Using Revit LT to number lockers

[John.Burrill]

Hi everyone, 

I don't use Revit professionally.  My job is mostly mechanical design, so I use Solidworks for day-to-day stuff.  But, I have one customer for whom I create sales layouts, which consist of sketching a few room details, placing some locker banks in the room and dimensioning and calling out some stuff.  These layouts aren't that sophisticated and I have a pretty strong grounding in AutoCAD and LISP, so I've been able to assemble a workflow that gets these layouts done in a couple of hours, including the time needed to study the customers notes and photographs.

But I'm looking at Revit LT and a couple of other packages for the ability to quickly create walls and add doors, windows and features and add annotations and the one thing I was wondering about was whether it can help me number my lockers.  I do sites with hundreds of lockers and right now, I'm inserting them with a script generated by an excel spreadsheet.  So editing attributes one at a time makes this job impractical.

I've read a couple of posts indicating that you can apply tags to just about anything element or group and if you can increment them based on some kind of subdivision, it may be possible to automatically number these things.

So my question, at last, is how close am I to doing this in RevitLT?

I'm downloading the trial now, but any insights from the forums would be welcome.

Thanks

John Burrill

[barthbradley]

Judging from your explanation and screenshot, I'd say that using Revit would be akin to using a sledgehammer to kill a fly. 

Just saying.  

[Matt__W · Accepted solution]

@John.Burrill I would recommend looking at the full version of Revit and couple that with Dynamo so you can auto-magically apply the data to each locker, similar to how you're using LSP to update attributes in AutoCAD. Another option might be to stay in AutoCAD but use the architectural vertical instead. This way you don't have to learn Dynamo and convert your LSP code. Plus you have the added benefit of staying in an application that you already seem to know very well. 

[John.Burrill]

Thanks for your  reply, Matt

I was looking at AutoCAD Architecture (can we just go back to calling it ADT) and with Building Electrical, I might be able to slam-dunk this whole thing with no added code.  I'm just a little shy of the price for an app that only has applications for this one customer. 
I was also looking at AutoCAD electrical, which might help with our wire harness drawings and interconnect diagrams on some other projects.  The way they're talking about subscription on the product page, I'd get Architecture, Map and Electrical.