OpenBuildings™ Designer Help

Creating Room Shapes

  1. Select (Building Properties). Opens the Building Manager dialog.
  2. Select a room to create a room shape, for example Room 1. Click > Draw room shape.

    Focus moves in drawing view.

  3. Click on the corners of a room in your drawing.
    • Start with the upper left corner.
    • Upper right corner next.
    • Lower right corner.
    Make sure to use Snap functions.
    Tip: Use the right mouse button to create the last segment of the room shape only in this case.
  4. Then right-click. The Building Manager dialog appears on screen.
    Notice that the room symbol next to Room 01 turns red, as now it is linked to a room shape.
  5. To visualise the room shape, click .
    To end visualisation, click OK.
Continue to create room shapes for all rooms in the drawing.
Note: Rooms that are not rectangular will require you to click on every room corner.