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Our firm and many others have a model for FF&E that contains all furniture, and some other interior design elements. This could be either to reduce size of Architectural model, or in a scenario where we are not also the Architect but rather a contracted Interior Design team working on another team's Architectural model. This FF&E model has the Architectural Model linked in. The Architectural model contains important data including Room information which our interior designers need when putting together FF&E packages where a piece of furniture needs to have it's quantities scheduled and located per room.

 

Our team is looking for a first party solution to what we perceive as an issue where an Element in the FF&E Model cannot obtain the data for it's located room from a linked model's rooms.

 

See below image that further outlines the issue we perceive:

FFE schedule example.png

 

A few "solutions" that we have used in the past leverage either Dynamo or other addons which allow us to collect the data from a linked model and populate some shared parameters added to furniture elements, but those require periodic re-exporting of the data as they are in no way linked to the architectural model. We have also used Spaces like an MEP engineer would to mimic room data, but again those require periodic updating and do not monitor changes to the architectural models

 

We would find a few options acceptable as solutions:

1. Our first choice would be to allow us to use data from rooms of a linked model when we add that as a field to a schedule. Either by default or as an opt-in option.
2. Allow us to copy/monitor rooms, but this has some drawbacks involving new rooms being created, etc.

3. Allow spaces to be locked to rooms and auto-update with the changes to the rooms they are associated with, but  I expect this to be deviating from the use that spaces were intended to be used for.