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right thanks for joining everybody we'll give it a couple minutes for those who are in the waiting room to come in my name is James I work with giraff and we'll be going through the first steps today of how to get connected get signed up and how to make a project if you are um new to giraff head to the website draft. build hit the big get started button and that'll help you get an account and just for those playing at home that is here draft build one R2 fs and then this uh get started for free will help you go through and sign up for an account all right so let's dive in I assume uh most people on the call have at least logged in at this stage and they can see their home screen so on these calls we like to go through at a very high level how to go from what does draff do through to creating your own first project and doing some massing there are lots of different things that draft can do but in our 101 we tend to focus on just those first steps connecting to some context data creating

a project doing a drawing and understanding some math math so 1 2 3 4 um what we're looking at right now is my home screen I have my home screen set up with all sorts of interesting data um and the the first principle on the home screen is that I can see all my projects on the map and that is under my portfolio layer now if you've logged into draft and you're not seeing the portfol layer you can always hit the logo in the top left and that'll take you to your home screen but likely it'll be empty because you don't have any projects yet the uh layers we're seeing on the Le hand side these are GIS data layers and we'll go through those in a second the table down the bottom is the data table and you can focus that data table on any of the gis data sets that we're connected to including our portfolio of projects and then on the right hand side of the screen this is the data panel and on the panel we at the moment are seeing all our projects but if we were to click on the

project we'd see the metadata on that project just like if we were to click on a GIS data set we we'd get the investigative stuff here on the right hand side so let's go ahead and add some data layers whether you're in a project or in uh the home screen the experience is basically the same I'm going to dive into a market here over on the layers tab you hit the plus button and you get access to draft's layer library now our layer library is a bit different to um you know some other companies out there that do similar things to us uh the whole concept of our library is that you can connect to curate and standardize your own um GIS data sets now we also do offer some standardized data sets you can search here for all sorts of things like flood these are going to go and connect you to um FEMA flood database or any other kind of flood database that we might have on draa uh and there's there's lots of these so flood Wetlands you know all the classics that you would imagine from

famur or from uh us Geological Survey they're in here 3ot Contours you can type Contours but there's also hundreds of open data sets that are coming directly from the city or directly from the county and you can create your own connections if you're on the free version you won't see this but the blue tab here on the top right says create new data layer and you can see in the create new data layer um section I can add my own data types from any Source uh vectors include things like Google Earth files KML kmz CSV of uh you know a CSV of addresses for instance will work in draft it'll drop some points on there uh all sorts of data can become um available to you and then also you can connect via API directly to to map servers or feature servers all of that being said if I was to say um want to look at um my data layers by my workspace I can just quickly say show me all the data layers that draft team has access to and if you're collaborating within in-house

design GIS team that becomes a great way to distribute out data so from a 101 point of view getting started let's add some environmental data sets let's add in uh the flood data from FEMA so type flood and look for 2024 flood Hazard zones type wetlands and add in the 2024 Wetlands by just clicking on the tick uh Contours I like this U elevation Contours layer USA 3D that's coming straight from the US Geological Survey and has 3ot intervals and that'll probably do us so once you've got the data lays you want close the library down and those will add to your home screen so you can see now here I've got quite a lot of data on and I can turn on the flood hazards and if I then zoom in at the appropriate Zoom Hazard zones pop up in my background so even though they're on my home screen I don't have to see them all the time I can turn them on and off with this show hide button here uh I might take one second to just spook a layer we sell this is a layer we sell on behalf of a company called

regrid regrid are a nationwide provider of um Parcels within the US they also do Canada now uh this data set's awesome it's sort of a foundational layer for uh what we do and if you uh just have a quick look at my screen here because you won't have access to it as it's a paid layer you can see this is every parcel in the United States if I click on a parcel on the right hand side I get it's metadata what the zoning is what that zoning um typology is which is really helpful if you're doing searches who the owner is what the taxable value is you know all the things that you would expect from a parcel data source uh is there in that regrid data set so if you become a customer that's a great little add-on and just to maybe go one step deeper here I'll use this data set because we have this beautiful table down here which right now is focused on regrid data set if I want to filter that um Geographic the gis data set there I can just click on the column I want to filter it on and I can

type the field the value I wanted to filter on I can say show me all the parcels that are zoned from multif family and it will drop out all the stuff that's it's not so that experience of working with a GIS data set creating a library adding it to my home screen as a layer and then interacting with it via the table is very compelling and obviously can apply to any Vector data set that you that you have okay so now we've got some data in let's create a project and there's a few different ways you can create a project uh you can pop up here to the right hand side and you can turn you can just hit the new project button you can go quick project which will allow you to draw your boundar straight away or if there's something on the map you want to use as as the uh starting point you can right click on it so in this case I want to start with the boundary from regrid and hit create new project now when I create a new project because I've got an Enterprise workspace

I can save all sorts of different parameters against my project you guys most likely won't have that so let's just hit save project and go straight in and uh one of the things I like to point out at this stage is because is really built to be a collaborative tool if I wanted then add somebody to my Works to the project I'm going to add in Holly here I can just put her email address in give her edit access and she will have permission to join the project now as I'm working all right so let's go into the project and move out of layer mode and into drawing mode and drawing mode really is what draff is all about this is the value we're not just a GIS T we're really here to be able to sketch things out quickly and get some math as you can see I've got my boundary is drawn and it's perfectly matching the parcel boundary and I've still got all my data lays from the home screen I can continue to add or remove those based on the project requirements but I have a

different Suite of tools now I have uh on the top drawing tool bar I've got my uh drawing tools on the right hand side the project panel has turned into my analytics panel and you can see I've now got uh my top metrics and we'll go deeper on all this stuff in a minute so first thing I'm going to do is just scrap the side I'm going to turn the 3D buildings layer off I'm going to hit the little eye get rid of that and now I can just start free drawing and I'm going to use from the toolbar up here I'm going to click on the buildings tool and the first thing I want to do is build a residential building so I'll select residential and when I draw the Residential Building I can draw it with a rectangle when I first click and release I can now type the exact width that I want if I hold shift I can snap to 15° increments on true north and if I go down 21 let's say then I can fix my uh depth of my rectangle okay so go ahead and draw some rectangles uh you know if you hit r on

your keybo board you can draw rectangles till Kingdom Come and it's very fun I like drawing rectangles uh if you click and drag your rectangles you can um draw the length and breadth at the same time so very cool and if you're a I should mention if you're a designer and your project is not true north like mine's not really true north it's got some kind of weird boundary you can actually change True North to be project North and let's do that real quick um if you if you're into the detail you'll appreciate this we can go up to these three dots up here say uh snap and grid I want to edit the grid and I'm going to select the corner of the site here and go up you know the boundary I'm just holding s to snap and I don't know if you noticed that but just tweaked it the screen by you know one degree basically and now my project is going straight up and down to the site boundary which is super helpful okay so if you love grids by the way you can also set the width of the

grid and you can you know get really uh granular there if you want to turn the Grid on and off with G um great way to design if you like working with a grid so let's go back to our rectangles and have a look at what we've done and by the way I'm using t on my keyboard to pop in and out of 2D and 3D mode um you can do that down here as well on the bottom right I find it to be very helpful if you're moving quickly or if you're drawing something in 2D and then you want to snap it to 3D to see what it looks like to just keep my hand on the T on my keyboard so what's happened here is I've drawn a bunch of rectangles that have no use and then I've drawn a rectangle that has a use and you can see the difference between the two is up here on the properties panel when I've click on the tool the the rectangle that I've drawn I can see this one has a use assign to it if I click on this one it doesn't have a use assigned to it so let's go ahead and assign some other uses I'm going to say

this guy over here maybe is a commercial building this one over here is a large format retail maybe this guy is a strip retail this is going to be a big Park so we'll call it landscape and this over here is a car part all right cool so I've just programmed my site very quickly with a couple of different uses and you should note that with draft all of this is is stackable they're like Lego blocks now if I pick up the resi and I pop it on top of the large format retail it'll just jump on top and I can always choose the order in which things jump on drop by adjusting this stack order here so for instance these two are stacking on top of each other but I might want to place the retail on top of the resi so that it has this nice uh hat and whilst that's an engineering feat uh if for whatever reason I wanted to do that I can and there's nothing in draff stopping you from do that so I just changed this stack order and will then reflect where I want it to sit in the

stack that's particularly helpful if you have multiple items like the um resi overhanging these two guys here for instance the strip retail and the large format retail if I want to blend program on a on a ground floor or something like that or perhaps I want them to be tiered like maybe it's commercial sure instead of retail then I can just slot it in there based on its stack order or maybe stick it on top depending on what we want to do so stack order becomes your best friend I love stack order particularly if you're doing you know cool mixed use projects now let's talk uh a little bit about assumptions so you the magic here whilst you're playing with the design is that on the right hand side all our areas are immediately calculated they're done we've got a dwelling count we've got our total gross areas we have a f that's being calculated and that's all happening dynamically as we're designing we don't even have to think about it there are some things we want to think

about like the assumptions that are driving those outputs and those we want to pay very very close attention to so let's just cover off a few Basics before we go down the route of the assumptions gross building area GBA that's fairly self-explanatory it is the gross area of everything that we've drawn Broken Out by use so if I increase the number of levels of residential to 100 then what's happening in the math there is take a ground floor plate of 25620 multiply it by 100 and there is our um 2.56 million square feet of resi uh so super helpful and then what's these next metrics here is the gross floor area and the net rentable and those are going to be factored down by an assumption so we'll come back to that in a minute this Tower is is hilarious so that that gross build area is the simplest and it's basically just reporting back what we've what we've designed as that then filters down through the urban tab the f is taking the gross oh sorry the yep the gross

area and applying it over the site area if I then change tab to the net rentable the F changes to be the net rentable over the site area or if same with the gross floor area so you can keep quite a lot of control over what the definition of f is here whether using the gross of the net Max height is taking the combined floor to floors and adding them all together and giving us a maximum project height come back to that a minute facade area flooor facade ratio basement area all of that is being measured and Reporting live uh car Parks how many were required versus how many we've provided and then obviously number of dwellings so you can see it starts simple just measuring but then as we drive through there's quite a high degree of granularity around the assumptions that are coming in here so clearly you need to be able to control those assumptions it wouldn't be very good to just rely on draff where are all those things stored this start on the use so we use we here

we have lots of different uses 1 2 3 4 5 six different uses and I can go and investigate whatever use I've clicked on by just clicking the sliders over here to open up the panel that has all the data for our assumptions so here's our usages panel and at the moment we're focused on residential and you can see here as I mentioned logically we're stepping through different level of detail in assumptions we're starting with efficiency what is the gross to net ratio there's two efficiencies one to get to a GFA and one to get it to a net rentable and you can control both of those for most of us we'll care basically about um gross to net rentable floor to floor how tall is each ceiling and then well not ceiling how tall is it from slab to slab and how are we going to stack those all together do we need VIs are parking what are the size of the dwellings what's the mix of the dwellings how many parking spaces do we need per dwelling how many people do we think will have per dwelling so it's

very very fungible and obviously we can push and pull as many of these as are relevant to us and ignore the rest we can also add our own parameters if for whatever reason we had a um something we wanted to measure like we're making a business case to the city maybe I will add a retail spend per person metric and I want to calculate this by at the use level I'll say for every person we add here let's add a $15 a day retail spend calculation I just added a property called retail spend per person that's $15 so for you guys you can just follow along with this little guy here but I want to show you the purpose of this it's now an assumption that's stored against the use residential so go ahead and play with some of those metrics make up your own play with the parking ratios and the key here is watch the data change on the right hand side watch it change as you change the floor plate and I'm telling you as a as a learning methodology here for people who are new to Urban Design or new to

project planning this is an incredible way to show the relationship between uh different facets of the plan or different facets of our development going to bring this down to 20 Level so it's less absurd and off we go okay questions at this point we've covered quite a lot we've covered adding data layers investigating those data lays we've covered now how to draw with rectangles and then how to assign a use to those rectangles we've covered going into the assumptions of those uses and we could stop there but we're going to going I'd love to hear if there are any questions from the group there is a chat Q&A chat that you can pop your questions in I will try and open that up if I can figure it out oh thank you Holly perfect so if there are no questions we might just keep soldiering on we haven't done any in generative design yet they may add the generative stuff will come uh and that's where we'll likely go to next so for demo purposes and again you can follow along if you'd like or you

can just watch the screen what I want to do now is build out calculation that has nothing to do with this top level set of metrics here I want to go and do that retail spend uh scenario so if you notice here there's a tab called Analytics analytics is basically the mathematician playground I love this tool it's probably my favorite part of giraff I want to build an expression here to look at a business case for why we want a resoning or whatever it might be whatever argument you're trying to make and I'm going to add a measure here and this is basically a way of me going and building a custom calculation think of this like Excel we're going to choose instead of cells we're going to choose components and then we're going to build a calculation so the component I want here is I want the resident number of residents a where a is the total dwelling residents multiplied by B where B is our retail spend per person per day so a times B and then let's give them a couple of days off a week so