Adding a Room Color Scheme in an Area Plan

[ErlendSole]

Hi,

In our current housing project the individual apartment views are set up as Area plans.

We want to make a color scheme for the apartments based on the room names, but we can't add a color scheme legend based on "rooms", only on "Area plan".

Is there any way around this, or do we have to:

A) set up individual areas for each room

B) make new views for the apartments based on regular "floor plans"

Thanks in advance

[Keith_Wilkinson]

You would need to set up a standard plan view and apply a color scheme to it I think. .  Can I ask why you set up the apparments using Area Plans? They are a very particular kind of plan and not ideally suited to what you are trying to do here... 

A standard plan view will still allow you to show the areas of the rooms as well if that is an issue..

[ErlendSole]

Thats what I figured.

The views were allready set when I entered the project.

I guess they where initially planned to be used for Gross area calculations for the seperate apartments.

Thanks anyway.

[Keith_Wilkinson]

I wouldn't have thought it would have taken long to set up new plan views - unless the layouts of the apartments has been created using Detail Lines?

[ErlendSole]

No, this time around it was only a few apartments.

The next time, on the other hand, it could be a complete housing project with 200 individual apartments, and it would be more of a hazzle with having to mask out the neighboring apartments all over again..

But I guess there are no easy fix to this one if the plan type is done wrong in the first place...

[Keith_Wilkinson]

So long as you are modelling everything it shouldn't really matter, you can create new views at will and control their appearance in visiblity graphics.  Like I say though if detail lines have been used to show the room layouts you're a bit screwed.

Certainly a good example though of what can happen if you don't do things 'right' in the first place...  

[Anonymous]

I have the same issue and disagree that they shouldn't be used for anything other than area colour plans. Because I can control exactly where an area is calculated with an area plan, I prefer these over Floor plans due to the ability to break up a drawing in regard to the whole appartment or tenancy and the rooms within. I may then have a tag that gives the correct area of the appartment and individual rooms like the bathroom, kitchen, lounge, etc. I think this is lacking on Autodesks behalf. I can see and tag rooms in an area plan so I would also like to be able use a room colour scheme on it.

[giovanni.bonavia.pela]

Yes this is an issue I just noticed and it does stresses on the same issue again. I struggle to see a reason other than technical (from a programming point of view) on why on earth there is a division between Plans and Area plans. And why Area plans are not allowing colour scheme for rooms? this is even more puzzling. These are the small bits that are making Revit a pain. I have no clue why this is happening.

Splurge of frustration.

Finger cross this will be sorted out one day or another., but not for the unlucky that are working on older versions of the software. Those could just give up on find a solution without an update on the entire project chain.

[ymHGJKT]

is there a request to Autodesk that we can vote on to fix this issue? I'm running into the same issue here