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I am working on developing our office standards for revit. I want to know how other offices are handling their finish plans.Our office standard is to drop a symbol into our plan. This symbol notes 6 finishes:North wall finishEast wall finishSouth wall finishWest wall finishFloor finishBase finishThis symbol is set up as a Room Tag and is with shared parameters attached to the room, is working properly. I select a room and can fill in this information, the tag fills out correctly, the schedule looks nice… All is well until I need to label one individual finish. As we all know, not all rooms are perfect squares and we often have multiple wall and floor finishes in a room.So I create a new Room Tag symbol with one single finish callout. To be able to place this in a room and have it show up in the schedule, it needs its own parameter. I name the family “room tag single finish”. I name the family type “misc finish 1”. I create a shared parameter for the room called “misc finish 1”. Everything works fine, but the problem is that I may need up to TEN of these, all with different family types pointing to different parameters… What a mess! Do I really have to coordinate this tag with 10 different options and expect the revit users in the office to keep it organized? And what about our schedules? Now we have columns for:North wall finishEast wall finishSouth wall finishWest wall finishFloor finishBase finishMisc finish 1Misc finish 2Misc finish 3Misc finish 4Misc finish 5Misc finish 6Misc finish 7….So this gets messy. The only other ideas I’ve come up with on how to solve the issue of “what to do with the single finish tags?” are:Make a “dummy tag” and label finishes this way. Cons: won’t go into schedule. No intelligent data. I personally hate dumbing down our revit drawings to act like cad.Create a Wall Tag and Floor Tag symbol that look like our single finish symbol and tag the walls and floors in that area. Cons: not connected to schedule, have to split walls frequently, have to build detailed wall families where we’d otherwise use a simplified wall family. So the grand question is, what are your office standards for finish plans? Has anyone come up with a better idea than creating multiple corresponding room tags and room parameters for misc. finishes? And, is anyone out there labeling finishes in your interior elevation views, and if so, how are you labeling those?
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