Several room functions base their square footage on the net square footage. It would be helpful to have a secondary way to acquire an alternate area. Right now it either has to be calculated manually, or room separation lines are added which distort the size and shape of the room for other uses (Gross sf, MEP, etc.)
One way to do this would be to have 2 different room seperation lines, a Major and a minor. An added method to get net room areas would be to nest the minor room separation line in the family and activated on a per instance basis to give a net area. The room calculation point could indicate which side of the family is the desired net area. This would enable net classroom size (where casework is excluded from the area) to be calculated as the caswork is modeled
While area plans can be used in some cases it requires a lot of rework, and a duplication of information if the information needs to be shown in multiple places. Often there is a need to tag both the overall SF of a space and the net area of cubicles within it.
Applications of net sf
- Classrooms and other spaces that require net square footage
- Cubicles, such as those for patients in ER, phlebotomy and cancer treatment settings, that are required to be a certain size but are defined by curtains and other non-room bounding elements
- This could also be used to define rooms (net areas) within an apartment (gross area) in a complex.