From the course: Facilities Management: Social Distancing and PPE

Alternate workstation spacing in a drawing - AutoCAD Tutorial

From the course: Facilities Management: Social Distancing and PPE

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Alternate workstation spacing in a drawing

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- [Instructor] In order to emphasize the alternate workstation spacing, what I've done now is opened up a new drawing in AutoCAD from the library for you. The drawing is called typical office layout .DWG. As usual, you can download it from the library and open it up in AutoCAD to follow along with this particular video. Now what I've got at the moment is the drawing open in the layout tab with a typical viewport setup. And what I've done is I've frozen the layer that allows you to maintain your alternate workstation spacing. And it's very quick and easy. I can jump into the layer down here and look for the COVID layer. So if I come down here. There's my COVID layer there, COVID-19. And you can see it's frozen at the moment. So if I Thor that layer out by clicking on the snowflake, you can see those big red crosses appear marking out the alternate workstation spacing. So if I jump into the model tab now, you'll see there they're looking a bit bold and a bit bulbous. That's because they using a particular line weight. If I zoom in a bit closer and pan down, you can see that there's some big red crosses there marking out which desks should not be used in this particular floor plan drawing. And that alternate workstation spacing as I mentioned in the previous video in the slide allows us to maintain our social distancing. It allows us to obviously maintain a hot desking hybrid environment as well. So you can utilize AutoCAD to setup this alternate workstation spacing just by using a COVID-19 layer as I've done here in this particular AutoCAD drawing. So if I just double click on the wheel there and zoom extents, which is obviously good CAD etiquette. Make sure you always zoom extents both in the model space and in the layout tabs as well. If we jump back to the layout tab, if I was going to publish this drawing or perhaps plot it or send it to somebody. They can now easily see that alternate workstation spacing. I've set it up directly using a really bold layer in my AutoCAD drawing. That's what those big red crosses are for. And you might remove those desks from the working environment. You might even just mark them up as not to be used. Ideally, in a COVID-19 health and safety plan those desks would be marked up to be removed and you just leave the alternate workstations in their layout, in the floor plan so that when the facilities guys go into that particular workspace they know which desks to remove to obviously maintain your COVID-19 health and safety plan.

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