Rooms as an alternative to Area Plans
This is the scenario I'm thinking, it's for multi-unit high rise residential buildings, I like the way rooms function much better than the way Area plans work, during schematic design I can just place rooms to identify spaces and run simple area calculations, they update as the walls location change, the color schemes also show up in sections unlike Area Plans. once the project is in design development I will need more accuracy in locating where the boundary of the spaces are (exterior face of exterior walls, center line of demising, outer side of corridor wall, etc..) so I was thinking that at that point I would change the walls' instances to be non room binding, and use room separation lines to indicate where I want the boundary. this is instead of having to create new area plans just for this purpose, and then have to redo my annotation and sheets and new area schedules..
any thoughts on this? any future problems that I'm not anticipating by doing this?
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