topic Fire Plans in Documentation

Fire Plans

Anonymous — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 14:06:08 GMT

Hi Guys

I am really new in the ArchiCAD. I am using Autocad for some years now but I really testing the two softwares.I am just wondering if anyone knows how I can create Fire plans and add them in the Navigator-Project Map?

Thanks

Re: Fire Plans

TomWaltz — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 11:51:15 GMT

They are really not any different from any other kind of plan (or any kind of drawing, really):
- Create a layer combination for them and make it current
- Set the Model View Options and Scale
- Set the pen set (if desired)
- Open the Organizer and Drag the plan from the Project Map to the View Map.

Re: Fire Plans

Anonymous — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 14:52:49 GMT

Thanks a lot for the response Tom
I don't want to be H
headache for you but as I said I am not really familiar with the archicad.From my experience in the Architecture Desktop I was able to use the initiall plan as a kind of reference and as you said a layer was done really the difference.In the Navigator Manager in the Architecture Desktop appears a folder with the name Fire Plan if you wish and you can print from there.I don't know if I am clear to you but what I mean, is that you can have the original set of Floor Plans and also a seperate folder with the Fire Plans.In a such a way I think if you wish to print the whole documentation of the project the fire plans appear as separete drawings that refer to the original plan .

Thanks in advance
Angelos

Re: Fire Plans

Karl Ottenstein — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 15:31:49 GMT

Seems you need to do some very basic training in ArchiCAD first?

Tom gave you the answer. Once you have a template set up for your type of work, you will have a Fire Plan folder and views pre-defined for all future projects. But, you have to do it yourself the first time.

In your view set, just create a new folder and call it Fire Plans.

In your Layer Settings, take your working Floor Plan layer combination, click New, give it a new name Fire Plans (etc) and then change the layer visibility settings to generate your fire plans. Set up model view options, pen sets, etc as Tom says, and then drag the story viewpoints into the Fire Plans viewset folder using Organizer.

Please work through the basic training materials and learn the difference between viewpoint, view and drawing, learn about layer combinations, model view options, pen sets, etc so that you have the basics down that everyone should have before they draw their first wall...then things like this question will be pretty obvious. 😉

Cbeers,
Karl

PS One intermediate level usage tip that you probably won't figure out on your own, since you are just evaluating ArchiCAD is the use of Composite Walls for firewalls. If your graphic standard is that there be a heavy red dashed line down the center of a firewall, for example, do not draw it as a 2D dashed line. You will then have to coordinate that line with the wall if things move. Instead, you can create a composite that has a 'skin' line in the center of type dashed. (Suppose the 'core' of the firewall is 6" - just divide that 6" volume into two 3" volumes so that there can be a separate line in the middle.) Use a unique pen for this 'fire' line. The pen set for an ordinary floor plan might assign a thin black, or even white, value to that 'fire' pen. For the fire plan pen set, that pen would be defined as a very heavy one ...and perhaps in red if you are printing in color. Finally, you would typically place such a firewall by using the center reference line method, although that isn't necessary.