Directional flow - AutoCAD Tutorial

- [Instructor] Once again, we're staying in our COVID-19-Classroom.dwg file. And in this particular video, I want to talk a bit more about directional flow. This is something that AutoCAD can display really easily. And I just want to explain the directional flow of this simple classroom drawing. Again, I must hasten to add that these are guidelines, they're not specific and you would need to check the current legislation in the country where you are to make sure that your drawings adhere to that particular piece of legislation around the COVID-19 pandemic and the workplace, et cetera, et cetera. I'm just going to double click on the wheels to zoom extents so that we can see everything and maybe just pan out a little bit as well, because I'm not too worried about the nitty gritty leader lines or dimensions here. We're looking at the directional flow of the drawing itself. So again, AutoCAD is really good for this. So what I've done, is I've created all these floor markings that make sure that people are following the appropriate directional flow of the classroom. So you come in via the main entrance, the double doors here, you can see the mark there. There's one there, there's one there. And using the people here, you come in, go into the in area and use the in hygiene station. Once you've done that, you go through this door here into the neutral zone. The neutral zone is that buffer zone where you can make sure in your head you've gone through your COVID-19 checklist. Have I sanitized my hands? Have I got my PPE on? Have I got my visor on? Have I got my mask on? Have I got my goggles on, do I need to put my gloves on? And so on. All of that can be done in the neutral zone before you follow the directional arrows on the floor. Again, you've got the in arrow here going into the classroom. Now bear in mind, the classroom itself is a bit of a hybrid environment because when you go in, you're obviously going to go in and you're going to make sure that you'd go to the desk that you're working at. So the whole idea here would be, instead of having just random desks for your students, they would be assigned desks for your students that day. So this is where this hybrid office or classroom scenario comes in. So what they would do is the first person that arrives would use the in direction here and go to the furthest desk. The next one will come in and go to this desk. The next one will come in and go to this desk thus avoiding breaking any social distancing rules because you know that once a student is sat here, the next student that comes in will be at least, if you look at the dimension there, two and a half meters away. So we have a two-meter social distancing rule here in the UK. So that's above and beyond that two meters, it's two and a half meters. And if they're also following the appropriate PPE regulations, wearing a mask, wearing gloves, visors et cetera, you obviously know that you're making every effort to prevent the spread of COVID. Now we've also got in here, the neutral zone-teacher corridor. I'll come into that in a little bit more detail as well. But the whole idea is when you're leaving the classroom, you're going to leave from this workstation here first. So the student here would leave and go down here, making sure that they don't go into the teacher corridor, go to the out, through the neutral zone and out this way like so, and then they go out of the main entrance. Again, using the hygiene station to sanitize before they leave as well to prevent COVID-19 spread. So you see how the AutoCAD drawing itself provides a fantastic tool to highlight your directional flow on your floor plans. Again, it's a simple classroom model and I'm giving you ideas here on how to implement your workflows and your guidelines as you start to work towards people coming back into the classroom and back into the workplace.