topic Re: Room Finish options in Revit Architecture Forum

Room Finish options

Marie.j03 — Sun, 22 Aug 2021 08:06:48 GMT

Hi Community

I want to create a room finishes plan where I can show the different finishes in the different rooms based on their function like offices, meeting rooms, etc. But I also want to be able to have different options for each room so client can choose for example for the offices between painted gyps or wall paper or panel cladding...etc how can I do that?

Re: Room Finish options

RDAOU — Sun, 22 Aug 2021 08:09:28 GMT

@Marie.j03

You can try using Key Schedules

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=U0U3sAfjeRs

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/revit-products/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2019/ENU/Revit-DocumentPresent/files/GUID-75B3B9C4-6899-4DC9-8424-DFC901701B48-htm.html

Re: Room Finish options

Marie.j03 — Sun, 22 Aug 2021 08:15:12 GMT

Thanks for the reply and the links. That seems similar to what I want to do. SO I create this key schedule and make for each category of rooms a key like OFF-Staff, OFF-Manager then I put finishes for each but how do I put this in the rooms?

Re: Room Finish options

RDAOU — Sun, 22 Aug 2021 08:18:50 GMT

@Marie.j03 wrote:
Thanks for the reply and the links. That seems similar to what I want to do. SO I create this key schedule and make for each category of rooms a key like OFF-Staff, OFF-Manager then I put finishes for each but how do I put this in the rooms?

You type then type in the key OFF-Staff in the regular room schedule. If you are using 2022 u can use shared parameters in room key schedules which will be the same ones in the room finish schedule

Re: Room Finish options

Marie.j03 — Sun, 22 Aug 2021 08:23:17 GMT

Great thanks...one question more, how do I then manage the options? if I want to create more than one finishes option for the Managers offices?

Re: Room Finish options

RDAOU — Sun, 22 Aug 2021 08:28:06 GMT

@Marie.j03

@Marie.j03 wrote:
Great thanks...one question more, how do I then manage the options? if I want to create more than one finishes option for the Managers offices?

You can create several keys for such offices, ex: OFF-MGR 1, OFF-MGR 2... and so on

Either use them just as is and swap keys in the room schedule
Or create design options>>add rooms to the various DO>>>give the rooms of each design option a different Key

Re: Room Finish options

RDAOU — Sun, 22 Aug 2021 08:32:33 GMT

@Marie.j03

You can also check this different approach given in the solution on the following Link. It is a combination between room finish schedule and color scheme automated based on finish (more about visualization)

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-architecture-forum/true-false-finish-schedule-room-color-scheme/m-p/10491524#M327278

Re: Room Finish options

Marie.j03 — Sun, 22 Aug 2021 08:36:45 GMT

Thank you very much RDU this solved my question. Color schemes would have been my following question on the community forum thank you for sharing the link too. I will rread it and if it helps me with what I have in mind I will also accept it as solution and save myself the posting