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kkozak2

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I've searched the web all morning and read through multiple threads on multiple forums, but still no answer. Either I'm searching the wrong thing or it doesn't exist. I thought it was simple...

I'm designing a building. I need to provide XXX square feet for each department. Each department has several rooms.

I've created a room schedule that lists the departments and the total area for all the rooms in each department (does not list every room).

All I want to do is compare that total area by the required area and show a percentage. (wherther I'm at 70% or 110%). I can do it for each room individually, but not by total for each department.

Aside from manually doing it in excell, anyone have any suggestions on how this might be done in Revit 2013?

Thank you in advance.

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You can get a total area by department but I doubt you can do the rest of what you want.  There is no way to use the total you got in another calculation.  And there is no field available to host your "required area".

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This took some thinking but I got it to work.

I created a Key Schedule for Rooms and a few line items that included the target required areas. Then included that field in my room schedule but in order to get it to work you need to Itemize every instance. Then I added a new field named 'percentage' with a Calculated formula to compare each room area with the target area and then using a Footer totalled them up. Lastly I changed the units format of the percentage field to drop the m2. See attached.  

Here's the project file > area-key-plan

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Thanks guys! I'm not entirely sure how, but I got it to work. I know I had to add the Required Area value to each room.

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Good work, so to improve it a little more you could control the Required Area values with a 'Key Schedule. That way all required areas can be controlled by Department and all in one place.

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I will have to look into the Key Schedules a bit more. I used them years ago, but very briefly. Thanks for the tip.

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