CAD and BIM: Workflow for Areas in Facilities Management

- [Shaun Bryant] Welcome to this course about CAD and BIM workflows for areas in FM, Facilities Management. Now you'll notice we've got a Revit model open already on the screen in front of you. Now we're going to be covering in this course all about how areas affect facilities management. So you'll see in the project browser on the right there that we're in the floor plan level one, and I'm just going to zoom in and show you how a typical floor plan might be set up. So you can see that we've got the room areas shown there. We've got work stations, we've got break room, copy supply, et cetera. Now these are all rooms, and the areas of the rooms, but what happens if you want to break those areas down in a different way? You don't want the spaces in the building set out by room. You want them set out by area, the areas being used, for example, by the departments within your organization. Well that's easily done within Revit and we're going to go through that in this particular course. And the way that we're going to do that is to develop our areas in the same way as the rooms as you can see on the screen at the moment. So as we work through this course, we'll take you through the CAD and the BIM workflow. Ideally the CAD workflow you will have already linked a CAD drawing and developed your Revit model from it. The idea being that then the areas can be displayed on your floor plans and then brought into schedules and brought into sheets within Revit as well. And that's that CAD and BIM workflow. So you take the CAD drawing, link it to Revit and then start developing your areas within in the Revit model where you can extract that area information.