Create Room Data Sheet - Create data sheet

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Now that we have our Room Data Sheet Title Block in our Room Tag, we're ready to go ahead and create the Room Data Sheets.

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So creating the Room Data Sheets manually can be done, but it's a really tedious process.

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So, we're going to go through it once, and then I'm going to show you some tools that you can use to automate the process significantly.

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So, to get started, I'm going to go to a Ground Floor Plan.

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Inside my Floor Plan, I'm going to create an enlarged view around one of the rooms.

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Just going to choose this room right here.

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I'm going to select that.

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Once I create the view, I'm going to activate the view.

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And there's some stuff I want to hide, this element right here because we don't want to see that in a Room Data Sheet.

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And next, I'm going to apply a View Template.

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Now, I created a View Template specifically for Room Data Sheets, and I called it RDS Enlarged Plan.

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Basically, all that I did is I just changed the scale of it because I know I want to show my room plans as a 0.25 inch.

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So, I set the View Scale here.

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But having a View Templates specifically for the Room Data Sheets is helpful,

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because I can make some changes and it can update my Room Data Sheets in one go.

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So, I'm going to apply that to this view here.

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So, our plan looks good.

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I'm going to go up to the "Architecture" ribbon, and then I'm going to choose "Tag Room".

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And I'm going to set my Room Tag to our RDS Room Tag that we created, and I'm going to place it in the view.

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Now, I can't see the Room Tag right now because my Annotation Crop is turned on, so I'm going to turn that off for the room.

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And now I can actually see my Room Tag.

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And again, it's located outside of the room,

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but it's still associated to it because the Room Tag insertion point is inside the room boundaries.

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So, what I can see now is I could see my Room Number and Room Name.

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There's some additional room data. Here's the Area, the Level.

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We don't have any Program data in here yet and we don't have any Equipment Data.

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So I'm going to click on my Room Object, and then I can add my Program Area.

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Let's say it's 150 square feet.

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Program Comments, I'm going to say Exam Room Equipment.

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And for 240 volts, I'm going to uncheck that. So, now I can see that information as part of my Room Tag.

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So, that's good. Here's our first Enlarged Floor Plan for our rooms.

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So, I'm going to go up here and I'm actually going to rename the view just so it's a little bit easier to find.

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I'm going to call it RDS 1104 Exam.

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Next, I'm going to go down and I'm going to create a sheet for this view.

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So, under Sheets, I'm going to right click and Create a New Sheet.

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I'm going to choose my RDS Title Block, click "OK".

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And I'm going to rename and re number this to match our room.

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So, our Room Number, let's say this is going to be our number 1, sorry, Sheet number 1 or Page number 1.

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And I'm going to call this 1104 - Exam.

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So, here is our Room Name here. Here's our Page number.

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Then here's all of our other additional information that we added to the Title Block.

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Next, I'm going to go up to our Enlarged View, and I'm going to just add it to the Sheet.

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So, you'll see that the view is coming on with a view title.

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So, I'm going to change the Viewport to be No Title, so that disappears.

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And then here is our Enlarged Floor Plan and our room data.

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So, a couple things I might want to do, I'm going to activate the view

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and I'm going to set the crop region to be Hidden, so we don't see that, and then I'm going to deactivate the view.

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So, that's it. I've actually created one of the Room Data Sheets.

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So, again, it's not too bad.

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It only took a few minutes to do each one, but it would be a really tedious process to do this for all of the rooms.

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Now it's your turn.

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Create room floor plans for 10 to 15 rooms in the project, then go ahead and generate Room Data Sheets for the rooms.

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Make sure you use a consistent naming convention for the Sheets and Views.

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And don't forget to add the Room Data Sheet Room Tag.