How to Set Up a Construction Site Management Plan FAST — Transcript

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1. 0:00Hey everyone, this is David. In this
2. 0:02tutorial, I'll show you how to create a
3. 0:03construction site management plan using
4. 0:05Rayon Design. We'll start with a basic
5. 0:07floor plan and layer on information like
6. 0:10work zones, crane locations, safety
7. 0:12paths, and more. Using colors, symbols,
8. 0:15and annotations, we can clearly
9. 0:17communicate the logistics of a
10. 0:18construction site. Whether you're
11. 0:20coordinating deliveries, safety zones,
12. 0:22or machinery layout, Rayon helps you
13. 0:24streamline the process and centralize
14. 0:26collaboration across all stakeholders.
15. 0:28You can follow along by signing up for
16. 0:30free and using the drawing linked in the
17. 0:32video description. Let's dive in. After
18. 0:35creating your free Rayon account, start
19. 0:37in your workspace by importing a DWG or
20. 0:40PDF of your site map. I'll start off by
21. 0:43just creating this new model.
22. 0:46So, I'll go up here to the menu and
23. 0:49import DWG.
24. 0:51And I've already brought it over here.
25. 0:54So, I'll just select that file and open
26. 0:57it.
27. 0:59And you'll notice this actually opens up
28. 1:01in a new tab. Um, and this will collapse
29. 1:04into my model uh once it's ready to
30. 1:07import.
31. 1:09So let's see. I'll just zoom in here.
32. 1:12And this is asking me to pick a known
33. 1:14length of by setting two points. So I'll
34. 1:17just select these two points. And that
35. 1:20dimension is showing 12.1 m. And again
36. 1:24I'll change this from feet to meters.
37. 1:27So, we should be good to go.
38. 1:29And now, see, it closed out that tab and
39. 1:32brought me back to my model. So, I'll
40. 1:34pick an insertion point.
41. 1:37And I'll just close that. And there we
42. 1:40go. So, now we've got this imported.
43. 1:44And, you know, I can zoom in and kind of
44. 1:46make sure, you know, maybe I'll measure
45. 1:49this, make sure that those are showing
46. 1:50correctly. All that looks good. Um, and
47. 1:54then I'm actually going to lock this.
48. 1:56And so I'll select everything and just
49. 1:58to make things easy, um, I'm going to
50. 2:01group it.
51. 2:04All right. So now I have this all as a
52. 2:06group and I'll check my layers. Let's
53. 2:09see. Maybe I want this to be on the
54. 2:11import layer. And I'm going to go ahead
55. 2:13and lock this group. So now you can see
56. 2:17it's not even selectable. Although I can
57. 2:20still go in and, you know, snap to
58. 2:23measurements, uh, snap for drawing and
59. 2:26all of that, but I can't actually move
60. 2:30or, um, adjust this. But what I can also
61. 2:33do is I can select it in the layers and
62. 2:36I can unlock it and then it's free to
63. 2:39move around around again. Um, and I can
64. 2:41go ahead and lock it again.
65. 2:45Now that we've got our floor plan
66. 2:46imported and locked, let's start to fill
67. 2:48out this diagram. So, the first thing I
68. 2:50want to do is I want to trace over these
69. 2:52walls. So, we'll go up here and we'll
70. 2:54add a layer and we'll just call that
71. 2:56walls. And because this is a new layer,
72. 2:59it automatically is selected as our
73. 3:01active layer. And so if I zoom in here
74. 3:05and I'll select our walls tool, and
75. 3:08you'll notice that this does still snap
76. 3:10to uh the edges and the corners of this
77. 3:14wall um even though that layer uh and
78. 3:17that block is um locked. And so I'll go
79. 3:22ahead and I'll start to maybe just to
80. 3:25show you how to do this, I'll snap to
81. 3:27that inside corner. Um and we can always
82. 3:30adjust that later.
83. 3:33All right. So, we've got that one in.
84. 3:36And I know there's a couple things we
85. 3:37want to correct there, but I'll just
86. 3:39draw trace this one as well.
87. 3:44It looks like this one we are matching
88. 3:46the wall thickness. So, that'll make
89. 3:48things pretty easy. Um, but we can
90. 3:51always adjust the other one. All right.
91. 3:54So, now we've got our two
92. 3:57these two areas blocked out. And because
93. 4:00this wall thickness is incorrect, I'm
94. 4:03going to
95. 4:05se select all this and actually let's
96. 4:06measure that wall half a meter. So I'll
97. 4:10select all of those and I'll go over
98. 4:12here and change that to a half meter.
99. 4:15And so that's all looking good. Um
100. 4:18except that this wall we need to align
101. 4:21on the other edge. And so all we have to
102. 4:24do is drag it over and that'll stretch
103. 4:26these two connecting walls as well.
104. 4:29Um, and you know, this one is already
105. 4:32good. So now what I'd like to do is u
106. 4:35because this is more of a diagram, I
107. 4:37want to make these walls black. So once
108. 4:39again,
109. 4:41I'll select this batch first and I'll
110. 4:43just go over into our properties and we
111. 4:45can change this color to black. Um, and
112. 4:49actually while we're at it, since I
113. 4:51might want to go and use this this wall
114. 4:53type again, I'll go and add this this
115. 4:55wall type as a style. Um, so maybe you
116. 4:59know this is a halfmeter wall.
117. 5:04All right. And then when I click on that
118. 5:06again, this is selected here. And we can
119. 5:09always go back and use that again. Um,
120. 5:12and I'll do the same thing here. Change
121. 5:15this to black. And we'll create a new
122. 5:18style. And we'll call that 3 m wall.
123. 5:24All right. And now when I select any of
124. 5:26these walls, this is showing me that.3
125. 5:29meter, but I can also go and change that
126. 5:32to the 0.5 meter. So now I have these
127. 5:34two wall types saved as options.
128. 5:37Um, and the next thing I want to do,
129. 5:39I'm, you know, eventually we'll fill
130. 5:41this out and all that, but I figured
131. 5:42these are easier shapes. Um, so we're
132. 5:45going to make these zones. So I'll
133. 5:47create a zone.
134. 5:49And you can kind of see it just
135. 5:51automatically, you know, fills that
136. 5:53space. And I'll do the same thing here.
137. 5:57Um, and now when we go to label these,
138. 6:00you know, I'll call this zone
139. 6:03uh proposed
140. 6:06three story
141. 6:08office block.
142. 6:12And then this one,
143. 6:15maybe I'll call this proposed warehouse.
144. 6:20All right. And it looks like, you know,
145. 6:23that text is pretty small. So, I'm going
146. 6:26to
147. 6:27make this I'll just make it a meter.
148. 6:29Nice and easy.
149. 6:32And you can also see that here, you
150. 6:35know, it's got the area of the space.
151. 6:37Um, but you can kind of you can
152. 6:39obviously see that it's showing square
153. 6:40feet. We want this to be showing in
154. 6:42meters. So, we just again go to our
155. 6:44properties and area. It's showing square
156. 6:46feet incorrectly. So, we just go square
157. 6:49meters. Um, and there we're all set. And
158. 6:52you know, maybe we'll add another
159. 6:56layer and we'll call this zones. And
160. 6:58then we'll do another one and we'll call
161. 7:00this text.
162. 7:02And this way, you know, as I go through
163. 7:05and I start to, you know, make our text
164. 7:08um, put the text on the right layer, we
165. 7:10can make sure that that text is sitting
166. 7:12above our zones. Um, and so I'll go and
167. 7:15I'll select these two zones
168. 7:17and I'll put those on the zones layer.
169. 7:20And
170. 7:22let's see, I got to find this text.
171. 7:26And I'm just going to use
172. 7:30the eyropper. And so there it
173. 7:32automatically took that size update that
174. 7:35we made. And it also took the um that
175. 7:39change we'd made from square footage to
176. 7:42uh square meters. And so I'm also going
177. 7:45to select these two
178. 7:47uh text options and I'm going to put
179. 7:51those on the text layer.
180. 7:55And I'm going to make these zones uh a
181. 7:58different hatch and a different color.
182. 8:00So, I can go over here, and right now
183. 8:03we're showing this kind of light gray,
184. 8:05which obviously if I move this around,
185. 8:07we'll see different um you know,
186. 8:09different colors. And I'm going to go
187. 8:12over to the hatches and I'll make this a
188. 8:14pattern. And clearly something is a
189. 8:18little off with this. I think I'm going
190. 8:19to make want to make this red. Um
191. 8:22clearly, you know, what we're seeing is
192. 8:24supposed to be that kind of diagonal
193. 8:25hatch and that's not what we're seeing.
194. 8:27So, you know, clearly there's the
195. 8:29problem.
196. 8:30um it's just scaled incorrectly. So if I
197. 8:33go here and I can edit and why don't we
198. 8:37make this times 40. Um and that is
199. 8:41looking a lot better. And same thing
200. 8:44here, you know, maybe maybe to start
201. 8:49I'll just use the eyropper. So those now
202. 8:52look the same. But maybe I just want to
203. 8:54make this a different color. Um, so
204. 8:56we'll give this kind of a,
205. 8:59you know, maybe we'll make this kind of
206. 9:00a brown.
207. 9:02And so we can easily start to lay out
208. 9:04these multiple, you know, different
209. 9:06diagrams, um, to show these spaces.
210. 9:10Okay. So, we've taken this a little bit
211. 9:12further and further developed this
212. 9:14diagram, but there's a couple of things
213. 9:15I still want to show you just to to show
214. 9:18how to flesh out this uh this diagram.
215. 9:20So, first, you know, we're showing some
216. 9:22locations of fire extinguishers. And in
217. 9:26order to to bring this this diagram in,
218. 9:29I'll just go over to our blocks library.
219. 9:32And RAN has provided thousands of blocks
220. 9:34that we can search through. So, I'll
221. 9:36just do a search for extinguisher.
222. 9:40And here we've got that object that
223. 9:42we're seeing here. So, obviously I could
224. 9:45just copy and paste this throughout. Um,
225. 9:47but for the sake of this demo, I'm going
226. 9:49to show you how to actually bring this
227. 9:51in. So, all we have to do is drag it in.
228. 9:55Um, and you might be thinking, "Oh, no.
229. 9:57It's not here." But one thing that
230. 10:00sometimes might happen is something like
231. 10:02this, an object like this might be
232. 10:04initially designed for paper space just
233. 10:06because it might be initially thought of
234. 10:08as primarily being put onto a sheet of
235. 10:11paper rather than into model. Um, and so
236. 10:14I know that I dragged it in around here
237. 10:17and it looks like we've got that
238. 10:18selected. And this is why it's not
239. 10:19showing because it's really small. So
240. 10:22maybe I'll bump this up to 4 mters. And
241. 10:24that looks about right. And then I can
242. 10:27just go ahead and drag this where it
243. 10:28needs to be. So that staff parking looks
244. 10:31like it probably needs a fire
245. 10:32extinguisher. Um, and then the next
246. 10:36thing I want to show you is because this
247. 10:38is a uh construction plan and we want to
248. 10:41see, you know, how trucks are moving
249. 10:44through the site. You know, if they're
250. 10:46going to enter through this gate and
251. 10:47then exit through that gate, then we
252. 10:49need to show that path of travel. So,
253. 10:51I'll first start with just showing a
254. 10:54polyline. And I'll snap to uh the center
255. 10:58line of that gate. And then I'll snap to
256. 11:01the center line of that gate. And then
257. 11:04I'll have it travel through.
258. 11:07And maybe I want this to
259. 11:11come out and extend a bit further.
260. 11:15All right. And right now it looks like
261. 11:17our polyline line type was matching
262. 11:20this. So I don't really want to do that.
263. 11:22So I'll detach that style. And you know,
264. 11:27I'll go here. Maybe we want this to be
265. 11:28orange. Uh, we're already showing a a
266. 11:32dash here, but maybe this wants to be a
267. 11:34little bit bigger. So, I'll do a two.
268. 11:37Um, and let's make this thick.
269. 11:41And actually, maybe this needs to be
270. 11:43back down a little bit as we're getting
271. 11:45this as everything is scaling up. All
272. 11:48right. So, that looks about right to me.
273. 11:49And then, you know, because this is a
274. 11:51one-way direction, let's go ahead and
275. 11:54add some arrows.
276. 11:56So, I'll go to the arrow tool and I'll
277. 11:59just align here. And I just want to see
278. 12:00that arrow head. Um, which obviously
279. 12:03that is not how we want it to look. So,
280. 12:06we can go back into our properties and I
281. 12:09can pick that same orange. We want to
282. 12:12match thickness here. Um, and then
283. 12:17here's importantly, I can change the
284. 12:19arrow type. So, I want this to be open
285. 12:22and it's looking pretty small. So, we'll
286. 12:24make that 5 m.
287. 12:27And that's looking pretty good to me.
288. 12:29So, now, you know, we can go ahead and
289. 12:32start to copy this around.
290. 12:36And I'll just rotate about that axis
291. 12:44and everything is aligning. And I'll
292. 12:47just bring that out across here. So, now
293. 12:50we have a pretty clear path of travel.
294. 12:52Um, and then the other two things I want
295. 12:54to do. First, back to our blocks
296. 12:56library. I want to show the actual
297. 12:59truck. So, I'll do a search for truck.
298. 13:03And here we've got our cargo truck.
299. 13:08So, I'll just drag that in. And maybe
300. 13:11orient it this way.
301. 13:13Uh, and you know, maybe I'll move that
302. 13:16arrow
303. 13:18just things are a bit clearer.
304. 13:22And I'd rather have that line above. So
305. 13:25I'll go here and arrange and just send a
306. 13:27backup layer. And so there it's clear.
307. 13:30We've got our truck showing below. The
308. 13:32diagram is really clear. And the last
309. 13:34thing that I really want to see is, you
310. 13:37know, we've got a dimension here showing
311. 13:39how wide that gate is. I want to make
312. 13:41sure that that we've got enough room
313. 13:43here for that truck to move through. So,
314. 13:46um, I'm going to go to our dimension
315. 13:48tool and we'll just start with, you
316. 13:52know, in between these two buildings.
317. 13:54And so, we'll just dimension that way.
318. 13:56And then we've got a clear dimension
319. 13:58there. And it looks like these two
320. 14:01dimensions are matching in style. But
321. 14:03maybe I don't like that and I want to,
322. 14:05you know, do something different. I can
323. 14:07still go back to our uh our properties
324. 14:10panel. Maybe I want this to be a little
325. 14:13bit thicker.
326. 14:15you know, 2 mters. And, uh, maybe I want
327. 14:19to see this as, you know, blue
328. 14:22dimension.
329. 14:23Um,
330. 14:26and if I want to change that text to be
331. 14:28blue as well. And maybe it's just too
332. 14:32small. So, I want to make that a little
333. 14:33bit bigger. I want to make these arrows
334. 14:35a little bit bigger.
335. 14:37Um, and actually, I got to do both
336. 14:39sides.
337. 14:41And so, there it's a little clearer. Um,
338. 14:43and if I want, I can save this as a
339. 14:47style type. I'll just call it dim. And
340. 14:50then I can go over here and I can change
341. 14:52this to be that dim style as well. So,
342. 14:56it's all really easy to just make
343. 14:58everything the same and start to add,
344. 15:00you know, more objects to this diagram.
345. 15:03Rayon is also really useful for creating
346. 15:05post construction documentation or
347. 15:07architectural drawing sets. Here's
348. 15:09another drawing showing how that might
349. 15:11look. And you can see this is all done
350. 15:14with the same tools. So all these are
351. 15:16the zones that we're looking at before.
352. 15:18Um all these desks have been brought in
353. 15:21through Rayon's block library. Um all of
354. 15:24this can be put together easily through
355. 15:26Rayon. Dimensions, annotations,
356. 15:29everything. Once your drawing is
357. 15:31complete, the next thing we want to do
358. 15:32is export for sharing and printing. So,
359. 15:36I've brought these title blocks in, and
360. 15:38there's plenty of these available within
361. 15:41the libraries. Um, so I can just, you
362. 15:43know, do a search for title block. Um,
363. 15:46or you can save your own as I have for
364. 15:50access to all of your all of your own
365. 15:52projects. And next, what I want to do is
366. 15:55create a page. And so, if I go to the
367. 15:58pages tool, I'll just marquee that area.
368. 16:03And we can set this as custom, which we
369. 16:06have here. Um, and we can set the scale.
370. 16:10Um, so I've got, you know, 1 to 40 as
371. 16:12the scale. Um, if we knew exactly what
372. 16:15we wanted, you know, we could do 24 by
373. 16:1736. Um, or, you know, arch A, archb, all
374. 16:21the standard sizes. Um, but for now,
375. 16:23we'll just go custom to keep it simple.
376. 16:25Um, and then I'll actually do another
377. 16:27page for the architectural plan.
378. 16:33And so you can see up here we've got
379. 16:35page one and page two. And then if we go
380. 16:37over to our pages tab, we're seeing both
381. 16:40of these pages available. And next what
382. 16:43we want to do is we want to hit export.
383. 16:46And now we can, you know, zoom in and
384. 16:48make sure everything is looking good.
385. 16:51And we can export as either a PDF or a
386. 16:53PNG. Uh we can also change the range. So
387. 16:56maybe I just want to do, you know, page
388. 17:00one. um or I want to do all and then
389. 17:03hitting export is as simple as that. The
390. 17:07other thing that we can do with these
391. 17:08pages is we can actually share a
392. 17:11presentation. So if I go up to share
393. 17:15uh then I can just go over here and
394. 17:17publish that presentation.
395. 17:19And here I can copy the URL and send
396. 17:23this to my clients. Then they can
397. 17:25actually come into Rayon and view this
398. 17:28presentation within uh the file. And I
399. 17:32can also just go up here to preview. And
400. 17:34this is exactly what my customers will
401. 17:36see. Um and again here I can also copy
402. 17:41the link to share or I can present.
403. 17:44Rayon also provides plenty of
404. 17:47collaboration tools. So along with that
405. 17:49share menu um I can go up here and I can
406. 17:53invite team members to access this file.
407. 17:56Um or as we've been looking through our
408. 17:58block libraries, I can also publish this
409. 18:01project as a library for both styles and
410. 18:04blocks that all of my teammates have
411. 18:07access to the same uh the same objects,
412. 18:09the same blocks across all of our
413. 18:11projects. But here's where I could
414. 18:13invite somebody as an editor and then
415. 18:16their cursor would actually show within
416. 18:18the same project and we could work on
417. 18:20this together. Um, also along those
418. 18:23lines, we can annotate. So maybe I want
419. 18:26to, you know, highlight that truck. Um,
420. 18:30and maybe I want to add a little comment
421. 18:34of, you know, change this color. Um, and
422. 18:39then my teammate could come in here,
423. 18:42open this up, type out a response,
424. 18:46and if you know they were picking up
425. 18:48some red line, this could just be simply
426. 18:50marked as resolved, and then that
427. 18:52disappears.
428. 18:54And that's how you can master
429. 18:55construction site management plans using
430. 18:57Rayon Design. If you have any questions,
431. 19:00drop them in the comments. We'd be happy
432. 19:02to help. You can try it for yourself
433. 19:03using the free template linked in the
434. 19:05description. If this tutorial was
435. 19:07helpful, please like the video and
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437. 19:11watching and I'll see you in the next
438. 19:12one.