Define a Room

The program will automatically form rooms based on the walls in the floor plan when the Automatic rooms setting has been enabled.

Automatic rooms

If the settings is disabled, you can define the rooms by clicking the limiting walls or lines.

Rooms can be defined either in the drawing or model window. The room labels are displayed only in the drawing. The program calculates the surface area of the floor, ceiling, walls and windows and also the perimeter of the room. This information is needed when the material report is created. The program will place a label in the middle of the room, consisting of the name of the room and its surface area data.

  1. Do either of the following:
    • Select Modeling | Room.
    • Right-click to open the context-sensitive menu, and select Room.
  2. Select the definition method from the auxiliary menu. You can allow the program to recognize the rooms in the floor plan automatically, or you can define a room by selecting its limiting walls, or, if there are no walls, by selecting the border lines limiting the room.
  3. Do one of the following:
    • Select the walls or lines using the selected method of specification.
    • If you selected the automatic recognition of the rooms, the program searches for the rooms in the floor plan automatically.
  4. Do one of the following:
    • Select the room data in the dialog box.

      Room Data

    • If you selected the automatic recognition of the rooms, the program names the rooms automatically: Room 1, Room 2, ...

Note:
  • The room label data is defined in the keyword group BDSX with the keyword room_label. See Room Label Data and Drawing Properties.
  • The surface area of the balcony door glass panels will be included in the room's window area if the balcony door glass panel lines are on layer 30.
  • The area information of a room defined with walls is updated automatically, when walls are moved or windows are added, removed or their size is changed. If the room has been defined with border lines, you can update the window surface area data on the room label with the Updating a Room function.
  • If the room you define overlaps with another room definition, the program highlights the existing room definition in the floor plan drawing, and gives you a warning: "New room is overlapping with an existing room". If you want to define overlapping rooms, for example, if you want to define an apartment consisting of rooms, create a new drawing-model pair for the overlapping room definition. Add the original floor plan drawing as a reference drawing to the new drawing-model pair to be able to define the rooms.