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Creating an area plan

Creating an area plan

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Creating an area plan

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- [Instructor] In this video, I'd like to create an area plan. I'm gonna open up whatever model it is that I want to create an area plan in. I'm in level one here in my model. If you go to view, plan views, let's come down to area plan. For the type, I wanna go with gross building. we can create a bunch of area plans, I'll just grab level one, I'm going to click okay, automatically create area boundary lines associated with external walls and gross building area, oh yeah, let's say yes, so now we have it, it's one huge area. We can tag it, if we go to annotate, we can grab an area tag right here, if I click area tag, it's a quick way to get the entire area of your model, not sure why I put two in, now we can start slicing this up, to do that we'll go to the architecture tab, notice we could've created an area plan here as well, or a specific area, but I wanna grab area boundary, we can either pick lines, we can draw lines, we can do whatever we want, generally, I like to just draw 'em…

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