Is there a way to add Area Types? Is there a way that I can change rules for the default types and create new types with different rules? Not Area Settings, actual Types.
Hopefully, I have not missed this in the older posts I reviewed. I can generally accomplish what I want for everything except BOMA areas using parameters, names and alternate color fill schemes. I understand how this works. I am hoping for an answer specific to changing the default BOMA area types and adding a few new ones, not a work-around. The default OOTB types are not correct and it's causing extra steps to get the information out of Revit into a spreadsheet created for the 1996 BOMA / ANSI standard.
There is no type for Gross Measured Area (different from Gross Building Area). To get the earliest Rentable Area calculations, this is important. There is no type for Floor Usable Area (often, in early phases, we are not interested in whether it is Store, Office or Building Common Area). Since Floor Area appears to be technically Floor Common Area (based on the boundary), it is named incorrectly and could be confused with Floor Usable Area. I can schedule Floor Usable Area with a calculated parameter but I cannot select the type correctly unless I arbitrarily assign one that's a default. There is nothing for Residential work - since BOMA does not have a standard, our developers make different decisions about whether to count balconies, how to calculate corridors, what to do in multi-use Retail/Office/Condo developments and more.
I am happy to make the corrections and additions myself but cannot figure out where it is.
Besides, it makes me nuts that only Office area has a lower case a.
Thanks in advance.