How To Find The Area Of A Room In Revit

Today s post highlights the basics of how this works.

How to find the area of a room in revit.

About the computation height for rooms revit lt measures the perimeter of a room at a defined distance above the base level of the room. Calculate the defined areas in your project once the rooms project standards and room assignment types are assigned. Perhaps you have a column in the room and don t want the area removed or perhaps you have a closet you want to be included in a bedroom. Area plan views are listed in the project browser under area plans.

Use pick lines to apply area rules see the following procedures for details. This distance is the computation height. About room area room areas display on the properties palette in tags and in schedules for rooms. Click quantification tab areabook extension panel calculate areas.

Draw or pick the area boundaries. This distance is the computation height. Click architecture tabroom area panelarea drop down area boundary line. To pick area boundaries click modify place area boundary tabdraw panel pick lines.

As you can see in the image below the closet walls are room bounding and prevent the closet area from being included. In the calculate areas dialog specify the calculation type. In this tutorial how to calculate area in revit. This is super helpful but can be limiting at times.

About room area room areas display on the properties palette in tags and in schedules for rooms. Click duplicate this type to create a new type with different parameters for future use. Please like this video. Revit has the ability to calculate the area of a room automatically.

The default for calculation is standard.