This guide shows how to use the Snaptrude Agent on a hospital or healthcare project. The agent can build a departmental program from your functional brief, plan adjacencies, create the podium and bed tower massing, lay out typical inpatient units, trace existing hospital plans for a renovation or extension, add doors, windows and furniture, and plan parking and the site. It works for new hospitals, clinics and medical office buildings as well as additions to existing facilities.

Try: "Import the site at [address] with terrain and surrounding buildings. Run a site analysis covering vehicle access, ambulance routes, public entrances and constraints for a 200-bed hospital."

Attach the functional brief or room data sheet and ask the agent to create the program in Program Mode, grouped by department.

Try: "Create the program from the attached brief: Emergency, Imaging, Surgery with 8 ORs, ICU with 24 beds, 6 inpatient units of 32 beds, outpatient clinics, lab, pharmacy and support. Group by department and include gross-up factors."

Tip: Use Interpret in the Program Mode agent dropdown to turn a spreadsheet you already have into program objects or targets.

Clinical adjacencies drive hospital planning. Ask the agent to arrange departments by their relationships, then review them in the Adjacency tab in the right panel.

Try: "Arrange the departments so Emergency is next to Imaging and has a direct route to Surgery, ICU is adjacent to Surgery, and the lab and pharmacy are central to the clinical floors."

Try: "Mass the hospital as a 3-story diagnostic and treatment podium with a 6-story bed tower above, using the site setbacks. Put Emergency on the ground floor with its own entrance on the east side."

Try: "Make two more options as design proposals: a bed tower with a racetrack plan and one with a triangular plan. Compare the floor areas."

If you're working from existing hospital floor plans, bring them in first: click the project name, choose Import, and pick CAD Files (.dwg), PDF or Images. Then ask the agent to trace them.

Try: "Trace the imported DWG of the existing level 3 and create the walls, doors and windows so I can plan the extension against it."

Try: "Lay out a typical 32-bed inpatient unit on the tower floor: single patient rooms of 22 m2 with ensuite bathrooms on the perimeter, a central nurse station with clear sight lines, clean and soiled utility rooms, a medication room and staff areas in the core."

Try: "Copy the typical unit to tower levels 4 to 9."

Try: "Convert the inpatient floors to BIM. Use 1200 mm doors to patient rooms, add windows to every patient room, and place two exit stairs and the bed lifts in the core."

Try: "Furnish each patient room with a bed, recliner, overbed table and a family zone near the window, and add workstations at the nurse station."

Try: "Create the site plan with a separate ambulance bay at Emergency, a main entrance drop-off, a service yard, and surface parking for 400 cars split between staff and visitors."

Try: "Make program and adjacency diagrams for this design, and place the podium plans, a typical tower floor and a 3D view on sheets with an area table by department."

Export the sheets from Present Mode with Export, as PDF, PNG or JPG.

Note: The agent gives you a strong starting point, not a finished, code-checked design. Review every result: check dimensions, clearances, egress and local code requirements with your own professional judgment before you rely on it.