What is ‘Redraw Rooms by Walls’ Feature?

• It is an ability to draw or redraw Room Areas using current state of existing Walls
• The feature has two major use cases:

  • Add Walls from scratch and then get the Rooms using the feature:

    

  • Get Walls from processing, edit them and then update the Rooms:

    

How to Redraw the Rooms: Step by Step Guide

• Make sure that all Walls of selected Takeoff Zone are properly connected to each other:

  • By default, if Walls are connected, they show active open locks:

    

  • It doesn’t matter if locks are open or closed

  • Be careful: not all Walls that look connected are connected:

    

  • Fix all required connections using Snap-To-Points mode:

    

• When all Walls in a Takeoff Zone are ready, click on ‘…’ next to the Rooms node in the Left Panel, then on ‘Re-process all Rooms’. If the Rooms node is absent, switch it on in Filters:

  

  

• Re-processing Confirmation windows opens up informing that all Rooms will be redrawn:

  

• Click ‘Re-process’ and wait for 10-20 seconds until Rooms will get pulled from the server:

  

• Ready — brand new Rooms are drawn over existing Walls, ready to check and edit

Important Notes

• All Rooms in selected Takeoff Zone will be redrawn in course of Room Re-processing — this means all rooms that were edited or added since last processing will be wiped out before getting new Rooms
• Room Groups added before using Rooms Re-drawing will be removed
• If there were no Room Labels before using Rooms Re-drawing, all new Rooms will go to ‘Unlabeled’ group
• If Room Labels were present before using the feature — Rooms will be matched to Room Labels. How that works:

  • If a Room contains some Room Label symbol inside, it will be placed to the Group with the name defined by the text of this symbol:

    

  • If a Room includes two or more Room Label symbols or none of them, it will go to ‘Unlabeled’ group:

    

Video Example

KB-redraw-rooms-by-walls.mp4