Room Names

[hnakhla10584872]

Hi,
I was working on an exercise file placing room names, when I do so, on the options bar, there is a selection list to select a room name (see attached screen capture)
Question: How did the listed names get to this list? and how can I modify it?

Many thanks
Harry

[PijPiwo]

Rooms on that list are not placed in your model yet and are created in Room Schedule. Open your RS from the Project Browser and click on Insert icon on Rows panel and Data Row. These room names can be also modified in RS.

[Steve_Stafford]

Rooms in that list are "Not Placed" but you (someone) may have created them by placing a room and then deleting them later. They could also be left over from when the project template was created. Rooms are to managed with schedules. We have final control over the reality of a room there. If you don't want them in the list on the Options Bar you can either place them where they should go in the model or delete the room's row in the schedule.

Deleting a room in a floor plan does not remove the room from the Revit database permanently. Deleting one from a schedule does. This allows us to move a room to another location or another floor without recreating the information. I can delete a room on the second floor (in a plan view) and then use the "Not Placed" record of this room to put it where it should go on a different floor. If I decide I don't really need a room I can just open the schedule and delete it for good.

For some background, Revit allows us to create a list of rooms prior to any actual walls defining where they could go. Imagine having a meeting with the client and they give you a list of rooms they want or need. You can create a basic room schedule with number, name, and area for example. Then each time you click the New button in the Row panel Revit generates a new "Not Placed" room. Repeat and fill in information until all of the project's program information is entered. Now as users create walls the room are "waiting" to be placed where they should go.

[jsteinhauer]

To add to Steve's post, we use a web based programming software to create a program for our client's building/s. We can import these rooms into our Revit model, to prepopulate our building model with proper room names & numbers across multiple phases. Being web based, we get the option to spell check our room names as we create them. Additional developments will allow us to create RDS and have them pull the room name, number and other misc data from the data base. The best part about this is, everything becomes coordinated. End user training is still an issue, telling them not to create "New" rooms, they just need to use the drop down to place the room in the correct location. In my Revit model, we have URL parameters to take users to the appropriate web page for either the program interface or the RDS.

Cheers,
Jeff S.

[hnakhla10584872]

Fantastic!
Thanks for all the replies.