room boundary on/off

[MikeJarosz]

I have a courthouse project. There are interview rooms for defendants and their attorneys. The room is divided by a wall with a window. You've seen them in every cops & robbers movie. The two cubicles count as one space despite the wall down the middle. I have turned off room bounding in the dividing wall, but I cannot get Revit to recognize the two cubicles as one space.

The attachment shows what happens when I pulled back the wall. It also shows the propertiesof the wall. Room bounding is unchecked, but where the dividing wall is placed, only one cubicle is blue. Below these two are rooms where there is no dividing wall. They clearly are one area, so there are no bounding problems.

One thought is that a non bounding wall joined to a bounding wall (which the surrounds are) becomes bounding, even if it is unchecked. Could this be a bug (in 2011)?

[Dimitri Harvalias]

I can't reproduce this Mike.
Have you tried moving the room object to the other side of the dividing wall?
Is the associated level the same for the placed room and the view?
Have you deleted the wall and re-placed it? (corrupt element maybe?)
Is this only occurring in one location or is it consistent behavior?

[MikeJarosz]

Have you deleted the wall and re-placed it? (corrupt element maybe?)

I tried this, and found a suprise. In adding a new wall, the properties for 6" CMU shows room binding checked and greyed -- meaning I can't uncheck it. I edited the type and could not find any bounding properties to fix.

I placed the wall anyway, bounding became editable and it worked. I think you were right. It was a bad wall.