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Message 1 of 9
Arjun
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Building Gross Area

Hi,

A). I calculated rooms area by Room schedule and got gross total 13726 SF.

B) I calculated Gross area by Area Schedule (Gross Building) and got 15054 SF.

Why the difference between these two values? I want to calculate Gross Building Area in my application written in c#.

To get room gross area, I sum up each room area through my code but didn't find any way to get building gross area. The above values I got through revit design view but I want these values using RevitAPI.dll . I searched in SDK also but no example for building gross area found.

Thanks in advance.
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Message 2 of 9
Anonymous
in reply to: Arjun


room schedules are calculating to inside face of
walls.  Area schedule is calculatng to the outside face of the exterior
walls.  the difference comes from the area of the walls
themselves.


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Hi,
A). I calculated rooms area by Room schedule and got gross total 13726 SF. B)
I calculated Gross area by Area Schedule (Gross Building) and got 15054 SF.
Why the difference between these two values? I want to calculate Gross
Building Area in my application written in c#. To get room gross area, I sum
up each room area through my code but didn't find any way to get building
gross area. The above values I got through revit design view but I want these
values using RevitAPI.dll . I searched in SDK also but no example for building
gross area found. Thanks in advance.
Message 3 of 9
Arjun
in reply to: Arjun

thanks Davis.
Now I want to access this gross area in my code. I am accessing room area using
areaValue = GetProperty(tmpRoom, BuiltInParameter.ROOM_AREA). Is there any method or built in parameter which could give me value for building gross area ?
Message 4 of 9
Arjun
in reply to: Arjun

anyone with code snippet or idea on this ??? My deadline is reaching to throat!!
Message 5 of 9
Anonymous
in reply to: Arjun


Not really understanding why you are trying to do
this since you can get the gross area independently of the room areas. But if
have to use room areas then you will some how have to pull in the area of the
walls which is not accounted for in the room areas.


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anyone
with code snippet or idea on this ??? My deadline is reaching to
throat!!
Message 6 of 9
Arjun
in reply to: Arjun

thnxs cdv, I had not tried many options for this. It would be great help to calculate gross area independent of rooms. I do need to do in this fashion. cdv, could you please tell me the steps, I have to follow in my code to find out the gross area!!!

thnxs again.
Message 7 of 9
Anonymous
in reply to: Arjun


it may already have been created look at the
project browser and see if Area Plans is listed if so click on it to see if
it has Area Plans (Gross) and Area Plans(Rentable) are listed. if not click on
the view menu, select New, then select area plan..., another menu screen will
pop up change type to gross and then select the level/plan that you want to use
to create the Area Plan (Gross). Youd move the boundary lines if you need
to.


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thnxs
cdv, I had not tried many options for this. It would be great help to
calculate gross area independent of rooms. I do need to do in this fashion.
cdv, could you please tell me the steps, I have to follow in my code to find
out the gross area!!! thnxs again.
Message 8 of 9
Arjun
in reply to: Arjun

thnxs for your great help cdv.
I am able to find out gross area in my revit file. May be I misinterpreted you but I actually wanted to get calculated area in my API code through some API built in prameter or property. I am exploring revit API parameters. If any thing that could help me in this, is most welcome.

thnxs Edited by: Arjun@IDS on Feb 13, 2009 5:29 AM
Message 9 of 9
esilky
in reply to: Arjun

I am looking for the same information.  Using the API, I want to be able to get the Floor Gross Area (outside of exterior wall) and the Floor Rentable/Measured Area (inside of exterior wall).

 

First, is it required to have Area Plans to get these values?  If not, where can they be queried from?

 

If it is required to have two Area Plans to get these values, is there an example of finding the appropriate area plans and how to get the area value from them?

 

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