About Determining Net, Usable, and Gross Areas With a Calculation Standard Workflow

Spaces can have separate boundaries for the base area, net area, usable area, and gross area of the space. AutoCAD Architecture 2025 toolset includes standards based on the rules of DIN 277 (Germany), BOMA (United States), and SIS (Sweden).

  Task Comment
1 Use the floor plan to identify the perimeter of the space Use walls or other building objects to create the floor plan.

If you are working in a structured AutoCAD Architecture 2025 toolset project, open a construct from the Project Navigator.

2 Create a space Use a tool to create the space.
3 Determine how boundaries are offset and calculated Use a calculation standard.
4 Connect the building standard with a drawing Classify spaces if required by the selected area calculation standard.