Rooms and Color Fill Plans - Autodesk Revit Architecture 2015 Essentials - page 200

Compare your completed exercise to the example file c08-ex8.3end.rvt ,
available for download from the topic's web page.

Certification
Objective

generating Color Fill room plans

Creating color fill plans in Revit Architecture is easier to accomplish than most
other design applications. Because color fills are associated with the elements
of your building design, they will constantly update as existing information is
modified or new information is added. This allows you to focus on communicat-
ing rather than coordinating your design information — as if resolving your
design isn't already hard enough!
In the following exercises, we will explore how to add a color scheme to
your floor plan and section and how to modify the values. By default, solid fill
colors will be automatically assigned to each unique value in a color scheme.
Fortunately, you can completely customize the colors and fill patterns for the
scheme.

exercise 8.4: add and Modify a Color Scheme
From the topic's web page ( www.sybex.com/go/revit2015essentials ), down-
load the project file c08-ex8.4start.rvt .

1. Go to the Annotate tab's Color Fill panel, and select the Color Fill
Legend tool.

2. Click anywhere in the whitespace of the drawing area, and a dialog
opens that allows you to select the space type and color scheme
(Figure 8.13).

3. Set Space Type to Rooms and Color Scheme to Name. Click OK.

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You can create any
number of color
schemes based on
various data in your
project model. For
example, you could also
create color fill legends
according to department
or custom parameters
such as floor finish,
occupancy type, and
even ranges in area.

Figure 8.13 Defining the color fill legend