Door schedule woes in a project made of repetitive units

[Sahay_R]

Here is the deal. We have a large project with repetitive units. The repetitive units are modeled separately, and then linked to an overall model, where they are copied to create the required result.

MEP would like rooms to be created in the overall plan, so that they can do one overall campus Mech and Elec model, and they would like their spaces to associate with the correct rooms for their calculations. As a result, the rooms have been removed from the unit models and inserted in the assembled overall model.

The problem is now that when door schedules are created in the unit model, since the model does not know that it has rooms, it does not populate Room Names and Numbers fields. 

Does anyone have an idea of how we could address this or have a better solution?  Which is the bigger priority, having unique rooms for each 'copied' building, or having rooms hosted in their own respective models?

[ToanDN · Accepted solution]

MEP should have problems creating spaces for the whole parent model when the Rooms are in the child unit models if:

- The child unit models linked to the parent units model as Attachment and set to Room Bounding (even though you do not to recreate Rooms for the Units)

- The parent units model linked to the MEP model as Underlay and set to Room Bounding

- MEP place spaces (automatically or manually)