Revit Best Practice: Room loading with furniture

[pfaudler]

Hello,

I am sure this topic would have been discussed in this forum but couldnt find a post on this subject. Can someone please direct me to a post where this topic is discussed? If not then can i would like to ask folllwing to the forum?

I just want to know what is the standard (best) practice to load revit rooms with furniture, electrical points etc? So that FFE schedules can be generated out of one single envirnment? Currently we use tools called ADB and Codebook over here in UK. These two tools work on top of Acad. Basically they are MS access database linked to Acad file via closed pline. You draw a pline on GA plan and link that pline to MS database and select a room type. These tools then inserts all standard Acad blocks with attributes attached into Acad GA. It also produces room elevations (C-sheets) and RDS etc.

ADB (http://adb.dh.gov.uk/) tool has launched a Revit plungin last year. But there isnt proven record for it.

Can you please share your experience on how you approach loading Revit rooms with furniture families (3d or 2D or mixed?), FFE schedules, RDS etc?

Thansk

[dhurtubise]

You could populate the paramters but as far as loading all the other needed families you will need the help of the api.

[chuttonx]

Rahul,

I am very interested in this as well, I have also posted a similar thread on the Discussion forums on Autodesk.com asking very much the same question, i was wondering if you actually got anywhere with your findings / discussions/ research for this particular subject.

Please feel to email me direct if you wish.

regards

Colin...

[sbrown]

we put the furniture in the room, group it, name the group something descriptive, ie Typical King Bedroom, Typical Double Double, etc. Then populate the model with this. Then we have furniture schedules that report the room name and the furniture in it. The furniture schedule is very slow. So there is a performance hit with this approach, but its accurate and you can easily see where missing items are. The tricky part is where table lamps are "furniture" instead of lights, etc.

[sbrown]

Here are some examples of how the floor plans look and the schedules. Note we do model the furniture to be "close" to the real item. We make sure to make smart families that have symbol lines and masking regions for plans and elevations.

[ruthellenwilliams]

is it not feasible to do furniture in a linked model - just like you might do mechanical - in order to improve performance?

[sbrown]

You won't get the benefit of the furniture knowing what room its in.

[RevitRonin]

How are you telling the furniture what room it's in? I assume this is a manual entry.

[dgreen.49364]

Eric, in the Fields tab for your Furniture Schedule, you can select below, "Select available fields from:" and select Room. From there you can add room names and numbers to the Furniture Schedule. No manual typing involved.

[RevitRonin]

Eric, in the Fields tab for your Furniture Schedule, you can select below, "Select available fields from:" and select Room. From there you can add room names and numbers to the Furniture Schedule. No manual typing involved.

Oh, THAT check box! I keep overlooking that box. It's like Autodesk thought no one would ever want to associate rooms and furniture.. oh well.

ThanX!

[sjsl]

Hey Bowman nice to see you on AUGI.

Lou had a tornado cut thru his backyard on Sat.

Keep up the posts!