Rooms and Color Fill Plans - Autodesk Revit Architecture 2015 Essentials - page 192

room Separation Lines

There are times when you have a large, central open space, as in the following
exercise, and you'll need that space to be subdivided and tagged into smaller
functional areas. You don't want to add walls to carve the large space into
smaller areas, especially if they don't exist in the program; fortunately, there's
a better option. You can draw spatial dividers known as room separation lines .
Room separation lines are model lines, and they show up in 3D views. The
great thing about them is that they allow you to create spaces without using 3D
geometry.

Deleting rooms

While using the Room command, you can place a room and a room tag
simultaneously; however, deleting a room completely from a project takes
multiple steps. If you simply delete a room tag, the room object remains in the
space. You can add another tag to the room object later or tag it in a different
view.
If you delete a room object, the definition of the room remains in your project
until you either place another room using the same definition or delete it in a
room schedule. We'll explore this behavior later with a quick exercise in which
you will delete a room object, observe the unplaced room in a schedule, and
then replace the room object in the floor plan.

exercise 8.1: add rooms and room tags

From the topic's web page ( www.sybex.com/go/revit2015essentials ) down-
load the project file c08-ex8.1start.rvt . Make sure the Level 1 floor plan is
activated and set the scale to 1 ⁄4 ″ = 1 ′ -0 ″ (1:50).
To add a room to your project, follow these steps:

1. Go to the Architecture tab's Room & Area panel, and select the
Room tool.

2. Hover over an enclosed space, and notice that the room boundary
highlights, indicating the space in which you're about to place a room
object (Figure 8.3).

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You don't have to tag
rooms as you place
them, but by default
this option is selected,
as highlighted in
the Modify | Place
Room tab.

3. Click to place a room in the upper-left space on the Level 1 floor plan.
Notice that the default room tag indicates only the room name and
number (Figure 8.4), but more options are available.