cubicles

[Anonymous]

new to FM
I have an open office plan in Revit with cubicles
do I need to have a room name for every cubicle in order to assign occupancy
or is there a way to assign this once in FM desktop?

[Anonymous]

I believe you can assign more than one person to a room in FMD, but, I'd
rather do it with each cube to make it clear who is where in the room.

JKemble wrote:
> new to FM
> I have an open office plan in Revit with cubicles
> do I need to have a room name for every cubicle in order to assign occupancy
> or is there a way to assign this once in FM desktop?

[Anonymous]

that's my problem I can put multiple people in the open area but I need a
way to put each individual in a specific spot. The thing is I don't want to
have an extra 200 room names (not to mention room objects) to correspond to
each cubicle

"Wanderer" wrote in message
news:5479753@discussion.autodesk.com...
I believe you can assign more than one person to a room in FMD, but, I'd
rather do it with each cube to make it clear who is where in the room.

JKemble wrote:
> new to FM
> I have an open office plan in Revit with cubicles
> do I need to have a room name for every cubicle in order to assign
> occupancy
> or is there a way to assign this once in FM desktop?

[Anonymous]

What I've done is to p-line the cubicles and name them with the open office space room number plus a unique suffix to distinguish the cubicles (this maintains a unique ID so you can assign and allocate). The main room p-line captures all other space not given to cubicles.

[pajamabob]

This is exactly the right thing to do. The more granular you are with your polylining, the more useful the information is.

[Anonymous]

I can see how this would work in Autocad
But I don't believe they have polylines in Revit. They have a feature called
room objects.
I have a room object that covers the open space(which I want to keep for sq
ftg)
and I can't put other room objects inside it
wrote in message news:5481633@discussion.autodesk.com...
This is exactly the right thing to do. The more granular you are with your
polylining, the more useful the information is.

[mark.evans]

Your assessment is correct in that you can't have a room inside a room. So you need to think about why you need the area of the entire open space instead of each individual cubicle. The sum of the cubicles plus the space around them will still produce the same totals and the same percentage allocations if they are classified the same as the single large room. Your purpose or intent in tracking the space should define how you want to model or describe it.

There is a different way to do both that might be useful. You could do the individual "rooms" for the cubicles and the enclosing open area as another room. Then you can use a "zone" as a handle to group the cubicles and enclosing space together. That is, "zones" are collections of "spaces."

If you are concerned with the amount of effort to model the cubicles, consider creating a Revit family. You may need to use a room defining boundary in the family.

Mark Evans

[Anonymous]

In the Room and Area tools you will find a utility called "Room Separation"
which will allow you to create a boundary in your cubicles that the room
object will recognize as a closed area. Revits version of polylining for
just such a situation.

Clyne

"JKemble" wrote in message
news:5481740@discussion.autodesk.com...
I can see how this would work in Autocad
But I don't believe they have polylines in Revit. They have a feature called
room objects.
I have a room object that covers the open space(which I want to keep for sq
ftg)
and I can't put other room objects inside it
wrote in message news:5481633@discussion.autodesk.com...
This is exactly the right thing to do. The more granular you are with your
polylining, the more useful the information is.

[mark.evans]

Exactly! There's the term I couldn't remember. Thank you Clyne!

Mark Evans

[pajamabob]

That's great information...

Can you recommend any articles or white papers that outline the process and properties of Revit rooms?

[Anonymous]

Here is a document that might assis you.

Clyne

wrote in message news:5488531@discussion.autodesk.com...
That's great information...

Can you recommend any articles or white papers that outline the process and
properties of Revit rooms?

[Anonymous]

You... are awesome. Thanks for sharing this!!! 🙂


Melanie Perry
***not all who wander are lost***
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Clyne Curtis wrote:
> Here is a document that might assis you.
>
> Clyne
>
> wrote in message news:5488531@discussion.autodesk.com...
> That's great information...
>
> Can you recommend any articles or white papers that outline the process and
> properties of Revit rooms?

[josrios]

There is a good reason to have a room for each space type. For location , you need to classify each room. A room can be a cubicle, other room might be a corridor. Then you will have the lounge room and so on. That space data then can be manipulated with a report that will charge each group with the common areas they share by allocation. I'm not a revit user, but the approach is general. If you want to have group allocations you need to distribute the common areas and you achieve that by creating a room for each space you have in the floor level. Remember that then you can use that same data for other reports like occupancy density, or to budget a carpet replacement,, the more you have the better the data you'll get. But also its is harder to keep accurate. Just analyze what you need. I would like to see an article talking about Revit use for space management. I really need it!