Create Floor and Walls

This task allows you to define the floor and walls of your underground facility diagram. There are three options for creating the floor and walls (listed below). The first option supports four-walled, symmetrical diagrams only. Creating your floor and walls manually allows you to draw more than four walls without the confines of symmetry. Diagrams of any type may be created as Favorites and accessed later.

Configure and Create

Diagram Manager can take the length and width of the floor, in addition to the height of the walls, and create a four-walled diagram in a single click. Further, you can choose to display dimension lines for the floor and walls.

The dimensions of the floor and walls can come from two sources:

Option 1: Input them directly into Diagram Manager. In this manner, you type the values before you generate the diagram.
Option 2: Save the dimensions as an underground structure attribute in Attribute Editor. When you sketch the structure itself, you pre-populate the dimensions. Then, when you Launch Underground Facility Diagram Manager, the dimensions are ready to go.

IMPORTANT: This method requires extra configuration. A GIS administrator can read the Configuration Guide topic Enable Typing Floor and Wall Dimensions within the Attribute Editor for more information.

In Diagram Manager, under Create Facility Floor and Walls, click Configure and Create.
Verify the dimensions of the floor and walls. As stated above, these might be pre-populated from the structure’s attributes, or you might type them personally.

TIP: Even if the dimensions are pre-populated, you can still overwrite them by typing in new values.
Optionally, check Dimensions to display dimension lines around the diagram.
Click the Create Diagram button to place the diagram on the map. The diagram is sketched according to the specified dimensions and centered on the existing underground structure feature.
Keep the following points in mind:
- Once the diagram is placed, you may not re-create it on the same underground structure using these steps. If you want to create a new diagram for the selected structure, you need to first delete the existing diagram.
- If you re-visit the Diagram Manager > Create Facility Floor and Walls > Configure and Create, the dimensions are grayed out and display “0” as their value. This is expected, as the values cannot be changed in this dialog after placing the diagram.
- If you used Option 2 above and placed a diagram with dimensions pre-populated in the Attribute Editor, returning to the Attribute Editor and changing the dimension attributes does not update the diagram. If you want to create a new diagram for the selected structure, you need to first delete the existing diagram.

Diagram Favorites

Use this option to select an existing composite favorite from which your diagram is created.

Select a composite favorite in the bottom window.
Click the Create Diagram button. The composite favorite is placed on the map. It is centered on the existing underground structure.

Create Personally

This method allows you to create diagrams with more than four walls.

Start an editing session.
Select the Launch Diagram Manager tool and click an underground structure feature on the map. This will display the Diagram Manager.
From the Features tab, click the Floor feature to send it to the Attribute Editor.
Set attributes.
Sketch the floor polygon on the map.
From the Features tab, click the Wall feature to send it to the Attribute Editor.
Set attributes.
Sketch the wall polygons on the map. Ensure they are snapped to the floor.

Once the diagram is placed, you may not re-create it on the same underground structure using these steps. If you want to create a new diagram for the selected structure, you will need to first delete the existing diagram.

Once the floor and walls are drawn, you can create as a favorite or create duct banks and ducts.