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Update… v2 has been published in Bakery package as:Create Floors From Rooms v2.dyf All kinds of weirdness with Package Manager at the moment, so I am sharing my entire ‘packages’ folder including Bake…
Did you know you can use a Revit Room schedule to quickly tell if a Room is Not Placed or Unenclosed. Here’s the clues: Unenclosed will still show Highlight in Model in ribbon: Not Placed will not sho…
Its a long-winded title, but its only one Dynamo node… Just added to the Bakery package, called Collect Elements in Rooms and Show Detailed List. Basically, it takes a list of Rooms and a list of Elem…
Interesting post by troywright on AUGI, in relation to setting up segregated links as room bounding in your Revit MEP file: We have this issue frequently, as with major projects we will receive differ…
I know you can use various addins (like Case Extrude Rooms to 3D Mass) to make a form out of a Room element in Revit. However, there is a vanilla Autodesk way you could go about this: Export a Revit v…
David shows that we can rehost a Room to a different Level by simply doing this: Group the Room element Change the Level field of the Group Ungroup Unfortunately, while this doesn’t result in multiple…
In almost every case, I prefer Structural Columns over architectural Columns in Revit. However, the architectural versions can easily be made Room Bounding. How do we do this for Structural Columns? C…
Part of knowing What Revit Wants, is also knowing what it Does Not want. Sometimes, you can push the hack (or workaround) that step or two too far… and the result is unpredictable, buggy and kinda use…
Revit deals in realities. The reality is, many Rooms are not rectangular. So we can forgive vanilla Revit for not having a built in tool or method that could only really ‘guess’ at X and Y room dimens…
Ceilidh Higgins recently “submitted a talk for Revit Technology Conference on this subject, What’s in a Room: Revit Models,Room Data Sheets and Interiors. You can download it here. What’s in a Room? f…