Rooms and Color Fill Plans - Autodesk Revit Architecture 2015 Essentials - page 189

Chapter 8

rooms and Color
Fill plans

In the previous chapters of this topic, we discussed creating physical
elements such as walls, floors, roofs, stairs, and railings; however, one of the
most important elements in architecture is the spaces bounded by those
physical elements. In the Autodesk ® Revit ® Architecture software, you have
the ability to create and manage rooms as unique elements with extended
data properties. Keeping room names and areas coordinated has the potential
to free hours of manual effort for more productive and meaningful design-
related tasks. Once rooms are tagged, you'll be able to create coordinated
color fill plans that automatically reflect any data about the rooms in your
project. Any changes to the rooms are immediately reflected throughout the
entire project.
In this chapter, you'll learn to:

▶ Define rooms in spaces

▶ Add a room tag

▶ Modify a room boundary

▶ Delete a room object

▶ Generate color fill room plans

▶ Modify a color scheme

▶ Add tags and color fill to sections

Defining rooms in Spaces

Rooms are unique types of objects because they do not have a clear physical
representation like other model elements such as furniture and doors. Their
horizontal extents are automatically determined by bounding objects in the