in the Block
Editor, so I'll leave this unchecked, okay.
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Now I'll go up to the Layers drop down
and select the A Fern Layer.
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And then, insert the block, so far, I
don't need to soecify the rotation but I
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will specify the insertion point, right
here.
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Now let's create block for the remaining
objects, I'll just go ahead and select.
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These entities, click create block and
type arm chair.
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Pick a base point, right here, and this
time let's convert directly to the block, okay.
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That saved us a step, we didn't have to
insert the block after we created it.
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I'll select these objects, type B space
bar, type chair.
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Pick a point, right here, and then Okay.
Down here, let's do that again.
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Select, B, Spacebar, Stool.
Pick a point, and for this one, I'm going
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to track using the midpoints to find the
center of the object.
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Okay.
If I click on it, you'll see its grip
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appear right in the middle, where I
specified the base point.
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Press Escape.
Select all of this geometry.
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Type b spacebar.
This is an easel, pick a point, right here.
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Convert to Block.
Again, select B, Spacebar, Workstation.
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Pick its insertion point down here, okay.
This is a conference table.
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B enter, conference table.
Pick a point, right at the centre.
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Okay.
This is a desk.
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I'll click on it to select it, B+Enter,
Desk, pick its insertion point, right
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there, convert to block.
This is a cafe table, and I need to pick
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its insertion point at the center.
And this particular one doesn't show a
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preview, so I need to select the object,
Enter, convert to block.
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I'll preselct this one, press B+Enter.
And now we see the preview.
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So you don't have to select objects here.
We do need to type in the name which is
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cofee table.
Pick a point at the center and then okay.
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Now up here, these objects are going to
go on a different layer.
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So, I'm going to change the current layer
to A Furniture System.
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I'll select this low height partition.
Create it as a block and call it what it
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is, low height partition.
Pick a point for that, perhaps it will be
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right here in the corner.
And then, okay, it appears on the current layer.
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Again, select these objects, create it as
a block.
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And let's call this one Space Divider.
Pick a point for that, maybe this would
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be over here in the corner, and then
Okay.
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Finally save your work as Furniture Two.
You have gained experience creating
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blocks and have inserted them on specific
furniture layers.
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| Creating groups| 00:02 |
Often times blocks are used together in
certain arraignments.
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For example chairs are typically placed
in front of desks, or array around tables.
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In situation like these, it makes sense
to create groups to facilitate
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transformation and distribution of the
blocks in a space.
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In this lesson you will create a number
of groups representing the different ways
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the furniture blocks might be arranged.
Open the furniture two project file to
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begin, then move this sofa off to the
side someplace, and move the coffee table
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in front of it.
(audio playing) Let's rotate the coffee table, do
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that by using the Grip menu.
Turn on Ortho, so you can rotate it 90 degrees.
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And then, move the coffee table and snap
it right here at the midpoint of the sofa block.
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And then move it back a short distance
about like that.
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So that's a typical arrangement, how
those two objects might be relative to
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each other.
Let's move this desk over and I will
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toggle off Ortho, lets put an armed chair
in front of the desk, I'll move it
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roughly down here and then I will be more
careful about snapping it from its mid
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point to the mid point of the desk and
then I will move it back using Ortho a
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short distance, I'll go ahead and copy
both the desk and the chair, down just a
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bit, and for this one lets place a couple
of chairs in front of it.
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I'll move this chair down, toggle off
Ortho place it about there.
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Then I'll rotate this 180 degrees, and
move it forward a bit.
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To get another copy of that, I will use
the Mirror command, so that they are
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symmetrically arranged around the
midpoint of the desk.
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Up here, we'll move the easel over, and
let's array some of these stools around it.
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I'll copy, type CO > Enter and make two
copies and then I might rotate them
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slightly just to make it look a little
bit more natural, so that's another
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arrangement we just moved this down.
Over here, we have a conference table,
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and so that's going to obviously have
chairs around it.
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We can decide whether those chairs should
be chairs or armchairs.
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I think it would be more deluxe if we had
armchairs.
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So, I'll go ahead and copy one of these
armchairs, right here.
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And I'll move it back just a bit to give
a little breathing room, but I want to be
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careful to move that back horizontally,
so I will turn on Ortho.
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Let's make an array.
Open the array fly-out and choose polar array.
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Select the chair, enter.
Select the center point and then let's
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try a different number of items.
What would it look like with 12.
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I'll type that in and press 'tab'.
That looks pretty good!
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I leave this as an associative array in
case we want to adjust it later and click
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Close Array.
Up here we have a cafe table, and so that
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would probably have some chairs around
it.
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I'll copy a chair from it's Midpoint.
And I'd like to snap it here, so I'll
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Shift, right-click, and choose Quadrant.
Snap it right there on the western side
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of the table, Enter.
Then move that back using Ortho.
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A short distance.
And again I will use a (UNKNOWN) array
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select the chair enter, select the center
of the cafe table and I think that a
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little bit too busy lets say there's only
4 cab close array.
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Now (UNKNOWN) we have a workstation which
is meant to be inside this low height partition.
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We just move this down a bit, and move
this over from its end point, then snap
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it right there.
Now let's see, if I copy this, how many
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will fit in this space?
I'll copy it from here to here and then
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once again.
Okay, that looks like it was designed to fit.
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I'll go ahead and mirror.
These objects, about the midpoint of this
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line, drawing a horizontal mirror line.
And then we have kind of a mixture here
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of what we're seeing.
Some of the work stations are on top of
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the low height partition, so let's move
those down with Draw Order, DR Enter.
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Or select all of these work stations,
enter and use the default option back.
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Now we can see the low height partition.
I'll go ahead and copy an arm cahir.
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And I'll grab it from some arbitrary
point.
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And I'll copy it up here, right, like
this.
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And then I'll go ahead and copy this,
from here.
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And now use the array option and say I
need three items in the array, and I will
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click right here.
Press Enter to end copy command and then
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mirror, these objects around the mid
point of this low height partition.
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Press Ortho, and you mirror them
symmetrically.
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Finally, we have this object here that we
need to place some stools in front.
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I will Copy Co > Enter, this stool, and
Turn off Ortho and place it right there.
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Now come up here and make two more
copies.
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And then I will just rotate these
roughly, so that they look like they're
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following the curve of this table.
Perhaps I'll move this a little closer.
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Now, that we've made all of the potential
arrangements we might use, let's group
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them together individually group, select
this arrangement, press enter.
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It all highlights as one, again Group >
Select > Enter.
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Enter to repeat group, select, enter,
kust keep going.
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Group the different arrangements
together, and save your work as furniture three.
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In this lesson, you gained experience
grouping blocks and typical arrangements
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how they are likely to be used in the
real world.
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| Arranging furniture in enclosed rooms| 00:02 |
In this lesson you will arrange furniture
groups in an open office plan.
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I'm going to lay them out in my own way.
But you are welcome to arrange the
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furniture differently.
There are many potential arraignments and
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space planning is about experimentation.
To discover which arraignment works best
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in the space.
In any case observe how I approached the process.
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Then perform similar steps yourself.
Open the furniture four project file to begin.
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I think I'll start in the reception area,
down here.
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Let's move this sofa and coffee table
group into the area.
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I'll click the group, select its grip,
press the spacebar a couple of times,
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and rotate it.
Notice the rubber band line connecting
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the cursor with the grip.
I'll make it more or less perpendicular
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to the red wall, to rotate it.
Then I'll move this back, a little bit,
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and I don't want to snap their, so hold
down Shift right-click, and choose none.
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This will override the running object
snap temporarily.
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Press Escape to deselect.
The receptionist will need a chair.
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Let's take one from this mangers office.
Toggle off group selection, copy the arm
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chair, and place it over here.
Toggle group selection back on, and then
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rotate this chair.
Move it into position.
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Now let's see up here we have these
little corner areas.
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These might be good for this easel
seating arraignments with the stools.
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Let's move one of these into that area.
That looks good as it is.
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I'll copy that, and place it down here.
Maybe I'll just rotate this, so it
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doesn't look like such a literal copy.
We'll just go ahead, and rotate it about
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like that.
Okay, now what do we have left?
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Two big open spaces on either side of the
plan.
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Let's move this big workstation group, in
here, and place it right about here.
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I'll make a copy of it down below, but
I'd like that to have equal distance from
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this center column, so instead of
copying, I will use the mirror command.
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I'll click this center point, turn on
ortho, click a point over here and press enter.
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That works, although there's kind of a
large space over here that's wasted.
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Let's move these objects over, to make a
narrower corridor over here, and then we
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have a space over here that we might take
advantage of.
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I'll copy one of these cafe tables over
here, turn off ortho, and place it right
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about here.
Then let's mirror that, about the center
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line again.
And then just to mix things up let me
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rotate this, 45 degrees, Escape.
Now down here we could put perhaps
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another workstation group.
I'll copy this, down into this area, turn
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off ortho, and let's see.
I'll put it over here, and then let's
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click on this, and rotate it
approximately like that, Escape.
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This looks like that this might be made
to fit this, window, let's try that.
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Let's move this over from it's midpoint
to the midpoint here.
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That looks good.
Now we have these other spaces on either side.
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Perhaps we'll use one of these, space
divider furniture groups, over here.
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And then down here, I think perhaps we
can use another cafe table arrangement.
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Now let's see what would happen if we
mirrored, these things up, on the other
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side, use ortho.
That looks good, except we have a big
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space up here that we're not really
using.
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I'm going to get rid of this, seating
group right here, and then let's copy,
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one of these, up without using ortho,
right about here.
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That looks pretty good.
Now I'll go ahead and copy this over
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here, in this area, something like this.
Notice that all of these people are
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facing the windows, and that's nice.
But to over here, these people are facing
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the wrong direction.
So let's either mirror or rotate this group.
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I'll select it's grip, press spacebar,
spacebar, spacebar, spacebar to get to
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the mirror prompt.
And then turn on ortho, and click down
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here, press Escape.
I've succeeded in flipping it over.
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Now I'm going to make a few copies.
Copy this object from some arbitrary
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point, and lets make an array.
Maybe four of these will fit.
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Let's try it.
Four Enter, and then I'll use the fit option.
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This will allow me to click the total
distance, and it will distribute the
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distance between the objects equally.
I'll click right about, here, Enter.
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And then let's move them up so it looks
like they are more or less centered, like that.
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I will copy one of these space divider
groups over here.
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I'll turn off ortho.
And just zoom in here and place it down.
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Now let's see, that should be probably
rotated to make better use of the space.
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Something like this perhaps.
I'll move it up little bit, and now we
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have this area here which isn't being
used.
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I could fill that with a cafe table
arrangement, right like that.
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And likewise over here or perhaps up
here, you can place more areas where
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people can have conversations.
And let's see up here this might be
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symmetric so, we'll use mirror.
And select some of these things, and
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mirror them about the center of this
column.
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I need to use ortho to make sure that
goes up perfectly.
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So there you have it, that's one
potential arrangement for this space.
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So we've practiced laying out furniture
groups in an open office plan.
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In the process you have gained experience
working with groups and the modification commands.
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| Arranging furniture in open office spaces| 00:02 |
In this lesson, you will overlay external
files into a furniture plan and then
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layout furniture groups inside the rooms
of an office building.
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Open the furniture 3 project file to
begin, then type xref and press Enter.
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Click this icon in the corner and select
Core.
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Open and select overlay as the reference
type.
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Click OK.
And repeat the process twice more,
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(audio playing) overlying the shell (audio playing) and
the tenant drawings.
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(audio playing)
Close the External References pallet.
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Let's move the furniture out of way.
This will be our kit of parts that we
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will use to layout (audio playing) the furniture
into the enclosed rooms of the office building.
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It looks like we have a large room up
here, that might be suitable for the
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conference table.
Move (audio playing) the conference table up
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there, grab it from its center point and
with objects snap tracking on, track a
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line up vertically from the central line
of the two doors.
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(audio playing)
Over here we have a coffee room and
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another coffee room.
Let's put the cafe table arrangement in there.
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Move (audio playing) this furniture group (audio playing)
over here (audio playing) and then copy (audio playing)
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from here to here.
The CEO and VP have these offices.
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So let's put in this arrangement in
there.
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Move (audio playing) this over and then I'm going
to zoom in with a mouse wheel and pan.
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And then I'll click right about here.
(audio playing)
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Copy this group using Ortho (audio playing) so
that it will be directly up into the Vice
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President's office.
Now these two people have a space between
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them and we might want to have a seating
arrangement there.
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(audio playing)
So let's see.
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Let's copy (audio playing) one of these cafe
table arrangements in there.
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(audio playing)
I'll turn off Ortho.
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I'll place it right about here.
And press Enter to end the Copy command.
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It's a bit too tight, as you can see.
Let's change this particular arrangement.
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Toggle off group selection.
(audio playing)
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Click on the chair array.
Change the number of items to two.
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Press Tab.
Now, this isn't really going to work either.
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It's a little awkward to have these two
in the middle like that.
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Let's change the angle that the array is
filling.
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Right now it's 360.
Let's change that to 120.
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Press Tab.
And then close Array.
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(audio playing)
Toggle on group selection again.
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(audio playing)
Click on the group.
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Select it's Grip and then press the
Spacebar twice to cycle to the Rotate
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command within the Grip Editing system.
Rotate the group around about like this
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and then move it over.
(audio playing)
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That's better.
Press Esc to deselect.
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What else do we have?
(audio playing)
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It looks like we have some couple of
other offices over here and we have some
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up here.
And we have a couple of things down here
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to take care of also.
So lets copy (audio playing) the CEO's furniture
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group into this manager's office.
(audio playing)
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And then again, Copy.
(audio playing)
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Press Ortho mode On, on the status bar.
And go ahead and pan up here with the
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mouse wheel, just by dragging the mouse
wheel, and create a copy of it up there.
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Again, copy this object from some
arbitrary point located near the (audio playing)
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furniture and then I'll come up here and
zoom in and place it in this room (audio playing) roughly.
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Now we need to go ahead and select the
(audio playing) group, click its Grip.
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Press the Spacebar twice to cycle to the
Rotate command.
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And then I'm going to eyeball it or
estimate the rotation, just like that.
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Maybe that's not quite enough.
I'll do it again.
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Click, Spacebar, Spacebar, and rotated it
just a bit more.
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About like that.
Okay.
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Now, I'll move this down right about
there.
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It doesn't have to be perfect for a
furniture group if you did want to make
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it perfect, you can certainly do so and
I'll show you that.
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We'll move this down (audio playing) right here
(audio playing) and then rotate it (audio playing) using
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the Reference option, from here to here
and the new angle that is right here.
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Now, suppose I want to have this copied
right up there.
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I'll type ucs.
Enter.
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And then use the Object option.
I will then click on this desk to rotate
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the coordinate system.
Then I can copy this group, using Ortho,
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so that it moves up perfectly in the same
line up here.
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Now actually these are backwards, aren't
they?
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Because the armchair is in the entry.
So let's flip them over.
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Mirror both of these (audio playing) about the
midpoint here.
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(audio playing)
And then, yes, we want to erase the
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source objects.
(audio playing)
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And perhaps I also need to move them back
a little bit now.
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(audio playing)
There we go.
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Now down here on the other side of the
plan, it looks like we have symmetry
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working for us.
I need to change the coordinate system
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back to World.
So I'll type UCS.
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Enter.
And press Enter again to accept the
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default option which is World.
(audio playing)
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Choose mirror.
(audio playing)
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Select these furniture groups.
Press Enter.
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Click on this midpoint of the core.
Click over here and press Enter.
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That worked perfectly.
Now, over here, we need a conference
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table, but we didn't make one.
So, let's adapt this furniture group to
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suit our purpose.
(audio playing)
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I'll move it in here.
(audio playing)
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And then, ungroup it.
(audio playing)
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Now, I will rotate it both of these
objects from some arbitrary point.
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And I'm just going to eyeball in the
space about like that.
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Now, lets see.
A conference table would be bigger than a
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single desk.
So I will copy this desk (audio playing) and make
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four copies.
(audio playing)
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Then I will use the Polyline tool on the
furniture layer first.
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So I'm going to go to A Fern and set that
current.
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Use the Polyline tool and draw a polyline
(audio playing) around these four corners.
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(audio playing)
Then I will click the Close option here.
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Erase these desks (audio playing) and press
Enter.
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Now, let's copy (audio playing) this chair from
some arbitrary point down here.
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And we'll use the array option.
Let's say we want four chairs.
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I'll type four.
Enter.
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And then I can move the mouse here to
control the spacing and the angle at
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which they are arrayed.
I'll click right about here and press Enter.
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Then I'll move these up.
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So they're centered more or less on the
conference table.
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And then mirror them (audio playing) about the
midpoint to midpoint line.
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Finally, let's just move these objects
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(audio playing) into the middle a little bit
better.
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And in case we ever need to manipulate
these objects again, let's group them.
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I'll type P for previous.
Enter.
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Enter.
And now we have a single group.
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So you have gained some practical
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experience distributing and transforming
groups of furniture blocks in the
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enclosed spaces of an office plan.
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