topic Re: How to Tag Overlapping Rooms in Revit MEP Forum

How to Tag Overlapping Rooms

scbunker — Thu, 16 May 2019 14:13:52 GMT

I often get models from the architect that have overlapping rooms. See below:

Does anyone know how to tag rooms that are "under" another room? For example, that Unit J room is "under" the unit's Kitchen and Living rooms, so if I use the Room Tag command I can only tag the Kitchen or Living room.

The only way I know how to do it is to Tag All Not Tagged, then go delete all the tags that I don't want. This is annoying. I'd like to be able to Tab through the rooms (like you can with other things) and tag just the one I'm looking for, but it doesn't work.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

Re: How to Tag Overlapping Rooms

L.Maas — Thu, 16 May 2019 15:01:39 GMT

If they are above each other you might change your view range so that you only see the top or bottom ones

Re: How to Tag Overlapping Rooms

ASCunningham — Thu, 16 May 2019 15:26:01 GMT

Sometimes I end up selecting the tab button until I get the correct room selected then using tag all to get the tag placed in the view.

Re: How to Tag Overlapping Rooms

scbunker — Thu, 16 May 2019 15:47:17 GMT

@L.Maas, thanks. I checked in section and the rooms are filling the same vertical space. So the room on "top" is probably just the one that was created second in the model.

@ASCunningham, thanks but no amount of tabbing in no location that I can find will switch to the other room.

Re: How to Tag Overlapping Rooms

ASCunningham — Thu, 16 May 2019 15:58:36 GMT

Make sure you have the select links box checked under your modify button. That may help?

Re: How to Tag Overlapping Rooms

scbunker — Fri, 17 May 2019 11:18:26 GMT

That also didn't work @ASCunningham. Same behavior no matter how selection toggles are set.

Re: How to Tag Overlapping Rooms

ASCunningham — Fri, 17 May 2019 11:23:33 GMT

If all else fails I've just copied the room/rooms from the architectural link and paste aligned into my project. You can then tag the room but the name/number would have to be manually updated if it changes.

Kind of my last resort option

Re: How to Tag Overlapping Rooms

ToanDN — Fri, 17 May 2019 17:01:32 GMT

Why don't you show the Architect your screenshot indicating the overlapping rooms and ask him to fix them?

Re: How to Tag Overlapping Rooms

svajk — Thu, 13 Oct 2022 23:09:07 GMT

Asking the architect to fix it is not a robust solution to an obvious flaw in Revit. This issue is not "solved".

There are a miriad of reasons why, here's just a few:

The "rooms" intersect because they do not have horizontal ceilings, or a multi-story atrium with side rooms at half-story levels that bump-out into the space, etc. I've encountered NUMEROUS situations where the vertical room bounding capabilities of Revit are insufficient.
It's 10pm Pacific, and your package is due tomorrow. The architect is in New York. Good luck getting them to fix it!
The architect is so bad at their job, that they are in the process of being fired by the overall client, so they aren't going to lift a finger to help fix their mistakes

Re: How to Tag Overlapping Rooms

RobDraw — Thu, 13 Oct 2022 23:14:21 GMT

Obviously, it is the solution. Your worst case scenario has little merit as it should be caught during coordination. You are doing coordination, right?

Re: How to Tag Overlapping Rooms

steenvoordena — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:56:13 GMT

The best way to solve this is to just select the room you want to tag FIRST. Then go into the Annotate -> Tag All option and it should be automatically checked off to only tag your selection. From there, if you select Room Tag it will tag that room that you wanted. This is the best work around that I found, although there isn't a way to do this for bulk rooms at a time.