Rehost or Change the level parameter of Rooms

[ola6n4qrvdsr]

Often, it's necessary to change the level of rooms after placing them, especially if you have mezzanines in your project. The only way currently is to delete them, create a floor plan on that level and recreate them; it would be far easier and more efficient to simply select the level and change the Level Parameter in one step.

[jay_colcombe]

Most would recommend deleting and recreating and you can use the Option Bar > Room Drop down and reselect the room Name from the list of deleted rooms.

There are a couple of other Methods;

Copy & Paste 

Copy to Clipboard > Paste Aligned ##

Grouping

1. Group the Room element
2. Change the Level field of the Group
3. Ungroup

Unfortunately, while this doesn’t result in multiple entries in a Room Schedule (like Cut / Paste will), it does result in a new Element ID for the Room element.

[barthbradley]

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@ola6n4qrvdsr wrote:

Often, it's necessary to change the level of rooms after placing them, especially if you have mezzanines in your project. The only way currently is to delete them, create a floor plan on that level and recreate them; it would be far easier and more efficient to simply select the level and change the Level Parameter in one step.

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Almost sounds like you would  prefer not to create a "Mezzanaine" Level?  Why do you need to then?  And why would you delete the room below the mezzanine?  I'm thinking you can get what you want, without the gymnastics, by simply changing the Computational Height of the Level and Adjusting the Top Offset of the Room. Or maybe just making the mezzanine non-Room Bounding.  Or maybe I'm just all wet. he, he.  😉

[ola6n4qrvdsr]

I would prefer not to have so many levels, but on some of our projects we have 50+ Revit Levels (ie. floor/ceiling/mezzanine/parapets/roof/balconies/etc) over a sloping site, which becomes very complex indeed.
It is the determination of our company directors that it be represented in that way whether in Revit, ArchiCAD, or Vectorworks, to follow decades-old drafting standards.
The alternative in Revit might be a simple Spot Elevation Tag (similar to image below), with a comment prefix for the Level Name, but this is no longer a parametric value (thus prone to user error).

As for the Room elements, the offset values work in some cases, but in other cases that's insufficient to correctly display Color Schemes, and in other cases Revit prevents the offset limits from being changed at all. The ability to change the Room Level would make this all very simple indeed.