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I am trying to have room schedules calculate all of the usable area in my project. All is working well except... I can't seem to make the schedule show all levels. The schedule only shows the areas where rooms are placed.
For example, this is what I'm trying to accomplish: (A schedule showing room areas, filtered by departments and sorted by level, showing all levels)
Level Area
1 0 SF
2 0 SF
3 500 SF
4 1000 SF
Has anyone run into this issue before? Thanks in advance for your help.
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attached is the way the room schedules look. I have a schedule for each department like this. Circulation works well because there are rooms on every floor, but the rest of the departments do not have rooms on every floor and consequently won't show in the schedule.
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Your question is not clear.
"...The schedule only shows the areas where rooms are placed..." << Obviously, a room schedule will not include areas that are not rooms.
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Apologies for not wording my question more clearly. In schedules sorted by level, is there a way to have revit show levels with 0 SF (or doors, or equipment, or whatever).
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Again ... there has to be a room to schedule!
You can add equipment rooms.... even if you don't tag them in plan. If you need to add room seperation lines to close the space then do that.
Otherwise, maybe you should be doing area plans and schedule rather than using rooms.
".. (or doors,..)" <<? Why would you have a door and no room? What does a door have to do with a room schedule?
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We do use area plans/schedules for the traditional gross and rentable schemes which schedule nicely because there is sf on every level. We also already use rooms to differentiate space by department and occupancy. I wanted to leverage that room data and schedule the room areas and place them on a sheet next to the gross and rentable (which have all levels shown) so they all line up graphically. Unfortunately, revit will only schedule what is there.
The workflow currently in place currently is to get the raw data from revit (or cad on some projects), then manually input into excel to accomplish that chart (please save your soapbox rant about work with how revit works, I completely agree. If you want to try and convince my boss, be my guest).
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No rant - just trying to understand what you are doing.
So far , we have that you want to schedule in a room schedule, areas from spaces that are not rooms but are on levels and might even be 0 sq ft. << This is all very hard to understand but I am still trying.
I suggested that you place rooms to capture these areas... I don't understand why this will not work for you. You can place these 'rooms' in a seperate category so they can be filtered out in your normal room schedule but will show in this schedule you want to do.
BTW - You write: "... then manually input into excel to accomplish that chart..." If you open any Revit schedule, you can export that to a tab delimited txt file which can be directly opened in excel.
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I guess yesterday killed off more brain cells than I anticipated. Since pictures are worth 1000 words, please see attached lol.
The sheet I have in the model now is "Revit Schedules.png" which shows the areas. I'm trying to get "Revit Schedules - Hopefully.png" to look like "Excel Chart.png". The "Revit Schedules - Hopefully.png" is a copy of "Revit Schedules.png" without levels shown (which may look confusing now). I've decided to manually input the numbers into excel because I have multiple schedules going at once, but I do know you can export from Revit to excel, thanks for the heads up though. (and we can't afford any 3rd party plugin to link excel and revit schedules)
Hopefully this really clarifies my question. I'm just trying to keep everything in Revit reducing extra (and hopefully unnecessary) steps. If you think that using area plans/schedules would be easier than room schedules to accomplish this, then I am all ears.
Thanks very much in advance and for dealing with my post st pattys day cryptography.
-BurtonT
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I hate it when we are stuck with a visual process based on "How we do it". That being said - you laid down the gauntlet. Do you want it like this?
Extra 0 sf rooms can be filtered out of normal schedules.
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WWHub, you are a life saver, thank you very much. I also am personally not a fan of workarounds to fulfil the "this is how we do it" approach, but alas I don't sign my paycheck. Thank you again.
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Glad to be a help. A good challege like yours helps all of us.
I just have to add that those extra 0 sf rooms should be put in a design option so they don't interfere with anything. Have the base design option have nothing and add these to the second option in that set then filter these schedules to include the DO.
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