Chapter 14 • Creating Sheets and Printing 694 19. Click OK again, and your plot is off. 20. Save the file. Well, there you have it. The book does not create a sheet for every single view. If you feel like your experience is still lacking regarding creating sheets and printing, go ahead and create more sheets, and keep printing away until you feel confident to move on to Chapter 15, “Creating Rooms and Area Plans.” Are You Experienced? Now you can… create sheets by simply dragging views and creating viewports configure project parameters to populate the sheets create a drawing list for a cover sheet CHAPTER 15 Creating Rooms and Area Plans This chapter brings us to a great point in Revit. We are in a position now where we can start to build on what we have added to our model up to this point. By creating rooms and areas, we are starting to merge the model with the database. In Chapter 11, “Schedules and Tags,” we did the same thing, but by adding rooms and areas we are physically building our construction documents, while at the same time adding crucial information to the model’s database. Creating rooms  Adding a room schedule  Adding a color fill plan  Adding room separators  Creating an area plan  Chapter 15 • Creating Rooms and Area Plans 696 Creating Rooms The first topic we will tackle is the task of creating a room and adding it to the model. The procedures that follow will focus on finding where to launch the room and areas, and the parameters Revit looks for while placing a room into the floor plan. Because Revit draws from a database to gather information, the process of creat- ing a room boils down to you adding some notes to an already built form. When you place the room in the model, Revit will automatically tag it. Unlike other draft- ing applications, however, Revit does not rely on the tag for its information. Once a room is in the model, it can either contain or not contain a tag. This is a great way to organize the flow of room information. To get started, open the model you have been working on. If you missed the previous chapter, go to the book’s web page at www.sybex.com/go/revit2011ner. From there you can browse to Chapter 15 and find the file called NER-32.rvt. The objective of the following procedure is to find the Room & Area panel on the Home tab, and to configure and add some rooms to the model. 1. In the Project Browser, find the dependent view called Level 1 East, and open it. 2. In the Room & Area panel on the Home tab, click the Room button, as shown in Figure 15.1. FIGURE 15.1 Clicking the Room button on the Room & Area panel of the Home tab Creating Rooms 697 3. Hover your cursor over the southeast room, as shown in Figure 15.2. Notice that there is an X and the outline of a room tag. 4. When you see the X show up, pick a spot in the middle of the four walls. 5. Press Esc. FIGURE 15.2 When you hover your mouse over the intended area of the room, you will see an indication that Revit has found the bounding edges. You now have a room added to the model. Of course, it is a nondescript room name with a nondescript room number. The following procedure will correct that. The objective here is to change the room name and number on the screen. 1. Select the room tag that you just added to the model. NOTE You may be sick of hearing this by now, but I’ll say it again: when you select a component in Revit, the items that turn blue are always editable. 2. Click the Room text. 3. Change the name to SOUTHEAST CORNER OFFICE. 4. Click on room number 1. 5. Change the number to 101 (see Figure 15.3). O If you do not have the Room & Area tab shown, right-click on any tab in the Ribbon. You will see a list of tabs that are not currently displayed. Find Room & Area, and select it. You will now have the proper tab displayed on the Ribbon. Chapter 15 • Creating Rooms and Area Plans 698 FIGURE 15.3 Changing the room name and number to SOUTHEAST CORNER OFFICE, 101 Now that we have a room in place and it is named properly, we can start cooking in terms of adding additional rooms. This is because Revit will begin to sequentially number the rooms as they are placed into the model. The objective of the next procedure is to populate the rest of the east wing with rooms. 1. On the Room & Area panel of the Home tab, click the Room button. TIP If you get the save reminder, be sure to save the model. In no situ- ation is this ever going to be a bad idea! 2. Place a room in the adjacent area, as shown at the bottom center of Figure 15.4. 3. Call the room SOUTHEAST CONFERENCE (see Figure 15.4). NOTE Did you notice that the room tag was trying to align itself with the adjacent tag? This is a fantastic feature in Revit Architecture! 4. On the Room & Area panel of the Home tab, click the Room button again.  When you modify the fields within a tag in Revit, the best method to finalize the data is to simply click on an area away from the tag itself. This will ensure that you do not inadvertently create an additional line in the tag’s value. Creating Rooms 699 5. Place a room in the radial entry area. 6. Rename the room to EAST ENTRY. 7. Renumber the room to 001. 8. Place a room in the south elevator shaft. 9. Rename and renumber it to SOUTHEAST ELEVATOR and 010. 10. Place a room in the north elevator shaft. 11. Rename and renumber it to NORTHEAST ELEVATOR and 011. 12. Place a room in the corridor. 13. Call it EAST WING CORRIDOR and number it 100. 14. Just north of the SOUTHEAST CONFERENCE and SOUTHEAST CORNER OFFICE, place two rooms, each called GATHERING. Number them 103 and 104 (see Figure 15.4). FIGURE 15.4 The first floor layout up to this point Chapter 15 • Creating Rooms and Area Plans 700 15. Zoom over to the west portion of the east wing where the lavatories are. 16. In the north lavatory, add a room named MEN’S 105 as shown in Figure 15.5. FIGURE 15.5 Naming the Men’s lavatory 17. In the south lavatory, add a room named WOMEN’S 106 as shown in Figure 15.6. I think you are getting the concept of adding rooms! Although we have a good amount of rooms added to the east wing, we need to start adding some plain old offices. The next procedure will involve adding offices to the rest of the spaces in the east wing of Level 1. From there we can look at a room’s properties and figure out how to alter the room information. 1. Make sure you are in the east wing area of the model, on Level 1. 2. On the Room & Area panel of the Home tab, click the Room button. Creating Rooms 701 FIGURE 15.6 Naming the Women’s lavatory 3. Pick the large area to the right of the women’s lavatory, as shown in Figure 15.7. 4. Rename the room to OFFICE. Change the number to 107, as shown in Figure 15.6. NOTE If the numbering starts to become inconsistent with the exam- ples in the book, that is okay. This will happen from time to time in Revit. You can either accept the differences between the book and your model, or you can simply renumber the rooms to match. Either way, this will not affect the outcome of the procedures. 5. On the Room & Area panel of the Home tab, click the Room button. 6. Add rooms to the rest of the vacant areas. (Skip the Kitchen area and the room to the right of it, as shown in Figure 15.8). Chapter 15 • Creating Rooms and Area Plans 702 FIGURE 15.7 Renaming the office Now that all of the rooms are in (at least in this section of the building), we can start examining the specific properties to see how we can add functionality and further populate the database information pertaining to each room. Configuring Properties Each room will have specific properties associated with it. There will be floor finishes and wall finishes as well as ceiling types and finishes. It would be nice if Revit picked up this information by “reading” the ceilings, walls, and floors, but it does not. And for good reason. Imagine having to create a different wall type for each paint color, and then splitting each partition as it passes through each room. In Revit, you will specify these individual room finishes in the properties of the room itself. Creating Rooms 703 FIGURE 15.8 Adding rooms to the remainder of the spaces The objective of the next procedure is to generate additional room informa- tion in the properties of the room. 1. Zoom in on the SOUTHEAST CORNER OFFICE 101 room. 2. Hover your cursor over the room until you see the X show up, as you can see in Figure 15.9. TIP Any time you wish to view the properties of a room, you need to click on the actual room, not the room tag. Sometimes selecting the room can be difficult because the room itself is invisible until you hover over it. With some practice, this process will soon become second nature. 3. When you see the X, pick the room. 4. In the Properties dialog, scroll down to the Identity Data group, as shown in Figure 15.10. 5. Add WD-1 to Base Finish. 6. Add ACT to Ceiling Finish. 7. Add PT to Wall Finish. . model, Revit will automatically tag it. Unlike other draft- ing applications, however, Revit does not rely on the tag for its information. Once a room is in the model, it can either contain or not. parameters Revit looks for while placing a room into the floor plan. Because Revit draws from a database to gather information, the process of creat- ing a room boils down to you adding some notes. room, you will see an indication that Revit has found the bounding edges. You now have a room added to the model. Of course, it is a nondescript room name with a nondescript room number. The following