Creating Rooms and Area Plans

Rooms are an example of why Revit is considered the BIM application. This chapter explains how to create rooms, add a room schedule, a color-fill plan, room separators, and create an area plan. The first topic tackled is the task of creating a room and adding it to the model. The procedures focus on finding where to launch the room and areas and the parameters the Autodesk Revit Architecture software looks for while placing a room into the floor plan. The chapter shows how to have a more colorful aspect of placing rooms in the model: adding a color-fill plan. While adding room separators has been known to confuse people, in Revit, users can physically draw a room without any walls. Creating an area plan is similar to, but slightly more involved than creating a room color plan. The chapter presents steps to create a separate floor plan and divide it into areas.