topic Re: How can I find hidden rooms in Revit 2024? in Revit Architecture Forum

How can I find hidden rooms in Revit 2024?

franciane_pereira9Z2WH — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 12:06:52 GMT

Hello, everyone,

I have a problem exporting an IFC file. There are some rooms that do not appear in the Revit program. These rooms are named Coz. Area or prohibition. Area. I have not named any elements with these names. The names are automatically generated by the revit program.

I would delete these rooms if they were showing up within the rooms table, but they are not showing up.

Does anyone have a suggestion?

Re: How can I find hidden rooms in Revit 2024?

hmunsell — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 12:21:57 GMT

Are you referring to rooms that have been placed and you cant find, or the list the you can pick from when placing a new Room.

Are these rooms coming from the IFC, or are they showing in the IFC after you export from Revit?

Re: How can I find hidden rooms in Revit 2024?

hmunsell — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 12:27:43 GMT

if the rooms are not places but showing in a schedule or table. make a room schedule and filter it by Area or Volumn. then set the qualification to Has No Value.

any room that shows up has not been placed and can be deleted from the schedule. this should remove it from the room list.

Re: How can I find hidden rooms in Revit 2024?

franciane_pereira9Z2WH — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 12:27:55 GMT

They are showing n the IFC after I export from Revit. And I didn't put them in my project.

Re: How can I find hidden rooms in Revit 2024?

franciane_pereira9Z2WH — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 12:29:40 GMT

I've looked at this table and those rooms don't appear there.

Re: How can I find hidden rooms in Revit 2024?

hmunsell — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 12:34:58 GMT

Do you have any filters on your Room Schedule?

Re: How can I find hidden rooms in Revit 2024?

franciane_pereira9Z2WH — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 12:44:25 GMT

I didn't put any filters into the roows schedule. But how can I check if something like this was created? But this file is used by someone else.

Re: How can I find hidden rooms in Revit 2024?

franciane_pereira9Z2WH — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 12:49:49 GMT

I found the location to add filter, but there is no filter on them.

Re: How can I find hidden rooms in Revit 2024?

hmunsell — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 12:53:29 GMT

do you have any links in your model? could these rooms be coming from them?

in the Fields tab, check the Include Elements in Links
in the Sorting/Grouping tab. make sure Itemize every Instance is Checked

see if they show in the schedule now....

Re: How can I find hidden rooms in Revit 2024?

franciane_pereira9Z2WH — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 13:33:22 GMT

I changed the revit language. And I checked the options but it still doesn't show the rooms.

Re: How can I find hidden rooms in Revit 2024?

hmunsell — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 14:37:16 GMT

When you go to place a new Room, are those rooms listed in the Room: drop down list in the options bar?

At this point I would probably need the file to look at it. Those are most of the tricks I know to find Rooms/Spaces in a model. would you be able to upload the Revit model for us to look at?

Re: How can I find hidden rooms in Revit 2024?

franciane_pereira9Z2WH — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 14:47:50 GMT

Yes, I can. But I send it here or send the file in your private chat?

Re: How can I find hidden rooms in Revit 2024?

hmunsell — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 14:51:06 GMT

you can post it to the chat. that's fine :-). that way others can see it too and provide input.

Re: How can I find hidden rooms in Revit 2024?

franciane_pereira9Z2WH — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 14:56:07 GMT

Here is the file mentioned above.
Thank you very much.

Re: How can I find hidden rooms in Revit 2024?

hmunsell — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 17:30:15 GMT

Fount it!

in the IFC file it gives you the Element ID. from the manage ribbon you can pick Select by ID and put that number in and find it.

In this case it appears to be referring to an Area that is placed in the model.

i feel bad about not catching that earlier 😂... .it says right there in your screen capture ( 'COZ, AREA 4: )

Re: How can I find hidden rooms in Revit 2024?

hmunsell — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 17:32:09 GMT

Re: How can I find hidden rooms in Revit 2024?

franciane_pereira9Z2WH — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 17:59:13 GMT

But it is correct that they appear with the ifcSpace key after exporting the file.
How do you activate this search by id within revit, please?

Re: How can I find hidden rooms in Revit 2024?

hmunsell — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 18:46:50 GMT

Manage ribbon > Select By ID

enter the Element ID

Pick Show or OK. "Show" will sometimes throw an error that there are not good views, but OK will at least find it for you.

Re: How can I find hidden rooms in Revit 2024?

franciane_pereira9Z2WH — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 19:03:21 GMT

I'm sorry, I didn't express myself very well above. It is correct that 'COZ. Area' appears as an ifcSpace key after exporting the file?

Thank you for helping me.

Re: How can I find hidden rooms in Revit 2024?

hmunsell — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 19:09:56 GMT

I'm not as familiar with IFC keys as I should be. if you search the IFC for "room" nothing shows up. If I remember correct, IFC refers to all that stuff (Rooms, MEP Spaces, Areas) as "spaces".