Highlight Rooms in your Floor Plan by Two Properties
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Highlight Rooms in your Floor Plan by Two Properties
Sometimes you may need to see multiple properties on your floor plans at one time. For example, you may want to see each department's vacant rooms, In this case you can highlight by occupancy and by department. To do so, you set two highlights:
- a solid-fill highlight for department (set the Highlight option to solid fills the room by each department's color)
- a border highlight for occupancy (set the Border option to outlines the border of the room with the color for the occupancy status)
For example, the below image shows a floor plan highlighted by department and occupancy status. This lets you easily see availability for each department. Each room is solid-filled with a color associated with the department, and a second color (the border highlight) outlines the boundary of each room. For example, you can see that the vacant rooms (outlined in green) do not have a department assignment (they are not highlighted). Likewise, most rooms allocated to departments (the rooms are solid-filled) are at capacity (they have a yellow border highlight).
If you opt to display a legend, it includes the colors for both the highlight and border highlight, as shown above. Use the buttons in the ribbon to set the two highlights and legend.
Procedure
- Load the Space Console, and set a filter as desired.
- Select the drawing you wish to load.
- Set the property for which you want a solid fill highlight. In the Highlight option in the floor plan ribbon, choose the desired property. The system solid-fills rooms according to the colors associated with this property. Areas without colors do not have a value for this property.
- Set the property for which you want a border highlight. Click the Border Highlight button in the floor plan ribbon, choose the desired property. The system outlines rooms according to the colors associated with this property. Areas without colors do not have a value for this property.
- To determine the value that each border highlight color represents, click the Legend button. The system displays a legend listing each value and its associated color. You can move this legend to anywhere on the screen.
Hints
- For the procedure for setting one highlight, see Highlight a Rooms in your Floor Plan by One Property .
- You can experiment with which property you want to use for which highlight. The above example could have used the solid fill for vacancy status and the border highlight for department assignment.
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If you find that the colors for the solid-fill and border highlights are not easily distinguishable, you can change the highlight colors for room categories, room types, divisions, and departments.
- Run the Define Division and Department Highlight Patterns and Define Room Category and Type Highlight Pattern tasks. Properties such as occupancy and super category cannot be changed.
- For Foundations, see Define Room Categories and Room Types and Define Divisions and Departments .