The unit editor is used to create and customize units.
Default Unit Database Definitions
The following unit databases come installed in TestFit.
- Bays - units with extended bays.
- Corridor ext - instead of an outside corner unit, corridor will extend to the end of the building mass
- Default - traditional units
- Hotel - module based units
- Luxury
- Standard - Smallest units
- Suites - Largest units
- Inset - balcony will be inset
- Juliets - 6 inch balcony
- Micro - small units
- Modules - units
- Student - units for standard student housing
- Urban - larger units for urban living
Database settings definitions
- Inline Units - non corner or dead end unit
- Inside Corners - corner units inside the building mass
- Outside Corners - units located outside the building mass
- Dead End Units - units located at the end of a corridor
- Max linear Flex - a metric that allows TF to slightly flex the unit size to solve
- Min Angle - the boundary where the inside and outside corner units begin
- Max Angle - the boundary where the inside and outside corner units end
- S - Studio - no bedrooms and one living space
- A - One Bedroom – one bedroom and one living space
- B - Two Bedroom – two bedrooms and one living space
- C - Three Bedroom – three bedrooms and one living space
- <new category> - create a new unit category success
Database health
The possible linear unit configurations (inline unit score) estimates the percent of how likely TestFit will solve a corridor without allocated areas.
Unit Editor
Underlay
Allows for rasterized images to deliver contextual imagery within the unit editor.
Input Panel
Make changes to the unit
Name
- Category - 1,2,3 bedroom
- Unit Width
- Unit Depth
- Bed Count
- Color
Entry
- Location - sets the entry to the Left, Center, or Right
- Offset - sets the distance from the wall
- Width - sets the width of the entryway
Balcony
- Location - sets the balcony to the Left, Center, or Right
- Offset - sets the distance from the wall
- Width - sets the width of the balcony
- Depth - sets the depth of the balcony
- Inset - sets the distance of the balcony inside the unit.
Bay
Interior space project out from the exterior of the building
- Location- sets the bay to the Left, Center, or Right
- Offset - sets the distance from the wall
- Width - sets the width of the bay
- Depth - sets the depth of the bay
Add Bay - Adds a Bay
Add Balcony - Adds a Balcony
Unit Editor Output
- NRSF - net rentable square footage
- Balcony - balcony area
- Common - common area created by the entry
- Demising - total length of walls on the sides of the unit
- Internal Skin - total length of walls adjacent to the common area
- External Skin - total length of walls on the building facade
- Bedrooms - number of bedrooms
- Bathrooms - number of bathrooms
Back to database button
| will take you back to the database view
Removing, Duplicating, and Copying units in a database
Right click on the unit and select your command.
Adding units
NOTE: Only one type of corner and dead units are supported. To create a new one, either modify the existing unit, or remove the existing units and add new ones.
Adding a new database
Edit an existing database and save it locally
Attaching an underlay
- Select the unit you'd like to add a background image to
- Hit the Add Background Image button
- Find image you'd like to add
- Scale the image from a known dimension
- Adjust the size of the unit to match the underlay