Schedule problem; linked files

[mike.vroegindeweij]

Hello,

With the schedule tool it's possible to schedule furniture within a room.
We're working on a big hospital(50.000 m2), and we've separated the interior-components in another revit-file. Now it's time to count all interiorcomponents and the location of them(with roomnumber and name).

-We've linked the interior-model in the construction-model.
-New schedule: multicategory
-Filter with a codes on interior-components.
-Use the checkbox, include elements from linked files.
-Use the parameter: room:name and room:number.

The result is that we've a list only with the interior-components. The roomnames and numbers are not visible.

The only solution we found is to bind the interior-model(takes about 4 hours) and then the schedule was correct. But then the model is too slowly.

Is there anyone who knows how to show the room-name and numbers in this schedule?

Thanks,

Maarten Vroegindeweij

[Munkholm]

Maarten.

I´m pretty sure that it cant be done with just Revit.

I know of a Danish Arhitectural Firm, which also is working on a big hospital, and they are using dRofus (Norwegian database software) along with Revit, to keep track of equipment and room specs.

You can find dRofus here: http://www.drofus.no/index.php?page=en&lang=en

[dhurtubise]

Room number won't show through linked files. You could copy/paste the rooms to the furniture file. Faster then binding.

[nancy.mcclure]

dhurtubise, I haven't had any luck copy/pasting room elements between files - is there something I'm missing?

[twiceroadsfool]

dhurtubise, I haven't had any luck copy/pasting room elements between files - is there something I'm missing?

You can copy and paste just about anything between the files. You dont even have to go in to the link to do it. Just tab-select the rooms, copy to clipboard, paste alligned.

That, or you can set their model to be room bounding, and can place your own rooms. In either case, youll have to make sure they stay coordinated, manually. You *might* be able to use the new Model Reviewer to compare them, but i havent taken the time to dissect it yet (havent had a need).

Unfortunately, Rooms cant be monitored currently, so you have to make do as you can.

[DaveP]

Well, THAT's a major disappointment.
I never realized that Rooms worked that way before.
I just tried a small sample with two room and, sure enough, works just a Daniel describes.
I'm puzzled as to why, though.
I created a Furniture schedule and I can't see the Room: Name or Number, but if I create a Room Schedule, I can see the Rooms through the Linked file.

So if a Room Schedule knows about the linked Rooms, why doesn't a Furniture Schedule?

[twiceroadsfool]

Because youre not comparing apples to apples.

A room schedule will schedule rooms that are in a linked file.
A furniture will schedule furniture pieces that are in a linked file.

Some items know what room they are in, as long as the room and the object are in the same file.

Everyone has different *assumptions* about how Linked Files should work. Some people think we should be able to tag everything from linked files, even though we have By Linked View. Some people think items should be able to "sense" each other across Linked files, even though they cant (though room bounding links recently made SOMETHING reach across the links...). But its always been that way.