Modifying room boundaries and adding a color fill legend

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Looking at the open work area here,

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we can see that it has an area of over 1300 square feet.

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And if I select the tag,

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we can see that the red boundary line here goes way beyond the work area

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and out into the circulation zone.

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This is because we don't have a physical boundary at this end of the room.

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And as we don't want a boundary,

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we can use a room separator

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to actually enclose this room.

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So to do this, we'll go to the architecture ribbon tab

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and from the room and area panel here, we'll click the room, separate tool

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and a room separator is a line that we will draw in the model.

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So looking at the ribbon here,

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we can see we have the draw tools and we have the line draw tool enabled.

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So I'll come down to the end of the room here and then

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we can snap to the end of the wall here and then across to the other side

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and straight away, we can see that area is now reduced down to around 790 square feet.

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And I would draw another room separator across this area here as

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this doesn't need to be part of the open work area.

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Once again, we can see that area of reduce.

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So I click, modify to finish drawing the room separators.

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And if I select the tag for the open work area,

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we can see that it's now bounded by those room separators that we've just created.

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However, having done this, we now need to place a room into that circulation zone.

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So I'll go back to the architecture ribbon tab

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and from the room and areas panel here, we'll click the room tool

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and now we can just click to place a room into that circulation zone.

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So now click, modify to finish that

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and zooming in a little closer, we can see that that's also now named as room.

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So I pick on the room object itself and in the properties panel here,

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we'll change its name to be circulation.

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And

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as we start typing, we can pick that from the list. Now,

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it's now looking at the two offices here above the circulation zone,

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we can see the left hand one is quite small compared to the other.

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And if I pick on that room,

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you can see that it only goes to the edge of the cupboards here.

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And actually, we'd like those cupboards to be included as part of that room.

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So if I select the wall here

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and now looking at its properties,

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we can uns select the room bound in option.

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And once that's applied,

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we can see that area grow and the room now flows in through the cupboards.

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However, the office is quite small. So if I select the wall in the middle here

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and then we'll go to the modify walls ribbon here and click the move tool.

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And if I move this over by 2 ft,

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we can see the area for those two offices change

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as the room bounding wall moves to adjust their boundary.

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This these are quite small.

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I think I'll actually delete this wall and make it one office.

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So I'll select the wall here and, and using the control key, I'll select this door too

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now from the modify ribbon tab. I'll click on the delete tool

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and once they've been deleted, we can see we have this warning message now

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and it's letting us know that we have two rooms in

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the same space here and one of those rooms is redundant

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and looking at the view, we can see the redundant room here highlighted with its tag.

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So I'll click on the delete rooms button here

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and then that room will be deleted.

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Although we do have a warning,

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letting us know that we need to delete it from the schedule too.

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But now we can see we have that one office fill in that space.

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I'll select the room and the tag and we could

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just drag this now into the center of the room.

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So now we want to create a view to present these rooms better.

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So to do this,

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we'll go to the floor three plan view in the project browser here

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and then we'll right and click

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and choose, duplicate view and then duplicate with detailing.

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So now we have a copy of that view.

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We'll right click over it and choose rename

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and we'll name it as floor three layout.

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Now, as we duplicated with detailing,

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we have the tags placed on the rooms in this view still,

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however, I want to change them so that they are just the name only.

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So I'll pick on one of the tags here.

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Now, from the right click menu,

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we'll choose, select all instances

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and then visible in view.

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And now we have all of those tags selected. We'll go to the properties palette here

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and from the type selector, we'll change this to be room tag name only

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and now we can see all of those room tags just display the name of the room.

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And now we want to apply a color scheme and add the color field legend to this view.

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So to do this, we'll go to the annotate ribbon tab

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and from the color field panel here, we'll click color field legend.

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And now you can see we have the legend attached to our cursor.

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So we'll click to place it

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just outside the building here.

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Now we need to choose the rooms, space type

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and then the color scheme will be type.

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Now we can click. Ok.

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And now we can see that all of the rooms have been colored

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and the rooms of the same name have the same color

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and that's also updated the legend as well.

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So we can see all of the offices here have the same color

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along with the circulation areas and the reception areas.

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Now, looking at the conference room,

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we'd like to change its color to make it a little bit stronger.

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So I'll select the colorful legend here.

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And now from the modify ribbon tab here, we'll click edits game

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and here we can see all of the colors associated to the room names.

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So we'll click the color next to the conference room name.

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And now we just used a drag control here to make this a slightly stronger blue.

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So click OK to save the new color

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and then OK, to close the color scheme

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and we can see now that that updates in the view and also on the legend as well.

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So now that we have the color scheme and the color fuel legend applied to this view

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that completes creating the rooms and tags on this model.