Revit 2020 for Architecture, 2nd Edition

CHAPTER 14Creating Rooms and Area Plans

I think this part of Revit is awesome! I can't tell you how many times in the past I had to manually type in text for room names, them use some graphical program to “color” in those rooms. Revit makes this process so much more streamlined!

This chapter covers the following topics:

• 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 the Autodesk® Revit® Architecture software looks for while placing a room into the floor plan.

Because Revit ...