topic Re: Color fill wont work on one room... in Revit Architecture Forum

Color fill wont work on one room...

Anonymous — Mon, 15 Aug 2016 15:12:14 GMT

I'm currently trying towork on a model i've been working on for a while but recently one of the rooms on one of my floor plans has lost its color fill.

All other rooms are filled on the plan but not the main space.

The rooms are colored by department and it works on every other floor and has previously been working on this floor, it just suddenly stopped working. I dont know when it stopped so i cant go back to a previous backup file.

When i use new room boundaries and apply the department within the desired room it works (also shown in the images below)

Pictures attached for reference.

Room that wont display the color fill;

Color fill.JPG

New bounded room working with color fill;

Color fill 2.JPG

Re: Color fill wont work on one room...

barthbradley — Mon, 15 Aug 2016 18:07:15 GMT

My first though was this is a level issue. Is that room space located on a slightly lower level than the one your viewing? And, that new room you added was probably defined on the current view level. Think?

Re: Color fill wont work on one room...

nathan.chapman — Mon, 15 Aug 2016 18:51:01 GMT

Typically when color fill doesn't work in spaces/rooms it has to do with the boundary not being correct. The easiest way to locate the issue is start using boundary lines and start to shrink the room until you find the bad area. Also make sure you don't have 2 floors on top of each other and both set to room bounding.

Re: Color fill wont work on one room...

barthbradley — Mon, 15 Aug 2016 22:17:44 GMT

@Anonymous: you say “start using boundary lines and start to shrink the room until you find the bad area”. Interesting approach. I’d like to test, but I don’t exactly know what do you mean? Please share if you get the time. Thanks.

Re: Color fill wont work on one room...

Anonymous — Tue, 16 Aug 2016 08:58:31 GMT

if you turn on volume calculations is the volume being computed for the room?

Architecture - room and area drop down

Re: Color fill wont work on one room...

Kimtaurus — Tue, 02 May 2017 08:05:10 GMT

Has anyone found a solution to this problem?

I'm facing the same thing: a room is being recognised, it calculated the area and I can see a room reference. However, Revit isn't showing a Color Fill or Interior Fill.

The room is on the same level as the other rooms, there are no overlapping rooms, no errors/warnings connected to this room.

I actually have several rooms in this project (and other projects) with this problem.

Revit-room.JPG

Using the "add room seperators to find the problem area" I've found there are many places where, when I add room seperators, Revit will show the color fill. The room area stays the same though.

It makes no sense to me that Revit is able to find a room, measure its area and show a reference, but Revit can't show a fill.

Re: Color fill wont work on one room...

barthbradley — Tue, 02 May 2017 18:45:18 GMT

Hard to troubleshoot without knowing where you are at in the process. Have you attached a Color Scheme to the View? Are your VG settings for Room:Color Fill turned on in that view? Are all the room's perimeter walls Room Bounding walls?

Re: Color fill wont work on one room...

ToanDN — Tue, 02 May 2017 22:36:30 GMT

Can we see the full extent of the Room?

Re: Color fill wont work on one room...

Kimtaurus — Wed, 03 May 2017 06:41:56 GMT

There's no colour scheme yet, but the colour fill is on (standard light blue colour).

The Room is bounded, the area is being calculated (18200m²), the room's reference is visible. All the walls are room bounding, where there are gaps, I've placed Room Seperation Lines.

Revit-room 2.JPG

I can't show the full floor plan (confidentiallity).

Re: Color fill wont work on one room...

Anonymous — Thu, 28 Sep 2017 02:44:18 GMT

For anyone else finding this, also look for these conditions:

In one case was a L shaped wall in an open area being room bounding that caused one level to do this, untick room bounding or delete and re-add the wall with room bounding on sorted it(?).

In another a sliver of space between two back to back curtain walls in an extension/existing footprint. Adding a room divider line to close off fixed the 'leak' generated the colour fill even though the room appeared ok before this (had extents boundary, was reporting area & volume)

The room bounding tip came from "Suzanne84" at Revit City

I've managed to fix this myself - there were some additional walls within these rooms (vocational training workshops with open bays built in side to plaster/tile etc) when I changed these walls to non-room bounding the colour fill appeared - revit just didnt like these walls.

https://www.revitcity.com/forums.php?action=viewthread&thread_id=13532

Re: Color fill wont work on one room...

trunyan — Thu, 06 Dec 2018 00:44:46 GMT

Found out that when the material of the floors, walls, anything in the view has a 'solid' face pattern, it will hide the color of the room fill.

1) you can change the material and erase the surface pattern 'solid'
2) You can choose the floor or wall that hides the room fill, choose: Override graphic view> by element> and make the surface patterns invisible for that view.

3) In visibility graphics you can turn off the pattern for floors in your template.
Hope this helps to solve the problem.