Room Tag with Occupant Load Factor and Occupancy

[Anonymous]

I would like to have a room tag that has an occupant load factor, and then automatically calculates the occupancy based on the room area and the manually input load factor. I have had such a tag at previously, but was never the one to create it. I tried looking in previous forum posts, but they are all several years old, and require various plugins/addons. I know that the room area can be slightly off, and that is fine for my purposes. I would just like to have the tag, and only need to enter the load factor.

Thanks

[ToanDN]

Create a Room schedule and add a Calculated Value parameter = Area/ Occ Load factor.  Thing is your Room tag cannot show Calulated value parameters, only Shared parameters.  So, you need to create a Shared parameter and add it to you tag, and next to the Calcuated value in your schedule.  You will need to manually anter the value of this field based on the Calculated value next to it.  Kinda blow but at least you don't have to calculate anything, just typing (and retyping when Room area change).

[Keith_Wilkinson]

Taking Toan's approach, this is the kind of thing that Dynamo will do for you very nicely - you could get it to calculate your Area / Occupancy and then write this to the shared parameter of your choice.

I've attached a sample script and project to give you an idea of how this would work - you might need Dynamo V0.8.3 but it's all standard nodes so hopefully not.

HTH.

K.

[ToanDN]

Nicely done, Keith. I need to learn Dynamo myself.

[Keith_Wilkinson]

It's great for stuff like this but you need to remember to rerun it if you make changes to the model.

[Anonymous]

How do you create a shared parameter? This is what I've done:

>Schedule Properties

>Fields: Select Available Fields from: "ROOMS" 

>Scheduled fields: Name, Area, Occupancy.

>Whats next? "New Parameter" or "Add Calculated Parameter"? Then what? 

Thanks!