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Access Control & Electronic Security _ GIS tutorial for adding security points / printing maps

Door Editing Map _ General interface layout

Editor tool bar Reconcile / Post tool bar Navigation Catalog / Pin Board

Layer Manager: turn on/off doors, Istars, Cameras and NVR points and annotation

Press and hold scroll mouse button to pan

How to operate each tool bar

Editor, select start editing to begin add / remove data points

Window, select catalog for access to servers

Catalog access to servers


Pin / Unpin

Add a door feature (same process for Istar, Camera, NVR)

1. select “editor” and click “start editing”

2. click “ok” 3. Select desired point to create and drag into editing screen

4. click at desired placement 5. select the point editor (edits & moves the point created)

6. select the point and right click, select “attributes”

7. Enter the information required. ** Floor must be: “Basement”, “LL”, “First”, “Second”, “Third”, “Fourth”, “Fifth”, “Sixth”. **Location must be: “Interior” or “Exterior.”

With the Istar panel, location will be the room number


8. Select the annotation editing tool 9. Left click and drag to move annotation and leader 10. Right click and select attributes

Editing attributes

11. Change the text of the display box

Change the color of the text

Angle at -7 degrees (campus is 7 degrees off of true north)

Text size

Attributes tab

12. Make sure that the floor and location match the attributes of the point as in step 7

Change multiple attributes at once

Select attributes editor

Hold shift and select multiple annotation features that need the same changes

** You can use this same process for editing the points as well **

Change multiple attributes at once

Select the top row, this will allow the edits to be applied to all the selected annotation

Now, the edits made under the attributes tab will be applied to all of the selected annotation or point data

Add floor plans

Open the catalog

Expand folder connections

Expand the S drive

Expand Space Survey

Select the zone of campus in which the building is located

Add floor plans

Expand the appropriate zone

Select the desired floor for the selected building

Left click and drag the floor onto the editing map, unclick to release the floor plan

** The point and annotation can be moved to a desired location in the building by selecting the editor button on the editor tool bar, left click and drag the necessary point to desired location **

Remove floor plans from layers

Right click on the floor plan layer and select remove. This will clear the floor plan from the map and the layer panel. If the floor plans are not deleted, their build up will slow down GIS response time.

Turn on / off campus features

Attribute table for point and annotation information in relation to buildings, etc.

Right click on the door location point and select “Open Attribute Table”

General layout of attributes in table format


Double click on the attribute needed for the information to be organized around. For example above: Building number was double clicked, so the buildings are in order from lowest building number to highest. Building 104 (Bixby Hall) is selected. The door described as “BXB NORTH MAIN” is a type “B” door located on the floor : “LL”


Each feature can be double clicked to be the object of attention. For example above type, location, and description have been selected. Other useful attributes to arrange information are by floor, and door number.

To print, select the table options on the top left, and select print. PDF and network printers will be available.

Finishing editing session and closing map

1. Click the editor button and select “Save Edits”

2. Click the “Reconcile” Button

3. Select “OK”

4. Click the “Post” button

** These steps update the file being worked on with the university wide system, and relates to the printing map **

5. Click the “Save” button

7. Click the close x at the top right and select “Yes”

Door Printing Map _ General interface layout

Layers by floor

Editor

Data view

NavigationReconcile / Post Catalog

Layer manager in printing map

The data for Doors, Istars, Cameras, and NVR are organized by floor on the top section of the layer manager

Expand a floor to see the available data options that can be turned on / off by checking the corresponding box

Each data point can be expanded to turn on /off the annotation and point, the floor must be checked for the information below to be seen

Displaying necessary information

To view any selected aspects of the floor on the printing map, this box must be checked

On/off istar panel annotation

On/off istar panel point

The layers are expanded

To view the aspects on the printing map, select the box next to the floor, it will show the aspects expanded below

On/off doors

On/off door annotation

On/off istar panel

On/off door point

Example of how to prepare printing map

** Example: Let’s say that we want to print the doors and Istar panels for the 2nd floor of the Danforth University Center **

Check “Bldg_Feature” to see the names of each building on campus


Zoom in on the DUC

Expand the Second Floor

Activate the Second Floor

Expand Istars

Expand Doors


Select the Istar Panel

Select the Istar Point

Turn off the Bldg_Feature


Turn on Panel Anno


Turn on Doors

Turn on Door Locations


Turn on Door Anno


Add floor plan: Select “Window” and “Catalog”


Select Folder Connections < S drive < Space Survey < Orange Zone


Left click, hold, and drag Danforth University Center _ Second into the printing map data view

Select OK


Expand the second floor plan layer

Un-check these boxes: Annotation, Point, Polygon, and MultiPatch.

Leave on Polyline


Double click on Polyline and select the Drawing Layers tab. Uncheck “A-FLR-IDEN,” this is the layer of yellow circles displaying on the floor plan. You can also check and un-check other features desired or not desired to display on the floor plan. For example, Grids show up occasionally, as do excessive annotation and furniture. Look for the color they are displayed on the floor plan and relate to the drawingn layer description and color to help with turning on/off layers. 90% of the time only A-FLR-IDEN needs to be turned off.


Select the Symbology tab

Click Remove All


Double click “all other values”

Change the line Width from 1.00 to 0.1


Change the color to black


Select OK and OK


Select view and enter Layout View


This is the template set up for printing 8.5 x 11 portrait

Zoom and Pan (works with the data view) to appropriately fit the floor plan

You can toggle between printing and layout view here


Start an edit session and select the annotation editor to move the text to best display for clarity in printing


Click the Drawing selection arrow

Double click the title, building number, and floor to coordinate information with image in data view


Select File < Export Map


Save the PDF under the campus collection under: Intern drive < Kyle Fant < WashU Doors by Zone < Select the appropriate zone for the building, in this case Orange Zone


Select DUC_2 and replace existing with the updated PDF


Right click and remove the floor plan from the layers


Save an edits, Reconcile and Post if edits were made, and save

Query builder

To access the query builder (which links the information from the editing map to the printing map layers) double click on the annotation and point for each floor and set the floor to = the description entered in editing

Accessing and printing PDFs

For printing an entire zone or book, open the first pdf, then select document < insert pages, and select all the other plans in this zone. This will combine them as a single PDF allowing the ability to click the print button once as opposed to 30-300 times. They should print in alphabetical order and be grouped by building.

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Documents

desired floor

desired point

point created6

point editor edits

necessary point

annotation information

desired location

floor plan layer