Space Matches Room

MarkK_EEA — Tue, 11 Sep 2018 14:59:32 GMT

My general application is trying to keep the name/numbers of the spaces in my model up to date with the rooms in a link. I am curious how others manage the space/room name & number coordination dance. I would like have differences between space/room names and numbers identified for easy review.

SNU works fabulous for setup. Things can get a little sticky during updates. One scenario is when a room has a misspelling in the name. Yes, ideally the room will get corrected, but until it does I am trying to develop a method for picking up other name/number changes without bringing over the mistakes too.

My thinking is that once I have my several hundred spaces setup with the SNU, and spelling correct, then if I had something to identify/highlight when a name/number between space/room doesn't match I could just ignore the mistakes and pick up the ones I need without having to look through all 500 spaces.

Another instance I have been exposed to was a model where the rooms only existing in one phase and all the other phases used, and I quote, "dummy tags". So, in this case, I need to know what has changed so that I can update the other phases.

Yes, a lot of the above could be alleviated through communication, but failing that, I am trying to come up with a plan B.

My first thought was to leverage a space schedule, but I could not come up with a way to compare text strings.

I found an add-in that looked handy, but it appears to have been deprecated.

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/revit-products/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2015/ENU/Revit-AddIns/files/GUID-EB47874A-944F-4749-83AB-9CF7AE950E54-htm.html

Let me know what you do, or if you have the same frustrations. Maybe we can come up with a better way together.

Re: Space Matches Room

L.Maas — Tue, 11 Sep 2018 16:04:28 GMT

For these kind of tasks I always use Dynamo.

Depending on the needs I can pull space and room information from the model.

If needed I can push it to Excel and do all kinds of comparisons. Depending on the kind of issues I can even take corrective actions with Dynamo.

Re: Space Matches Room

Anonymous — Tue, 11 Sep 2018 16:17:38 GMT

Dynamo! Yes, I always fail to think of pulling out that tool, because I have yet to really appreciate what it all exposes.

I will start digging into that and follow up with what I develop.

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