Exit Access Travel Distance and Exit Doors

[Anonymous]

I want to calculate number of exit a floor can have.
Also to access travel distance from farthest point to exit door without any obstruction. Like if I have a office then the travel distance from longest point in office to exit door.
I Would like to explore all possibilities from Revit experts here as there is less discussion or material regarding exit access, means of egress, access distance.

Thanks in advance.
Arjun

[Anonymous]

Arjun,

There has been numerous threads on this over at AUGI.com. Too many to repeat here, however there are a couple of threads on calculating the egress capacity of a building for egress purposes.

Back to door egress width: Creating a parameter (possibly a Yes/no) check box parameter "Is this an Exit Door" would allow you to schedule the door in a special door schedule, and use the door with in a calculated schedule parameter to calculate egress with. You could also do this within the family, and you could then create a special door tag to show this width on the code plans.

Travel distance is still a manual thing. Revit is not intelligent enough to work out the distances between doors, following the non-direct path needed.

[Anonymous]

There is an example of how travel distance could be
calculated in the tutorials.  You can check the specific
tutorial:

Documenting Your Projects>Tagging and
Scheduling>Scheduling Shared Parameters 

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Arjun,
There has been numerous threads on this over at AUGI.com. Too many to repeat
here, however there are a couple of threads on calculating the egress capacity
of a building for egress purposes. Back to door egress width: Creating a
parameter (possibly a Yes/no) check box parameter "Is this an Exit Door" would
allow you to schedule the door in a special door schedule, and use the door
with in a calculated schedule parameter to calculate egress with. You could
also do this within the family, and you could then create a special door tag
to show this width on the code plans. Travel distance is still a manual thing.
Revit is not intelligent enough to work out the distances between doors,
following the non-direct path needed.

[Anonymous]

thnxs guys.
Documenting Your Projects>Tagging and
Scheduling>Scheduling Shared Parameters help file really helped me to understand the Travel distance.

I searched on this forum earlier rather on audi.com

I am exploring this concept in my project file and then through progrmatically using RevitAPI. I guess I can get that from scheduling in RevitAPI. If any one can help me in this I will glad to hear.

Thanks again!
Arjun

[Anonymous]

Hi guys!

My project requirement changed a bit. I want to draw all travel distance at back end using RevitAPI without any obstraction irrespective of any travel path I draw at design.

I am in delima how to draw exit path in programe without obstraction ?

Thanks,
Arjun

[Anonymous]

OptaSoft provides a software solution that allows users to determine the maximum length of exit access travel, measured from the most remote point within a story to the entrance to an exit along the natural and unobstructed path of egress travel.

[Anonymous]

Jeff,

Thanks for mentioning the tutorial. I couldn't find it in the 2010 tutorials, but I found it immediately under 2009 (I probably wasn't patient enough to find it under 2010.)

Is there a way to have the calculated total travel distance for a given Path ID show up on the tag in the plan? I can't tell if there's a way to set up a shared parameter that will calculate the total lengths and then THAT parameter could be what is tagged and not the individual segment lengths.

Thanks again.

- Alex

[Anonymous]

The same tutorial shows how to create a schedule that automatically totals
up all travel distance lines with the same Path ID.

"Jazzster11" wrote in message news:6389871@discussion.autodesk.com...
> Jeff,
>
> Thanks for mentioning the tutorial. I couldn't find it in the 2010
> tutorials, but I found it immediately under 2009 (I probably wasn't
> patient enough to find it under 2010.)
>
> Is there a way to have the calculated total travel distance for a given
> Path ID show up on the tag in the plan? I can't tell if there's a way to
> set up a shared parameter that will calculate the total lengths and then
> THAT parameter could be what is tagged and not the individual segment
> lengths.
>
> Thanks again.
>
> - Alex

[Anonymous]

Yeah, and the schedule worked out as described, but it would be great if you didn't have to have a schedule AND a tag.

Is there anyway to have the travel path's tag indicate the sum of the lengths for a given Path ID parameter? I don't know much about using formulas with parameters, but can the tag itself determine and display the total travel distance so one doesn't need to keep jumping from the plan to a schedule?

Thanks.

- Alex

[ToanDN]

You could format your schedule to look like a tag, showing the accumulated distance of travel.

[Anonymous]

Thanks.

Would you I then place the schedule over top of my plan view on the sheet? And create a separate schedule for each travel path?

Is there no way to calculate the sum and then have a parameter read that information so that I can display that parameter's value in a tag?

I realize that I don't understand how all of these components work together yet, but it's sounding like I may just need to create an instance parameter and manually enter the calculated total travel length on my own.

Thanks for the suggestion.

- Alex

[ToanDN]

> {quote:title=Jazzster11 wrote:}{quote}
> Thanks.
>
> Would you I then place the schedule over top of my plan view on the sheet? And create a separate schedule for each travel path?

That's what I would do. I understand you would have to coordinate the location on Sheet when your plan changed. But I rather do that then re-enter the value manually.

[jbc]

You may be able to expand on this family to indicate egress distance.

Gregg

[Anonymous]

Very nice.

Thanks for posting this.

- Alex

[Anonymous]

ToanDN, I know this is a really old thread but can you explain how to "format your schedule to look like a tag, showing the accumulated distance of travel"? Thanks, Levi

[ToanDN]

A schedule without title, heading, border, heading, etc. would look like a tag.  But this is a very old thread, so there maybe better solutions now.  What exactly are you looking for?

[Anonymous]

I'm looking to be able to tag the total combined length of multiple egress line segments. See image.

[Anonymous]

I'm looking to be able to tag the total combined length of multiple egress line segments. See image.

[ToanDN]

Don't see any image attached.

You can format the schedule to group segments of the same path to a single line, format it to show only what you want (mine only shows the sum distance).

Again, someone else may be able to use Dynamo for this. But I am not very familiar with it.

As a matter of fact, I don't tag the distances anymore, only the path IDs, and have an actual schedule table to summarize the paths.

[Anonymous]

Here's the image. I would also like the bottom to be a user defined "Max. allowable" instance parameter