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Xinaps Accessibility Evaluator allows you to check your building accessibility for different profiles of people, specifically disabled people who can not use stairs, make use of wheelchairs or people who are moved around in hospital beds.

• Main Interface

Building entrances

It is important that at least one door leading to the external is indicated as a building entrance. If no entrances are indicated the entire building will be marked inaccessible. This can be done so by checking the "building entrance" box visible in the properties view of the Revit door families. By default the "building entrance" box is not set, and door leads to outside then all of those doors will be used as an entrance.

    Hence by checking the "building entrance box": 

• All doors leading to the external of the building will be indicated as entrance doors. If you don't want all doors to be indicated as entrance doors, select which should be defined as entrance doors.

• No door will be set to entrance door to your building.Although doors can later be modified and set to entrance door.

Required:

1. Rooms
   The app uses the floor area of all defined rooms in the model. Without rooms the app cannot define floor areas needed to calculate the actual floor areas.

   No rooms defined in the model? Since Autodesk Revit 2015 with subscription you can place rooms automatically.

2. Doors
   In order for your rooms to be accessible, doors should be placed in the model. If rooms are not accessible by doors these will be marked in red.

The Main Interface

To evaluate your building accessibility open the app by clicking the Accessibility Evaluator button under the Xinaps button in the ribbon in Revit. The main interface is set to the floorplan tab by default. You can change between The Floorplan tab, Accessible Rooms tab and the Walking distances tab by clicking the tab buttons on the left.

Floor plan tab

In the Floor Plan Tab the accessibility will be shown per floor in a floorplan. Within this floorplan the rooms will be marked as accessible (blue) or inaccessible (grey). Accessible doors will be marked with a light green dot. Inaccessible doors will be marked with a light grey dot. 

To change the displayed floorplan select the corresponding floor level from the dropdown menu at the lower left corner.

Short note: The accessibility of rooms is dependent on the settings of the chosen profile. Make sure you have chosen the desired profile when checking your building accessibility.

Short note: The accessibility of rooms is dependent on the settings of the chosen profile. Make sure you have chosen the desired profile when checking your building accessibility.

Room overview tab

The room overview tab gives you a quick overview of all your rooms in the project while indicating if they are accessible or not. Accessible rooms will be indicated with a green indicator at the left. Inaccessible rooms will have a red indicator at the left side. The accessibility is checked conform the selected person profile in the dropdown menu, therefore room accessibility in the same overview may differ depending on your selected person profile. Read more on setting custom profiles>>

Next to the information of your room the buttons 'Draw' and 'View' can be found.

Draw - The draw button will create a line in the floorplan in you Revit model from the door indicated as building entrance to the selected room. The drawn line will be the shortest route to your selected room for that specific profile.

View - It is possible to visualize this in a 3D view, in order to see a cross floor overview. To create this 3D overview, click the "view"button. Important note: the 3D view is room specific, this means that every room will give you a different 3D overview.

Need help in using the mouse for 3D Visualization?  

Walking distances tab

The walking distances tab allows you to calculate the distance from room A to Room B, while checking the accessibility at the same time. This is particularly interesting for designing maximum walking distances between patient rooms in e.g. hospitals, between gates at airports or comfortable adjacency of printers and coffee machines in office buildings. You can select, create, edit or delete a person profile with the dropdown menu and the buttons in the upper left corner. Read more on setting custom profiles>> To add a new distance between room A and room B you can add a new path by clicking the plus button in the lower left corner. A new window will open where a new distance rule can be created. Read more on setting distance rules>>

Stairs / Ramp settings

Allowing for accessibility through stairs and ramps can be done so through the "Accessibility Profile", this can be done so as follows:

1. Click on the Accessibility Profile icon located in the main interface of the plugin.
2. This will lead you to the following window: 
3. Clicking on the "Stairs" tab will leed you to the following window. From where you can change the: Minimum (Stair Width, Tread Depth) and Maximum (Riser Height, Stair Height).
4. Clicking on the "Ramp" tab will leed you to the following window. From where you can change the: Minimum Ramp Width and Maximum Ramp Rise.