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    Drawing As-built - Electrical

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    Groundplan offers a range of tools for drawing As-built Plans, which are used in the electrical, fire and HVAC industries.

    If further Symbols are required, please send our friendly Support Team a message at Help > Send us a Message and they will be able to assist.

    ⚠️ Important to note: Groundplan is not designed to produce scaled engineering Plans.

    Creating an Asbuilt within a New or Existing Project

    Using a Stage and the Measurement tools provides more flexibilty over the placement and editing of items. They do not necessarily need to be used for Quantities.

    Example - Adding circuit labels

    1. Create a Stage called Drawing
    2. Set the Plan Scale
    3. Enable the Grid Tool
      To line up circuits and for text spacing
    4. Click +Length named drawing, then populate on the Plan
      Used to create circuits
    5. Click Text Tool to add circuit details

    Additional Tools that are frequently used:

    RequirementUsage examplesBest Tool to use
    Select groups of items- Duplicate
    - Flip
    - Rotate
    - Delete    		Select Tool
    Remove- Remove points / cableEraser Tool
    Add additional symbols- power points
    - data points    		Count Tool
    Screenshots- Screenshot points that have been re-locatedExternal screenshot Tool (see GIF below)
    Images- Paste screenshots back onto the plan
    - Circuit board
    - Company logo    		Image Tool
    - Edit Size and location
    Labelling- Label cable lines
    - Mains
    - NBN / Cat 6    		Length Labelling
    - Edit Size and Style
    - Change Frequency
    Text- Notate circuits
    - Pipe details    		Text Tool
    - Edit Size and Style
    - Change location
    Arrows- To notationsArrow Tool
    - Edit Line thickness and Styles
    - Change location
    Draw attention to items- Distribution boardCloud Tool
    - Edit Line thickness and Styles
    Eraser Tool
    - Use with a Colour and low Opacity to highlight an area


    The below GIF uses the Grid tool to line up Text and the Select and Duplicate Tools to simplify the process.

    Creating Asbuilt 01

    The below GIF demonstrates Copying a symbol using an external screenshot tool, Pasting the Image back onto the plan using using CTRL / Command ⌘ and press V then using the Duplicate Tool for multiple instances on the Plan.

    Screenshot Asbuilt 01

    1. (optional) click the Details Tab and Edit the Plan Name
    2. Export the Plan

    It is recommended to save your Stage as a Take-off Template to use for future Projects.

    asbuilt-electrical.png

    Copying a Plan with a Stage present

    Easily copy an existing Plan from the Project to create an As-built onto.

    1. While in Tile view, hover over the Plan then click Copy,
    2. Rename the Plan then, click Copy Plan
      Duplicating the Plan and any Stages on that Plan
    3. Click into the Plan
    4. Click Actions then click Unlink from Plan
      To remove the Stage from the Copy Plan but leave it on the original Plan

    Caution: Ensure to use Unlink from Plan.
    Delete from Project - will remove the Stage permanently from all Plans across the entire Project






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