Tagging and Scheduling Groups

[dgraue]

We are laying out a fairly large multi-familty residential building and grouping many of the apartment units. I can't seem to figure out how to tag each group with a label so that I can schedule each of the unit plans.

Does anyone have a clever solution on how to tag groups?
Thanks.

[LMSmith]

Try making an area plan and including the area in the different unit groups. Then you can schedule and tag the Units with their customizable areas. Let me know if you run into problems.

[jeff.95551]

You can't schedule groups per se, but there are a couple of ways to do the same thing. The best (and for the family impaired like me, most difficult) is to create a family that is embedded into each unit type that can be scheduled. I would attach mine except I don't actually have one that works (see parentheses above). I was advised in a previous thread to do this, and haven't had the clear space to really fight it out. Ideally, all of the information in your unit matrix would be included as parameters in this family, and the schedule would just list them.
The second best way that completely avoids families is to use the rooms in R9, and add in parameters for the additional information that you need. You can put in the area in a parameter, or you can make all of the interior unit walls 'non-room bounding,' which is what I do, and it works great for me. If you have different floor plans in the same unit shell, you have to remember to change the Room Name to match the floor plan, but since each room 'shape' is a different unit layout, the room name tells me which floor plan to copy in. This keeps my unit mix schedule always up to date - this feature by itself is worth the price of admission to RevitLand!

[Rols]

I used to use the entry door as my "tagging object" in groups. It worked out pretty well because there's always just one entry to each unit. As long as you remember to use that particular door family (with unit parameters embeded) for the entry.
More recently, I've adapted an approach that Chris Zoog presented at AU. I use non-room bounding walls in my groups so the entire living unit behaves like one room. It's much easier to shedule, you just have to use a filter to weed out the "living unit rooms". The rooms within the living unit are just tagged with "dumb" tags, since they are not really scheduled anyway. We use a schedule key to call out finishes in typical living unit rooms.