About Space Plans

Space plans can start out a lot like other floor plans and office layout diagrams. However, the Space Plan template is an application unto itself, and, frankly, this chapter only begins to describe its possibilities. The diagram you create might look like other Visio 2007 diagrams inasmuch as you can work with shapes. However, you’re probably better off thinking of space plans as a different entity altogether, because you’re not only creating a diagram, you’re building a model of a facility. Part of the model is visible in the shapes on the drawing page, but the heart of the model is behind the scenes in the associations you create between shapes, spaces, people, and assets.

In fact, you can take a regular floor plan or any ...

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