Room Volume is being calculated above the upper limit of this room...

[MatthewKMclarty]

Pulling my hair out. we decide to rotate our our building. Now my Rooms are not enclosed properly. I keep getting "Room volume is being calculated above the Upper Limit of this Room ( its every room). Change the Upper Limit and offset or change the height of the volume calculations. " I fell like Michael in Office Space...PC Load Letter!

[barthbradley]

How did you rotate the building?  

[MatthewKMclarty]

We had to rotate it on the site. its a military base.  I don't know if that caused the error. But I having a hell of time figuring out how to fix the error. 

[MatthewKMclarty]

We used the rotate in position tab under project location

[MatthewKMclarty]

even when i delete a room out all the way form the floor plan and schedule and apply a new one it still is not enclosed. 

[barthbradley]

Your workflow doesn't make sense. There should be no reason to rotate a building. If the site is located in the same project as the building, then you would rotate the site - not the building.  That may sound counter-intuitive, but it's no different than say loading a chair family into the Building Project. If the chair is to face a different direction, then you would rotate the chair, not the building.  Right? 

[barthbradley]

Additionally, Room Planning is part of the Architectural Planning - not the Site Planning.  My suggestion would be to keep the two as separate Projects and then Link the Architectural Project (the building) into the Site Project and then move and rotate the Linked Building inside the Site Project.   

[MatthewKMclarty]

so ignore the rotation and other crap. is there a way to fix the issue? 

[barthbradley]

I have no idea.  Sounds like you not only rotated the Building, but lowered it as well.  Got me.  

I'll be happy to look at the RVT if you want to post it here.  Know how?  

[loboarch]

I can force this situation to occur. Maybe it will help you resolve the problem.

In the image I set the room limit offset height to 6', typically the default set to the level above when you first place the room. Maybe this got changed somehow. Check all of you room limit offset heights.

The other part of the issue is the Computation height parameter of the Level. By default this is usually 0'-0". In the image I am trying to change this to 8' (above the limit offset of the room as mentioned above).

The combination of these 2 things is what causes that message to appear. i would check those 2 thing to make sure the Computation height of the level is "crossing" the limit offset of all the rooms.

[MatthewKMclarty]

its a government facility i cant do that. but yep project base point and survey were set up high and so were the and so were the computation heights on the elevations. its a government thing you don't want to understand.

[loboarch]

This is the root of the problem.

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@MatthewKMclarty wrote:
so were the computation heights on the elevations. 

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[barthbradley]

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@MatthewKMclarty wrote:
its a government facility i cant do that. but yep project base point and survey were set up high and so were the and so were the computation heights on the elevations. its a government thing you don't want to understand.

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I don't know how PBP and SP elevation or relativity to the Level, upon which Computational Height is based, would be a factor here. 

[ToanDN]

If you missed out stuff when you were rotating the building (you likely were, there is no easy way to select everything) then your rooms and their boundaries are mismatched that can cause a whole lot of errors.  

I wouldn't even recommend to fix it.  Grab a back up copy and do the rotation properly (not by the rotate tool, but by shard coordinates or rotate the True North).