documenting room inventory

[xiqx]

Hi

Simple question: I have a whole lot of rooms filled with all kind of items. for example computers. I would like to make a family of computers and give each computer I place a unique identity number.

I would like next then to create a room schedule that tells me which computer is where.

I am quiet sure this should be possible but I get stuck trying to add a label to a computer I can edit when I place the computer in a room. When I am in the family editor, editing the computer family, I have no option to add a label. (I used the metric furniture template, i tried some other templates but was unlucky there too) please help me out.

thank you for your time

[christo4robin]

Your request is a bit out of my league, but I suspect there may be some cheese at the end of the shared parameter maze. Do some searches on this in the forums and Revit help to see if you come up with something.

[xiqx]

The shared parameter parts works for me but where I get stuck is this:

When I place the computer I would like to label it. At the moment it works when I go to properties and fill in one of the (shared) paramaters. I can then see which computer is in which room. But I would like to be able to place a computer give it a label. (so I see it's name in the view) and then see it's name in a schedule and in which room it is.

thanks for your time

[Nelsonnc24]

Just working something out what i just found is that You can create project parameter with a type set for <family type> and the type must correspond with the category you are going to be working with. Set the category for the project parameter to fall under rooms.Now if i select the room and go to its properties i can select which family is in the room if i do a room schedule i will be able to see which family is in a room.the down side is that the room schedule does not Automatically update if you place a new family and it does not read more than one family in one room you will have to go into a room property and tell it which family is in a room

[sbrown]

Furniture knows what room its in, so if you created everything as a furniture family you could do a furniture schedule and add the room field.

[xiqx]

Hi thanks for the replies,

the furniture is showing up in my schedules that's no problem but when I place a computer for example. I would like to see a tag or label that I can edit in place. The value I fill in should show up in my schedule.

in other words if I have 100 computers with identification codes I would like to have those codes show up in the drawing and in the schedule and telling me in which room the are.

so far I have it working except the identification code also showing up in the floor plans

[Justin Marchiel]

a little off topic, but having the furniture know its room is great! Is there any other families that know what room they are in? I guess i could test them out, but it would be nice if someone has a list....

And to bring up a point, i would be great that all families know what room they are in. One great example that has been taked about is door. We # our doors to match room numbers, and currently we need a manual number to do this. reading the room is a set in the right direction of automatic room/door numbers.

Justin

[Adam Mac]

....so far I have it working except the identification code also showing up in the floor plansCan you not set the visibility of the i.d. code tag to not show in plan OR assign a YES/NO parameter to it so you can manually turn the visibility on or off? You would do this within the computer family itself....:)

Adam

[nnguyen]

Hi thanks for the replies,

the furniture is showing up in my schedules that's no problem but when I place a computer for example. I would like to see a tag or label that I can edit in place. The value I fill in should show up in my schedule.

in other words if I have 100 computers with identification codes I would like to have those codes show up in the drawing and in the schedule and telling me in which room the are.

so far I have it working except the identification code also showing up in the floor plans

i take it the computer is a specialty equipment family. just like the furniture tag, there is a tag for specialty equipment tag (i think), but if not, you would just have to create a tag family for your computer family. then you can tag it, edit it, and schedule it.

[xiqx]

about doors,

Although I am not entirely sure but the first problem with the standard settings for rooms is: that the doors are never in a room. So first you would have to adjust the rooms to either incorporate the walls or only the doors.

Maybe the you could adjust your door family to read a parameter from the room. but this is speculative.

in other words it'll take some puzzling.

good luck

[Justin Marchiel]

currently there is no parameter to associate a door to a room. there are parameters that show the doors swing (ie to/from), but no way to associate the door number to the room

Justin

[xiqx]

I have finally figured out how, to do, what I want. I though I should share it with you.

I hope you will comment or come with better ways or suggestions.

There is only a pdf file attached. You need three more files to create yourself.

1. a model with some rooms
2. a furniture family file (explained in pdf)
3. a furniture tag (explained in pdf)


have fun

[ejburrell67787]

Nice work Xiqx! :)

Perhaps a moderator could move / copy this over to the Tutorials or Tips & Tricks thread?

Cheers, Elrond

[Adam Mac]

Thanks for sharing Xiqx! Great effort.