AddCAD Tutorial part 14 - Labels and Tables

Let's see some important AddCAD functions for the calculation of the rooms. You can insert labels and tables to display room information of the building units. In the "QUANTITIES survey system" form of AddCAD preferences you can choose whether to insert labels or tables of the rooms. We choose a label template that fits our needs.

The SPACEUNIT command displays a dialog box of which the content depends on the model label or table that we choose. In this simple case only the "name ROOM" is asked. We select a point inside the room to be calculated and immediately we obtain all the information required for this type of label.

Let's put another label in the living room.

Of course we can always change everything in our project. For example, let's enlarge the living room window. Instead of 1 meter wide we want it to be 1 meter and 60 centimeters. AddCAD has a command in the toolbar that updates the labels.

We choose the "current WHOLE floor" option so that all data of the rooms on that floor are updated. In the living room the ratio WINDOWS AREA/NET FLOOR AREA has increased from 0.09 to 0.14.

Let's now choose a table for the rooms. A click on the image enlarges it so that we can understand better the type of table we are going to set as current.

We still use the usual SPACEUNIT command and we now see that the required data is more. In particular, the first time we define a space for that table need to also specify the name of "DWELLING UNIT".

Generally for tables we have a room number that identifies the room in the table rows. We then define an hallway and for this room we specify that it is not necessary to verify the habitability constraints. Prior to the first room we need to also insert the table.

Generally the only parameter to be specified is the number of rooms.

We specify the point inside the room and we see immediately that, other than the label, a row is placed in the table with all data required by this type of table. In the first column we have the code of the room which is also found in the label.

We now define the living room and, in this case, verification is needed. After specifying a point inside the room we see that in the table that the verification is correct.

Suppose we want to lengthen the table with two rows because we realize that the number of rooms is greater than the number of rows in the table. An appropriate command lets you change the table of the rooms.

Let's then quickly define the other rooms. For the bathroom there is a slight problem. The label would interfere with the rest because it is too large and therefore would not be legible on the inside. If we selected the "DRAW LEADER" option and, after having selected the internal point of the bathroom, we also specify a second point different from the first, a direction line is drawn in order to place the label on the outside.

Almost all of the tables also have a row for the totals, so that we can see and print the values of the total information of the rooms.

Even for the openings it is also possible to generate tables. In addition you can number the codes of the openings in the desired order. A specific command allows you to sequentially select the openings and update the code each time incrementing it by one.

Before starting you are asked for the initial number.

Once the codes have been updated, by selecting the windows in the desired order you can generate the table.

As you can see, you can choose whether you are managing windows, doors or generic openings. The table shows for each window also the room where it is located. As for the room tables there are also various types of tables for frames.