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WWHub, thanks for the summary. It was quite helpful and made since.
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Existing rooms are no longer "bound", once you demo the walls in an existing plan.
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Test what I show you. If you place the room before you demo the wall, it is bounded - it will tag and the view will show as I told you. Is the room still bound correctly - no and so the room size/area will be incorrect for schedules. If you need that to still work, then add a room separation line in existing and turn off the room separation for the wall being demoed. So when you do that, it now screws up your new rooms. Nope! demo the room separation line in NEW phase .... did you know you can demo separation lines? Now - everything works including schedules.
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I thought of that before I even asked someone on here to shar their "dummy room tag." Thanks anyway, the overlay workaround is still alot faster....my project has hundreds of rooms and so making little redundant seperator lines doesnt sound fun.
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Only need them if you need areas..... which I doubt you do. The tags still work.
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Uh Yeah, existing conditions and room areas are kind of important for schedules, etc on big projects?!
Should probably be something Autodesk fixes. As I mentioned, I got my my answer about room tags issues in demo plans from one of the many forums that are dealing with this same problem.
And of course, I am not the only Architect who is dealing with this via a workaround...so you can argue your points all you want...but I am happy with my solution for now.
WWHub, I don't understand why you can just admit that "workarounds" happen sometime.
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Work around-s do happen sometimes. BUT They are a pain for coordination and changes. Revit is a great product because it solves that coordination issue most of the time.
I HATE CHEATING - JUST GET IT DONE ! I have worked in this profession for almost 50 years and I know what problems that process creates. I believe in trusting your model and I want any user that uses my model at a later date to be able to trust my model. Just changing a dimension (like people did all the time in CAD) can really be a problem. Placing annotation lines over model element lines rather than using the linework tool is a real pain to see and fix. Using filled regions and masking regions instead of using the model and cut profiles is also an issue. (I once found multiple instances of items like this all in the same place - a fix over a fix over a fix.... or so they thought) Using fake tags that look just like real tags may not be the same sort of problem but it still is a terrible coordination issue. Creating those, filling in the correct information is a coordination issue.
BTW - You say "....existing conditions and room areas are kind of important for schedules..." so pay attention to your schedule phase.
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Test what I show you. If you place the room before you demo the wall, it is bounded - it will tag and the view will show as I told you. Is the room still bound correctly - no and so the room size/area will be incorrect for schedules. If you need that to still work, then add a room separation line in existing and turn off the room separation for the wall being demoed. So when you do that, it now screws up your new rooms. Nope! demo the room separation line in NEW phase .... did you know you can demo separation lines? Now - everything works including schedules.
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Hi WWHub, i read it several times, but still i cant get rooms tags for the demolished rooms in a new construction phase (the original question from formfunction "...a way to tag those old spaces").
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First - can you tell me how to demolish a room? I sure can't.
You needed to read all of my posts. I wrote:"Architecturally, we think of demo as a phase but in Revit, it is a process done in another phase. That phase is your choice. Typically, we like to demo in the new phase but in this instance, setting the demo of the walls to existing allows the room tags to show."
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Hello,
I came across this post today; after a few tests, I think I realized what caused the dispute
It falls into the phase of demolishing the walls: demolish the wall in 1 'existing' phase or 2 'new construction' ?
Most people do demolition in 2 ' new construction' , which cause the problem in question.
If walls are demolished in 1 'existing', then WWHub's proposal will work, no workaround, time saving and net.
But why AutoDesk gave these options of demolishing stuff in 'existing' or 'new construction' phases?
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thanks hifrank for your findings,
If you demolished a wall in the same phase, then the wall is in the "temporary" phase, not in the "demolished" phase (important for phase filters and graphics override)... Also the room boundary doesnt work, so rooms size/areas are incorrect.
Adding a room separator line and then demo for every demolished wall, as suggested by WWHub, is still a workaround, so in this case the original "workaround" suggested by formfunction/Mr. Spot is fastest and better than this.
PS: I didnt try/test this on revit 2017.
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....and.... thank you Manuel7.
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Very entertaining back and forth. Who won?
...Sorry, couldn't help myself. Cheers.
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