Room Tools is a free Revit Add-Ins application which includes:
- Remove Redundant Rooms (to remove redundant rooms from the current document)
- Center Room (relocate rooms location points to the center of the rooms)
- Room Tag To Room (relocate rooms’ tags to the rooms location points)
- Create Views (create floor plan, ceiling plan, 3d view, and elevations for the rooms) ( include in version 2.0.0 )
Sample Usage
Create Views Usage
Create Views tool is to generate plans, perspectives, and elevations from the rooms in the current document with a few simple steps.
First of all, select (Right Click or Shift Select for multi-selection) the rooms from the Listbox which display (“RoomNumber RoomName” ) all the placed room from the current document (see figure 1.0).
After this, select the view types and view type families to be used for the views (see figure 1.1).
View Scale value options show related to the current project unit, figure 1.1a shown METRIC unit and see figure 1.1b for IMPERIAL unit. View Crop Offset value unit is used millimeter(mm) for METRIC and feet(ft) for IMPERIAL.
In the View Naming box, you can add Prefix, Suffix to your view name. The Middle is for RoomName and RoomNumber with typeable spacing and if you want to omit RoomNumber or RoomNumber choose None from the dropdown list. And View Naming Preview is dynamically displaying the name of the views which are going to create. (see figure 1.2 & 1.3)
One last thing is View Naming for Elevation views which are included additional suffix (A, B, C, D) by default for each of the elevation sides from the elevation marker. (figure 1.4)
Feel free to post your feedback/idea on the review section. Cheers!
Autodesk App Store Download :
Revit 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 : https://apps.autodesk.com/RVT/en/Detail/Index?id=866770459695035821&appLang=en&os=Win64
Hey, I was just wondering if this plugin would work with linked geometry.
I created a Revit model containing only rooms as local geometry. Rest of room bounding geometry as walls, floors, roofs or ceiling are coming from linked files.
I tried to create Dynamo script for re-centering rooms but I think it can not calculate position of geometry since it is in linked files and therefore can not compute and re-center rooms.
Would your plugin work in this scenario?
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hi odb, it works as well and makes sure to check Link Models “Room Bounding”.
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Revit could not complete the external command message given when trying to use Room Tools
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Can you try install/uninstall ? And make sure the version you are using 2017 and above.
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Hi,
I am using Revit 2020 and have tried your create views tool for rooms and have found that if I want to use the linked Architect Room and click on your tool it shows non of the rooms i have selected, the checkbox for the linked revit model to be room bounding is checked.
also a nice feature for your tool would be to have it also create a sheet with the views placed to speed up creating multiple room data sheets.
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Hi Robin, this is only for the rooms that exist in the current document. And of course, creating sheets would be amazing. Let’s see … what new tools will include in the upcoming version 😉
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Hallo!
Love how this program (and the others) is done only one problem for me, I am a MEP engineer and we only have spaces and not rooms, is it possible to have a choice in the program for looking for spaces instead of rooms.
/ Anders Tengbom, Sweden
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Hi Anders, what a great idea!. Maybe, I should add this new feature in the upcoming update. Thanks a lot, man.
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HI,
I’m using this pluggin with Revtit 2017 and it works awsome, but when I try it for Revit 2019 it crash, I hope it will be solved soon.
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Hi C.R, for the info,
We (me & Autodesk App Store Dev Team) carefully tested and audited on Revit 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 versions. I suggest, you check the app installation process again and just make sure you downloaded the latest version of the app.
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