Best way to duplicate repetitive rooms across a model ?

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I'm working on a school project, and the plan has a number of classrooms and other repeating areas.

These will not be totally matching however, each room will have some variation - mainly in services and fixtures + fittings.

We were trying to work out what would be the best approach to modelling up an initial classroom - and then duplicating it across the rest of the plan (and floors).

Is it better to model the repeating elements (walls, doors, windows, screens) etc. first - group them, and copy across the model (they will be rotated, mirrored and copied) - then populate them individually with fixtures (also grouped and copied where appropriate).

Ideally we would like to be to alter the main geometry of one room (walls, floors, ceiling grid, windows, doors) - and have that duplicated across the model automatically.

If we are going to group + copy - is it easy to add door and window tags to a group and automatically have them added across the other classrooms at a later date ? or should we add items such as tags before duplicating them ?

Are there any other / better ways of achieving this ? Something akin to modelling an independent classroom model - save as a family, and then import it ?

Thanks

Martin

[Anonymous]

I should maybe have added that we have worked out how to create the group. array or copy it, and then retrospectively amend or add geometry to that group [Edit Group] - but we have not been able to add various other categories of items to that group such as Tags.

We would rather not have to go back and add tags manually afterwards (32 classrooms, 5 doors per classroom = lots of doors)

[davidwilliamedwards]

As mentioend above we use Groups for this. But we have also requested a Room Parameter that would like to another Room number and populate that Room with the Familes of the other. This is something that's a huge timesaver but we haven't found a way to replicate this process with Revit.

[AJA14]

Hi guys,

Regarding parameters and groups, this issue has been addressed in 2014.
Interesting idea David.
Regarding adding tags, you need to check model groups and detail groups. Annotative elements are not placed in the model group but in a detail group under the model group.

Just ideas (Not sure if they will solve your problems)

Regards,