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You can place a room at any time and add information to that room. As such, it shows up as a defult rectangle. When the room is defined by room bounding elements, it will then expand to fill the room.

You could have several standard "rooms" all set up in your project that you copy around into the space where you want them. 

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ICON,I don;t know (and don;t believe there is) anyway to add room names AS you add rooms.  However, you can simplify the process by naming all the rooms in advance.  Here is how:

1.  Create a Room Schedule (even though you have no rooms added to your plan yet, if you do that is OK, too).  Add the Name field (and number field if you wish).

2.  Check to make sure you are in the right phase in the Edit Schedule view.

3.  Click the New button on the options bar (after " Rows: " ) as many times as you have rooms.

4.  If the model is already started, you can change the "Not Placed/Not Enclosed" option to Isolate, if need be.  However as soon as you repeat step 3, it goes back to Show.

5.  Change the name of the rooms (and room numbers, if applicable) to the rooms you want to use.

6.  Go back to your floor plan and activate the Room command.  Before clicking on a space, you will see "Room:' on the options list, next to which is a drop down list.  That drop down list contains the names of the rooms you just entered. 

7.  Choose the one you want, then place it in the appropriate space.  It will then be removed from the list, as the list only contains rooms that are unplaced.

While not exactly what you are looking for, it will save you some time in placing rooms.  You might also consider adding standard room names in a schedule in your office template.

HTH.

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excellent!!

 sounds like i can just put that in my template

I only do residential so I pretty much have all the same room names in every drawing.

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Hi all!

My first post, so apologies for any lacking info.

I have a room listed in my schedule but the room does not show up any corresponding plans. This room, however, shows up in sections. I've created new plans to check this room, and again it does not show up in the new plan. Visibility/Graphics have been checked (all other rooms in the model are showing up in plans & sections), view templates have been checked, worksets have been checked, hidden items have been checked as well. I've also deleted the room from the schedule but the same problem continues to arise when I try to create a new room in the same spot. This model is linked into a 'sheets' file, so we continue to have problems with tagging this existant/non-existant room.

Details:

• Revit Architecture 2013
• No design options in model
• No phases in model 
• Worksharing enabled - room is in the same workset as all the other rooms in the model.

 Thanks for your help!

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You do not say what updates you have installed for 2013.  You will find that in the dropdown next to the question mark and then the "about..."  The updates installed are under the build number.  Post that.

WWas this model updated from an earlier release?

Was this model mirrored?

When a room is deleted form the model, it will still appear in schedules until deleted there.

Could the room be in a group?

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smellycat

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Thanks for the quick response. Answers:

Updates installed for 2013: Build: 20120716_1115(x64), Update Release 1

Was this model updated from an earlier release? NO - always created inthe same release (2013)

Was this model mirrored? Nope, never

When a room is deleted form the model, it will still appear in schedules until deleted there. When I 'deleted' the room in previous attempts, I started by deleted the room in the schedule first. That part, I do know!

Could the room be in a group? No - it's easy to grab in section (no tabbing req'd) -  it's not in a group.

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There were 3 updates to Revit 2013.  I don't know if this is your issue but you should start there.  Do both of your missing updates.

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smellycat

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It turns out that I have Revit Building Design Suite (BDS) and other members in my office have either Revit Architecture 2013 or BDS. Our IT person is relunctant to perform the update for the Revit Architecture users (the update doesn't work for the BDS) with the fear that having various updates would create more problems. Until we're all on the same platform, is there another run around we can perform to resolve the room visibility issue? At this point, we're creating 'dummy' tags for the one problematic room. Thanks for your continued assistance!

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"the update doesn't work for the BDS"

I have never come across an update that has failed to work and I am on Revit 2014 so I have to wonder what the problem your IT guy is having.  All of your computers with suite or architecture should have the latest service packs downloaded.

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Ok, this will be a case of the blind leading the blind. I will have to check with our IT person when he comes in tomorrow about what exactly happened. He navigated me to a point on the system to run an exe file that was the update for Revit 2013. It didn't run on my computer. Sorry to be so vague - am trying to resolve this in the middle of a deadline and with intermittent IT support (who works only two days a week). THANK YOU, tho, for your support & suggestions. I really appreciate it!

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If the room shows up in sections but not plans, there are many possibilites. 

Did domeone create the room on the wrong level?  (A structural level perhaps just below the floor level or a raised floor level. 

Was the room created in a design option?

Make sure in plan you have rooms/reference on so you can see the room.  When you then pick room to place one, all rooms should turn blue.

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