Adding and naming spaces in a MEP project

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NARRATOR: Adding and naming spaces in an MEP project.

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In this video, we're going to add spaces and use

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the space naming tool to match the space names to room names

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in the architectural model.

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Remember that spaces include important engineering

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data such as electrical loads and mechanical airflow

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that rooms do not.

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I'm working in the small Medical Center building.

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This MEP model includes links to the architectural

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and the structural models.

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I'm now going to use the information

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in the architectural model to add spaces to the MEP project.

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First I need to set the architectural link

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to room bounding.

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This is not set by default. So I'll

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select the architectural link and in properties select

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Edit Type.

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In the Edit Type dialog box, select Room Bounding

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and then click OK.

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Now the MEP model will be able to see the bounding areas

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of building elements such as walls, floors, ceilings,

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and roofs when placing spaces.

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In the project browser in the coordination group,

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I have space plans already created.

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So I'm going to open the O1 ground floor space plan.

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I'm going to type VG to open up the visibility

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graphic overwrites dialog box.

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And as you can see when I find and expand the spaces category,

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I have the interior option already visible.

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This means spaces will display in color in this view

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when I add them.

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Now in the Analyse tab on the Spaces and Zones panel

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I'm going to click Space.

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I could place each space individually

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as you can see here.

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I'm going to modify this and change the tag to make just

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to be space number one.

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But there is an easier way.

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I'm going to start the space command again,

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and in the modify Place space tab

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I'm going to click Place spaces automatically,

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and you can see the spaces are placed

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and visible in this view.

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Now when I zoom in, you can see that all the spaces just

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have the generic name space and a number

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based on the first space I put in.

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It's not very useful.

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When I open the 02 second floor plan,

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you can see that the spaces are not yet placed here.

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I need to run the space command again,

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and I'm placing them automatically.

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Now I'm going to select one of the spaces.

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And when you do this, make sure you aren't selecting

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the tag, that won't do it.

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You need to hover over until you can see the x.

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And now in properties, I'm going to scroll down until I

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get to the identity data area.

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And you can see here that the room number and name

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from the architectural model are connected with the number

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and name of the space model.

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I could change these, but I don't want to spend that time.

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So I'm going back to the Analyse tab,

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and I'm selecting the space naming utility.

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In this dialog box, you can set up how you want it to display.

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I'm going to use the name and number,

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and then you can select how many levels that you want to use.

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I'm going to again select both my levels here.

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So I'm going to do all in the view.

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When I click OK, you can see that the spaces are now

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updated to match the identity data of the room names.

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Now these spaces can also be used

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for Electrical lighting and electrical load

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calculations as you can see here, as well as HAVC analysis.

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Now one of the thing I do want to show you is setting up

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space tags in another view.

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So I'm going to open up the electrical ground floor

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electrical plain view, and I could use space tag and then

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select each space. .

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That would take time but in the Annotate tab,

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I can use the tag all, select space tags, and then click OK.

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So I've added spaces to my project

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and I can use this as a basis for other analysis

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and documentation.