Door Numbering based on Room Numbering

[heather.leibman]

We are just finished numbering the rooms in our project (based on a very weird numbering system given to us by the client) and are moving onto doors (which have already been placed in the project). Is there any way to have them numbered automatically based on the room number of the room them open into without having to do each one manually? We are using Revit 2012.

Thanks

Heather

[greg.mcdowell]

Not without some assistance from the API. Even then I'm not sure.

What you might consider doing is deleting your doors and recreating them starting with your first room and letting them autonumber upwards from there by adding them to each subsequent room. Other than that it's a manual process.

[heather.leibman]

Unfortunately the numbering system given to us by the client is so strange that even deleting the doors and reinserting them wouldn't be much help

What is API?

Are there any add on software pieces out there that might help?

[Revitaoist]

If you go into the door schedule fields, there is a dropdown at the bottom called 'to room'. This will open more parameters including one called 'to room: number'. This adds a column in your schedule for what room the door opens into. This makes manually changing the door numbers easier.

[Bill Gilliss]

I use BIMAssist from Advanced Solutions, Inc., an Autodesk reseller. It has a module to renumber doors based on "room from" or "room into", with useful filtering by phase, and other very useful modules to renumber rooms, sheets in a set, and the like. The program is free to ASI's subscription customers, and leased per year per seat for others. Info and videos at www.advancedsolutionsonline.com/bimassist_licensing

[LP Design]

If you go into the door schedule fields, there is a dropdown at the bottom called 'to room'...

Schedules are definitely the way to go. This works well even in situations where your door #s don't quite match the room numbers, (doors 101A, 101B, 101C, etc. for room 101). You can just view the "to room" numbers, go through the schedule adding door numbers, then hide the "to room" column so it does not print.

-LP