how to calculate the surface area?

[mattlee1111]

how to calculate the surface area, I had uploaded the attachment file,TKS!!

[Alfredo_Medina]

Paint the visible surfaces with a material. Then, create a Material Take-off schedule. See illustration.

[mattlee1111]

how to create "Take-off schedule"?

can you give me more detail information, TKS!!

[mattlee1111]

thanks for your comment

Actually, the main purpose is calculation the lateral of column surface area...

TKS!

[Alfredo_Medina]

For more information about take-off schedules, check Revit help documents:

http://wikihelp.autodesk.com/Revit/enu/2012/Help/Revit_User's_Guide/1394-Document1394/1476-Schedule1...

[Anonymous]

I wold like to do a schedulle that takes the actual visible surface of concrete elements (columns, beams and slabs) and i´ve tried the material takeoff schedulle but i find that metod inacurate because it dont discard the areas that are covered by other elements

[Anonymous]

Have you tried Roombook extension for Revit?

[mattlee1111]

I will try it,Thank you ~

[rand159]

Hi - 

did the command work for you? I tried it and it does not give me the touching face areas.

[ToanDN]

@rand159

@Alfredo_Medina already gave a solution:  paint the visible surfaces with unique materials and create a Material Take-off schedule.

Another way around if you don't want to affect the original materials of the exposed surfaces is paint the touching surfaces with an unique material and subtract its area from the overall surface area.  You need to employ element isolation thoroughly to accomplish this task.

Both ways are doable but time consuming nonetheless.

[Anonymous]

hi

firstly i also find it difficult to find out the exact paint area for wall surface and beam bcoz in revit paint also goes into wraping and leads to increase in area.

so here is the solution - first you have to export that file into skp ( through cad export) and then in sketchup explode every group. Then select all faces and intersect the face with selection and save it .

At last, open the revit and go to in place mass (massing & site) and import that skp file. now just make the model again  -wall & floor by face by taking width 1mm.

now, if you make schedule of wall and floor exact area will come.

the difference is after skp if use paint also it will only come the face you select ; now it wont cover the wraping part of floor.

import the skp in massing & site (in place mass)

take the wall thickness as 1mm so that exact area came

[Anonymous]

yea you right ! it works ! .... really helpful ; got the exact area 

but we have to export cad in lower version to import that into skp & also there is no need of intersecting faces