Autodesk Revit Architecture 2011 No Experience Required - part 74 doc

Chapter 15 • Creating Rooms and Area Plans 704 8. Add VCT to Floor Finish (see Figure 15.10). FIGURE 15.9 Hover the cursor over the room until the X appears. FIGURE 15.10 Adding values to the identity data Creating Rooms 705 9. Select the SOUTHEAST CONFERENCE room. 10. In the Properties dialog, click into the Base Finish field. Notice there is a pull-down menu. Click the arrow and select WD-1, as shown in Figure 15.11. 11. Change the rest of the fields using the previous entries. 12. Save the model. FIGURE 15.11 Once a field has been added to the database, it is available for the rest of the rooms. Changing a room’s properties is a simple task. There is, however, one more item to discuss. This pertains to a room that spans multiple floors such as the east entry. The objective of the next procedure is to change the height of the east entry room’s properties. 1. Zoom in on the east entry area and select the room, as shown in Figure 15.12. 2. In the Properties dialog, change Upper Limit to Roof. 3. Change Limit Offset to 0. This will set the east entry room to extend from Level 1 to the roof. Now that we have experience changing the properties of the rooms, it is time to take a look at the properties of the actual walls that divide the rooms. Certainly you noticed that when you placed the rooms in the lavatories, the O If you are having trouble selecting the room, remem- ber, you can pick an entire window around the area and use the Filter button on the Filter panel. Chapter 15 • Creating Rooms and Area Plans 706 room did not fill the small entry areas. We can correct this by changing the wall’s room bounding properties. FIGURE 15.12 Selecting the east entry room Room Bounding Properties By default, each wall you add to the Revit model will automatically define a room boundary, and this is what we want to see 95 percent of the time. There are some situations, however, where we do not want a wall to separate the room itself. In such cases, we can modify the instance parameters of the wall to disal- low the division of the room. The objective of the following procedure is to “turn off” the room bounding in certain walls. 1. In the East Wing floor plan, zoom in on the lavatory area. 2. Select the wall that divides the Men’s toilet area from the Men’s lava- tory entry area, as shown in Figure 15.13. Creating Rooms 707 FIGURE 15.13 Selecting the partition within the Men’s lavatory 3. In the Properties dialog, scroll down to the Room Bounding row. 4. Uncheck Room Bounding, as shown in Figure 15.14. FIGURE 15.14 Unchecking Room Bounding 5. Repeat the procedure in the Women’s lavatory. 6. Save the model. Having the ability to add rooms and manipulate the information in the Revit database easily gives you a tremendous advantage as you move forward with the rest of the model. Also, that information is relayed into the room’s tag, which is automatically added as you place the room into the model. Chapter 15 • Creating Rooms and Area Plans 708 This concept brings us to our next topic: how to change the actual tag to dis- play the information on the drawings that we desire. Placing and Manipulating Room Tags As mentioned earlier, the room tag is merely a vehicle to relay the room’s data to the construction documents. As a default, a room tag is added automatically as you place the room into the model. A default room tag is included, but we are not stuck with this room tag. The objective of the next procedure is to add an alternate room tag to the room, and to open the tag’s family editor to investigate the composition of the tag. 1. Zoom into the SOUTHEAST CORNER OFFICE. 2. Select the room tag. 3. In the Properties dialog, select Room Tag With Area, as shown in Figure 15.15. FIGURE 15.15 Change the type to Room Tag With Area Now that was just way too easy! Let’s take a closer look at what we just did. A room tag is nothing more than the cover sheet we created back in Chapter 14, “Creating Sheets and Printing.” All we need to do is simply open the file, and place a tag into the family. Creating Rooms 709 To open the tag’s Family Editor, follow this procedure: 1. Select the room tag for the SOUTHWEST CORNER OFFICE. 2. On the Modify | Room Tags tab, click the Edit Family button. 3. With the family file open, click on the Room Name piece of text that is visible. (These pieces of text are actually tags.) 4. On the Modify | Label tab, click the Edit Label button. 5. In the Edit Label dialog, the list to the left displays all the parameters that you can easily add to the room tag (see Figure 15.16). Do not change anything and click OK. FIGURE 15.16 A list of available parameters you can add to the room tag WARNING If you are modifying the room tag, do yourself and the rest of your design team a huge favor and inform everyone that you are in there modifying your company’s standards! If you are the BIM manager, set the permissions to this network directory accordingly. 6. Close out of this file without saving any changes. Now that you know what tag Revit uses while placing a room, and how to manipulate that tag, it is time to tie the tag into something more robust. Since a tag is just a reflection of the room data, we can add another Revit object that does the same thing: a room schedule. Chapter 15 • Creating Rooms and Area Plans 710 Adding a Room Schedule Up to this point in our careers we have been adding room information twice, sometimes three times. And why is that? It’s because we had to fill the tag out in the plan, then fill the same information out in the room schedule. If you were in the unfortunate situation where you had an enlarged plan, then you added the information yet again for a third time. Now when you have to change that information you need to do it in multiple places. Now, I’m not saying that Revit will end all your problems, but it sure will make life easier! The objective of the next procedure is to create a room schedule. We will then finish filling out the room information from the actual schedule, thus saving time and increasing accuracy. 1. On the View tab, click Schedules and then click the Schedule/Quantities button, as shown in Figure 15.17. 2. In the New Schedule dialog, select Rooms from the list to the left. 3. Click OK. 4. In the Fields tab of the Schedule Properties dialog that opens, add the following fields in the specified order (see Figure 15.17): Number Name Base Finish Floor Finish Wall Finish Ceiling Finish Comments Level 5. Click the Sorting/Grouping tab. 6. Sort by Number. 7. Click OK. Your schedule will look similar to Figure 15.18, with the probable exception of the Room 0. Adding a Room Schedule 711 FIGURE 15.17 Adding the fields to the schedule FIGURE 15.18 The room schedule Chapter 15 • Creating Rooms and Area Plans 712 8. With the schedule still open, click into the EAST ENTRY Base Finish cell, and type WD-2. tu r n i n g oFF un W a n t e d ro o M s The schedule in the book has an errant room that does not belong in the schedule. Because going step by step through a book does not give you a true feel for a real-world scenario, I can tell you that you will wind up with some misplaced rooms. This is OK, because you can turn them off in the schedule. If you click the Not Placed/Not Enclosed menu, you will see that you can show, hide, or isolate unwanted data. For this example, I will choose Hide to remove the row (see the following graphic). 9. Click into the Floor Finish cell and type TER (for Terrazzo). 10. Click into the Wall Finish cell and type VINYL. 11. Click into the Ceiling Finish cell and type a hyphen (-). 12. Click into the EAST WING CORRIDOR Base Finish cell. Notice there is a menu arrow, as shown in Figure 15.19. Click it. You now have a choice between two base finishes. Choose WD-2. 13. Change the other values to TER, VINYL, and ACT (see Figure 15.19). FIGURE 15.19 Filling out the room schedule Now that we have the rooms in place and a schedule filled out, it is time to move to a more colorful aspect of adding rooms to the model: adding a color fill plan. Adding a Color Fill Plan 713 Adding a Color Fill Plan Another benefit of using the Room feature in Revit is that you can add a color plan at any time, and you can virtually create any type of color scheme or pattern scheme you desire. And here’s the best part: adding one is so easy it is almost fun! The objective of the next procedure is to make a duplicate of the East Wing floor plan and to create a color scheme based on room name. 1. Right-click on the Level 1 floor plan view and select Duplicate View ➢ Duplicate, as shown in Figure 15.20. FIGURE 15.20 Duplicating the view 2. Right-click on the new view and select Rename. 3. Rename the view to Level 1 Color Plan. 4. Click OK. 5. Open the new plan if it is not open already. 6. In the Room & Area panel of the Home tab, click the Legend button, as shown in Figure 15.21. 7. After you click the Legend button, you can place the legend into the model. Place it into the upper-right corner of the view (inside the crop region), as shown in Figure 15.21. 8. In the Choose Space Type And Color Scheme dialog, change Space Type to Rooms and Color Scheme to Name (see Figure 15.22). . the information yet again for a third time. Now when you have to change that information you need to do it in multiple places. Now, I’m not saying that Revit will end all your problems, but it. hyphen (-) . 12. Click into the EAST WING CORRIDOR Base Finish cell. Notice there is a menu arrow, as shown in Figure 15.19. Click it. You now have a choice between two base finishes. Choose WD-2. . network directory accordingly. 6. Close out of this file without saving any changes. Now that you know what tag Revit uses while placing a room, and how to manipulate that tag, it is time to tie