Transferring Roombook date into Schedule

[zfei83499323]

I am using Revit architecture 2014. Recently just started on Room layout package and other people in the office has been using Codebook and causing them a lot of pain. So I was made the guinea pig to try out Roombook.
Had a look at the youtube video and everything is great until I can't transfer the data into Revit Schedule as shown in the video. We try to avoid exporting data like Furniture and Equipment list into excel (prefer to have it as a schedule on a sheet in Revit). Mange to do as the video shown until she manage to have RB Furniture Elements and RB Wall Surface Net etc on her Revit but not me.
Been looking high and low but nobody seems to use roombook or have this issue.
Anyone been using roombook and manage to transfer the Roombook date into Schedule?

[etboards17]

I am days away from sampling this process as well. I will chime in if I find anything.

[Steve Cox]

Don't know if you found your answer but I've been working with Roombook (2015) the last few days. To get data in the schedules you first need to copy/paste them into your project from a file located in the Roombook Library, Roombook Schedule Views INIT-ENU.rvt. The default location is: C:\ProgramData\Autodesk\RVT 2015\Libraries\US Metric \Roombook. I just happened on this because I found nothing online about it or in help.

I personally don't see how anyone is using this in production. I found that it uses a combination of annotation methods, Specialty Equipment (model family - Finish Material & Finish Anchor) & Specialty Equipment Tags (QuantityID). To turn them off in views you do not wish to display them in you have to turn off Specialty Equipment. Of course any families you may have in your project not related to Roombook will turn off as well. For us this is not good.

In our standard template we set our Project Base Point elevation to 100' thus our levels start at 100' and 110' for Level 2 etc. Roombook offsets the Finish Material and Finish Anchor 100' for Level 1 and 110' level 2. It took me awhile to figure this out. I found you need to calculate the upper portions first move them to the correct height and work your way down (in this case 0' for Level 1 and 10' for Level 2).

Also you may have found the help file is not much help and I found no tutorials either. If anyone has found workarounds or found Roombook useful in production I'd like to hear from them.

Steve