Room

You can use this tool to enter rooms one by one. In the Room dialog box, you can assign fixed attributes and custom attributes (for example, room temperature) to the elements in the room. These attributes can be used in subsequent analyses and evaluations.

On the Finish tab, you can define coverings for vertical surfaces, ceilings and floors and enter baseboard. You can define the room enclosure, occupancy type and area type in accordance with DIN 277 on the DIN277, Floor Area tab.

If you want to analyze these rooms, use the special reports provided by the Area Calculation, Application tool.

Auto-Room

You can use this tool to create several rooms in a specific region in a single operation. The room label and the finishing surfaces can be assigned at a later stage. This tool requires architectural elements like walls.

This tool is particularly useful when you need to quickly create rooms for initial analyses.

Space Allocation Wizard

You can use this tool to start Space Allocation Wizard, which allows you to enter and display space allocation plans in Allplan.

Catalog

You can use this tool to create or modify catalogs. These serve as the basis for the selection of materials for architectural elements.
You can find the Catalog assignment button in the Properties dialog boxes of all architectural elements. You can define whether you want to enter materials using custom dialog boxes that you fill out with materials as you go along, or whether you want to use custom catalogs or predefined and imported catalogs.

Story

You can use this tool to define stories and assign attributes. The stories can be analyzed with the Area Calculation, Application tool.

In addition, you can define surface properties for the surfaces that enclose the story and display these surfaces in Animation.

User-Defined Archit. Element

You can use this tool to create elements that can be given architectural attributes. You can make the same height settings as you would when creating architectural elements. This tool is very useful for modeling architectural elements that cannot be created using tools such as Wall, Column and so on.

Opening in U-D Archit. Element

You can use this tool to create openings in user-defined architectural elements.

Finishing Surfaces

You can use this tool to define or modify finishing surfaces (coverings): vertical surfaces, ceiling and floor covering. The surfaces defined here correspond to those assigned using the Room tool.

For example, you can assign finishing surfaces to rooms created using the Auto-Room tool, or you can modify the structure of surfaces or baseboard you created with the room tool.

Vertical Surface

You can use this tool to create (special) vertical surfaces. These have a higher priority than the vertical surfaces entered using the Room and Finishing Surfaces tools. Use this tool to enter wall paneling that does not extend up to the ceiling or to enter vertical surfaces that have the height of the room but differ from the other surfaces in the room.

Floor

You can use this tool to create (special) floor surfaces. These have a higher priority than the floor surfaces entered using the Room and Finishing Surfaces tools. Use this tool to enter the area around an open fireplace as natural stone, in contrast to the carpet in the rest of the room.

Ceiling

You can use this tool to create (special) ceiling surfaces. These have a higher priority than the ceiling surfaces entered using the Room and Finishing Surfaces tools. Use this tool if you want to apply wall paneling to a particular part of the ceiling only.

Baseboard

You can use this tool to create (special) baseboard (linear elements). These elements have a higher priority than baseboard entered using the Room and Finishing Surfaces tools.

Assign Surface Elements to Rooms, Surfaces, Stories

You can use this tool to apply hatching, patterns or fills to particular architectural elements (user-defined architectural element, story, room, floor, special floor, gross story or net room) in accordance with selection criteria you define. You can also use this tool to remove hatching, patterns or fills from architectural elements.

Visualize Surface Elements

You can use this tool to analyze areas and rooms according to different criteria (assembly, material, trade ...), apply surface elements (e.g. fills, hatching) as a means of graphic identification and create a legend. Allplan always creates the data in the current document.

Area Calculation, Application

You can use this tool to calculate areas, outputting the results in reports. The type and scope of the calculation is dictated by the report you select.

Reports are used for analyzing data in Allplan. They are saved as templates in RDLC format.

Reports can be printed, placed as PDF files in documents and exported to Excel and other formats.
You can change the layout of reports and save the result as a new template.

Redefine Rooms, Surfaces, Stories

You can use this tool to define or modify the parameters of baseboard, surfaces, rooms or stories. You can make various modifications:

• This tool is not limited to rooms but can be used for all the elements that go to make up a room: vertical surfaces, floor, ceiling and baseboard.
• You can use this tool to define the parameters of rooms that were created automatically or to label these rooms.
• You can modify the parameters of rooms.
• You can match the parameters of existing rooms and assign the parameters to other rooms.
• You can modify the parameters of stories or match the parameters of existing stories and assign the parameters to other stories.

Define, Modify U-D Element

You can use this tool to modify or define the architectural attributes of architectural elements. You can also assign architectural attributes to 3D elements.

Define, Modify Opening in U-D Archit. Element

You can use this tool to modify or define architectural openings in architectural elements.