Tag Area of Filled Region in Revit

In this quick tip for Revit I will demonstrate how to create filled region tag, that displays the area of the filled region. There is no default tag for this purpose, so I show how to create one form scratch. The same tag will can be used to annotate the area of masking region. Because the default Detail Item Tag doesn’t enable you to create area label, there is trick how to do this.

Revit is a Building Information Modelling (BIM) software.

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[monikasarac]

OMG you are brilliant!!!! I've always hated that Revit doesn't let you tag areas of filled regions, especially for energy code compliance elevations. This workaround is genius, THANK YOU!

[JulioAlvaradoPalomo]

I´ve been struggling for this for a very long time, glad you share with us, thank you very much, greetings from Guatemala

[hizacaine]

Awesome! Needed that for a long time and couldn't figure it out. Now I'm going to try to figure out how to make one that shows opaque and transparent areas of walls for energy calc.

[reniersillands]

Thanks for that area tag trick. It works. You are a genius.

[satefutingatgoogle]

Thanks, dude this is awesome. I wish we could get this to show in a schedule.

[asiab]

Oh dear! This is brilliant and simple:) Thank you.

[VictoriaNavarro]

Muchas gracias!!! Es justo lo que buscaba. TY

[hkronis]

Saved my day! Is it possible to delete the comma in the area? So it will be a whole number instead?

[sorentodude]

Awesome stuff! Thank you for posting. Quick follow up question, since we're tricking the system, do you have any suggestions on how to populate a schedule based on this tag?

[marijajelenic]

Thank you so much for this trick! Is it also possible to add an annottation for the perimeter of the filled region?

[MN-oydr]

ps. is there a way to get the data (m2) into a schedule?, for there is no option to schedule detail items or filled regions. I just wonder. thnx.

[NBCNothingButCrap]

How come your Revit look neat and clean ( like Archicad ).. Normally Revit look ugly coz of thick line drawing. Is it because of your screen resolution or Revit setting?

[AlanRodriguez-pw]

Hi! i recently saw this video and was very usefull to me, so it generates a few inquiries, for more advance posibilities, do you know if there is a way that i cant calculate in a tag over a filled region the difference percentage between two filled regions?

[charlesfield]

Thanks. I wonder if it still works in 2023.

[hagentrondheim]

Is it also possible to schedule area of a filled region ?

[aaradhyakalyankar]

How to add area parameter in the schedule

[laembert]

Odlehčeně řečeno tak jak to je v perexu jednoho webu: "Na všechno v Revitu je nějakej "workaround", ale musíme na něj teprve přijít". A neodlehčeně, to bych musel být vulgární.

[ilvitos]

how can this software be industry standard... poor us! 😭