Rooms in Revit, Complete Beginners Tutorial

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In this tutorial I run through everything a Beginner needs to know about Rooms in Revit, under 5 headings.

1) Placing Rooms 1:00 - Understanding Revit Wall Boundaries, How to Place a Room in your Revit Model, how to control the height of your Rooms in Revit and how to use Room Separators in Revit to add new boundaries for your room to follow in the absence of a wall.

2) Tagging Rooms 6:45 - How to Tag a Room, Renumbering and Renaming Revit Rooms using the Room Tags reporting labels and How to Setup a Room Tag Family for your Revit project.

3) Create a Room Colour Scheme Plan and Colour Fill Legend 11:10 - How to create and edit your colour colour scheme, generate a colour fill legend to place on your revit plan and how to control your colour schemes with various reporting conditions, such as creating departments.

4) How to Create a Room Schedule 17:55 - How to create a base room schedule, how to add reporting parameters to your Room Schedule, how to order and reorganise your schedule and finally how to place your room schedule on your revit sheet.

5) Tips and Tricks for Rooms in Revit 22:20 - some small nuances to be aware of, such as the inability for Rooms placed in your Revit Model to transcend the project Phases and how to correctly delete rooms from your Revit Project when they are no longer required.

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Revit Room Schedule; Revit Tips and Tricks; Revit Architecture; Revit Colour Fill Legend; Colour your rooms in Revit; Rooms and Phases in Revit

[KUBE.archvis]

I'm so glad you covered how to properly delete rooms. I always had trouble with this. Your channel has a lot of helpful videos. Thanks!

[lenikrof]

Most useful revit tutorials out there.

[nyanna]

That is a great tutorial, very well explained and easy to follow! Thank you :)

[BIM]

Hi everyone - video timestamps as follows:

1) Placing Rooms 1:00 - Understanding Revit Wall Boundaries, How to Place a Room in your Revit Model, how to control the height of your Rooms in Revit and how to use Room Separators in Revit to add new boundaries for your room to follow in the absence of a wall.

2) Tagging Rooms 6:45 - How to Tag a Room, Renumbering and Renaming Revit Rooms using the Room Tags reporting labels and How to Setup a Room Tag Family for your Revit project.

3) Create a Room Colour Scheme Plan and Colour Fill Legend 11:10 - How to create and edit your colour colour scheme, generate a colour fill legend to place on your revit plan and how to control your colour schemes with various reporting conditions, such as creating departments.

4) How to Create a Room Schedule 17:55 - How to create a base room schedule, how to add reporting parameters to your Room Schedule, how to order and reorganise your schedule and finally how to place your room schedule on your revit sheet.

5) Tips and Tricks for Rooms in Revit 22:20 - some small nuances to be aware of, such as the inability for Rooms placed in your Revit Model to transcend the project Phases and how to correctly delete rooms from your Revit Project when they are no longer required.

Hope you find the video helpful.

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Niall

[spickyhead]

great video ... if i am doing a hotel room lets call it room 1, and within that room is an ensuite what is the best way to do this??do i tag each as separate giving it the same name or a dif name ??if i give a dif name then am i doubling up the schedule ???the end result is i want it to have room 1 for both rooms but to also have diff shading ?? also in another video you are taking about reporting flooring how is this done ....

[adriansanchez]

😂😂finally one thats not in a foreign langauge lol civil 3d tutorials are still mostly in hindi (or whatever) I get the occasional english tutorial for revit at least