Adding area to a room schedule

[dhidalgo]

I'm working on a building where some of the rooms have balconies and I need the room schedule to show the area of the room with a balcony as well as without a balcony. The balcony sizes differ so how would I add the area of a specific balcony to a specific room?

The naming of the room types takes into account the presence of a balcony and I've created a project parameter for rooms called Balcony Area. So I can make a schedule key and assign a SF for the balcony in each room based on the room type but the Balcony Area would be a manual input that wouldn't update if the balcony changes in the drawing.

Any ideas on how I could do this so that the area of the balcony (as it exists in the model) is added to the room area on the schedule ?

[sjsl]

Use Room Boundary Lines for the Balcony, then you can tag it and it will schedule and update.

[dhidalgo]

The problem is I don't want the balconies to show up as rooms on the schedule. Also I need a specific balcony to be associated with a specific room and I need to be able to calculate their sum and present it on the schedule.

[greg.mcdowell]

you're going to need multiple schedules for this and some manual input

in one schedule you'll need to do as sjsl said and have the rooms and balconies with their areas... in this schedule create another parameter and manually enter the sum of the room and balcony as needed

create another schedule that filters out the balconies and includes the manual parameter from above instead of the automatic area parameter generated by revit

it ain't automatic and it may not be pretty but that's what it'll take

[guy.messick825831]

Perhaps one could create an area schedule that merges the total space/balcony and name it per the room in question - or

Question whether having the balcony in a schedule is such a bad thing. You could create parameters to indicate what they are and "bind" them to the room in a schedule via sorting.

Otherwise it's manual input, I think.

[dhurtubise]

It can be accomplish with only one schedule and a SP, seethe attachment

[dhidalgo]

That's not exactly the layout I was looking for but it does give me the information I need. My hope was that the combined area would just show up as a field and I wouldn't have to list every balcony on the schedule.

Thanks for the help!