Settings

General

In Co-Designer, the General tab gives the user the option to opt for Advance Settings to activate the Furniture tab, switch on/off the LENS and Price Calculation. To make these changes, the user needs to click on the Confirm option.

A) Advanced Settings

The Advanced Settings toggle activates the Furniture Tab on the Navigator Menu. This allows the user to make edits or add new Furniture Sets and Patterns to the floorplan.

B) LENS

The LENS tool is currently under development and will be made available on Co-Designer Shortly.

In Co-Designer, the LENS tool gathers information set by the users & implements it on the floorplan. When the LENS-tool is ON the user can play with the Culture LENS in the drop-down menu and view the changes on the floorplate. In Culture LENS-tool, there are four types of application styles, namely: Collaborate, Create, Control & Compete. The user can determine the ratios between the styles by dragging the circular points towards the desired styles.

And when the LENS-tool is OFF, the user can create iterations on the types of furniture sets & patterns manually.

C) Pricing Calculation

The Pricing Calculation tool is currently under development and will be made available on Co-Designer Shortly.

Project Information

In the Project Information tab, the user can input the vital information of the project. The information that can be included is the Client Name, Project Manager Name, required E-mail address, Phone-Number, Industry (Project Type), Country (Project Location), and Additional Notes that you think might prove essential later. These details play a major role in organizing the project and establishing points of contact.

Once the details are entered, the user can save the information by clicking on the Confirm option.

Clearance and Spacing

In Clearances & Spacing tab, the user can set the clearance spaces for the walkable paths, the space between the working desks and so on. The first option in Clearances & Spacing is Working Depth, where the user can define the depth of the work zone for a single work desk. The Walk Distance number determines the distance between the wall and the work chairs. The Walk Distance back-to-back estimates the pathway width between the work desk, and lastly, the Clearance to façade determines the space between the wall & the work desk.

Clearances and Spacing is where the most important settings and rules for the distances between the individual workplaces and the entire floor plan are defined. Changing the values effects the entire floor plan.

The information icon located next to the Clearances & Spacing header, is a drop-down window explaining the terms used in the Clearances & Spacing tab.

For further details, click here.

Application Styles

Application Styles determine the type and number of furniture-sets assigned to each department and applied on the floor plan. There are nine styles pre-loaded in Co-Designer; however, the user has the option to create custom application styles as well. The styles are categorized by space and utility as Conference Formal, Conference Informal, Lounge, Manager, Focused areas, and so on. Details on how to utilize this feature are provided here. The following elements make up the features in Application Styles tab.

Application Style Name: The default Application styles in Co-Designer are Silent / Normal / Loud along with a few more. The user can apply one of them per department or can change the name of the application style in this window.

Application Type Name: With this option, the user can view the types of Applications such as Conference Formal, Conference Informal, Lounge, Manager & Focused.

Applied Rule: Here, the user can set the application rule as Amount of Units / Number of Seats / Headcount Per Unit / Headcount Per Seat.

Value: Once the user sets the Applied Rule, then the value (number of applications) needs to be set according to the requirements of the department.

Exceed if possible: This option allows the user to include more variations of the applications if there is space available on the floorplan.

Add Data/Replace Data/Export Xlxs: The user can add or replace the existing application style, or they can export the data in an excel file format and edit it there.

Confirm/Discard: Once the user edits the data in the Application Style tab, then they can click on the Confirm option to save their changes or can restore the project to its earlier settings by selecting the Discard option.

Layout Styles

In the Layout Style tab, the user can determine the Corridor width and set the value for Double Corridor Depth. Once the values are set, they can save their selection by clicking on the Confirm option. The values are set in Meters. The changes updated here in the Layout Style tab will be applied automatically to the entire floorplan.

Pattern Styles

The Pattern Styles tab determines the Workplace arrangements on the floorplan. The user can add/ delete and export the data in an excel file format. The following informational elements play an important role in Pattern Styles tab:

Style Name: The default Pattern styles in Co-Designer are Control / Compete / Collaborate / Create. The user can select one per department, rename it, customize it or create one on their own.

Used Pattern: Here, the user can select a pattern to be applied from drop-down menu containing a list of default pattern options.

Individual Storage: To add more storage to the work desk, the user can opt for the option of assigning individual storage to every work desk.

Face/Side Separators: To add more privacy to the work desk, the user can add Face separators to each desk.

Back Separators: Back Separators add visual barriers to the space and aid in improving privacy to the columns or rows of work desks. Usually, back separators are defined as storage blocks.

Workplace per bench/row: Workplace per bench defines the number of work desks assigned in a column and the number of Workplaces per row determines the work desks assigned in a row.

Add Data/Replace Data/Export Xlxs: The user can add or replace the existing Pattern style and can export the data in an excel file format.

Confirm/Discard: Once the user completes customizing the data in the Pattern Style tab, they can click on the Confirm option to save the changes or can delete the changes by selecting the Discard option.