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Icarus

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IDN101

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Will almost certainly be to do with Levels.

Check the Associated Level of the View in which you are trying to add the Room elements.

 Compare this Level to the associated Level for the wall that are bounding the area you wish to define as a room.

If neccessary create a NEW View based on the Level your walls were drawn from. This will probably sort things out.

Let us know how you get on.

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Icarus

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Thanks,

In fact I am not sure what it was all about.

This is an area with different wall types and heights - the walls were probebly not properly joined

I demolished all the walls, and rebuilt them - then it worked. 

Thanks again. 

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Glad you sorted it. I still suspect it was Level related. By demolishing and re-defining your walls, your view (in which you then placed your room elements) was correct for the levels of the walls that defined the spaces.

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Rather than blow away all you walls and start over you can use "room seperation lines".

Handy item if you have a room with three walls such as a multi purpose room divided by a folding walls or a laying out shell and core tenant store fronts in a shopping mall there themall wall will be TI.

It's under Drafting in the top tool bar in Revit version 2008

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Icarus

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Thanks,

I am familiar with the Room Separation line - very handy.

But, in this case it could not help - when you try to put it over an element that is already room bounding (e.g. walls), you get an overlap error.

Appreciate the suggestion but in fact it was all my mess - the walls that were supposed to be bounding, were all very messy - these are just my first steps in Revit, so I cut myself some slack :o) 

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I just had a similar problem with a room at the mechanical penthouse level of a project I am working on.  There is a concrete floor object, and a small rectangular electrical room on top. when I tried to place a room object inside the walls, I would get a warning room not enclosed.  After making sure that my walls were designated as "room bounding" I also checked the levels of the room object and the walls.  everything was set to level 4, but still no enclosed wall. (at this point I restarted my entire computer, but nothing changed)

 I eventually discovered that the floor object (which has multiple large shaft openings in it) was able to host the room object-- it was as if my room tag (and room) were trying to show me the area of each individual shaft opening as I was about to place the room.  I finally figured something must be wrong with this floor object and went into its properties.  I saw that it was set to be "room bounding" as well.  When I un-checked that box,  the room object was again able to correctly label my electrical room.  It was like the room object couldn't see the walls because it was busy looking at the floor object first... 

I still don't understand exactly why this worked, but I hope that it can help someone out in a similar situation.

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Revised 10 minutes later:

 After I saved to central, the error returned- this time the checkbox on the floor object was set to be Not Room Bounding.  Frustrated, I decided to delete thetrouble making floor and redraw it.   (I actually just copy-pasted the sketch boundary).  The new floor object hasn't yet caused any trouble.

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i am having a similar problem. my problem is i want everytihng inside one room to read as one room. for example, in the restroom there are toilet stalls, and i want the stalls to read as part of room but revit sees the toilet stalls as separate rooms because they r separated by doors and toilet stall walls. and for the life of me, i cant get the room separation lines to "cheat" revit.

 do u know how i can get revit to read the whole restroom as 1 room?

image attached, u can see how the womens restroom is not including the toilet stalls in the area sf.

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Did you use the "Room Separation" line??? delete the old lines and create the new ones around....

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