Area schedule - filter by area type

[Tom Dorner]

I'm trying to filter an area schedule by "area type" and cannot seem to make this happen in Revit. Does anyone know if this is possible?

I'm trying to do a tenant schedule for a building that does not show any areas like "major vertical penetration" and "building common"

My quick Revit work around is to define a parameter to hold a "schedule" "not schedule" text and filter by it. This works OK until you come back to it a few weeks later and forget to update this field. Seems like there should be an better way.

Thanks,

Tom

[beegee]

Filter by "Name" and "does not equal" and insert the names of the area types not to be scheduled.

[Tom Dorner]

Originally that was what I was doing. It worked well until I had to expand to 5 filters as client wanted expanded names like "bathrooms", corridors, mechanical, electrical, storage. Revit seems to stop at 4 filters.

Thanks,

Tom

[beegee]

Ok, I see the problem.

Your work around is the correct way to filter then. You will need to manually update the filter parameter though, when new areas are added.

[Tom Dorner]

beegee,

Thanks for confirming my work around.

I've re-done all my schedules in three projects for about the fifth time adding the correct paremeters for filtering. Kind of a pain and something the Revit people should consider for the next release. I'm waiting for the new wishlist to be established as I have a ton of them as it pertains to schedules and area calculations. We are selling our Revit capabilities to a property management firm and you really find out the problems when you have a client asking for certain things.

I've also exported via ODBC and done reports in MS Access for areas, but I really want Revit to behave more like the database it is supposed to be.

Tom

[beegee]

Post your wishlist items now.

Greg has big broad shouders. :)