Adding Spaces to a plan just in lines and arcs

[mdhutchinson]

I've looked at adding spaces to a plan that is simply lines and arcs... no intellegent objects.

It could get somewhat messy doing Generate Spaces... if the doors and swings are frozen the bounding objects don't get found... but if the doors and swings are on... the spaces go in fairly well... but then the door swing is used as a boundardy.

Is there anything I can do to accomplish this faster with out what looks like a lot of time to clean them up?

[David_W_Koch]

Do not make the door and swing linework space bounding.  On a non-plotting layer, add space-bounding linework at door and other openings or at other locations where you want one Space to end and another to begin.

You will have to determine if adding the linework is easier than editing Spaces that have door graphics as a boundary.

[mdhutchinson]

How do I go about specifing what is space bounding and what is not?

[David_W_Koch · Accepted solution]

Select the AutoCAD objects (not AEC objects) and, on the Design tab of the Properties palette, scroll down to the very bottom to the Advanced category.  Expand the category, if necessary, and set the Bound spaces property to Yes to enable the objects to be a boundary for Spaces or No to disable that ability.

[mdhutchinson]

Thanks!