Lesson 10 of 21 · 1:16
Diagram Check
Catch capacity and aisle problems before the client does.
Written guides for this lesson
- How do I check a floor plan for capacity and aisle problems?
Diagram Check holds a layout against your own standards — minimum aisle, square feet per seat, fire-code capacity — and clicking a finding selects the offending items on the canvas.
Transcript
0:03A plan can look beautiful and still be wrong. Diagram Check is the pass that catches it before anybody else does.
0:11It's the last icon on the rail.
0:14First it tells you where you stand: how many seats you've placed, in how many square feet.
0:19Then you set the standards it should hold you to. The minimum aisle you want between tables.
0:24The minimum square feet per seat — the number that decides whether a room feels generous or packed.
0:30And a maximum capacity, if the room has a fire-code number you must not exceed.
0:35Then run it. It checks the layout against every one of those, including anything that's drifted outside the walls of the room.
0:42This layout passes, which is the answer you want. But let's make it fail on purpose, so you can see what a finding actually looks like.
0:49I'll demand an unreasonable amount of aisle between tables — twelve feet — and run it again.
0:55There it is. And the finding is clickable — click it, and it selects exactly the offending items on the canvas, so you're not hunting for which two tables are too close.
1:04Set your standards once and every diagram gets held to them. Next, the same plan in three dimensions.