Autodesk Revit Architecture 2015: No Experience Required: Autodesk Official Press

Chapter 15 Creating Rooms and Area Plans

• Creating rooms
• Adding a room schedule
• Adding a color-fill plan
• Adding room separators
• Creating an area plan

Creating Rooms

The first topic we’ll tackle is the task of creating a room and adding it to the model. The procedures that follow will focus on finding where to launch the room and areas and the parameters Revit looks for while placing a room into the floor plan.

Because Revit draws from a database to gather information, the process of creating a room boils down to your adding some notes to an already-built form. When you place the room in the model, Revit automatically tags it. Unlike other drafting applications, however, Revit doesn’t rely on the tag for its information. When a room is in ...