AutoCAD training courses “Can I put the area of a room in a table?”

 As an Application Specialist with over 25 years of training Autodesk applications, I have recently noticed there has been a growing interest from delegates attending SYMETRI’s AutoCAD training courses to advance their skills with AutoCAD Beyond the Basics and the AutoCAD Advanced courses.

Why are more learners attending more advanced course?

Over the past months, I asked my students why there has been an increased interest in more advanced AutoCAD training courses.

The most common answers, is that their company has reached a plateau, the safe known workflows are not efficient anymore, many CAD drafting staff have retired and the time has come to refresh and reskill to advance the business to the next level.

I discovered the group dynamic to be extremely exciting in the Beyond the Basics and Advanced course, as I notice long time CAD users look at new features and workflows to adapt and apply to their needs in the design office. Our follow-on courses are very much a hands-on skill building experience.

“Can I put the area of a room in a table”

During these more advanced training courses, I tend to describe features that will streamline a workflow. For example, when I trained a group of delegates from the world of space planning, where they asked: “Can I put the area of a room in a table?” The answer being “yes”, allows us to discover the workflow to achieve this goal.

 First, we looked at the boundary command.

We then picked a point inside a room using the Object type as Polyline.

This created a closed polyline bounding one of the rooms. There is an entry which shows the Area and Length in the properties under Geometry. Using that information, we can populate given cells in a table.

Over in Paper Space we created a simple table to display Room Name, Room Perimeter and Room Area. In that table, we double clicked on the data cell under Room Perimeter and selected field in the Data menu.

Select object on the left field names in the field dialogue box, and then select the polyline. You can select the polyline model line even when you are in Paper Space.

We need Length to describe our room perimeter and Decimal for format.

In Additional Format we used a conversion factor of 0.001 to convert our millimetres unit size to meters for our table entry.

This gave us a value that represented Metres in Length for the perimeter of the room or boundary that we created. This value is dynamic so if you change the boundary, it will update the table field value.

Use the same procedure to extract the area value from the polyline and put in the table.

AutoCAD Training courses

We offer a wide range of AutoCAD Training courses, please visit our website for more information: https://www.symetri.co.uk/training/autocad-training-courses

AutoCAD Essentials - This course covers the essential core topics for working with the AutoCAD software, starting with a few basic tools expanding to more advanced ones. Find out more: https://www.symetri.co.uk/training/training-courses/autocad-essentials

AutoCAD Beyond the Basics - This 2-day course will help you explore more advanced tools and techniques to help you work smarter. Explore the full course content here: https://www.symetri.co.uk/training/training-courses/autocad-beyond-the-basics

AutoCAD Advanced - Customising and managing AutoCAD to suit your design application is a great way to increase your productivity. This course teaches simple but powerful customisation techniques and advanced AutoCAD tools. Explore the full agenda here: https://www.symetri.co.uk/training/training-courses/autocad-advanced

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