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simonptea

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Afternoon all

I'm trying to setup the office standards in Revit 2011 (2012 coming next week) My task is to take Revit and create a BIM model that looks similar to our style of drawings and information we've developed over the last decade.

One thing that is really killing me is area tags, area schedules and to be able to show the total GIA of a 3 storey house on the Ground floor without manually imputting. (We dont want the schedules on drawings)

My ideal process would be like the following:

Draw 2 street's of 3 storey terraced houses. (containing 2 types for example)

Create area plans of all levels. (Area tags to have parameters of: Name, Type, Building (A,B etc) Area m², Tenure)

Create a rentable schedule compressing all the area info and name to give totals.

Then, in the Floor plans have a label? where you can select what name and type its, and display all the info as the area tag, but have the Area to be the total as per the schedule.

Would anything like this be at all possible? I hope I've been clear.

Much gratitude in advance....

Simon

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"Then, in the Floor plans have a label? where you can select what name and type its, and display all the info as the area tag, but have the Area to be the total as per the schedule."  <<  No... and obviously, your CAD standard didn't do this either.

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Concise. Thanks.

Aside from the selecting process etc, is there anyway I can display the schedule info (using a type parameteror something) in the Plan?

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Room and area tags will show areas which are properties of the elements they tag.  Other than those, tags will not calculate.  Tags can have any dumb (user added) values you want ... just like CAD.

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Thanks

So, what do you suggest is best practise to build out a project as above which is highly repetitive? and the idea of having intelligent tags and labels to stop errors occuring on schedules and drawings?

Thanks

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Simple - use schedules and don't try to emulate CAD. 

Change your way of thinking and make Revit work for you.  If you limit Revit to CAD methodology, you will lose big opportunities.   This is the biggest hurdle companies face when starting Revit.  The more they are entrenched in CAD methods, the harder the process is for them.  You can produce a better product using Revit than you ever could with CAD but you have to think Revit.

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