AUTOMATE AREA BOUNDARY AT DOOR THRESHOLD

[NEKL223]

Is there dynamo or macro to automate drawing area boundary lines at the wall finish face and center of door threshold? I need the area calculation rules to follow FICM - not BOMA. Currently I am manually drawing area boundaries to fit university facility management standards and with 400+ buildings to manage this is extremely time consuming. Can dynamo be used to find and draw area boundaries at finish wall faces and door centerlines like shown below? 

[barthbradley]

Rentable Area Scheme doesn't get you there?   

[NEKL223]

I don't think so. The only way I see to manipulate Rentable Area scheme area calculation rules is by specifying to compute at wall finish/center/core. I don't see how to edit computation rules so it will draw a boundary at the wall finish face and also to the center of the door thresholds. I feel like it would need to be a dynamo script/tool/plugin based on the few settings I can change in area computations - and am wondering if a script like that exists  considering FICM area standards are more broadly used in facility management. Thanks!

[ToanDN]

Like this?

Lower are rooms bound by walls.  Upper are rooms bound by room separation lines to confirm that the areas are correct.

[NEKL223]

YES. What are your settings? When I place rooms the boundaries cut straight across the door threshold. Also did you manually draw those room separators to verify? Ideally I need the boundary lines so I'm looking for a way automate it. 

Reason Why: I need closed polylines of each room in DWG. I have to export Revit Area Plans to DWG for an ESRI ArcPro script to feed online campus maps. The area boundaries or room separator lines would be used to create closed polylines of rooms in CAD using BPOLY command. 

We are currently in CAD world trying to migrate to Revit 😕

[ToanDN]

You can download the Revit 2022 file from here. It involves some different modeling techniques but nothing too complicated.

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-architecture-forum/make-hidden-elements-non-selectable/m-p/1135...

[NEKL223]

I see what you did - very clever!!
However I'm not sure this is best practice when modeling larger campus buildings/dorms/hospitals - could be extremely time consuming. Looking at your linked forum thread gave me a few thoughts though.. I wonder if it's possible to make a nested area boundary or constraint? or even invisible wall? in the door families - with interior doors  at midpoint and exterior doors at exterior wall face. Thoughts? Thank you in advance.

[ToanDN]

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@NEKL223 wrote:

I wonder if it's possible to make a nested area boundary or constraint? or even invisible wall? in the door families - with interior doors  at midpoint and exterior doors at exterior wall face. Thoughts? Thank you in advance.

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Yes.  You can embed a shared architectural column family in a door family to create room boundary.  However, you would still need to make the wall section where the door resides in the project to be non-room bounding element , which circles to what I did in the sample file.