DaveDH
2012-02-22, 08:40 PM
Dear Architects,
I'm over here from the MEP forums and a few of us have been having trouble with the Space Naming utility not working.
Here's how it's supposed to work. When we, (an MEP firm) get an architectural model to link into our MEP model, we create Spaces which are essentially duplicates of Rooms, except the Spaces have mechanical, electrical, and lighting data built in. The Space Naming Utility allows us to transfer the Room Names and Numbers automatically from the linked arch model, which is huge. So when it doesn't work it's huge in a bad way, because we have to manually enter and carefully notice every time the room names and numbers change and manually edit them.
Here's a clip of my post from the MEP forum:
"But I have the same problem with projects from a certain architect. When we first noticed the problem we opened their arch model and tried to find some setting or check box in their rooms but couldn't (and all the rooms were placed properly). As far as we could tell their rooms were fine, except for a few extra fields/parameters. It turns out they had a consultant come in and set up all their Revit for them. So when we asked the architects about how they modified their rooms, they had no clue.
I think I'll go over to the Revit arch forum and pester them for an answer, because this problem is less than useless. It's like anti-BIM. It's even less useful than having the room tags in an xref in AutoCAD."
So if you archies have any answers to what might have happened to those rooms, it would be a big help.
Thanks!
I'm over here from the MEP forums and a few of us have been having trouble with the Space Naming utility not working.
Here's how it's supposed to work. When we, (an MEP firm) get an architectural model to link into our MEP model, we create Spaces which are essentially duplicates of Rooms, except the Spaces have mechanical, electrical, and lighting data built in. The Space Naming Utility allows us to transfer the Room Names and Numbers automatically from the linked arch model, which is huge. So when it doesn't work it's huge in a bad way, because we have to manually enter and carefully notice every time the room names and numbers change and manually edit them.
Here's a clip of my post from the MEP forum:
"But I have the same problem with projects from a certain architect. When we first noticed the problem we opened their arch model and tried to find some setting or check box in their rooms but couldn't (and all the rooms were placed properly). As far as we could tell their rooms were fine, except for a few extra fields/parameters. It turns out they had a consultant come in and set up all their Revit for them. So when we asked the architects about how they modified their rooms, they had no clue.
I think I'll go over to the Revit arch forum and pester them for an answer, because this problem is less than useless. It's like anti-BIM. It's even less useful than having the room tags in an xref in AutoCAD."
So if you archies have any answers to what might have happened to those rooms, it would be a big help.
Thanks!