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Marking a floor area vs total area on sheet

Lehtinen5BZBJ — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 09:36:54 GMT

Hi all,

What kind of solution do you advice for the following:

On sheets show a note under floorplans, in a format of: <Total m² of the floor> / <Total m² of all of the floors>

See the picture below for an example.

This note is supposed to be placed on multiple drawings of the same floorplan, so it should be able to update utomatically (or close to automatically), when the areas change.

I tried to tackle this through a Room Schedule, but got stuck on how to mark the "/ <Total m² of all of the floors>". Creating a formula of calculated totals is not possible to my understanding - and making a field start with "/" isn't possible anyway. Global parameter would be semi-automatic, but it cannot be scheduled.

Re: Marking a floor area vs total area on sheet

Alfredo_Medina — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 12:37:19 GMT

How about using a schedule of floors, to show the percentage of the area of each floor in relation to the area of all floors?

Re: Marking a floor area vs total area on sheet

Lehtinen5BZBJ — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 13:39:31 GMT

Thanks Alfredo. While your solution didn't answer to my problem exactly, it did remind me of RevitCat's blog on Totals in Formulas - so now I got the totals on the schedule. Last thing I need is a slash "/" between the numbers. Is there an easy way to include this in the schedule, or do I need to add it as a text or something similar?

http://revitcat.blogspot.com/2017/01/using-totals-in-formulas-in-revit.html

Re: Marking a floor area vs total area on sheet

Alfredo_Medina — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 14:16:31 GMT

Try with Combine Parameters (button on the same schedule dialog box).

Re: Marking a floor area vs total area on sheet

ralphdenhaan — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 14:45:59 GMT

Hi,

You can try it like this:

Re: Marking a floor area vs total area on sheet

Lehtinen5BZBJ — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 14:54:10 GMT

Haha, solutions can somethings just be so simple, that they don't even come to mind. Thanks! This works.

How I wish though, that I could use @ralphdenhaan 's method of Combined Parameters, in order to get all of the info in the same cell.. Sadly formulas don't work with them, and I can't figure a way to get around it.