Enabling rooms to calculate room volumes

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And we will add rooms to the first floor of the residence building here on the site.

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In order to add the rooms, we need to be in a floor plan view.

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So from the project browser,

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I'll open up the first floor residence view.

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And in this plan, we can see that we have three spaces here. So

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we have the lounge hallway and kitchen

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and they all require rooms to be placed.

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But first,

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we'll need to play some room separator lines to define the boundary

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of the rooms as they're not physically enclosed by the walls.

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So to do this from the architecture ribbon tab on the

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room and area panel or click the room separated tool.

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And now looking at the place room separation ribbon here,

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we can see we have the line tall enabled, so

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we'll zoom in and then we can snap to the end of this wall here

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and draw the line across to the curtain wall on the exterior.

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And we can see that when I separate out the kitchen in the hallway

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and further down, we'll step to the end of this wall and again,

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draw across to the curtain wall on the exterior

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and that will separate the hallway in the lounge.

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So now we have those in place. I'll click, modify to finish the room separation tool.

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So now we're ready to place rooms. So let's do this.

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We'll go to the architecture ribbon tab

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and from the room and area panel, we'll click the room tool

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looking at the place, room ribbon tab. We can see we have tag on placement enabled.

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And as we move our mouse over the plan here,

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we can see the room tool picking up those spaces.

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And if we clicked it would place the room in.

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However, I'll go back up to the ribbon and from the room panel here,

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I'll click place rooms automatically

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straight away.

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We can see we have three rooms placed and

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we can see those highlighted in the background here.

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So I'll click close

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and now we can see those rooms placed.

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If I zoom in a little closer, we can see the tags here.

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So we have the lounge, kitchen and hallway

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and we need to assign their names. So

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I'll select the tag for the kitchen here

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and we can click on the room label and we'll change this to be kitchen.

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I'll pan across to the hallway and I'll select this tag

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and we need to reposition it slightly as it's over the stairs.

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So we'll use the drag control here to move it.

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And now we'll click on the name and we'll change it from room to hallway.

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Now pan and down. Finally, we have the lounge.

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So we'll select this tag and again, click on the name

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and then we change this to lounge.

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And now we have those rooms named.

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Now looking at the tag that we have selected,

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we can see from the type selector at the top

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of the properties that it's the room tag with volume.

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However, looking at the tag, although we can see the area at 4 83 square feet,

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we can see the volume is actually not computed

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if I select the room itself and then we'll go across to the properties palette here.

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And we can see we have the dimensions panel, we have parameters for area perimeter,

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there's an unbounded height parameter.

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But again, the volume is not computed.

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And actually, if we go up to the constraints panel here, we have a limit offset of 8 ft

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and it's this that sets the unbounded height.

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So to show this,

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we'll open up section a from the project browser.

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And now looking in the section here,

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if I come and select the lounge room,

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we can see that it has height to it and it's

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And we can use the drag control here to drag it taller.

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And then looking at the properties pallet,

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we can see that that limit offset has been increased.

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Although obviously, we still have no volume computer

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on the second floor,

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we have some rooms placed and we can see this one in the bedroom here

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and this also has a limit offset of 8 ft.

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And we can see that's actually sticking through the roof.

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And if I select the roof here,

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we can see from its properties that it's actually set to be room bounding.

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However, the room is ignoring that.

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And in order for it to take account of that,

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we need to enable the volume computations.

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So I'll switch back to the first floor residence plan.

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And now from the architecture ribbon tab,

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I'll select the room and area panel drop down

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and then we'll click area and volume computations.

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So from the volume computations panel, we can see that it's set to areas only.

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So we'll change this to areas and volumes

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and then we can click. OK?

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And now we can see that that's being computed. So

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we can see the volume here in the lounge and

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zooming out a little, all of the tags are now showing their volume.

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We'll swap back to section A and if I re pick the bedroom,

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we can now see that that's conforming to the shape of the roof.

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And if I drag the height taller, we can see that that still conforms and it

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gets the volume within that shape,

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we have to land in here as well.

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So we can drag that up to the roof and get an accurate volume for that too.