Autodesk Revit Architecture 2016 Essentials: Autodesk Official Press

Chapter 8Rooms and Color Fill Plans

In the previous chapters of this book, we discussed creating physical elements such as walls, floors, roofs, stairs, and railings; however, one of the most important elements in architecture is the spaces bounded by those physical elements. In the Autodesk^® Revit^® Architecture software, you have the ability to create and manage rooms as unique elements with extended data properties. By keeping room names and areas coordinated, you can potentially free hours of manual effort for more productive and meaningful design-related tasks. Once rooms are tagged, you'll be able to create coordinated color fill plans that automatically reflect any data about the rooms in your project. Any changes to the rooms are immediately ...