Groundplan offers a range of tools for drawing asbuilt plans, sometimes know as-build, as-con, as-laid and WAE. The naming conventions of counts / lengths shown in the document may vary based on specific council requirements. However, the underlying principles and tools used remain consistent.
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Important to Note: Groundplan is not designed to produce scaled engineering plans.
Creating an Asbuilt within a New or Existing Project
Set the Plan Scale
Create a Stage called As-builts / property address
Click +Count and create and populate the Plan Requirements from council eg. WC, floor waste, shower, upstand, inspection point, valves, gully trap
Click +Length and create and populate on the Plan
Click Settings then click Label to Label the Length E.g. 100mm, sewer, SS stormwater, SW
Click Advanced to adjust the Text Size, Colour or Frequency of the Label
Add a Legend
Add a Title Block with all saved details
(optional) click the Details Tab and Edit the Plan Name
Additional tools that are frequently used:
Requirement | Usage examples | Best tool to use |
Text | - Notate wastepipes connections | Text Tool |
Arrows | - Direction of flow (use only the head) | Arrow Tool |
Dimensioning | - Add dimensions to a Plan | Ruler Tool |
Labelling | - Label W/C, Gully Trap etc | Count Labelling |
Images | - Council coding or legend | Image Tool |
Draw attention to items | - Man hole positions | Cloud Tool |
📝Note: It is recommended to save your Stage as a Take-off Template to use for future Projects.
Copying a plan with a stage present
Easily copy an existing Plan from the Project to create an As-built on.
While in Tile view, hover over the Plan then click Copy,
Rename the Plan then click Copy Plan
Duplicating the Plan and any Stages on that Plan
Click into the Plan
Click Actions then click Unlink from Plan
To remove the Stage from the Copy Plan but leave it on the orginal Plan
⚠️Warning:
Caution: Ensure to use Unlink from Plan.
Delete from Project - will remove the Stage permanently from all Plans across the entire Project.
Frequently Asked Questions
I need to create an Asbuilt on a sheet provided by my Council, can I do that?
I need to create an Asbuilt on a sheet provided by my Council, can I do that?
Yes.
You can upload the Plan / sheet into Groundplan then draw over the top using our Tools mentioned above.
Non Scales:
There are two ways to do this, use our Shapes Annotations to create the property and the Text Tool to notate the dimensions. There may not be the requirement to have this scaled (only the property scaled).
Scaled:
Use Measure Scale to scale from a Length on the Plan e.g. known dimension of a wall
Create a Stage called Drawing and populate with Measurements e.g. walls
Create a Stage for the Asbuilt requirements. Populate the Plan
Adjust the order of the Stages so that the Drawing Stage is at the bottom and can be hidden from the Legend
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