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Defining Room and Room Legend

October 19, 2009 in AutoCAD, CAD, Revit

Room is one type of information you can add to your Revit model. That’s why we call it building information modeling (BIM). It’s not just lines and text. It can hold a lot of information in your building model. This time we will define rooms in our design, and create a room schedule.

Let’s open again your project file. Open 1st floor plan view.

Defining Rooms

Activate room tool from ribbon> home tab> room & area panel. Move your pointer to your floor plan. you will see it’s highlight your rooms. Revit will automatically recognize your rooms separated by walls. Define rooms for rooms as you see below. Simply move your pointer inside a room, and click your mouse. Revit will place the tag automatically. If you don’t like it, uncheck the ‘tag on placement’ option on option bar.

Room Separation Line

There’s one room left. We don’t want the living room defined as one large room from front through the back. And we want to exclude the stair area from living room. But Revit can’t recognize them as separate room because we don’t place wall there.

We can separate them by placing room separation line.

This will activate sketch tool. Simply draw lines that separate the rooms. Snap the line to existing wall, and draw it to the next wall. Feel free to define your own room.

After you finish, try to activate room tool again. Place the room definition when you feel it’s correct. Pretty easy, right?

Renaming Rooms

By default, Revit will name your rooms by ‘Room’, and tag it sequentially from the 1st room you define. This is not correct of course. Who wants to have all rooms named by ‘Room’? We can rename it by clicking the room tag to select it. Then click again on room name (or tag number) to rename it. After you’ve done, hit [enter].

So what if I don’t place room tag? How can I rename the room? Easy, select the room (not room tag, you might need to press TAB to cycle between objects). Click on element properties from ribbon, contextual tab.

You can change the room name, room number, and other data available.

Room Legend

Let’s try to place room legend. But first, right click on your 1st floor plan name on project browser. From context menu, select duplicate view>duplicate with detailing. Rename duplicate with something like ’1st floor legend view’. It’s already active by default.

Activate legend tool on your ribbon, room & area panel. You will see the legend on your pointer. Find a place where you feel appropriate, click to place it there.

Revit will ask you which scheme do you want. Change the color scheme to Name, click OK.

You will see your floor plan become like this.

Do you want to try this tool to your 2nd floor plan?

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Door and Window Tags

October 12, 2009 in AutoCAD, CAD, Revit

Tags is also annotation. This time, we are going to create a view with less details to show door and windows tag. To do this, we need to create additional view. Revit doesn’t allow us to put a view to sheets more than once. So if we have different representations, we need to create several views.

Open your training file. On your project browser, right click on 1st floor in floor plans group. Select duplicate view>duplicate. Revit will create a duplicate named Copy of 1st Floor. The active view is also changed to this new view. Right click on the view name, select rename from context menu. Give it name something like 1st floor door schedule.

Pay attention that we don’t copy dimensions to this view. If you also need the dimensions, you should choose duplicate with detailing. But we don’t need them right now. Now let’s tweak the visibility a bit. Open view tab on your ribbon. Click visibility/graphics in graphics tools group.

Uncheck under visibility column for these following items:

casework
entourage
furniture
furniture systems
planting

Now check halftone column for these items:

floors
railings
stairs

Still in visibility/graphics dialog, click the annotation categories tab. Uncheck visibility for sections and elevations. Click OK to apply changes.

Open your original 1st floor plan, and compare to this one. This is how you represent different views for your model. Either in plans, elevations, sections, etc.

Now let’s add tags. You can manually add tags one-by-one by using tag by category.

But instead of selecting objects one-by-one, let’s just tag all our doors and windows. Activate Tag All.

First, let’s check if we already have our tag families loaded. Click tag group title to expand this panel. Select Loaded Tags.

Check if door tag and window tag are already loaded. If it’s not loaded yet, click load on the right side of this dialog. You can find those tag families in annotations>architectural folder. Click OK to close the dialog.

Click Tag All. Hold [ctrl] and click on door tags & windows tags. Make sure both of them are highlighted. At the bottom of this dialog, leader section, check on create option. Use length 10 mm. Left the orientation to horizontal. Click OK.

Your tags may obstruct each other. You can fine tune tags placement by turning off the leader or change the other options on option bar.