About Editing Space Surface Properties

You can edit the properties of 3D space surfaces with the Space/Zone Manager worksheet.

Space surfaces can be assigned a number of properties important for processing spaces in a downstream engineering or facility management application. You can define these properties in the architectural plan, and later export the plan or open it in an engineering application to perform calculations, such as determining the heating/cooling load on a building.

Use this procedure to edit any of the following surface properties for a non-associative 3D space:

• Surface name
• Surface type
• Surface style
• Surface height (extruded 3D spaces only)
• Surface openings
• Opening name
• Opening type
• Opening style
• Opening dimensions
• Opening area
• Opening reported area (3D freeform spaces only)

Attention: For the surfaces of an associative space, only the surface name, the surface type, and the ceiling and floor style as can be edited. All other surface properties, including the properties for associative surface openings, are read-only.