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Project 3: Office fit-out layout

Lay out a small office inside an existing shell: partitions, meeting rooms, rows of workstations with arrays, and a furniture schedule extracted from block data.

By the end of this project you will

  • Work over a referenced base building
  • Lay out workstations efficiently with arrays
  • Use attribute blocks and extract a schedule
  • Present zones with light hatching

Project brief

Objective

Produce a 1:100 office fit-out plan with a furniture schedule generated from block attributes.

Skills you need

The brief

An existing office floor, internal size 24 000 × 12 000 mm, with the entry at one end. Provide: reception, two meeting rooms (one for 6, one for 10), 20 workstations (1600 × 800 desks), a kitchen, a print/store room and two accessible toilets. Keep a clear main corridor at least 1200 wide (check the local building code for required widths).

A common rule of thumb is 8–12 m² of total office floor area per person — check that your layout lands in a sensible range.

A plan of an office floor with a reception, an open work area with rows of desks, two meeting rooms, a kitchen and toilets along one side, and a central corridor.RECEPTIONMEETING 1MEETING 2corridorKITCHENWCWC
Figure: A small office layout. Original KitWren diagram.

Step 1 — Base building as an xref

  1. 1Draw the shell (external walls, columns at 6000 centres, core) in P3-base.dwg.
  2. 2In P3-fitout.dwg, attach P3-base as an overlay at 0,0 and fade it.
  3. 3Create fit-out layers: I-PART (partitions), I-FURN, I-EQPM, I-ANNO.

Step 2 — Partitions and rooms

  1. 1Draw partitions (100 thick) for meeting rooms, kitchen, store and toilets.
  2. 2Place doors; meeting rooms get 920 doors.
  3. 3Check accessible toilet dimensions against your local code and a manufacturer's layout.

Step 3 — Workstations with arrays

  1. 1Create a desk block with a chair, and attributes TYPE and ID.
  2. 2Place one pair of back-to-back desks, then ARRAY › Rectangular to make rows, keeping 1500 between rows for circulation.
  3. 3Edit the array to adjust spacing until all 20 fit with clear walkways.
  4. 4Explode the array only if you need to renumber individual desks (or number them with attributes afterwards).

Step 4 — Present and schedule

  1. 1Add a light solid hatch (low transparency) to meeting rooms and reception to show zones; send hatches to back.
  2. 2Label rooms with names and areas.
  3. 3Use Data Extraction to create a furniture schedule table from the desk and chair blocks: type and count.
  4. 4Place the table on the layout beside the plan.

Your task

Test the layout

  1. Calculate floor area per workstation.
  2. Draw a 1500 circle in front of key doors to check turning space.
  3. Move one meeting room and confirm the schedule still counts correctly after refreshing.

You should end up with: A workable office plan and an accurate schedule.

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Project quiz

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Why reference the base building instead of copying it?

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