Ferramenta de Área Molhada

Design and Model Wet Area Floors in Archicad with automatic falls using custom rules

Overview

Eliminate the headache of manual fall/slope calculations. This intelligent wet area tool provides real-time compliance feedback as you design, displaying falls in metric or imperial units based on your custom minimum and maximum gradient settings. Repositioning a floor waste or linear drain is effortless—simply drag it to your required location and watch the surrounding slopes update instantly.
Prefer complete automation? Define your design rules and let the tool automatically adjust perimeter heights to guarantee drainage compliance. The tool flawlessly adapts to any bathroom or wet room layout, supporting unlimited perimeter nodes to accommodate complex angled walls, niches, and service risers. Furthermore, Model View Options (MVO) allows you to customise output of floor plans, finish layouts, and concrete setout drawings.

Key Capabilities

• Flexible Drainage Types: Choose from comprehensive drainage patterns including 1-way, 2-way, 3-way, 4-way linear falls, and complex multi-fall layouts.
• Complex Geometries: Define any room layout with unlimited perimeter points to easily map around angled walls, columns, and riser intrusions.
• Dynamic Interactivity: Position drains on the fly; gradients and relative heights recalculate instantly.
• Precise Level Management: Control absolute and relative heights with flexible settings for drains, perimeters, and project reference levels.
• Diverse Component Styles: Select from built-in circular, square, and rectangular drain profiles with customizable styling.
• Custom Penetrations: Seamlessly cut out internal openings for toilets, structural columns, or vanity waste lines.
• Smart Compliance Rules: Establish local statutory compliance rules (minimum/maximum allowable falls) with visual non-compliance warnings on your plan, or set levels to adapt automatically.
• Accurate 3D Modeling: Showcase multi-layered floor substrates in 3D using building materials and surface finishes.
• Total Graphic Control: Maintain absolute control over 2D floor plan graphics, line weights, fills, and annotations.
• Global View Overrides: Effortlessly manage drawing-specific visibility and documentation styles via Model View Options (MVO).

Who It's For

For Architects, Designers and Interior Designers.

Typical Workflows

1. Define Geometry: Set the perimeter shape of your wet area floor boundary.
2. Establish Levels: Position your drain and input baseline perimeter reference levels.
3. Input Standards: Set minimum and maximum fall percentages or ratios to match local building codes.
4. Verify Compliance: Non-compliant slopes are instantly highlighted on the plan for quick adjustments, or... let the tool automatically set levels to compliant.
5. Deploy Drawings: Use Model View Options to control output of coordinated floor plans, finish plans, concrete setouts, and 3D documentation.