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Can anyone explain the logic behind the way Revit reports rooms in a door schedule?

In a door family the From Room is on the interior side of a door (below the wall), the To Room on exterior side of the door (above the wall).

To get the To Room to report the room the door swings into you have to draw the door swing above the wall, on the exterior side.

So Revit assumes a door leads to the outside, rather than to into a room, and that the inside of a room is actually outside.

It makes no sense. 

Its a real problem because some people making doors reject this logic (and why wouldn't they?). For example the international Revit library has door swings on the exterior, the Australian content library (also supplied by AutoDesk) has door swings on the interior.

Of course if you are consistent and use your own doors you can just rename the headings in your schedule so, To becomes From. But there are some utilities out there (e.g. avatech.com & reviTTools.info) which put the room number into the Mark parameter. BUT THEY ONLY USE THE To Room PARAMETER!

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WWHub

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The to room side is the wall side you place the door from.  If you want the door to swing the other direction thogh, flip the swing after placement.

Try it out ....!

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JAMESHGRIMES

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In addition to WWHub's post you can select the cell in the schedule and change the "To Room" and "From Room" values. If you place a door on a wall adjacent to two rooms it will give you both rooms in the dropdown list.

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