Zones & Spaces

[Anonymous]

Hi

I am preparing presentation drawings for a hospital and have set up my own space styles for the different departments. I was wondering how you add text data to the space style. For example i want to show the floor areas of each department but dont want to be doing individual area calculations and then typing the areas on myself.

Any help would be appreciated.

[David_W_Koch]

You may want to look into the Scheduling/Property Data features. For individual Spaces, adding a Property Set with an automatic property for area to the Space (or Space style) and then creating a Schedule Tag to display the data would avoid having to manually type the information. For departments consisting of multiple Spaces, you may be able to use a Zone to aggregate the individual Spaces in a given department, and then use an automatic property in a Property Set to get the total area of the Zone.

[Anonymous]

Have you tried, Themes? If it is only for a presentation.
I used it yesterday, I wanted to show using solid colors the different areas of a building.
Themes change the presentation only while you indicate to match "mechanical yard" with "maintenance" theme, so it paint the space in the way you want. You can always have the solid colors or hatches indicating the right department and the space tags in the same view
Put a sheet with this view and the legend and you are done.
I hope it helps