Rooms, Surfaces, Stories module, overview

You can use this tool to calculate area and display this in reports. The type and scope of the calculation is dictated by the report you select. Calculations can be performed based on the following criteria: living space, DIN 277 floor area and DIN 277 room volume. In addition, you can perform simple calculations for building applications and output analysis results in the appropriate reports.

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.

Icon	Function	Use
	Room	You can use this tool to enter rooms one by one. A dialog box with three tabs is displayed. In this dialog box you can assign fixed as well as custom attributes (e.g., room temperature) to the elements in the room. These attributes are used in subsequent analyses and evaluations. In the Finish tab, you can define covering for vertical surfaces, ceilings and floors and enter baseboard. You can enter the enclosure type, occupancy and area type in accordance with DIN 277 on the DIN277 tab. These rooms can be evaluated using the area calculation tool or in accordance with DIN 277.
	Auto-Room	You can use this tool to create several rooms in a specific region in a single operation. The room label and the finish specifications 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.
	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 Finish Specifications tools. Use this tool to enter wall paneling that does not extend up to the ceiling, for example, or to enter vertical surfaces that have the height of the room but are different from the other surfaces in 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 Finish Specifications tools. Use this tool if wall paneling is to be applied to an area of the ceiling, for example.
	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 Finish Specifications tools. Use this tool to enter the area around an open fireplace as natural stone, for example, in contrast to the carpet in the rest of the room.
	Baseboard	You can use this tool to create (special) baseboard (linear elements). These have a higher priority than the baseboard entered using the Room and Finish Specifications tools.
	Group Rooms, Stories	You can use this tool to group rooms or stories that you have already defined (for example, to define several rooms in a house as an apartment). You can also use this to modify or ungroup existing groups. Groups of rooms and stories can be given a hatching style, pattern, fill, bitmap area or style area as a means of identification.
	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 them in the Animation module.
	Assign Surface Elements to Rooms, Surfaces, Stories	You can use this tool to apply a hatching, pattern or fill to specific types of architectural elements according to selection criteria that you define. The architectural elements in question are: user-defined architectural elements, stories, rooms, floors, gross floor and net volume. You can also use this to clear the hatching, pattern or fill assigned to individual elements as a means of graphic identification.
	Area Calculation, Application	You can use this tool to calculate area and display this in reports. The type and scope of the calculation is dictated by the report you select. Calculations can be performed based on the following criteria: living space, DIN 277 floor area and DIN 277 room volume. In addition, you can perform simple calculations for building applications and output analysis results in the appropriate reports. 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.
	Space Allocation Wizard	You can use this tool to start the Space Allocation Wizard, which allows you to enter and display space allocation plans in Allplan.

	Elevation Point	You can use this tool to determine the height of an architectural component and place an elevation symbol with a label.
	Label	You can use this tool to label all architectural elements, advanced elements, instances of smart symbols and objects created in the Object Manager module at a later stage.
	Component Number	You can use this tool to give a unique component number to architectural elements.
	Reports	You can use this tool to generate reports of architectural elements, objects and 3D solids with architectural attributes. Reports can be sent to the printer and imported as PDF files.
	Legend	You can use this tool to create legends for objects and architectural components. The legends are placed in the (drawing) file. Legends can update automatically (depending on the settings you make).
	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 User-Defined Archit. Element	You can use this tool to create openings in user-defined architectural elements.
	Label Style	You can use this tool to create a label style. A label style may include all kinds of elements (e.g., lines, circles ...). You can also associate label styles with attributes such as occupancy or floor area. Using formulas, you can make the type of attribute dependent on specific values. For instance, you might want the label to include text if the room exceeds a certain height. The attributes serve as placeholders: the actual values of the architectural element are only calculated and displayed in the label when the label style is used to label an architectural element. In the same way as smart symbols, a label style can consist of a number of foils. The level of detail in a label can thus be higher at 1:50 than at 1:100.
	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 materials are entered 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 ones.
	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. The data is always created in the current document.

Icon	Function	Use
	Change Archit. Properties	You can use this tool to display and modify the architecture-specific properties of any architectural element. You can also change different architectural elements in a single operation.
	Show/Hide Junctions	You can use this tool to show or hide junction lines (for example, the lines where walls intersect).
	Delete Section of Linear Component	You can use this tool to remove sections from walls, beams, upstands, strip foundations as well as vertical surfaces and baseboard. Elements inserted in these sections (such as windows, doors, etc.) are also deleted.
	Update Labels	You can use this tool to update the labels for all the architectural elements in the loaded, active documents. In the case of large circular spaces (e.g., rooms based on a 2D circle), the area is calculated according to pi and labeled.
	Delete Component Number	You can use this tool to delete the component numbers assigned to architectural elements.
	Restore 3D View	You can use this tool to restore the three-dimensional view of architectural elements.
	Find Elements	You can use this tool to define selection criteria for finding objects and architectural elements in the active, loaded documents. The elements found are highlighted and can be further processed.
	Replace Label Style	You can use this tool to replace one or more label styles of the same type with another label style.
	Reshape Surface Element, Architectural Area	You can use this tool to add areas to hatching, patterns, fills, bitmaps or architectural elements (slabs, rooms, net stories, floors, ceilings, roof covering) or remove such areas.
	Split Surface Elements, Archit. Elements	You can use this tool to split hatching, patterns, fills, bitmaps and architectural elements (walls, columns, slabs, beams, upstands, rooms, net stories, floors and ceilings) into 2 parts. This can be useful if you need to split up the 3D plan while creating the layout.
	Merge Surface Elements, Archit. Elements	You can use this tool to merge two areas of hatching, patterns, fills, bitmaps and architectural elements (walls, columns, slabs, beams, upstands, rooms, net stories, floors and ceilings) to form a single element.
	Fillet	You can use this tool to fillet elements.
	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 it to retroactively alter the parameters of rooms that were created automatically and to label them. You can modify the parameters of rooms. You can match the parameters of existing rooms and assign these to other rooms. You can modify the parameters of stories or match the parameters of existing stories and assign these to other stories.
	Finish Specifications	You can use this tool to define or modify finish specifications (covering): vertical surfaces, ceiling and floor covering. The surfaces defined here correspond to those assigned using the Room tool. For example, you can assign finish specifications to rooms created using the Auto-Room tool, or you can modify the structure of surfaces or baseboard you created with the Room tool.
	Define, Modify U-D Archit. Element	You can use this tool to modify or define the architectural attributes of architectural elements.
	Define, Modify Opening in U-D Archit. Element	You can use this tool to modify or define architectural openings in architectural elements.