Click the Edit Scheme button on the Modify | Color Fill Legends tab, as shown in Figure 15.23.. On the Room & Area panel of the Home tab, click the Room button.. On the Room & Area tab
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F i g u R e 1 5 2 1 Clicking the Legend button
F i g u R e 1 5 2 2 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
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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.
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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.
F i g u R e 1 5 2 4 Place a room over the tiles (it will spill into the
adjacent room).
F i g u R e 1 5 2 5 Click the Room Separation button on the Room & Area
panel of the Home tab.
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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.
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F i g u R e 1 5 2 7 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.
N O T E 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
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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.
F i g u R e 1 5 2 8 Drawing the area separator
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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.
F i g u R e 1 5 2 9 The Area button
F i g u R e 1 5 3 0 The plan is divided into three areas.
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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
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add room separators to the model
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create color scheme plans
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create area plans
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create room schedules
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update the rooms in the model directly from a room schedule
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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