HOW TO START!
Steps to opening PAD and start using the dashboard
Fire up PAD
Opening the PAD interface
Click on the “Appiture” button in your ribbon. There you will find the “Project Active Dashboard” button. Click this to bring up the PAD inteface
PAD Interface
Initiate Room and Area selection
Here you select your desired Room and Area category parameters within your project that you want to show up on the dashboard. Select the Phase (New Construction) and Area Scemes (Gross Floor Area) first. Remember if you don’t have any Areas in the project you can leave these fields blank and click “Confirm” to open the Project Active Dashboard
Open PAD
Project Active Dashboard
Initially the dashboard will have only the project name and address however this is you dashboard for you Project. Let’s jump in!
Selecting Levels
Populate your dashboard
By selecting your desired levels you have full control and can omit any superfluous levels such as reference levels etc.
Selecting Area Types
Populate your dashboard
Select the Area Types in your Project you want to highlight. For instance Residential and Commercial
Selecting Rooms
Populate your dashboard
Select the Room Types in your Project you want to highlight. For instance 1 bedroom, 2 bedroom units
Selecting Parking
Populate the dashboard
Select the parking types you have in the project
Typifying Levels
Fine tuning your dashboard
Select your levels which you want to make typical across your project. These may be levels with no content in revit or you simply want to override their current data with another level
Clients Brief
Comparison in the dashboard
At the bottom we have the clients brief section. Here we can input the requirements from the client so we can see how far or close we are to achieving their goals.
This can be in the form of a fixed number or percentage. We can also identify how the parking rates will be effected based on number of units compared with the authorities required numbers.
Areas can also be checked against gross area ratios if your building authority provides this information.
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