Chapter 15 • Creating Rooms and Area Plans 714 FIGURE 15.21 Clicking the Legend button FIGURE 15.22 Placing the legend and specifying the color scheme 9. Click OK. You now have a nice color plan. 10. Select the actual Color Scheme legend. 11. Click the Edit Scheme button on the Modify | Color Fill Legends tab, as shown in Figure 15.23. 12. Notice, in the Edit Color Scheme dialog that opens, you can alter the color and the fill pattern for each room. After you investigate this area, click OK. Pretty cool concept! You may notice that the two rooms we skipped are still white. It is time to take a look at the situation we have here. The problem is, there are no walls dividing the two rooms, but it would be nice to have two separate rooms anyway! To do this, we can add a room separator. Adding Room Separators 715 FIGURE 15.23 Proceeding to edit the scheme Adding Room Separators Although it seems like a small issue, the topic of adding room separators has been known to confuse some people. Within Revit, you can physically draw a room without any walls at all. Or you can simply draw a “line in the sand” between two rooms that are not separated by an actual wall. This is known as adding a room separator. The objective of the next procedure is to separate the kitchen from the break room by adding a room separator. 1. In the Level 1 floor plan, zoom in on the area shown in Figure 15.24. 2. On the Room & Area panel of the Home tab, click the Room button. 3. Place a room over the top of the tile flooring, as shown in Figure 15.24. 4. On the Room & Area tab of the Home tab, click the Room Separation Line button, as shown in Figure 15.25. 5. On the Draw tab, click the Pick Lines icon. 6. Pick the edge of the flooring, as shown in Figure 15.26. 7. Press Esc twice. 8. Click the Room button. 9. Place a room to the right of the kitchen area. 10. Change the room to the left to KITCHEN. Chapter 15 • Creating Rooms and Area Plans 716 11. Change the room to the right to BREAK. 12. On the Annotate tab, click the Tag All button. 13. Select Room Tags and click OK. FIGURE 15.24 Place a room over the tiles (it will spill into the adjacent room). FIGURE 15.25 Click the Room Separation button on the Room & Area panel of the Home tab. Creating an Area Plan 717 FIGURE 15.26 Adding the room separation line We are really moving along here! We now have a fully coordinated room sched- ule tied into a room color fill plan that can be modified by simply changing a room tag. How did we ever live without Revit? The next item to discuss is how to create a gross area plan. The process is simi- lar but slightly more involved than creating a room color plan. Creating an Area Plan Almost any job of considerable size will require an area plan at some point in the early development of the project. This normally occurs in the programming phase, but the need for this type of plan can persist well into the later stages of a project. The objective of the next procedure is to create a separate floor plan, then to divide it up into areas. 1. On the Room & Area panel of the Home tab, select Area and click the Area Plan button, as shown in Figure 15.27. 2. In the New Area Plan dialog, choose Gross Building from the Type list, and choose Level 1 for the Area Plan Views. 3. Click OK. Chapter 15 • Creating Rooms and Area Plans 718 FIGURE 15.27 Clicking the Area Plan button 4. Click Yes to automatically create area boundaries. You now have a new floor plan with a blue boundary around the perimeter of the entire building. 5. On the Room & Area panel, click the Area Boundary Line button, as shown in Figure 15.28. 6. Draw a line, as shown in Figure 15.28, separating the corridor from the east wing. 7. Draw another similar separator between the west wing and the corridor. NOTE If your lines are not exactly snapping to the endpoints, this is not that big a deal. Unlike Sketch Mode, Revit is much more forgiving when it comes to creating area separations. 8. On the Room & Area tab, click the Area button, as shown in Figure 15.29. 9. If Revit says a tag isn’t loaded, click Yes to load the family. Browse to Annotation ➢ Area Tag.rfa. 10. Place an area in the west wing, then in the corridor, and then in the east wing, as shown in Figure 15.30. Creating an Area Plan 719 11. Select the tag in the west wing. 12. Rename it to WEST WING. 13. Click the Corridor tag. 14. Rename it to LINK. 15. Click the East Wing tag. 16. Rename it to EAST WING. 17. On the Room & Area panel, click the Legend button. 18. Place the legend in the upper-right corner of the view, as shown in Figure 15.30. 19. In the Choose Space Type And Color Scheme dialog, choose Areas (Gross Building) for Space Type and Gross Building Area for Color Scheme. 20. Click OK. 21. Select the Color Scheme Legend. FIGURE 15.28 Drawing the area separator Chapter 15 • Creating Rooms and Area Plans 720 22. Click the Edit Scheme button on the Modify | Color Fill Legends tab. 23. For Color, change Area Type to Name. 24. Click OK at the warning. 25. Click OK to return to the model (see Figure 15.30). 26. Save the model. FIGURE 15.29 The Area button FIGURE 15.30 The plan is divided into three areas. Are You Experienced? 721 Great job! You now have experience with creating area plans. If you feel as though you could use some more practice before you start on a real project, you have five more floors in this model you can work on. You can either work on your own or step back through this chapter’s procedures. Are You Experienced? Now you can… add rooms to the model add room separators to the model create color scheme plans create area plans create room schedules update the rooms in the model directly from a room schedule CHAPTER 16 Advanced Wall Topics More on walls? Really? It seems as though all we do is walls. Well, that’s because our buildings are composed mainly of walls. As you may have noticed, the exterior walls are compound wall structures with reveals and parapet caps. In the west wing, we have a staircase that is completely unsupported. It would be nice to add a wall to make those stairs less spongy. Given the fact that the west wing is a high-end architectural woodwork area, that wall could use some trims that can be added right to the wall’s profile. Also, we have not touched on a curtain wall of any kind whatsoever. Creating compound walls Adding wall sweeps Creating stacked walls Creating curtain walls Adding a wall to a massing object . Draw another similar separator between the west wing and the corridor. NOTE If your lines are not exactly snapping to the endpoints, this is not that big a deal. Unlike Sketch Mode, Revit. moving along here! We now have a fully coordinated room sched- ule tied into a room color fill plan that can be modified by simply changing a room tag. How did we ever live without Revit? The next item. has been known to confuse some people. Within Revit, you can physically draw a room without any walls at all. Or you can simply draw a “line in the sand” between two rooms that are not separated