Rooms

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NARRATOR: Before you can add room tags

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to label the spaces in your model,

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you must add room elements.

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Adding room elements is as simple as clicking

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within an enclosed space.

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The rooms will number automatically

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as they're placed, and they typically

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include a room tag by default.

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On the Architecture tab on the Room and Area panel,

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we have a Room button right here.

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I'll click that button, and you'll

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see that the Tag on Placement feature is already enabled,

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and that means that I'll get both a room and a room tag

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with a single click.

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Now, if I move my mouse outside of the floor plan,

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you'll get this generically shaped blue rectangle, which

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represents the room, and it'll have this X running through it.

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That would create a non-enclosed room.

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But if you move your mouse within the plan,

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notice that the shape of that blue outline and the X

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is now conforming to the enclosed space in which

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your mouse is contained.

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And I'll click to place my first room element.

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Now, I'll move my mouse away from that slightly,

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and you'll see that the room I just placed

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will have this blue tinted color,

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and it'll have this X running through that.

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Both of those are indications that we now

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have a room element there.

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Now, what I want to do is actually cancel the command.

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I'll click the Modify tool to get out.

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And the main reason is that the first room that I placed

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came in his room number one.

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Now, if you're satisfied with that number,

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you can certainly continue, but I

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want to actually change that number,

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and it's a really good idea to do

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that first so that I won't have to do

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lots of renumbering later.

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So let's move our mouse over here and locate that X again.

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And there's two ways that we can change the values

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within the room.

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One is to actually select the room itself.

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So all you have to do is locate that X and click,

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and that will select the room element.

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We can then move over here to the Properties palette,

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and you'll see its number and its name listed right here.

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So let's take the number and change that to 101, press

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Enter, and then I'll apply that by moving my mouse back

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into the floor plan.

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Notice that the tag will update immediately

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to reflect that change.

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The name is still called Room, and I'd

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like to change that too.

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So I could do that right in the Properties palette the same way

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or, alternatively, I could come over here and select the Room

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tag instead.

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Now, that will indicate which room is its host because it

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will highlight its host room in a reddish color,

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and then the labels within the room tag

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will now become editable.

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So I can click right on the word "Room"

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and type in my preferred value, such as "Exam Room."

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Now, to show you what that did, I'm

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going to locate that X again, click it, and come

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back over here to the Properties palette.

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And notice that it changed the value of the actual room.

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So it doesn't really matter whether or not

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you select the room and edit it in properties or whether you

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do it through the tag.

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The result is going to be the same either way.

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You're changing the values within the host room element,

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and the tag is simply updating to reflect that change.

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All right, let's continue now with the next room.

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So we'll go back to the Room command, or type RM,

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the keyboard shortcut.

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And let's move over to the next space to the right

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and click to place it.

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Now, notice that the number automatically

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incremented to 102.

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So that's why it was so important for us

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to get the number of the first room correct

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so that it would then number sequentially from that point

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on.

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But look at the name.

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Notice how it went back to that default name

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that we had a moment ago.

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Well, that's as simple as coming over here to the Properties

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palette and changing the name that you want first

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on the Properties palette.

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And that effectively establishes Exam Room, now,

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as the new default name.

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And I could make Exam Room

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and so on.

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Now, if you need to change the room name,

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you'll just need to remember to come back over

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to Properties palette and change that before you continue.

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So I'll create a corridor next, and I'm

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going to place that right below my exam rooms here.

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And notice that that flows out in into this large open space.

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Let's say you wanted to subdivide that large space

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into smaller areas.

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Let's go ahead and click the Modify tool to cancel out

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of the Room command and look at how

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we can begin to subdivide this large corridor space.

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On the Architecture tab, there's a Room Separator.

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This gives you access to several drawing tools,

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and these are just lines that you

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can use to divide up spaces.

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So let's say that this space up here I wanted

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to make into a small vestibule.

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I can simply draw a line across the boundary

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that I want to create there, click my Modify tool,

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locate my corridor space, which might be a little tricky to get

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over here by the tag, but I'll move down right about here

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and locate that X that passes through the space.

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And notice when I select it this time

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that it no longer includes that small vestibule

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space near the top.

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So I could go to the Architecture tab

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and click my Room button again and create a new room up

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in that location.

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And then I'll click the Modify tool to cancel.

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Now, it still is called Corridor because that's

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what we had set the default to.

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And if you want to call it something else like Vestibule,

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you can simply rename it.

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So at this point you could continue

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adding all of the remaining rooms that

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are required by this plan.

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And when you're done, it might look something like this.